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The bush white house had problems in this position and they brought on tony snowe. >> the bush white house never took this position seriously at first. i think they really -- they thought it was -- this was something they had to deal with, this was somebody, almost they treated it like a zoop keeper. keep those folks at bay. >> right. >> it was rahm emanuel believed this is a position you can move message. this white house takes the position more seriously. >> i was going to say, i think they had some real problems with a couple of press secretaries in the bush administration. tony snowe certa...

i want to simplify rates and i want to, at the same time, make sure that we have the same amount of money coming in as going out. those are big, tough negotiations and i suspect that there's going to be a lot of ups and downs in the months to come before we finally get to that solution. just as a lot of people were skeptical about us being able to deal with the tax cuts we did in december but we ended up getting in done, i'm confident we can get this done as well. >> all right. good morning. it is wednesday, february 16th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, msnbc contributor m...