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I give him 48 hours to stay on message? >> im an issues guy. >> the big affect of all of this wiener issue would be the down ballot races. thats why they are so concerned. they can see the senate in the grasp. they could see gains in the house. a possible governing majority. >> can i just say about -- >> the argument comes to light -- >> lets think about if this does have the -- i believe -- we had an october clinton fund-raising scandal hit two weeks before the election. it went from clinton do...

>> im an issues guy. >> the big affect of all of this wiener issue would be the down ballot races. thats why they are so concerned. they can see the senate in the grasp. they could see gains in the house. a possible governing majority. >> can i just say about -- >> the argument comes to light -- >> lets think about if this does have the -- i believe -- we had an october clinton fund-raising scandal hit two weeks before the election. it went from clinton double digits to single. he wins. democrat...

Not have a fight over the debt ceiling again and issues like planned parenthood stopping everything thanks to ted cruz and the rest? it sounds like they are still in revolutionary spirit on the republican side. >> there is but there is counter revolutionary spirit. look at the discharge petition that pulled the bank out of the financial services committee. that got 218 members of the house which they flexed their muscle and showed that they have a governing majority. if they want those 218 can c...

And in fact in state legislatures we have seen democrats in the minority vote for a republican for speaker or leader of a house so that they have a say over who controls that house essentially and have a kind of moderating influence on that. can you imagine democrats doing something similar here? >> sure. thats been the rule in the new york senate for the past five years. its also been the way things worked in the texas senate for several years. it certainly is possible. right now you have 257 v...

But theres nothing that requires that. and in fact in state legislatures we have seen democrats in the minority vote for a republican for speaker or leader of a house so that they have a say over who controls that house essentially and have a kind of moderating influence on that. can you imagine democrats doing something similar here? >> sure. thats been the rule in the new york senate for the past five years. its also been the way things worked in the texas senate for several years. it certainl...

Governing majority that could do things for instance like discard the so-called hastert rule? >> well, listen, a republican charlie dent said that on national tv today. and i think my leadership is open to that. i think what we all want is we want good government and we do not want the crazies to block that anymore in the future. >> how long do you see this playing out, and are you worried about the fact we have a debt ceiling coming up, a debt ceiling deadline, although those tend to be a littl...

Leave no other party or politician there to put together a governing majority as readily as maliki can. kerry and other administration officials, the u.s. just in the past ten days or so, has greatly improved american intelligence capabilities on the ground in iraq and in the air. for now, the diplomats there are urging maliki to form a broad and inclusive coalition, but do it fast, before isis advances further toward baghdad. >> for sure, its a delicate dance. james rosen, well be looking forwa...

Deemed to be constitutional. so why can it be considered to be law of the land when there are almost a dozen governs now that a -- governors now, republican governors, making the plans necessary to have obama care be implemented? >> well, again, you have to understand what a budget is, which is our description as a governing majority in the house of what we believe america should do to balance the budget in ten years. the consensus among our team, among the republican leadership team and our cau...

Like a paul ryan would send a very powerful message that this administration was serious about tackling medicare reform entitlement reform, shrinking the size of government and doing so in a courageous way. >> alisyn: meanwhile, the weekly standard, theres an article there by two friends of the show you know them well, bill crystal and steven hayes and suggest that mitt romney goes bold and read to you what they have written. go bold, mitt, pick paul ryan, the republican party intellectual leade...

Position. >> i do not like to come to this table with sympathies for john boehners plight. the problem he is facing, i think we can all agree, he may be able to agree to something in a room, that he may not be able to get an agreement tomorrow on capitol hill to then make something happen here. what is the number, what do you think the number of republican votes john penner has to get to be able to say the republicans are really participating in this agreement? there is some version of this wher...