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Let me just say broadly, i think that it was a soaring rhetorical speech but i think generally the partisan lines just got deeper, and i think that, you know, both president obama and president bush came to washington with the notion that they were going to change the culture of washington and for some similar and some different reasons, they both came to a conclusion they cant. i think that was the conclusion yesterday, president obama said hes going to dig in, wave the white flag, washington w...

Senators -- rather democrat senator charles schumer, the inaugural chairman, hope that maybe things will work better in the future. i talked to him the other day. he says he has adopted, because hes running the show, a mantra of faith in americas future, as the theme, telling me he does think things will get a little better in terms of working together over the next few years. >> weve always had periods of time, this is one, where people say well never overcome these problems. theyre so differen...

Raise the debt ceiling in february. >> republicans in congress have two choices here. they can act responsibly and pay americas bills or they can act ir responsibly and put america through another economic crisis. >> so you can see what the president is doing. he wants americans to believe the gop is the problem not massive spending. likewise on the gun control issue. the president wants it to come to a head to highlight republican opposition to limiting guns and ammunition. joining us now from ...

Board! >> thats it. so weve got the politics of left, weve got the politics of right, and weve forgotten the most important politics of all, and thats the politics of problem solving for the american people. thats what were going to hit home today with great problem solvers from congress and 1,500 volunteer activists on their own dime coming to town just to be part of it. >> youve also cowritten a piece in "the washington post," "turning washingtons partisans into problem solvers." "from our per...

Nieve about fostering cooperation across the aisle. there are philosophical differences between democrats and republicans that cant be papered over with nice words about civility. but adopting an attitude focused on problem solving is a deeply pragmatic response to washingtons dysfunction." and joe manchin, i think of this, doesnt this sound great, joe? it makes a lot of sense. and then i think about the gun debate. and i think about all the people who went out to buy their bushmasters quickly b...

I want you to look at this letter. i want you to find one thing that i agree with. and i want you to write an entire letter about that. and wed negotiate and i negotiated with bill clinton and the administration over long-term care. and what you do is you walk into the room, and you say, what do you need? whats the first thing i would always say. and i know you guys, what do you need at the end of the day? what do you need? and ill tell you what i need and lets help each other. we both want to p...

Serious about winning. >> exactly. >> its a wacky period. and i think the good news is the party, if it gets a vision, and if it gets a big, bold, optimistic view of where this nation needs to go, well come back. i mean, these cycles occur. thats the good news. but what joe manchin, my great friend, we were governors together, are just as interested in because the party is going to rebuild. it will go up and down. there will be cyclicality. what were making sure is that whether democrat or repub...

Own prism. >> mayor booker what do you think about that comment, particularly intolerance directed toward this president? >> first of all, i think he is spot on and i see the republican party moving away from the olympia snowes, lugers and jack kemp even, people with great ideas and putting a lot know the conversation. the rhetoric in this last campaign, i saw it in my community you turned off a lot of people, black, latino, women and guy. it was unnecessary. i turned on the tv, i sat up in my b...

Voluntarily? that is an exercise in shark jumping. this is the sort of thing that might make sense internally to the nra when they talk about this amongst themselves, but the rest of the country are not picking a fight, but looking for problem solving, nonconfrontational ways to help each other out. trying to block the voluntary tucson gun buyback program does not make sense. the whole reason gun policy is supposed to be seen as so intractable, so unreformable, so politically untouchable and not...

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