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You've got to make things happen. and you forget sometimes. you know, sometimes making some things happen is not -- you're better off -- >> i wonder if one of those example might be pork barrel spending because you're getting hit by rick perry by supporting the notorious bridge to nowhere. other pork barrel projects where deliver cash for folks back in your home state. do you regret voting for some of those projects? you've defended pork barrel spending in the past. >> what i've said is that your role as a member of congress, if you look at the constitution, is to appropriate money. of course,...

The subtext is you might think i'm a rich guy with a strange religion, but i'm just like you. i think that's probably not enough to win in a country where people feel it's in decline. that the scope of his plans are not as big as the scope of the problems. the problem that also applies to barack obama. >> this week, though, potentially? >> potentially. >> -- is not going to be silent, also. >> -- take that on. because this is a big issue about whether president obama has measured up as a leader. i mean, there's real fears of national decline, a sense of the country's on the wrong track. this i...

That's where republicans have been in error for so many years. and that is compromising on just a little less big government instead of saying no. no more compromises and less big government. we'll compromise on less less government but not going the other way. >> one of the things you look at as an insurgent party trying to be an incumbent president, you've said that, second term of president obama would be dangerous for the country. is that you look at the party that's making the challenge. and here's the reality. disapproval for the republican party right now in congress -- i should say app...

No. but it moves the country in the right direction. so what i've said in the past consistently is i'll support laws that move the ball forward, that doesn't mean that's my position and that's where i'd like to go. but that's exactly the direction that we need to go in. >> the issue of moderation is -- goes beyond abortion. back in 2006 you were fighting the idea that you were seen as too conservative. you had television ads, heralding the fact that you opposed reductions in the minimum wage. that you were fighting cuts against amtrak. isn't your history to try to moderate, both when fighting ...

Dramatically reshaping his team. the defense second remains one of the lone voices of moderation. >> it is our responsibility to spend every dollar-wisely in order to keep the trust and the confidence of the american people and the congress. >> reporter: so wolf, as the week winds down at the white house, filled with staff shake-ups and revolving doors, the president flying to florida. his department of jilts announcing that they are taking steps to ban bump stocks. throws the devices that essentially make weapons into semi-automatic weapons. all of this as tens of thousands are preparing to d...