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Supporting him, who are saying, yes, it is on the democrats, you own this. but the president said he owns it. >> but fred, he has walked everything back at one point or another, since he's been there. since day one. when they showed his picture and said that the inaugural crowd was the largest ever. they create the facts. and then they want us to report them. it is a long cry from where it was, when reagan, larry said, speak, don't tell us how to stage the news and we won't tell you how to report the news. this administration wants to stage it and change how it is reporting. this is not news. ...

Nonstarter. and that's where i think you're going to see some of this discussion going, bringing it back to a point, sometimes people forget. >> so then brian, the flip side of that, you have the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell placing the blame on democrats and saying wait a minute, the pressure is on you, on you two come around, and to compromise and to get government running again. >> well, and then mitch is ignoring the point that lin just made, and he knows it all too well. that's mitch playing to the base, to the president's base. because mitch knows all too well, senator mcconnel...

>> sara westwood at the white house, keep us posted. let's talk more about this. cnn political analyst brian kelum, and washington bureau chief of the chicago sun times, lynn sweet. good to see both of you. happy holidays. brian, you first. what's the point of this lunch? if it really is, you know, preach can to the choir? >> well, because you like to hear the choir sing back at you on occasion, i suppose. what this situation boils down to, fred, it three things. first of all, he was willing to compromise, on wednesday gave the signal he would compromise and then heard from ann coulter the int...