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Partner the democrats and the president. >> eric: mattville another dinner, sit do you think with the g.o.p. senators, after hoe comes back from the democratic fund-raising. what does he say? can they get anywhere with these meetings and in terms of the policy? >> it depends on the mind-set of the people around the table. i mean, the president -- hes got such a hiewmg sway over what is going to happen on these big-ticket issues. if he really wants to do something, he can get it done. the politic...

Said that the speakers plan, plan "b" was dead on arrival. it wasnt going to be votessed on. so this was an exercise in futility. >> thats right. heres the challenge. obama clearly believes right now that he can bluff the house republicans and they will cave. i think people forget when they talk about bill clinton and i got a lot done -- which is true, welfare reform, four consecutive balanced budgets and serious reforms and we closed the government for six days in november of 95, closed it for ...

Republicans would go home, relax, they voted to stop a middle-class tax increase f. harry reid wanted to stop it in the senate, thats fine. the president wants to veto it, thats fine. this is not a crisis that will end the republic. its a mess. i wish we would go back to open negotiations, to open hearings, to open markups. letting the american people see the process, i think negotiating in secret in the white house, producing a $1 trilln, $2 trillion deal in the next 10 days i think is the wors...

Who says that speaker barron may have a hard time hanging on to his job. do you know who is saying that? who is your view? >> no, i dont know who is saying that, greta. i saw the report coming in. i think it was reported that someone in washington, d.c., i got back down here in florida yesterday. this is the thing. i would rather have our leadership team than the house democratic leadership team or the senate republican or democrat leadership team. i dont want to have the president of the united...

Long deal, but we dont believe there is good faith on the part of speaker barron. every time there has been a deal and every time he negotiated, he had to back off. the headline said he is losing control. the way he set it up is a grave yard. its an upon or down vote with no up. we are not going to fall for that. we believe in the middle class tax cut and so does the american public. who would have thought that the american public, 50 to 35 would prefer democrats on this issue, but they are seei...

Pick up on what congressman cantor said, spenning is the problem. i would drive issue after issue on spending. i will say look, we are glad to fix the tax rate, any time the president and the democrats want to talk and they are serious, we will talk to them. until then, we are going to get spending under control and do what we can to save our children and grandchildren. i think that would be a much betters strategy. >> based on the substance of plan "b," which initially was rejected by everyone,...

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That they would make substantial concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reforms. i did my part. they have done nothing. >> we havent been able to make it on the last four years, i dont know how you make him own the fiscal cliff. but thats the challenge here. >> im dana perino. we are one step closer to falling off the financial cliff. hours ago, the house decided not to vote on plan "b." speaker barron saying his plan to avoid a massive january tax hike didnt have the votes to pass. former...

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Republicans would go home, relax, they voted to stop a middle-class tax increase f. harry reid wanted to stop it in the senate, thats fine. the president wants to veto it, thats fine. this is not a crisis that will end the republic. its a mess. i wish we would go back to open negotiations, to open hearings, to open markups. letting the american people see the process, i think negotiating in secret in the white house, producing a $1 trillion, $2 trillion deal in the next 10 days i think is the wo...