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But when republicans are unwilling to compromise when it comes to taxes on any level, even at one dollar to ten dollars in cuts, you're not going to motivate democrats to make a deal. so you have right now are two sides who have no way to kind of bridge those differences. >> gregg: chip, when democrats control congress, they passed measures that turned out to be unpopular among americans, at least according to the polling data out there. then republicans take control of the house and there is absolute gridlock. surely they, the gop deserve a big share of the blame here, too, right? >> i think ...

The guy may not set the room on fire, but who has the capacity to fix it. that's what i think everything is building toward. >> i know he has said privately to a lot of people encouraging him to run for president, in many ways the best thing that happened as governor is he was dealing with a democratic legislature, because he couldn't assume, as john kasich did mistakenly in ohio, he could just run rough shod over the state, and kasich learned, as he always does, from that experience. what christie has said to a number of people encouraging him to run, i have to deal with a democratic legislat...

>> unlike bill clinton when didn't reach out when he had majorities, but did when he lost his majority, this president didn't reach out when he lost his majority. when he had majority, we understood he ran rough shod, did what he wanted to do and ignored the republicans. but when we took the house and we said, let's do something. he did things like invite paul ryan to the white house by trickery and embarrass himself by ridiculing ryan's program in front of him, having brought him to the -- in saying, i really liked this. >> steve: i don't know how effective this particular strategy would be, ...

International conspiracy, it was spend an e-mail to the bank of gland and have a meeting among regulators. you didn't see that rage. incorporated into the bailout probably was this libor rate, thereby sending the message to the market, here are we the government putting our imprimatur on this rate. and sending the message nothing to worry about here. this is when the banks started using homeowners in the mortgage modification program. it wasn't to bring the banks in and saying you have to stop this action. it was excuse not to pun ush them for running rough shod over the american people that -...

Mess with this, this is where you get upside down. >> alisyn: jehmu, what does history show us? this has been tried before. >> at the end of the day, as late as the free market is, it never was intended to be free rein to run rough shod over-- >> you mean regulated markets like the futures. >> and so, at the -- the american people expect the government to step in and stop. >> oh. >> they depend on the government to step in and stop the rigging of the markets. >> what happened last time. >> did it work? >> this is one step that is a part of all of the above energy strategies that the president ...