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We got $21 billion of new defense spending for less than $5 billion of non-defense spending. go dollar for dollar. we got a dollar of spending and only gave $0.20 worth of nondefense discretionary. that is a tremendous development for this president and a huge win from a negotiating standpoint. think about that for a second, weve gone from a dollar per dollar to a dollar for just $0.20, plus part of that $4.545 billion is the stuff like. so the miners health is included in that number so even th...

Congress pass add bill to move the embassy to jerusalem. president after president since that time, every six months, weighed this saying were not going to do it right now. you say its a bad idea, basically from a negotiating standpoint. explain why. >> its not just that, john. having advised secretary of state, presidents of both parties, when it came to moving the embassy, my advise always the same. simply, dont. in large part, because both republicans and democrats could not divide a compelli...

>> rand pauls position on the iran deal has been sort of modified it along the way. signed that letter that 47 senators sent to iranian leaders that was widely blasted by supporters of the obama deal that the framework that was reached yesterday. but then he said oh, but i signed that because i wanted the president to have a better negotiating standpoint. and i want congress to have weigh in to that as well. but rand paul because his policies on that have been left of the party, it will be inter...

Deals. according to how the talks were progressing, heres some various fiscal curb offers. as put together by the committee for responsibility federal budget. and you can see that they were, on the bottom, is cuts. on the top is revenue. you can see theyre getting closer to being essentially, one-to-one, which is i dont think is good macroeconomic theory but from a negotiating standpoint is closer to a deal and then it all blew up. dean, you think thats a good idea? and partly i would imagine yo...

Geithners proposal. >> i dont really think the democrats want to make a deal. they should have never been put in this position. if you remember on your show, i said, dont let this happen between fiscal cliff and all of whats happening now. dont let it happen after the election. let it happen before the election because as you remember, obama would have no chance of getting elected if this happened. so i said, it must happen before. they allowed it to happen after. the democrats now dont care. i ...

That is as much the president likes golf as much as an effort to say, here i am with the great dealmaker, the reasonable guy that everybody likes, regardless of whether clintons actually giving him any advice on this although im sure he is. >> if you look back to the health care debate obama tried to appear reasonable last time and that didnt work well for him. what hes doing now is all the things he didnt do last time. starting with the unreasonable position, with what he wants rather than what...

Boehner would prefer. >> when we had the lame duck bush tax cut extension, which frustrated a lot of people, myself included, a lot of people on this network, okay? afterwards, if you would talk to someone from the white house, they would say, no, no, no. weve got this. weve got it all set up now, because its going to all expire at the same me and were goingth e all the leverage because theyre going to expire. were going to have the leverage. i was skeptical of that. but i think it is true from ...

Let me play what he had to say. >> the president is willing to accept 80% of the bush tax cuts for 9d 8% of the american peopl and make them permanent, we should do that and continue to fight for the things we believe in. >> so, chris, you know john boehner said tom cole is a friend of mine, but i disagree with what he had to say. chuck todds analysis is that this could be great for boehner from a negotiating standpoint. does tom cole play into all this? >> he certainly does. what tom cole is th...

I think that he should let obama lead the charge and then they can cut it to ribbons if they want. i think for him to come out first was a big mistake. he should have led from a negotiating standpoint and let obama and democrats come out with first proposal. and then he can start rooti ish from there. >> you talk about political negotiation. i want to understand your substance and where you want to end up and end point where you want to get to and figure out negotiating strategy. >> let me just ...

Inside of russia, and i think he was more concerned that she was going to be more rigid on certain issues, particularly on human rights and other issues. >> but what was donald trump going to do for them then, or was it just that they didnt like hillary? >> no, i think they felt that mr. trump being a bit of an outsider, that they have in the past had some good relations with businessmen who happen to elevate into positions of government authority, and so felt as though from a negotiating standp...