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We got $21 billion of new defense spending for less than $5 billion of non-defense spending. go dollar for dollar. we got a dollar of spending and only gave $0.20 worth of nondefense discretionary. that is a tremendous development for this president and a huge win from a negotiating standpoint. think about that for a second, we've gone from a dollar per dollar to a dollar for just $0.20, plus part of that $4.545 billion is the stuff like. so the miners health is included in that number so even the stuff we gave away supposedly to get the defense spending was the stuff we liked in the first pla...

Congress pass add bill to move the embassy to jerusalem. president after president since that time, every six months, weighed this saying we're not going to do it right now. you say it's a bad idea, basically from a negotiating standpoint. explain why. >> it's not just that, john. having advised secretary of state, presidents of both parties, when it came to moving the embassy, my advise always the same. simply, don't. in large part, because both republicans and democrats could not divide a compelling american national tlaeft would somehow outweight the down sides and risks of doing so. and i ...

>> rand paul's position on the iran deal has been sort of modified it along the way. signed that letter that 47 senators sent to iranian leaders that was widely blasted by supporters of the obama deal that the framework that was reached yesterday. but then he said oh, but i signed that because i wanted the president to have a better negotiating standpoint. and i want congress to have weigh in to that as well. but rand paul because his policies on that have been left of the party, it will be interesting when he gets a question on what he thinks of negotiations so far. >> especially late with th...

Deals. according to how the talks were progressing, here's some various fiscal curb offers. as put together by the committee for responsibility federal budget. and you can see that they were, on the bottom, is cuts. on the top is revenue. you can see they're getting closer to being essentially, one-to-one, which is i don't think is good macroeconomic theory but from a negotiating standpoint is closer to a deal and then it all blew up. dean, you think that's a good idea? and partly i would imagine you think it's a good idea because i imagine you think this chained cpi was a red line, no-go? >> ...

Geithner's proposal. >> i don't really think the democrats want to make a deal. they should have never been put in this position. if you remember on your show, i said, don't let this happen between fiscal cliff and all of what's happening now. don't let it happen after the election. let it happen before the election because as you remember, obama would have no chance of getting elected if this happened. so i said, it must happen before. they allowed it to happen after. the democrats now don't care. i think they want to go over the cliff, raise taxes, and that's going to be the end of that. i d...