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From everything im hearing, they are ready to fight this all the way to the bitter end. democrats do not want to lose the bush tax rates for 250 or above from not going up. republicans want to hold their ground and believes the longer this goes, the better their negotiating position is, andrea. >> luke russert, stay tuned. thank you. and kristen welker. israel announced plans to build 3,000 new homes for settlements in key areas of east jerusalem and the west bank in what is viewed as retaliat...

The table, including that one. >> mr. speaker, before the election, you were asked whether if obama won taxes would have to go up. and youve made it sound like you would oppose that. now youre acknowledging that they will. >> the day after the election, i came here and made it clear that republicans would put revenue on the table as a way to begin to move the process to get this resolved. >> so my question is, what message do you have for people who look at the negotiating position and see that ...

Cut to the middle class. that takes one of the democrats biggest talking points off the table going into next year and they can live to fight another day during tax reform to bring those rates down for the wealthy and continue that fight while most americans already are enjoying their tax cut. so while it seems like a concession, it could be a strategic move by republicans to be able to make themselves some room to come back next year in a much stronger negotiating position. sf >> i want to brin...

My 2 k, basically this act of every day americans to get in touch with their lawmakers about trying to get them to move on this, and as you say, the president basically does have a mandate from the people, he ran on this, people know that taxes were on the table. the right knows that revenue is on the table. the president really has all the leverage. >> he has tremendous leverage. i dont remember a president being this such a good negotiating position. but the fact the president is utilizing the...

Information before she went out and spoke to the american people. apparently now were getting stories about what that intelligence contained at the time. lot thing that confuses me, youve now had three different conflicting stories as to who did what when within the administration, intelligence community, secretary of states office, the white house. obviously we need to get to the bottom of it. its not all about ambassador rice. its about the white house operation, the political operation, the p...

And spoke to the american people. apparently norks we are getting information about the intelligence and what it contained. now have you had three different conflicting stories toze who did what, when, within the secretary of state office, the white house, the intelligence community. obviously, we are to get to the bottom of t. it is not all about ambassador rice. this is the white house operation, the press shop, the political operation, the president himself and the secretary of state, who doe...

Because he feels as though he campaigned on this issue pretty strongly for the past year. but the president has been willing to compromise on a lot of things in the past and, you know, its right for him to stake out a tough negotiating position and then maybe make his way to a less strident or a less -- not strident -- but a less -- a more flexible position down the road. >> you can use the word strident not just for republicans. you can also use it for democrats. >> i dont think a position on t...

Would democrats consider putting any part of the presidents signature health care legislation on the table to negotiate? >> no. its just not going to happen. i mean you remember last year, democrats wouldnt -- refused to budge on this issue. theyre not going to do it again. president obamas out there, all campaigns saying health care is law now. now that hes in office again for a second term, theres no way this happens. it didnt happen last time. it wont happen this time. >> so then, steve, i th...

Presidential campaign showed clearly to me the absolute defining moment was the third debate on foreign policy. it showed that the american people do not want to go to war again. the two candidates, romney and obama, were identical in expressing quite restrained policies. the iranians watched that. they know that even romney who was, you know, banging the drum for tough action against iran a few months before had read the polls, that had his focus groups meet. in terms of the credibility of your...

Jon: the palestinians profess they want their own state. hard to argue that you deserve statehood when youre launching rockets at your neighbor. >> you have three states between the mediterranean and the jordan river. have you a weak and dysfunctional palestinian authority which controls 40% of the west bank. you have a highly centralized hamas which controls gaza and you have israel. before anybody can talk about negotiating for statehood youre going to have to have one unified palestinian nati...