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Midterm the last few months. >> liberated. >> taking action where he could. you know, damn the consequences. do you think -- the big question is does that carry through this time? >> i think so. i think we'll see it in terms of protecting his agenda and priorities. we may not see it on some budget items. but i think on keystone, you saw the first skirmish today. the pet will veto. he needs to. this is going to be the first of many environmental climate-related bills. the next one up will be how to take authority away from the epa on power plants. basically, the bottom line is this is a congres...

The president on keystone and on those rearrangements with the affordable care act, if they happen, how contentious can that be will that be or do you think it would just be one side versus the other like political ping-pong? or do you think we'll really see some fur fly? >> i don't know about fur, what i do know is the contention will start as soon as mitch mcconnell comes in, brings that bill to the floor, and has to deal with that open amendment process he decided he needed with the members again, who were elected to protest him, the president, and so on and so forth. so the president doesn...

Facets of the left and reverse a decision that the president's made on keystone? i mean it really puts the next candidate in an untenable position when it comes to this doesn't it? >> it's hard to imagine, what we're seeing such leadership from president obama and others throughout his administration and fantastic staff working so hard to combat the cries, whether it's increasing fuel efficiency for cars or cutting carbon pollution from coal-burning power plants forging an important deal with china to cut emissions. >> but keystone in 2016 all those things you're saying is important, this ups ...

Chamberlain. let's go to the long term trajectory here. there was a version, plot in hollywood terms, the way he's behaved these last six weeks. you said swagger. it wasn't that kind of faux swagger you got from w. where you wonder where it came from. this seems to be based on a confidence that's come out of his own -- his own inner, what reaction, defiance, the right word? i haven't come to it yet. i am me. i'm going to be me. how do you see it? >> my sense is he's decided, i'm through with appeasing democrats in washington. because when you think about it, just listen to his answer on keysto...

Quickly, two other points here. will a republican majority change that number? >> well, i think that is going to be the big test. they have the materials there to do that. 130 democrats voted with republicans on a republican bill to stop junk lawsuits in patent cases. important to high-tech. 53 democrats voted to make it permanent that small business could immediately expense purchases of software and equipment. that is a good thing. 62 democrats voted in the house with republicans to make the research and development tax credit permanent. 32 and 36 democrats voted to make i had easier to inve...