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president on down are trying to prove they're the one most looking out for you. >> it would be very helpful for us to be able to say to the american people our fiscal house is in order. >> the president wassed a today month that it's impossible to get a deal unless and until the republicans agree to raise some taxes. in turn, republicans say that before he spends anymore time lecturing them, she stop giving press conferences and put his proposals down on paper. but in the hunt for specifics, it is crystal clear the president is not ready to take the lead. >> if they show me a serious...

Are losing the spin war on this. >> let me say as for how want giving the state of the union, i will let the president give the state of the union but not any doubt after state of the union this evening that the president has firmly committed to the long-run fiscal consolidation and addressing some of the fiscal problems that we have known about for 30 years and we have got to -- that we have got to do. i think anybody whose folk discuss skipping on investments in research and development and education the kinds of things that allow us to be the premier economy in the world, they are making a ...

>> i'm telling you, i don't think there's any question when she says 70 million republicans opposed health care because the president's black, that is a bigoted statement about white republicans. >> do you think it was a bigoted statement for jim demint to say what he said? >> waterloo wasç a battle betwn napoleon and the british. >> if we can break him, if we can break him, that's an old southern slavery term off the plantation and you know it. >> come on, no, i don't. >> you know it is the truth. >> you guys keep picking phrases that are used generally. >> you're the one that read two sent...

Understand the politics say, look, we understand. there's as a practical matter, no way to get megrahi out of libya. the libyans welcomed him as a e hero coming back. >> this is new york, new jersey political posturing? >> certainly a lot of that and also, look, there's legitimate grounds for a lot of people to be angry here. >> no doubt about this. >> this guy was a convicted terrorist. this was prior to 9/11. this was the worst terrorist act. >> may not be anything to do. >> policy grounds, not a lot to do. >> yeah. >> nbc's michael isikoff, thank you. >> thank you. hopes are high that a b...

Be a problem if people are here with expired visas and they do no addictional research into what they're doing here or anything else about them and just say, oh, you can stay? how could that not be a problem? >> jamie, i think if there's a limited category of people who are students who overstayed or people on work visas, who overstayed and you make a judgment on policy grounds, that's okay. the larger question is this issue of what the obama administration's going to do about the issue of the 12 or 13 million illegals in the country. that's got to be dealt it. >> jamie: let me get tony in her...