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Foreign policy team. maybe it will be hillary clinton and maybe they will all three get in the room and say okay you go. we'll see. >> we were showing video of the joy with which joe biden approaches one of his ceremonial functions of swearing in of new senators. let's hear what he had to say. >> hey mom. how are you? good to see you. i'm joe biden. come on mom. take a chaps. would you take a picture of this quickly. guys other than my mother this is the finest lady i have known. look, in my house there are mothers and then something else and something else and then there are mothers. >> ez ra...

Understand that predicament having said that, the president has offered too much with a mandate on the issues. they need to step back and start from stracratch. >> listen to what congressman dan burton thinks is coming. he said let's say that we don't do anything. he lets us go over the fiscal cliff and they are going to blame republicans and the president is going to be the savior. the president comes back and says okay we are going to give tax cuts to everyone under $250,000. who is going to vote against that everybody will vote for that? everything. ez ra that is dan burton's reading of wha...

You're in a much worse place of revenue because that's where a lot of the revenue comes in. the problem with doing charitable deductions and eliminating that deduction is charitable contributions turn out to be extremely sensitive to their tax treatment. if you actually take that down, you get a real hit. that is not something where you can make a tax change and the real world doesn't suffer. the charitable section will convulse. there's a lot to be good to be had there and the white house' decision you can't have anything under $250,000, that is one of their signature principles here, is not ...

To really focus on getting a balanced plan on -- meaning introduce some revenues into that part of the deal. you know, to put another dimension on there, i'm not sure. the other thing is that the super committee, as i said, doesn't report until -- until much later in the year. i like the fact the white house is coming out with a plan right after labor day with the language they used. one other point i want to make following up on mark. the problem is not simply that both parties aren't working together on this. that's absolutely -- the problem is also that they have very different solutions. a...