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They could have accepted that. >> what are we voters to do? i mean, like, you know, to -- the american people we cant get our politicians to fix it. i mean, and everyone, like everyone who runs for office says i can do it. well, you know what? you are not. i mean, its not happening. >> this came back to the middle. we had 14 of us and basically started meeting and susan and myself and we had our colleagues both democrats and republicans equally split, and it basically come back to the middle. yo...

>> what indication is there that that would not happen again? >> you know, again, i think the more that the republican members start to consider what the impact will be of a shutdown on the constituents and the public response to that, hopefully they are pressuring the speaker to bring this to the floor and counter balancing the views of the tea party but sort of tail wagging the dog. the more responsible members need to be speaking to the speaker as well and suggesting that this is not good for...

Not the approach he wanted to take. the 200 democrats in the house didnt want it. not many who want this approach. you said it earlier that speaker boehner needs to work with democrats to get things passed, but the thing that seems surprising is he doesnt seem to have the namty from both members. you have to trust me doing this kind of approach. shutting down the government is just not a good idea. >> politics of america, certainly on the republican side, has become very entrepreneurial. this is...

>> well, its the tail wagging the dog. i know something about this. i scheduled the president for three years, george w. bush. and, quite frankly, we wouldnt have had time for "the view" because it would have been jam packed with bilaterals at the the waldorf to sit down with the president and have a discussion, something that you really cant accomplish on the other end of a telephone. theres no substitute to sitting down with a leader. and the other people that he brings to the meetingabout the...

Recoiled. now its the tail wagging the dog that mitt romney has to explain himself when he had the guy who created the echa sketch for the campaign to say they agreed with the president. >> well, i actually think as we sit several months before an election, what the american people are paying attention to right now is the fact that the supreme court of the united states ruled president obamas signature pieces of legislation a tax. when the president went out and sold it to the american people in...

across the sky? im trying to hum that song. thats a pathetic effort. anyway, some people very concerned about the ufo possibilities here. we have the answer to what that fireball in the sky was. >> what are you trying to do? >> i was thinking about that 80s show, that 90s show. whatever. a woman wins gas money after she sues honda. she spoke to us when she first filed this lawsuit. she said the cars manual promised her 50 miles per gallon. it didnt deliver. can others cash in on her ...

As you know over the weekend, santorum and gingrich opened up on romney and decided to make it a big issue in the closing days before the new hampshire primary. they will hit him hard on that and the sound that you just played will come into play in the news cycle today. its a gaffe, a real gaffe and it expoeses him on an issue heading into south carolina and certainly the people in chicago that collect video the way that they do are laughing and smiling over having that piece of sound to use in...

>> 9% right now. what is the overall mood in washington? why cant congress get anything done? youre right, it was absolutely amazing there was a bipartisan effort on the signal bill. do the republicans or democrats even speak anymore? do republicans speak to the president? is there any communication whatsoever? >> unfortunately, you have the house republican conference that is really being controlled not by its leadership but by the tea party republicans that were elected last year. the leadersh...

Boehner. he will work hard to make america proud. >> and i think john boehner listens. he listened to the freshman class and went back to the take and got more cuts. >> reporter: billions more demanded by these tea-party backed freshmen. democrats say its the tail wagging the dog. they are extremists. >> so are you crazy or are you really the sanest people in washington? >> if being fiscally responsible in washington is insane, then im guilty as charged. >> i have three children and a wonderful ...

Rich? is this a schism. >> dont know if you can call it a schism when you have the tail wagging the dog. thats what you have here with the tea party. i go back to fall of 20 oat when there was a rally of tea partiers against the health care bill that was organized and seen by republican leaders including john boehner when the crowd starts chanting nazis, nazis in reference to the. democrats in support of the bill. at that point in time there should be a line between republican leaders who have s...