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Meeting. i wouldn't call it a love fest, but it was a productive meeting. >> so in other words, sounds like you're saying you were glad you could get it done, but there are still areas of sincere disagreement. >> well, erin, the difference between where we are right now with tax reform and where we were with health care is night and day. i mean, at this point, on health care, it was -- it was dysfunction junction. people were mad and slamming doors and giving ultimatums. it's not like that on tax reform. you have a lot of folks, and this will continue until we vote, offering ideas, trying to i...

No, we can't. but that should not stop us from trying and from offering ideas. >> all right. is there something you can do, work with this president, the opposite party, in the next year because is he going to be there another year and two months, that's the first thing. second thing, have you spoken to him since you have& become speaker. >> i have spoken to him since i have become speaker. i do there are things we can find common ground on without compromising our prince. principle. i have shown i have the ability to do that that's why my colleagues asked me to be speaker. >> we have to fund ...

No, we can't. but that should not stop us from trying and from offering ideas. >> all right. is there something you can do, work with this president, the opposite party, in the next year because is he going to be there another year and two months, that's the first thing. second thing, have you spoken to him since you have& become speaker. >> i have spoken to him since i have become speaker. i do there are things we can find common ground on without compromising our prince. principle. i have shown i have the ability to do that that's why my colleagues asked me to be speaker. >> we have to fund ...

Taxes as the core principle. raising them is an@ma to the republican ideology because they have seeded every other idea they have had. they have spent their time yelling about socialism and death panels rather than offering ideas that make sense to the american people. >> ari, the thing ha happens when you are off the cliff is as of that day anything you would then vote on is a tax cut? >> right. >> the tenses all become correct. right now, it is not considered a tax cut, because it is a future dealing with the rates. if the rates are up here on january 2nd and on january 5th, you get to vote ...

That lesson hasn't totally sunk in yet. i don't think they have completely resigned themselves to the fact that they are going to have to give on tax rates. going back to what you were just citing, a lot of them do see taxes as the core principle. raising them is an@ma to the republican ideology because they have seeded every other idea they have had. they have spent their time yelling about socialism and death panels rather than offering ideas that make sense to the american people. >> ari, the thing ha happens when you are off the cliff is as of that day anything you would then vote on is a ...