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Perilously close. barack obama is a personal friend of mine. he became my friend in the senate. but that does not mean i agree in any way with what he's doing or how he's doing it. i, quite frankly, think he's in a difficult position. he's put himself in it. and if he continues, i think we're going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency. >> is this latest iteration of the obama derangement syndrome as chris calls it? rick tyler is with the strategy group for media a former spokesman for gingrich. robert hoops is a democratic strategist. rick, what makes...

Should never have offered the impeachment conversation. is this the way it's going to be till this presidency is over? >> i sure hope not. barack obama will be the president for the next three years. we need to get over it. we need to have an alternative vision so we can capture the majority in the senate, add more republicans to the house. you're only going to do that with a big broad vision that is articulated in a way that people allow do you did. until you do that, an anti-obama even calling it obama care, i try to call it the affordable care act even though that's a misnomer is not helpfu...

I do think the debt limit will be increased, though 70% of americans oppose it for good reason. not because we will fall in default, a scare tactic, but the dislocation that will be caused in the market. what needs to happen, when the debt limit is increased, serious spending cuts are done as part of it. more importantly, some type of mechanism to hold spending down in the future. a provision put in place to focus on spending, not deficit. along the line along what senator corker proposed. >> jamie: robert, it sounds like it could work if we could cut spending. we could really make a dept in t...

Markets in an absolutely downward spiral. that's why -- [ inaudible ] if i were the republican, i'd say c'mon, i'm a budget nerd. that's where i started. it works. it was a bipartisan mechanism. we have done this before. we can do it again. >> jamie: let robert weigh in. equal time. robert? >> thanks. the interesting piece is if it doesn't pass, it won't pass because of a republican vote in the house of representatives. it will be contrary to the republican leadership articulated that they want it to pass. which means the 80 class of freshman, the tea party movement has taken control of the re...

Shouldn't he comment on this? >> i think it would be good for the attorney general to talk about this. >> thanks very much. robert hoops, ron, good to see you. >> s that. >> programming note, tomorrow night, sunday geraldo rivera will interview malik zula shabazz on at large, right here on the fox news challenge. >> that ought to be interesting. new developments in the disappearance of that little oregon boy. local media reports out of portland saying police are tracing the timeline of kyron's step mom. terry has told police she had gone to a school science fair with him on june 4th and last s...