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Address issues. those all popular issues for possible liberal challenger such as elizabeth warren. warren insists she is not running but her presence has moved the dialogue to the left. how will hillary respond? former adviser to hillary s 2008 presidential campaign brad likeman, assistant to george w. bush join us now. richard and brad, good to see you. 1992, richard it s the economy stupid but hillary has to do than remind us of her husband s record. what do you think she ll do? i think you said it in the intro, i can guarantee or my belief that elizabeth warren will not challenge her. it s actually not much daylight between where elizabeth warren is and hillary clinton is. they are both committed to addressing income inequality through education and research and development and ....
Bipartisan is the key to the next congress. eric: talk about bipartisan, but we don t hear, we hear talk about that, but we don t see a lot of it or any. we have to see it from the president. we ve got to see it from the senate. the democrats still control two important aspects of government. the senate and the presidency. yes, we control the house. but it takes two to tango now, and if the president is smart, he would reach out his hands and we ll reach out ours in a compromise to get the economy back to work. eric: dick, do you think you will see the president reach out his hands and the republicans reach out theirs? i think the president reached out his hand and pulled back enough on most occasions. what i find fascinating about the story, about the party this morning is all of a sudden the tea party folks are coming to washington and instead of drinking tea, they re having cappuccinos and beignets at the parties. democrats and republicans drink from the same cup. brad will ....
I wonder who the 17% is who approves this? they must be drinking something stronger than tea. eric: the tea party folks, though, they say they were elect and they know why they re elected and they will drink the tea. not the double lattes. that s what they said before they got there. brad and i have been around long enough to see what happens when they do get there. what has got to happen is folks have to wake up and understand in washington that the rest of us out here are hurting economically. we ve got to do something about getting our economy together. this is going to have to be bipartisan. i have don t think the president or the republican house or the democratic senate ought to wake up this morning thinking they have a mandate to do anything except get people back to work. and the president has talked about the compromising on extenting the bush tax cut cans. he has talked about compromising a number of different places. the question is going to be whether the republican par ....
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This world. we re a democracy. eric: 30 seconds left from both of you. how do we get the 17% up? do you think it will increase if the new congress does deal with these issues? you have to lead by example. if we do that which the people want us to do, and we do it in respectful way, the approval rating will shoot through the roof. it s not going to be gridlock. we cannot have gridlock in the country anymore. we have to come together for the mutual good. i d agree. brad and i don t agree on much but we agree on that. the deficit reduction commission, controversy in there. it s shared sacrifice and we need to look hard at the recommendations for both the republicans and democrats. nothing should be sacred, social security or defense or taxes. if we can all pull together and make that sacrifice, i think we can remain and i believe we are the greatest country in the world and the greatest country for opportunity in the world. and we can remain that. eric: all right. we have to sav ....