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When taxes arent part of the conversation. fight him on everything else in six weeks when the debt ceiling is hit or eight weeks, 12 weeks, whenever that fight happens, and do that. i do think that mcconnell -- thats where he wants to be. can he get there in the next 24 hours? thats what we dont know. >> tom brokaw? >> well, it seems to me that the middle class is going to have a date for the prom. everybody is talking about protecting the middle class here. so i think this deal will probably ge...

Fight him on everything else when taxes arent part of the conversation. fight him on everything else in six weeks when the debt ceiling is hit or eight weeks, 12 weeks, whenever that fight happens, and do that. i do think that mcconnell -- thats where he wants to be. can he get there in the next 24 hours? thats what we dont know. >> tom brokaw? >> well, it seems to me that the middle class is going to have a date for the prom. everybody is talking about protecting the middle class here. so i thi...

Does he read that and say, boy, we need to take this tax issue off the table. he is a big believer of this. take the tax issue -- give the president his tax hike on the rich now. fight him on everything else when taxes arent part of the conversation. fight him on everything else in six weeks when the debt ceiling is hit or eight weeks, 12 weeks, whenever that fight happens, and do that. i do think that mcconnell -- thats where he wants to be. can he get there in the next 24 hours? thats what we ...

Off the table. he is a big believer of this. give the president his tax hike on the rich now. fight him on everything else when taxes arent part of the conversation. fight him on everything else in six weeks when the debt ceiling is hit or eight weeks, 12 weeks, whenever that fight happens, and do that. i do think that mcconnell -- thats where he wants to be. can he get there in the next 24 hours? thats what we dont know. >> tom brokaw? >> well, it seems to me that the middle class is going to h...

Alternative minimum tax deductions and exempt interest. >> i dont care for the characterization of this group as an independent group. they lean towards the democrats. 90% of the taxes in america are paid by people with adjusted gross income of $66,000 or more. and what mitt romney is saying is that these people in that range are not the rich that those people in that range are the people that are in the auto industry that obama is so thrilled to tell us he saved, they are the people in manufact...

A letter from the republican leaders of the house and senate to the federal refuse serve board instructing them not to take any action to lower interest rates in the next two days? that is as one former commissioner said, outrageous, and indefensible. >> do you believe that that is -- do you believe that is an attempt by the republicans to manipulate the federal reserve in some way? >> why else would -- come on, why else would they send the letter? they are trying to put political pressure on th...

Get into a lot of hypotheticals here, okay? were very happy with the speech he gave yesterday. talking about deficit reduction. does that mean that we agree with every part of it? of course not. none of us do that. none of us agree with every part of it. >> illinois democratic senator dick durbin is the assistant majority leader. and is senator durbin, senator reid was getting at a point that you hear behind the scenes from some democrats of why is it that republicans are so good at uniting arou...

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