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Mandate. its everybodys mandate. >> i want to set two things next to each other. on the one hand, we had a letter in the washington post to the president and to the congress from sort of the group that had supported the president, big labor and others and they made it very clear. the 2012 elections are over. the american people have spoken. weve voted for the middle class, putting people back to work and not job killing budget cuts and not attacking social security and medicare and medicate. thi...

Code. i would do that, if the president were serious about solving our spending problem and trying to secure our entitlement program. im the most reasonable, responsible person in washington. the president knows this. he knows he and i can work together. >> i admitted this to my staff, i really like john boehner in spite of myself. i sort of like his, kind of like good old boy sort of, you know, kind of doesnt take himself too seriously when he says it. you can see the smile he cracks. mitch mcc...

Countries that do it find people go in other druggings it is more corruption of the highest other. >> i want to make i got it right. i pulled up cheech and chong. it is this have been legalized a long time ago . it is it all good. >> mike? it is folly to think it will lower the deficit. raising taxes on cigarettes and gambling it is it a spending problem and give the government more power and money to spend. >> colorado said it would bring in 20 million. >> legalize other things like big cars an...

John boehner has drawn a line in the sand about how republicans will approach negotiations over the next seven weeks or so and while he is okay with increased revenue, he says it needs to come from tax reform. not tax rate increases. >> raising taxes on small business people is the wrong prescription given where our economy is. >> is it on the table to talk about it? >> i made clear yesterday that raising tax rates is unacceptable. frankly, it couldnt even pass the house. putting increased reven...

And, frankly, it couldnt even pass the house. putting increased revenues on the table, but through reforming our tax code. and i would do that if the president were serious about solving our spending problem and trying to secure our entitlement programs. the president and i had very intense conversations. i am confident that he and i can find the common ground necessary. >> that common ground may be tough to find. thats because the president has already said he would veto any deal that does not ...

Economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a whole lot of millionaires to boot. >> that was before the election. that was in the -- lets see, think some convention? very clear where president obama was and very clear where the american people voted. americans want progressive action, including higher taxes on the wealthiers americans. this is a pivotal moment for the democrats. the republicans are already trying to make it hard. president obama reached out ri...

Prescription given for our economy. >> is it on the table to talk about. >> i made clear that raising tax rates are unacceptable and frankly couldnt pass the house. putting revenues on the table and reforming our tax code and i would do that if the president were serious about solving our spending problem and trying to secure our entitlement program. >> brian: going to sit down and talk. but hes saying short term for now and wait for the new congress to get settled in and nothing major gets done...

Were serious about solving our spending problem and twieing -- trying to secure our entitlement programs. >> most economists agree you have to do something about the big entitlement programs medicare, medicaid social security. is there a political willingness to do that to strike some kind of a grand bargain? that could take months or maybe even years and congress has little more than 50 days before we hit that fiscal cliff. back to you guys. >> not much time. thanks so much, doug. that impendin...

Any of the details of how you would get there. it is just time to get the job done. >> [inaudible]. >> no, i really would rather not do that because i dont want to limited the options that would be available to me or limit the options that might be available to the white house. there are a lot of ways to get there and, i dont really want to preclude anyone who might have a good idea about how we move forward. but its clear, its clear, that weve got to fix our broken tax system, and weve got to d...

The same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a whole lot of millionaires to boot. >> that was before the election. that was in the -- lets see, think some convention? very clear where president obama was and very clear where the american people voted. americans want progressive action, including higher taxes on the wealthiest americans. this is a pivotal moment for the democrats. the republicans are already trying to make it hard. ...