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Him backing up very far on the question of his most significant legislation. >> professor peterson, final question to you. the president talked and a lot of people thought the re-election in 2012 would, quote, break the fever that seems to have republicans -- has the republicans in the grip of the heavy night sweats here. do you think -- what will -- this debt ceiling fight and maybe even the continuing resolution fight, is that going to be the moment where we see the fever break and maybe some ...

White house wanted the negotiations in a way. im not saying that you can cook up a debt crisis or anyone would want to, but the president and his negotiators wanted both of these things to be done together, not to have tax cuts and all the horse trading around that now. and then in a few months time have to go through the whole thing but on less favorable ground for the white house at least than talk about the debt ceiling. its much better that its one negotiation, its one round of massive uncer...

>> i think the fever will have broken. you have the tea party wing controlling the party. i said this before, we need a republican party. we need leaders that can control their party and i think youre going to see the fever break. youre going to see obamas re-elected, the idea we cant let that happen is done. now its going to be okay, man, we just got to get something -- im not going to tell you who -- ive already been talking -- >> the reasonable people that we grew up with, they left, theyre g...

Theres a million people going to lose their jobs. so the question was, he didnt think it was better, but how could you not take the chance? >> bipartisan got a huge applause here. you got real close to a deal last year with john boehner. if you get re-elected, how do you get back to making it work, like it did up here in the storm country of jersey, where everybody seemed to be working together? >> i think the fever will have broken. you have the tea party wing controlling the party. i said this...

Republican party. we need leaders that can control their party and i think youre going to see the fever break. youre going to see obamas re-elected, the idea we cant let that happen is done. ive already been talking -- >> the reasonable people that we grew up with, they left, theyre gone. they passed away. >> but theres still some solid republican conservatives who understand what principled conservative means and theyre not wrapped up in idealogical purity. i think theres a dozen republican sen...

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