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Him backing up very far on the question of his most significant legislation. >> professor peterson, final question to you. the president talked and a lot of people thought the re-election in 2012 would, quote, break the fever that seems to have republicans -- has the republicans in the grip of the heavy night sweats here. do you think -- what will -- this debt ceiling fight and maybe even the continuing resolution fight, is that going to be the moment where we see the fever break and maybe some sanity flow through capitol h l hill? >> sadly, i don't think so, jonathan. we don't have -- 41st vo...

White house wanted the negotiations in a way. i'm not saying that you can cook up a debt crisis or anyone would want to, but the president and his negotiators wanted both of these things to be done together, not to have tax cuts and all the horse trading around that now. and then in a few months' time have to go through the whole thing but on less favorable ground for the white house at least than talk about the debt ceiling. it's much better that it's one negotiation, it's one round of massive uncertainty if there's anything good that comes out of that, but it certainly puts that sharp deadli...

>> i think the fever will have broken. you have the tea party wing controlling the party. i said this before, we need a republican party. we need leaders that can control their party and i think you're going to see the fever break. you're going to see obama's re-elected, the idea we can't let that happen is done. now it's going to be okay, man, we just got to get something -- i'm not going to tell you who -- i've already been talking -- >> the reasonable people that we grew up with, they left, they're gone. they passed away. >> but there's still some solid republican conservatives who understa...

There's a million people going to lose their jobs. so the question was, he didn't think it was better, but how could you not take the chance? >> bipartisan got a huge applause here. you got real close to a deal last year with john boehner. if you get re-elected, how do you get back to making it work, like it did up here in the storm country of jersey, where everybody seemed to be working together? >> i think the fever will have broken. you have the tea party wing controlling the party. i said this before, we need a republican party. we need leaders that can control their party and i think you'...

Republican party. we need leaders that can control their party and i think you're going to see the fever break. you're going to see obama's re-elected, the idea we can't let that happen is done. i've already been talking -- >> the reasonable people that we grew up with, they left, they're gone. they passed away. >> but there's still some solid republican conservatives who understand what principled conservative means and they're not wrapped up in idealogical purity. i think there's a dozen republican senators, and i think i can name 2 1/2, 3 dozen house members who, once this election is over,...