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Priorities are. harry reid doesn't want the american people to know what the senate democrats' priorities are, so they just don't pass budgets. now, what usually happens is, you have a budget every year. the senate passes their budget. the house passes their budget. they go to conference. we all saw -- we all saw i'm just a bill, yes, i'm only a bill. i'm living here on capitol hill. harry reid, obviously -- he was doing a chicken fight or something while that was going on. he missed that. the senate has been negligent for the past several years. and that's why we have this government by deadl...

And that is in the form of unemployment insurance. it is in the form of infrastructure spending. and up until monday it was in the form of an extension of the payroll tax cut. those are the measures that the president does want to see. that a lot see are necessary in the current state. and so what john boehner is doing here essentially is calling the white house's bluff. the white house wants to deal in those measures and they won't get one if they don't pass. >> what surprises you, if anything? >> i am not shocked. because it is not that different than what he put out in the 2011 negotiations...

>> sam stein, isn't plan b good for the white house? isn't the white house just kind of pretending they're not crazy about john boehner? especially the part where he says he will bring the senate bill to a vote in the house? >> well, yeah, it is good in one sense, that they will have a number of republicans voting for a tax hike. how many republicans they will get is another question entirely. but let's keep in mind the white house has incentives, as well, to see a deal passed, a bigger deal. and that is in the form of unemployment insurance. it is in the form of infrastructure spending. and u...

Killed it. the first format lent itself to that approach. >> right. >> this format clearly didn't. >> no, it definitely didn't. the other thing to keep in mind with women and why they didn't move as much after that debate is a lot of us, me included, if you look at what women are concerned about, it is not just gender and social issues. it's the economy. and for all his flubs and aggression in that debate, romney did have a few fairly clear effective moments. why aren't we doing better? we can do better if i'm elected. don't pass the debt and deficit onto your kids that i think resonated. stan...

The people of texas, not different celebrities that come in to texas. for me, texans are my celebrities. >> shannon: i want you to give me the number one example that proves you are more are conservative than ted cruz. >> well, first of all, mr. cruz his record is rhetoric. i have it. i have actually as i was saying, be shannon, i have been involved in the trenches. the whole i'm a life long conservative businessman. my job is part-time but when i'm in there as lieutenant governor the legislature is designed so bills don't pass and i have had to carry over the goal line bloodied and beat up ph...