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But im not going to sit back and be a defeatist on this. we have got to move this issue forward. we have a moral imperative to do something. >> heres a reaction from speaker boehners office. house committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations and if the senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that. whats your response to that? is that passing the buck? >> theres plenty of passing the buck that goes on. there is an effort to create pressure in the house. and i believe we ...

Bush. >> but it works for him. and bob beckel, the sage of the "the five" says this president redefined teflon ands its true, thats why the republicans say, that being that, whats the best policy and what can we do. theyre he not going to get what they want when they have president obama in the white house and senator reid in the senate. >> sean: wait a second you and i may have a disagreement and i love you to death. >> i feel that disagreement. >> sean: i know. >> coming on. >> sean: and im go...

You know what, its all doable, but i think both sides really need to talk and stop using these incindiary words. >> one of the groups thats much aligned with the democrats, their positions on immigration reform, is business. i mean, they understand that this is an imperative. we have got to solve this problem. >> business is looking at it differently than the conversation were having thus far, which is business is looking for highly skilled, talented workers that they claim they cant bring in he...

Both sides have the problem of being insular. there is more of an imperative for republicans and conservatives in washington and across the country to break out of this the country to break out of this. is. >> and they have to do hard work for it. well come back and talk about lance. we did a presidential forum at the lance armstrong foundation, and in time we ask -- how many treasury secretaries became chiefs of staff. answer, its two. donald regan, and then he became cheef of staff, and jim ...

The budget and people say we cant do that. why cant we live within our means? why is there no moral imperative to do that? >> i think that most people would say that food stamps is a good program, it works, it helps people survive in tough economic times, but we also have to keep in mind this spike actually occurred in 2008 when president bush was in-- >> i know you dont like to hear, but thats what the statistics say. >> sean: and four years and-- >> obviously the recession he inherited is stil...

Lessons president obama can take for him for his second term. joining me now is patricia murphy, editor of citizen jane politics and contributor for the daily beast and washington post political columnist, dana millbank. >> patricia, what can president obama take from lincoln in his second term? >> obviously, theres so much he can take. its not to flinch in the face of a moral challenge. thats something that the president has said. he most admired about lincoln that there was a moral imperative ...

From lincoln and everyone else to really achieve what would be transformative things in the issues hes outlined. >> they would be and he has a serious obstacle in this congress. i think, in many ways, to learn the lessons of lincoln would be more of an imperative for this congress. harry reid did have the senator sit down. kevin mccarthy brought colleagues to a theater to see this film. the problem is everybody takes selective lessons from it and believes that theyre representing the legacy of l...

Dont know whether at the time he was as aware. i dont think so. i certainly tried to hide it as most cases addicts try to hide their behavior. >> lets get to the crux of the book how you get off it. very specifically how did you finally stop. >> i found a community of people that knew how to stay stopped. >> bill: is that like alcoholics anonymous? >> if it were i wouldnt tell that you because its alcoholics anonymous. >> bill: you went to aa. >> no i went to a place that know about recovery. we...

Dont know whether at the time he was as aware. i dont think so. i certainly tried to hide it as most cases addicts try to hide their behavior. >> lets get to the crux of the book how you get off it. very specifically how did you finally stop. >> i found a community of people that knew how to stay stopped. >> bill: is that like alcoholics anonymous? >> if it were i wouldnt tell that you because its alcoholics anonymous. >> bill: you went to aa. >> no i went to a place that know about recovery. we...

Dont know whether at the time he was as aware. i dont think so. i certainly tried to hide it as most cases addicts try to hide their behavior. >> lets get to the crux of the book how you get off it. very specifically how did you finally stop. >> i found a community of people that knew how to stay stopped. >> bill: is that like alcoholics anonymous? >> if it were i wouldnt tell that you because its alcoholics anonymous. >> bill: you went to aa. >> no i went to a place that know about recovery. we...