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You could claim a mandate on that basis. two-thirds of the country believes in raising rates. not only do you have him campaigning on it and winning on it, be you have at the exit polls. >> look at those numbers, 47% think there should be an increase only on income over 250 k higher earpers, 35% no increase for anyone, 13% for all. so add 47 plus 13 is 60. >> thats a 60% issue. that math is right on in the uny. >> and in florida they tried to float a 20% corporate income tax break, the republica...

Balanced way. asking the wealthy to pay a little more. we have to combine spending cuts with revenue. that means asking the wealthiest americans to pay a little more in taxes. >> president obama won on this message, did he not? the american people approved of raising taxes on those at the top. republicans were banking on this being a losing message, but it simply is not. conservatives are finally starting to cry uncle. >> i dont understand why republicans dont take obamas offer to freeze taxes f...

Along with cuts so that we can invest in education like yours. >> we have to combine spending cuts with revenue. that means asking the wealthiest americans to pay a little more in taxes. >> president obama won on this message, did he not? the american people approved of raising taxes on those at the top. republicans were banking on this being a losing message, but it simply is not. conservatives are finally starting to cry uncle. >> it wont kill the country if we raise money a little bit on mill...

It really rests on what the republicans are going to do, how they are going to position themselves. you have, you know, the president coming out there very firm pointing out what the leverage is that he has and all the democrats really united saying we are willing to go off this cliff or curve. >> thank you. thank you. >> but, you know, thats the negotiating position. theres a negotiating position set an the other side by boehner and mcconnell. tough talk. you hear the language they are using sa...

Containing china. this is about china. >> greta: he could send the secretary of state, hillary clinton. he did that when he didnt want to talk to netanyahu or the president of yemen. he is quite used to outsourcing to the secretary of state. even congressman van hollen, saying how horrible this is to the average american person, if we go over the cliff. if you dont care when you know the deadline, i dont think you are doing your job, kim. >> i do think there is a difference from other deadline-i...

>> here are two things that i would say. it is very interesting. fiscal cliff was a term coined by ben bernanke. and he was doing it to try to kick congresss butt to do something stimulative. but what has happened is if people think about it as a cliff, they dont understand that you can go off it. it is not just a slope. it is a little driveway, i think the rhetoric that has come out around it is bad for the negotiating position for the president because it makes seeming go off the cliff worse t...

Republican party and conservative movement. the tea party caucus. they were essentially reelected and boehner has had a consistent message and hes the highest ranking republican in the country. his negotiating position is actually very strong. barack obamas negotiating position is weaker in the sense hes not looking to get reelected and galvanize his base. hes going for legacy, hes going for the big deal so he has more incentive to meet boehner. if boehner is heartfelt or a starting negotiating ...

Greatestallies is israel. we have to make sure were standing with them in this fight because they have said that they will use nuclear weapons to destroy the united states of america, to destroy israel. were going to stand together withthem. we have to prevent this and make sure that it never happens. were going to negotte hard. but the projection ofengttr will actually lead to,o i thin a better negotiating position because under president obama its gotten more tumultuous and worse. >> that wil...

It f thats what we have to wait for, what is the big difference that were going to see after the election? >> i think the republicans are counting on governor romney winning. if he were to win the presidency, which looks unlikely now, then they would be able to kick the can down the road into next year and be in a much stronger position to resolve the tax issue because they wouldnt face a veto from a president romney. if president obamas re-elected, then theyre not in nearly as strong a negotiat...

Harper dropping the ball. >> in particular -- >> lets change the subject. >> i want to go back to jonathan. just -- thats you bring up a good point and we could debate the cbo numbers. but why? >> to answer your political question, i think it goes back to what i said before. i wonder if its part of a negotiating position. no matter what the president proposes he puts the republicans on the defensive. they have to come back and say, well no, were not going to do what you want to do, whether its $...