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>> thank you very much. >> i want you to put on your leadership cap because when you're up in vermont, you worked with republicans and democrats alike. you were always a deficit hawk up there. how do you convince me and the republican caucus to raise taxes which i find offensive, but i will do it because we need to all come together and make this deal. how do you convince me to raise taxes today for spending cuts that you claim are going to be coming 20 years from now? if you're john boehner, what's your message? >> you don't do that. that's why i think the cliff is not a bad solution. you can...

The bill, and i think it's going to be all of us. you go back to bill clinton's tax rates which we did pretty well under bill clinton, you cut some defense spending, which isn't going to get cut otherwise because the defense contractors are in practically every congressional district in the place. and you do make some human services cuts which i don't like but everybody's going to have to put something on the table here. >> steve rattner, i'm sure you would beg to differ with what howard dean had to say as far as the fiscal cliff goes. he says it's not a fiscal cliff, it's more like a fiscal s...

With some confidence and certainty it's a crisis. austerity, we're worried about austerity too quickly. i'm trying as a journalist to give this thing a name of what's going to happen here. >> let's talk about what you written and the election in 2016 as it relates to austerity crisis. you write, there are a number of powerful republicans who would see their futures diamond by a grand bargain that credibly puts deficits on a downward trajectory. so, are you saying people like congressman paul ryan who has been a deficit hawk and campaigned on being a deficit hawk on the romney/ryan taicket do y...

Not evidentiary claims. >> economists have evidentiary claims. that's christina romea the first chairwoman. edward prescott, a nobel prize winner who looked at different countries. >> my -- >> evidentiary. >> probably part of why the president has been reluctant to end the bush era tax cuts on the middle class. >> that's what he said in 2010. he said we don't want to raise tax when is we had gdp growth. and it was higher than it is now. >> if you're going to have anxiety about the deficit. you can't have both things. you can't deficit hawk and make a claim about taxes. >> joy, let me let you i...

Michael, my friend, literally my friend, not in the joe biden sense, michael is my friend, is in the beltway, i don't mean to dispaur raj beltway reporters, but paul ryan has been given such a pass. he has a reputation for being a worngy guy, good at the numbers. his numbers have never added up. he has this reputation for being a deficit hawk. as joe biden said he voted for the wars, for the new medicare -- >> the prescription drug benefit. >> he voted -- >> the bush tax cuts. >> the bush tax cuts, all of the bush budgets. he voted for a bush stimulus. in addition to voting against obama stimu...