Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130221:05:49:00
Important point to make. this is not a -- none of this is a lesson that brinksmanship works. it is a lesson that not compromising doesn't work if you want to get things done under a divided government there is nothing stopping the u.s. government, congress, and the president from coming to a compromise. all that republicans would need to do is accept a certain number of tax expenditure cuts which they already said they would accept in tax reform in that deal. they haven't done that because they don't want to compromise. and so they haven't gotten their goals done. nothing here is required for ...