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We articulate an agenda that isn't just reliant on pointing to the crazy guy next door and saying, i'm not that guy. >> this is how i was feeling at the point we were celebrating re-opening the government. i was like, excuse me, now we're having a celebration that people are going to return to work and we're going to return to sequester levels. and the notion that we can't even push past that, because they aren't still driving the debate at the moment. >> and that's a complete shift, you know, at seton hall where i teach, we always talk about how the rules shape the outcomes. and what has happ...

Deficit and easing the sequester. there's a deal to be made if both sides will approach it with willingness to engage in give and take. >> i'm curious how optimisticing that lawmakers will do the same because you're saying give and take, both sides have to give a little. >> well, remember, first of all, let's start with the things we agree on. we agree with a lot of the president's entitlement reforms. we don't think we should have to pay for areas we agree by doing things like raising taxes. we don't expect the democrats to embrace the ryan plan on medicare or the block grant medicaid to the ...

To get the extra revenue. i don't think either one those are the appropriate solutions. the president's put enough entitlement reform on the table himself that we could find the savings on the nondiscretionary side and take care of a lot of those cuts. there are some revenue measures that the two sides might be able to agree on. so again, there's enough elements out there to avoid that, but if all else fails, what will happen is exactly what you outlined, we'll have government at sequester levels and that's going to be pretty painful for all concerned, democrat and republican alike. >> let's t...

Can't negotiate with people when their terms are completely unreasonable, and i think that republicans underestimated help. they thought he was going to cave or give up his position and he held firm and i think that's why we came to the conclusion that we did that is satisfactory for most democrats and i will say again, the sequester levels that democrats approve is nothing that anyone is happy about, but they understand the word compromise and that was their compromise and they weren't going to do anymore. i think the president did do, not negotiating the fill, faith and credit. >> is this ap...

Relationship or maybe the lack of relationship he has with the president, i thought, was very telling. you know, we've heard about in this quite a bit in some places that have reported it, but to hear actually somebody say it, i think, is another thing. >> well, i think they should be saying it more often. you know, this was a very interesting interview that you had with boustany, bill. he was essentially saying that he thought that the democratic and republican leadership in the senate and the house could, if left alone, i think, work out compromises on the issues that are most important goin...