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Obviously didnt help us when we had such a crowded field. we couldnt rally around a candidate and set of ideas and philosophy. if you back up even and s say -- forever ah would have said in the white house when we passed the bush tax cuts the focus of all the attention, if you would have said a second term democratic president was about to lock in 98% of those tax cuts, we would have been saying high-fives, wow, we won. i will say republicans have an obligation to hold the congress and white hou...

Collapsing popularity a second term sounds so unappealing its almost surprising obama didnt ask for a recount. it doesnt afflict every president. second, for many president, the woes of the second term are rooted in action and decisions taken in the first term which raises the dicey question about what might come to afflict this president. jeff, you did the laundry list. you look at nixon, wins 49 states, two years later, hes out of office. you look at reagan, who wins 49 states, the night of th...

Monica lewinsky showed up at the white house in 1995, first term. george bushs iraq agony was because of decisions he made in his first term. theres a certain myth about this. people say you get re-elected and get arrogant and cocky. you look a lot of this is whats happened to presidents before they get re-elected. a way of me say, even if you do disagree. i saw bartlett nodding his head so i think im going with him. you have to think before you casually say theres a second curse. after impeachm...

>> we are looking at the $1.6 billion in tax increases. those are the big power moves. does that jive with what people want here? >> these arent new numbers. these are the numbers that the president originally talked about. the original time two years ago and then a year before that in terms of bringing down the deficit. his plan for bringing down the deficit, which got nothing from boehner. i like the way you are putting this. in the first term, it seemed to me that obama was very conciliatory ...

Republicans cant refuse. joining me at table is msnbc contributor, joy reid. cnbc contributor, dan dicker and laura flanders, the host and founder of grittv.org. thanks to all of you for being here. is this, in fact, a new president obama. is the kind of negotiating tactics we are seeing now something that wasnt happening in the first term? >> i want to see that seventh head. im really looking forward to that. i love this whole don core leone thing. i know this was one of those things. apparen...

His base and go on the road? >> go to charlotte and say, fairness and then they run to try to beat the tax man, which is -- he is doing his job as a corporate executive. >> shame on them. i cant even talk about it anymore. >> joining our panel is msnbc contributor, ari melber. an author of the report about how the campaign tried to turn its grass roots network into a governing force in the presidents first term. nice to have you with us. >> despite the drama that it is causing, the president is ...

Seem to you, looking at where both sides are starting, that were going to have a compromise possibly somewhere some the middle? >> i think the president has said publicly that, you know, hes staked out a position, but he has said publicly in his press conference that hes open to discussing anything that gets to more revenue, that the key here is that we need more revenue. the only way to deal with the long term, not just the short term, but the long-term fiscal challenge the country faces requir...

Particularly on things that presidents do, like drones. on the domestic policy side, it cant be just presidential. >> if we look at the success that the lgbt movement had and the immigration had, it wasnt president obama sitting in his oval office deciding he was going to wave a wand and do things that substantially supported those communities. it was the communities organizing on the ground trying to move policy and working from the ground up that then created an environment and a climate where...

>> as you point out, there needs to be something for everybody. president obama likes to make the phrase that he is the president of all. so all need to feel that way. all need to feel that they have his eyes and attention on what is of krn to them. >> yes. i think the most important thing now, the biggest thing is 2014. it is time to get some of these folks out. obstruction is going to continue. if we are going to have a chance to do something from 2014 to 2016, people have to mobilize to begin...

Out of the country for work and is barred from adopting a child. cobbler, you got your pardon. katys request was denined. luckily, they have requested a fresh review aarons case for a minor reel in a drug conspiracy. maybe you can check up on your msp shows that you have missed. maybe you can scratch out a letter to the white house allowing the president to show as much mercy to humans in his second term as he has shown to poultry in his first. sincerely, melissa.