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Somewhere in the range of 40-80 billion dollars. this is not chicken feed we're talking about. it's fair, most americans support this, i think republicans will be in a very difficult place and difficult position saying no to this. >> here is republican senator john kyle on the floor today. here it is. >> president obama's campaigning for reelection on a soap the rich kind of platform. argues income inequality and check with fairness, in his narrative fair society requires more ball lons or redistribution. >> mr. rick, if we go back to the old rates, which they were when you were in the clinton...

Sacrifice, they had all the breaks in the last ten years. republicans of course will vote against it, but polls show american favor raising taxes on the wealthy. even republicans favor it. even millionaires are in favor of it. >> absolutely. >> how hard should the democrats push this one? >> i think this could be one of the defining issues in the campaign. congressional republicans will vote against it. every democrat should vote for this, president should talk about it it's fairness, patriotism, the question whether we're all in this together and if the rich don't pay more the rest of us will...

Average working people. >> new poll shows americans believe president obama understands average americans, romney and gingrich, not so much. these are pretty compelling numbers. and you think that this could be a defining issue. does that mean that possibly the democrats could take back the house on this issue? >> i think so, ed. i'm not sure about the senate, that will be much harder but the democrats if they make this the defining issue, have a very good chance of taking back the house. >> senator whitehouse says there are huge exceptions to the progressive tax system. do you think this is g...

Of salon.com. how in the world is mitt romney going to continue to massage, joan, his position on latino voters in the dream act and get away with it? i mean, can he win the presidency if he gets the nomination with such a low number of latino voters viewing him unfavorably? >> i think it's hard. bill knows better than i do in the key swing states the latino vote is a growing importance. the thing that is so tragic to me, ed, the dream act used to be the kind of no-brainer, everyone could agree and maybe people weren't sure about other pathways to citizenship and what to do about adults who ca...

Republicans really believe that a long drawn out ride to the convention will be the best way to beat president obama? >> no, i don't think they do. i think it's great for president obama and great fun for us, but this is serious blood-letting. ed, these two guys, mitt and newt hate each other, this is a hate-off. the more -- the long they are goes on the weaker romney becomes, and there is also, i have no love for sarah palin, but people who are really trying to sort of blacken the eye of the republican establishment, whatever that is, are really trying to say we will not accept this guy. so y...