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Confident. the quest is, what comes next? >> you know, jim scuitto, let's talk a bit. putin is going back to russia. i think he's pleased. clearly president biden is pleased as well, but the proof is what happens next. >> we entered with lower expectations, and you're leaving with a reasonable ability for both sides to claim something of a victory here. they stood, they talked, they talked on the big issues, they didn't make progress, action we expected on the big issues. they at least laid a path to discuss those bigger issues going forward, for instance expert consultations. clearly, you kno...

Blinked. >> it does appear that way. i think one thing we've learned in this fan fort versus trump fight is donald trump does have the biggest bat in the republican party so maybe some of these guys are feeling nervous about going against the republican leadership. >> congressman? >> they did blink but they didn't make progress. you know, a shutdown, we're all losers on that. the press could assess the blame game but america loses, that's the bottom line. we lose if we don't have a budget. and the republicans have the majority and they have to make a decision. and this is an america first kind...

On the ferry. it's not necessarily on the relationship with the united states. they kind of know that there isn't going to be a lot of big deliverables. you were talking about tpp and i heard willie earlier on the trade deal. and there's this press, my god, they didn't make progress. there was never going to be an announcement of progress on that trade deal. this is an election year. the president can't be touting a trade deal that's going to make the base of his party upset. so this a deliberate almost slow walk of this trade deal. it's going to happen, i think, but not until 2015. >> traveli...

Unemployment number. things like that. focus on those things. they didn't make progress. they picked paul ryan and the campaign changed. the campaign had a different feel. bigger, bolder, more conservative. they came out for a week and me a sustained and aggressive argument on medicare. they won the week. everybody was shocked at the end of the week, it was polling better and the "washington post" on medicare. up in general poll. we revert back to the preryan moment. there was a quote in a big politico article about the state of the race from stuart stevens. strategist for the romney campaign....