>> good grief, after that string of adjectives, i'm breathless. >> that will win them over. they don't want to deal with me. >> here is what i think about the negotiating thing. if the white house is not going to negotiate, the president has decided that this is his position and nothing is going to change it. how do we know that? because one guy has not been seen for a week and a half, and that's joe biden. joe biden has been in the united states senate his whole life. he was elected when he was 29. you have to be 30 to get into the senate. he turned 30 before he was sworn in. he knows every cobweb in that place and if the president had any inkling that he wanted to actually sort of figure something out, he would have joe biden out there all day every day and probably get it done. so nobody wants to negotiate, so far, everybody is looking at their own polling, seeing what they want to see, maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong. we'll find out in about 11 months. but i don't see this thing getting off here for sometime to come. >> to those who support the president and say why should the president have to negotiate on