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Would you do that? would you call that sane? >> i know he's going to beat it. i know he's going to beat it and i'm really proud of him. >> i've heard from so many people, but the biggest surprise of all is i got the most beautiful letter from edward moore kennedy, teddy kennedy, who he and i have been politically fighting, as you know, for 15 years. >> sean popped in the office. which i hadn't expected. all of a sudden he walked this the door and i gave him a big hug. and he was in coat and tie. and did a lot of thinking about what happened to him. >> now i've got lung cancer. and i could die....

I mean, would you have a lung operation and then go and be on larry king. would you call that sane? >> i know he's going to beat it. i know he's going to beat it and i'm really proud of him. >> it hurts from so many people, but the biggest surprise of all is i got the most beautiful letter from edward moore kennedy, teddy kennedy, who he and i have been politically fighting, as you know, for 15 years. >> shawn popped in the office. which i hadn't expected. all of a sudden he walked this the door and i gave him a big hug. and he was in coat and tie. and did a lot of thinking about what happened...

>> it hurts from so many people, but the biggest surprise of all is i got the most beautiful letter from edward moore kennedy, teddy kennedy, who he and i have been fighting, for, as you know, 15 years. he was in coat and tie and did a lot of thinking. >> now i've got lung cancer. what really bothers me is i won't see my 2 1/2-year-old grow up and say no to smoking. >> there's, like, 3,000 kids every day. i began smoking at the age of 13. to think i was a role model. even signing my name on their cigarettes.

President's tone yesterday if the goal was to come to a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff? >> i think his tone was appropriate because it is even and not an taganistic and fair and balanced in its aproachh and invitesorths to come to the table and indicates a willingness to have a give and take. that's what the american people expect. >> brian: when he said to go visit a manufacturing plant with tinker toys and have a twitter address and hash my 2 k to put pressure on republicans. is that a right tone to get something done? >> i think it is not the president versus republicans. i think the presid...

Budgets and deal with our deficits because if the economy is not strong, that means more money is going out and things like unemployment insurance and less money coming in terms of tax receipts and it makes our deficit worse. we really need to get this right. i can only do it with the help of the american people. so tweet, what was that again? my 2 k, tweet using the hash tag my 2 k or e-mail, post it on a member of congress's facebook walls. do what it takes to communicate a sense of urgency. we don't have a lot of time here. we've got a few weeks to get this thing done. we could get it done ...