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>> you know, senator sanders, i wish the president listened to you. that would be awesome. that would be perfectly logical. you would have the people behind you. i really doubt it. so i'm going to ask you a question about whether you think the white house is a little naive or if somehow -- i want to show you a clip from earlier. after we gave away all the tax cuts again to the rich, the president was asked about what's going to happen during these negotiations. and an interesting response. let's look at that.ç >> when you say it would seem they'll have a significant amount of leverage over t...

It happened, i was like, really? he's going to take boehner at his word? you know, i look at that, and i really wonder. and i mean, you're in washington, you're a senator, you know better than i do. can he possibly mean that? does he really think that boehner will be like, yeah, i'll do whatever you want, i'll just do what i told you i'm going to do. you can't believe that, can you? >> the president understands that the for the first time in our history, not paying our debts in a world economy which is on very shaky grounds would be a very bad thing. and the president is clearly right. but on ...

Push the democrats around. so they're drawing another line in the sand on taxes. and honestly, who can blame them? the white house, as usual, had an inexplicably horrible strategy in the so-called negotiations. they agreed to at least $2 trillion in spending cuts before they even started talking about taxes. and now they're expecting republicans to discuss taxes, after they already gave them the spending cuts? why would they do that? can anyone really be this bad at negotiations? by the way, if that negotiating strategy sounds familiar, it's because it is. obama gave republicans more than they...

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