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The plan is to pass a 60-day cr extense that keeps discretionary spending at existing levels. then house leadership wants to roll back sequestration with conservative desires to delay, defund obama care into the debt limit fight. theyre leaking this story. theyre threatening it through sourcing. you know how its done. theyre putting the word out without fingerprints to get the threat out there theyre willing to bring down the dollar. >> can we focus for a moment how completely absurd this is? it...

Sam stein, you cover washington up close, particularly in the case of anthony weiner, hes a tough guy, sharp elbows, maybe not the most popular guy in congress. is this a fair assessment of who he is and why he fell? >> i think so. i mean anthony weiner is an interesting case. obviously he was more of a showman than a legislature. but that doesnt mean he cant be a decent mayor. and you know, in each of these cases i think yes, each of these men have personal failings. the question that everyone ...

Started with him, january or february of 2007. now, there is a lot of different things that have been happening here and there, the auto bailout, the fiscal, the financial industry bailout. two wars, there have been just a lot of things going on. if were going to get something aggressive done, the president knew he had to act, and that is why he did it. >> in terms of the relationship between the scientific consensus and the political consensus, the president today ridiculing the flat society, p...

>> the bulk of the conversation was driven by members the president allowed to come. most of the conversation was about debt, deficit, growing national debt, fiscal, and entitlements. it was free-lowing exchange of ideas from both sides. >> will, meaningful discussion. are you seeing signs of sincere compromise from this president? >> what does compromise mean? >> putting social security on the table. >> oh, does that satisfy? i thought it meant giving back, coming to proposals. the only matter ...

Bring the jobs back. >> if the president can inoc uate himself with this, they have sterling trudentials with that movement, and he has to make this decision, this is a state department decision. even though it will obviously come out of the white house. so kerry, if hes the one making the decision, its tough for him. it will at least help the president with that part of his base. >> the unemployment numbers would be so much better six months from now if they say, listen, we have to make a barga...

Uate himself with this, they have sterling trudentials with that movement, and he has to make this decision, this is a state department decision. even though it will obviously come out of the white house. so kerry, if hes the one making the decision, its tough for him. it will at least help the president with that part of his base. >> the unemployment numbers would be so much better six months from now if they say, listen, we have to make a bargain on fossil fuels. >> we been in this experiment ...

That oil and gas, so cheap in this country that it pays to manufacture here, not in china, not in vietnam, not in thailand. bring the jobs back. the president has to help them. >> if the president can inoculate himself on the green and environmentalist movement, because john kerry, who has sterling credentials with that movement, is the one who not only has to make this decision. this is a state department decision even though it will obviously come out of the white house. so kerry, if hes the o...

Family issues are? and he said, you know what, i probably should have thought about this issue before. the one thing thats interesting about him is that he has voted consistently against gay marriage and all other issues relating to that. but he hasnt talked about it much. hes not one of those people who is very outspoken against gay rights issues. hes much more of a fiscal conserve tiff. and fredricka, he said hes going to stay that way. thats what brought him into public life, brought him into...

Unreliability. that is to say, the father 41 came in as a social and fiscal -- i say fiscal conservative, but, read my lips. the son came in as a social conservative, many social conservatives, you talk today with them, they say, what did he deliver for us? fiscal conservatives, obviously spending and deficits is our problem. fundamentally, i had dinner the other night with the two very significant social conservative leaders who said theyre coming around to the view. now, these are very strong ...

>> look, peter is exactly right on this. the next republican nominee wannabe is going to have to be an anti-bush platform. however soft or hard you want to do that. fundamentally, theres even a bigger problem for jeb bush. its not only, as peter said, that jeb is not likely to want to say, i dont love my brother, i dont agree with my brother, i want to distance myself very explicitly from my brother. it is he fundamentally cant distance himself from something thats even deeper than that, and the...