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Democratic party's ability to retake the house in november. the growing progressive insurgency -- presents serious questions for the democratic party as it continues its leftward movement. let's ask our political panel about this. a republican consultant who has worked on gingrich, carson and ryan campaigns. and a former legislative and policy director to chuck schumer and co-founder of third wave. jim, you're up first. you read the op-ed. he said the far left of the party is winning all the primaries and it will hurt the party in november. >> schoen is wrong. i represent the moderate ring of ...

I love you. it wasn't edge equation. it was about paying down the debt. >> and what happened? we balanced the budget, paid down the debt. how? >> by bringing democrats to their knees. >> i -- >> you know i'm joking, steny. we worked together. >> joe, hold on. it's an interesting analogy. gingrich made a deal with clinton. that was important. his right wing at that point in time in the party, you remember it. >> right now obama says he doesn't want to negotiate. clinton did negotiate. >> my point is the argument was about level of funding to balance. >> yeah. >> now the number that was sent -- ...

>> all right. >> this is what gingrich and clinton were able to do. i know chuck todd remembers this. gingrich would go down to the white house and say, you know, you've got to help me . scarborough, salmon, steve largent, those guys are crazy. help me . clinton would be like, i understand they're crazy, what do you need. they worked together to try ang late us and clinton would give gingrich things to come back and tell the rest of the house republicans. so they would stampede over us. and barack obama has the to realize whether he likes him or not, he's a partner with john boehner. if he wan...

>> joe wasn't as tough. he talks a tougher game than he plays. he plays a reasonable game ultimately. that will hurt him. >> he just talked about the right wing nuts that were tough on gingrich. >> yeah . >> we ran him out of town. >> yes. >> we were tough. >> they ran him out of town and the result of the deal with clinton gave us four years of budget balance. >> thanks to the republicans. coming up, are americans gaming the system? why one say -- "60 minutes" had an amazing story last night about the disability racket. stick around.

Runner. >> mitt romney, less jobs, more of the same. rick santorum, a bold plan for the middle class. >> newt gingrich says he likes talking about bold solutions. with many experts suggesting time is running out on gingrich's campaign, he tried to adjust the game clock a bit. >> i'm staying? the race 'cause i want to see if i can't in the second half of the race, louisiana is sort of half time. i want to see if we can't reset this whole race around the idea of really big ideas. >> louisiana primary is a week from saturday, which means if you agree with gingrich's thinking, there is still time ...