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Anything. why? because the republicans took the position they were not going to agree to anything. you saw a vast majority of them where they would vote almost with exclusivity. nobody would change. this time i think you see that the republicans won't be in 100% lock step with their ideological positions. some realize that they're state will be on the line and they have to compromise. that along with the democrats move along will give us the numbers we need to move our country forward. >> there's a real claim the president was making that taxes were actually were a core issue of the campaign. ...

There doesn't seem to be the same angst we saw in the run-up to the debt ceiling debate. is there a principle issue here? >> it's worth noting the debt ceiling comes back up in the early part of the year and congress and the president are hoping that could be circled into whatever lame duck deal is made. >> but see, what happens is why our government works is we generally find a way to compromise. if you stand on one principle, then the country never moves forward. the way our country always moved forward was we found a way to compromise. we need reasonable people to compromise. we don't expec...