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Second look. tell me more about newt. when can i meet him? is he coming to the hill to talk to us? >> if you hire a staffer, you would ask around about what he was like or she was like to work with. we have people who worked with newt who don't hold back judgment, they offer judgment and it's negative. how do you explain that? what is their motive. >> sue and peter are from the northeast where we don't do well in new york city in general. sometimes it's in the congressman's district interest not to support somebody like newt. mitt romney is the safer candidate. >> tom coburn. >> he's outspoken...

Saying, you know what, i want to take a second look. tell me more about newt, when can i meet him, is he coming back to the hill to talk to us? >> but if you go hire his staffer, chief of staffer to work, you would ask around what he or she was like to work with? and here we're getting people who don't say -- it's not that they hold back judgment as you say, they offer judgment, and it's negative. how do you explain that? what's their motive in attacking him, even if he's not going to be the nominee? >> i understand sue molinari and peter king are from the northeast, where we don't do very wel...

Not one balanced budget amendment but two are currently proposed. so, congress managememan murphy would proposals and what is the difference between the two. >> and there may be more proposals, some amendments talk about freezing spending and the particular things that are going on with constitutional amendments would be an 18 or 20% of the gdp and when they would go into effect, at four years from now or a few years from now are open to a lot of discussions, still. >> heather: and the call for the balanced budget amendment comes as the nonpartisan congressional budget office -- wants to make ...

To wait until we fight out the other battle to go ahead and do what everybody agrees needs to be done? >> my point is -- >> i think uniform commitment by both republicans and democrats is important to act on, so we can give middle class and small businesses tax relief. >> i guess, my point is, you are slamming republicans for holding the middle class hostage while they fight for the wealthy. can't the same be said for those democrats that are now agreeing with republicans on this extension? >> well, they're certainly expressing their preference. now, i don't think they're expressing a preferen...

They needed to see in all likelihood was a total number less than one trillion, $940 billion is certainly close, but that will probably make them more comfortable, also some verified cbo deficit reduction, and at least projections, though the cbo is always cautious about that second decade of any kind of deficit projections because as the office says, it's very difficult to predict with any accuracy 20 years out exactly what the deficit implications of any bill is going can to be, including one of this magnitude, size and scope. nevertheless, james clyburn has been talking hour by hour, day by...