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Party? >> well, i'm not sure that he represents my views in the republican party, but i'm not going to sit here and dump all over my junior senator, particularly given the fact that he worked for me in 2000. he was a very fine lawyer in that recount battle we had in florida, and he was a good solicitor general for the state of texas. was he wrong on this most recent episode? in my view, yes, it hurt us. it didn't gain us anything. we kicked the can just three months down the road. we didn't accomplish anything. it didn't take a rocket scientist in my view to figure out that if you don't have t...

Trillion dollars out of domestic spending and so, this idea that there hasn't been work across the party line is just wrong, it's just that this is going to be a very contentious, two parties are fighting right now, it's going to be very contentious and i don't think that that's going to dissipate in the next couple years. i think it's going to be a tough and rough go of it here the next two years. >> megyn: i think you're right about that. go ahead, mark. >> immigration is going to be a major test for barack obama, because this is an issue where republicans looking back at the last election a...

I know the editorial page doesn't speak for you or you the editorial page. >> it doesn't. >> but it says today, that the administration's claim to have come up with a $4 trillion in deficit reduction is misleading. mr. obama backed away from some of the entitlement reforms he entertained in his closed door discussions with john boehner. he's taking medicare off the table unless it's matched by tax increases and he's taking social security completely off the table. >> well, yeah. i mean, you know, you have to recognize, boehner has also backed off from a lot of things he agreed to behind closed...

The president is looking for the biggest deal he can get. >> continue to push congressional leaders for the largest possible deal. there is going to be resistance. there is frankly resistance on my side to do anything on entitlements. there is resistance to do anything on revenues. if each side takes it a maximalist position, if each side wants 100% of what the presis positions are, then we can't get anything done. voters see him --

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