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Buffett rule and proposals like limiting deductions for higher earners. so that would certainly be part of the conversation. when it comes to extending the bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% if a bill doing that were to somehow arrive on his desk he would not sign it. >> reporter: it's so secret that many democrats think that letting the bush era tax rates expire is a powerful forcing mechanism the president could use to get his way if he can't negotiate a deal. does the president share that view? >> the president believes as he said in the east room moments ago, that it is paramount that...

>> a couple things. the fallout i experienced was actually when i was running for governor and i said i would sign a bill doing away with the death penalty, and they tried to beat me like a dog on that issue, made the election particularly close because we had a particularly heinous crime that had been committed and those trials were going on in the middle of the election. but listen, i adopted this position way back in the 1980s when i was a prosecutor in new york city. i tried four homicides there, i subsequently tried a homicide as a defense attorney. i made a decision that justice has not ...

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