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Huh? republican leaders didn't share that information with some of their members? we've just gone through three months or so of hand-to-hand political combat on spending cuts, and republican leaders in the senate apparently never told their members what president obama was putting on the table. this kind of seems like a big deal, right? and does not seem to be an isolated incident. one whippersnapper reporter who has been documenting this phenomenon at work in washington is our own ezra klein. he's also a columnist for "washington post" and the bloomberg news. ezra, it's great to have you here...

>> i met her. >> how are you doing? she is the best. she is the best thing to come here. i have been here for 200 years. you're a good looking bunch. i want you next to me. you got a smile that lights up the whole chamber. come on, sis, get in here. >> this kind of schmoozing and glad handing is innate to some politicians and torture for others, and it's often the key ingredient in a politician's success. some politicians have it and some don't. the vice president, he's got it. joining me "the washington post's" dana milbank and managing editor of thegrio.com, joy reid. you know, joy, he's bei...

You got a smile that lights up the whole chamber. come on, sis, get in here. >> this kind of schmoozing and glad handing is innate to some politicians and torture for others, and it's often the key ingredient in a politician's success. some politicians have it and some don't. the vice president, he's got it. joining me "the washington post's" dana milbank and managing editor of thegrio.com, joy reid. you know, joy, he's being criticized in some quarters. they're ridiculing this and saying look at this phony biden. i'm sure to ask the people who were there and on the receiving end of those gree...

Television. and an attack by the guy who does nothing else but go on sunday talkshows. i guess he is an expert of how you do it right. she was not in super advisory capacity over. she was giving the talking points like john mccain does when he goes on sunday talkshows. it was so small but this is why people hate washington. >> here is what we don't know. i think we can assume there were two names on the list. and what we don't know is in a world with no static, what was president obama's first choice? in this environment, assuming the president's choice was john kerry, not by default, how woul...

>> this is nuts. the president can win on raising tax rates for the highest earner, earners that's what he campaigned on time after time and the republicans would cave on this they could make agreement. and everybody could go home for christmas. the president asked for more and more to make it unacceptable to republicans. on the issue that he campaigned on, making everybody pay their fair share, he could win now. >> greta: rick? >> so much of this is going to plan also why people hate washington. it is playing out the way you have to expect it would. when they are talking now, they are not neg...