i want to play for your sarah sande sanders' defense. >> during the meeting, the president talked about earmarks, that it could lower hostility here in d.c. and lead to both side coming together, but is he not concerned it could lead to run away spend something. >> the president said you could have controls on earmarks and he wants to find different ways to bring more and more cat democrats and republicans to work together on legislation to move our country forward and he threw that out as one suggestion on how we might be able to do that. >> robert? is that the only way to do it? give them a turtle tunnel? >> i'll tell you, if that's the only way to bring democrats and republicans together, we are in more trouble than anybody assumed we were. it would be very nice. maybe the president could say to the republicans, why don't you try to get some democratic votes on your next tax bill? or try to work together on something that is really important to average working people. you know, the republicans used to be or at least they used to