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Past 2015. >> dan, the last thing the administration wants to do is go back and ask congress to revisit the bill, change a little bit. they know they wont just settle for a little bit. there will be a wholesale rewrite the house republicans will insist on. they want to do this unilaterally by themselves. are they going to get away with it? >> i dont think they are going to get away with it. they turned this exercise into something that sounds like enlistments for world war ii. you show up, you l...

Clearly they are dealing with a slump. i will agree with angela we have seen compromise come out of this republican caucus which is finally seeing compromise. i think this is the eye of the storm here for the republican party. we have some calm, but the truth of the matter is when you get deeper into it, there is some issues the republican party has. case in point. mitch mcconnells primary. lindsey grahams primary. another case in point, the georgia senate seat primary. >> talk about alaska, tal...

Why is the president playing that up? >> hes conveying to them after the debacle of october and november, when it seems and felt to a lot of democrats like the election coming up this year was going to be all about cataclysmic failure of the law tharb t, that the narrative has to shift when you have that many people. you could quibble at the numbers. even if you have them, if you have 6 million people with a new benefit they didnt have or wouldnt have because the affordable care act, and you hav...

Midterm. under roosevelt in his first midterm of 34, clinton in 98 and bush in 02. guess what, all of those gains have been in the single digits. nobody has ever gotten -- no party holding the white house has ever won double-digit seats in any midterm, either the first one or the second one. and frankly, democratic leaders admit in more candid moments that winning back the house is a long shot. >> im not going to confidently predict that democrats will take the house back. what i will predict is...

Base and nontraditional midterm voter to come out. part of this, i think, to dampen what could be a bad year, depending how you look at it, is, you know, how the affordable care act plays out. you know, the numbers are getting better in terms of enrollment. if that continues, that becomes less of a negative. if that doesnt, then it complicates things. listen, i was advising candidates in the last midterm election when we got slaughtered in 2010, but we still won. you have to figure out what your...

Kind of suffer through, this internal civil war. that doesnt necessarily translate to an easy road for us, because if you look at a lot of the polling, theres pox in both houses among the electorate, but it definitely, i think, complicates the road for republicans who assume because its midterm of a second term that they are guaranteed to pick up, you know, significant number of seats, whether in the senate or the house. >> you mention the polling, take another listen to what joe biden was sayin...

We cannot afford to continue to have the crises that weve had fiscally, which have held the economy down. sitting on the sidelines should not be an option for any american. >> so you want priorities action usa to get involved and raids money for this midterm? >> absolutely. we want them engaged. we want all the voters engaged, whether they agree with us or disagree with us. democracy works best when all of us participate. >> all right. congressman steny hoyer, great to have you with us tonight. ...

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Midterm elections of 1998 after imimpeachment and democrats picking up ground. >> theres that. >> in the house of representatives. and he looks at bill clintons approval ratings right now after the monica lewinsky scandals and he realizes hillary clinton wasnt the one to blame. man, thats a really bad strategy on somebody you could attack for any number of things. >> is hillary clinton ready for what we know are the attack points? apparently rand paul is going to do attack points on the scandal ...

Fundamentally changed at the republican party. and i think youre going to see great dividends of that both in 2014, but even more importantly as we get into the 2016 presidential cycle which it comes to roost during that presidential year more often than the midterm. >> you know, the speaker said that they were interested. he said they were interested in doing something piecemeal on immigration. then he backed off after the caucus or the conference, the retreat with house caucus members after he...