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Makes. the fight last year over health care was an unfair partisan battle. this year this fight over wall street reform rollbacks, thats a principle stand for democrats. thats kind of the view for the white house. whats interesting is the president did get some victories in here. he got money for his health care law. he got money for those executive actions on immigration, two other big legacy items, climate change fund and early childhood education fund. that could put pressure on house speaker...

Back then,%hu the president was forq +]rmz josh earnest, was downplaying that. carney, others said they were hostage takers, terrorists basically. >> because they shut down the government. >> well, democrats tried last night. might not have succeeded. >> but the democrats said they would not be willing to support this compromised proposal because they had concerns about specific provisions. >> what a difference a year makes. the fight last year over health care was an unfair partisan battle. thi...

To hear ted cruz tell it we get the shaft. ed henry on how the white house is responding to all of this. hey, ed. >> reporter: they are trying to jump on this as the president obviously in desperate need of some legacy items. hes had trouble spots, problems all around the world so they greeted this jubilantly today when alan gross this american aide worker was freed. you see critics as you noted marco rubio but democrats like bob menendez saying there was a high price here in terms of swapping t...

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Sales. [ laughter ] >> gregg: how might tomorrows big speech by the president really set the tone and tenor for policy in his second term? >> reporter: very important. saw president bush try to do this in 2005 to try to move track frankly on your legacy items. he wants to talk about gun control on the days ahead and immigration reform and david plouffe is saying what the president is going to be all about is big picture themes to bring the country together, but republicans roy blunt say some of ...