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>> you're saying now that the president should outline the cuts because nobody is going the table to say this has to come off. >> the president has to come up with a reasonable solution that sells. >> why should he if he can blame the republicans? >> at the end of the day, its the era of this president. no one remembers who the speaker was during the depression. >> right. sounds like august 2011, the republicans took a beating over what happened. guess who really paid the price? the president of the ute had his lowest ratings, his worst political trouble, lost the district the new york, in veg...

>> you know, i don't think so. i mean, first of all, both of these guys know when they sat together as they did in the august, 2011 talks it didn't go very well and they're negotiating with the president, negotiating with him through the secretary of the treasury so i don't think that they object to that. i think it's a-- they're serious guys and been through it before. it's a matter of substance not a matter of style. they're waiting to see what is each side willing to put on the table and the boehner side said we made concessions, the republicans. and we'll put more revenue on the table and ...

Cuts because nobody's going to the table to say this has to come off. >> all you have to say -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> the president has to come up with a reasonable solutions that sells. >> why should he if he can blame e republicans? >> because at the end of the day it's the era of this president. no one remembers who the speaker was during the depression. >> this is the point -- you're exactln.y right. august 2011, the republicans took a beating over what happened when we had the breakdown. guess who really paid the price? the president of r the united states had his lowest ratings. it was...

Where were we during the debt negotiations. >> that was, what, august 2011. that was eight quarters ago -- i mean i'm not good at math either. >> yeah. >> we have alex just put this up with consumer confidence which is hitting a four-year high, housing is moving. there are signs that businesses can depend on poor -- at least for a certain level of certainty. >> if you are a publicly held company and you sit on a board of a company and decisions are made that hurt your company, you're accountable. we pass rules in the congress, joe and i both where we hold officers of companies and members of b...

Get that deal done? >> the way the lead that you leave when you are president, and maybe you should call bill clinton, instead of having him testify to his greatness, maybe you should have him explain how you call people in and how you do deals. that is what lyndon johnson did, that is what george h. w. bush did. that is how you get it done. one thing he knows how to do his campaign. if you read bob woodward's book, he was totally absent in the disaster of august 2011. i'm sorry, 2011, yes. look, this is his opportunity. republicans have put that on and i don't think they need to go further in...