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Up on capitol hill. i am not saying he will be able to do it, but the idea of a president using outside pressure to try to get public support to then put pressure on the folks on capitol hill is a time-other thanked tradition. there is an image that reagan and tip o'neill bargained -- no. reagan, on most issue it's taxes, spending, regulation -- beat tip oneme's brains in and he just was more effective at mobilizing public support. if barack obama can do it, more power to him. >> it's the oldest kind of politics -- organizing, harnessed to the newest political technology, a very powerful instr...

Tomorrow, it will be a bigger, broader speech about coming together and common cause for the country. >> karl? >> i think it will be a moment where the country comes together. but two points. one is we have to be careful about the difference between rhetoric and performance. four years ago, president obama struck a bipartisan note, called for a new coming together, but it didn't happen. one reason it didn't happen was a note that -- that you ran earlier in the piece of footage, where the president said, i'm here because we have chosen hope over fear, unity over conflict and discourse. that was...

Ronald reagan would think of this healthcare reform plan? >> he would be completely against it. reagan stuck to his principles no matter what anybody else offered their detractors. he stuck to it and that's the same way obama has been. there are similarities of how they do things and i think obama reflecting reagan's optimism, it's clear if you look at recent speeches that that's where they're staking out the ground. i agree on policy. miles apart. martha: i hear you. it will be much discussed. it's an interesting attempt to try to remold the image of this president and whether or not there is...

Support some of the protesters or the government of egypt, which is an ally of israel. it's a complicated situation. john bolten will weigh in on this in the next hour. there are new suggestions coming from a number of areas that president obama is sort of channeling a former president now, not lincoln, not kennedy, not f.d.r., which was mentioned several times when he first became president, and not clinton, which was also mentioned, but somebody about as far away from him on the political spectrum as you can get. this is the image that you will see on "time," remember that old magazine, obam...

His opponents, when they take him on, we look look the doom-and-gloom guys going after reagan. as many people tear at obama, what, they want to lose the future? it sets up the same optimism versus pessimism theme that reagan set up. martha: let me lay on you what you know, which is the way that the other side will look at this. you have got to be kidding me. you are going to put on "time" and try to convince me that their policies are similar? their policies are worlds and worlds apart. these two people are worlds apart. if the only thin thread connects them that they're optimistic, you can pu...