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Renegades as well. >> now, joan, isn't that really the problem that the leadership may do what is more politically sensible and they may not be in charge as we have seen in the last several confrontations where boehner would try to make a move that at least appeared more rational, not rational but appeared that way. and he couldn't even get that done because of as jared talks about the radicals that he has in his own caucus. >> oh, yeah. jared's absolutely right. we shouldn't act like this danger is passed. because, you know, john boehner can't do whatever he wants. he lives in fear of his far...

Until the election is held in 2014. and the president is returning to washington as the treasury secretary warns the country is not in a good place when it comes to the national debt. timothy geithner says the government may hit its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit on monday. the president will hear about the fiscal cliff problem as well as members of congress return to washington to address the fiscal cliff. talks will take place behind closed doors. no public negotiations set. you have the debt and the fiscal cliff. it's not looking too good right now when it comes to the u.s. economy. >> geit...

What a welcome. he will serve in the senate until the election is held in 2014. and the president is returning to washington as the treasury secretary warns the country is not in a good place when it comes to the national debt. timothy geithner says the government may hit its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit on monday. the president will hear about the fiscal cliff problem as well as members of congress return to washington to address the fiscal cliff. talks will take place behind closed doors. no public negotiations set. you have the debt and the fiscal cliff. it's not looking too good right no...

On? could you guys have fashioned a plan that you could have lived with? >> perhaps, perhaps. but that hasn't been the case in the last two years. it's usually john boehner dive left and conservatives on the outside and at the end of the day, they'd call the democrats and say we'll get the votes to piece that together. we have to look at what the problem is, and that's what conservatives have been saying, my constituents are saying. there's the problem. it's not a taxing problem. it's a spending problem. but i'll tell you, both sides, both the speaker and certainly harry reid, if he ever comes...

Piece? >> yeah, exactly the same thing. they reinforce each other. it was interesting to hear mark murray saying that some of those comments from the republican party even came from rank and file republicans which i found to be true in the piece i wrote about today. i took at a different poll, not your poll. >> how dare you, michael, not look at our poll. >> done by a pollster, who has polled for nbc. and in that poll, imagine joirlts of republicans very often large majorities of republicans, mid and high 60s, support what you would think democratic fixes for a this fiscal cliff problem. they ...