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Elections there's a small window where they may be able to move something through the house. i wouldn't hold my breath. are iran will come up. sanctions. we have a six month time limit. there will be action on that. my sleeper issue for 2014 is tax reform. the reason i say that is because max baucus is retiring. this is his swan song. he wants to go out with something and quietly pushing behind-the-scenes a reform policy with dave camp. there will be some discussions around it and some small pieces of legislation built off of it. there's a possibility for some things. call me an optimist. >> l...

Those are abyss mal numbers. look at this foreign policy. 68% think the president is not tuff 'n uff on iran. and of course even senate were democrats on thursday vowed to defy and undermine the president's handling of iran. that's his own party in the u.s. senate. bottom line here, as we end this conversation, does any future obama agenda over the next three years stand a chance? >> well, i think he's got to -- if the unemployment rate keeps going down, that's what he will be trumpeting up. iran is a tough issue for him. his own party, as you mentioned, is going at him with a new iran sanctio...

This is because he knows that if we don't move forward on the affordable care act, it still will leave millions and millions of people not covered. and the fact is, i think mcallister recognized this, that the affordable care act isn't going anywhere. it's the law, it's constitutional, it's not going to be repealed. the thing that makes the most sense is for republicans to figure out how to make it work for people in their districts. >> my big question for 2014, and there's going to be so many things that determine the outcomes there, but the big question i think from the perspective of progre...

Affordable care act, it still will leave millions and millions of people not covered. and the fact is, i think mcallister recognized this, that the affordable care act isn't going anywhere. it's the law, it's constitutional, it's not going to be repealed. the thing that makes the most sense is for republicans to figure out how to make it work for people in their districts. >> my big question for 2014, and there's going to be so many things that determine the outcomes there, but the big question i think from the perspective of progressives is will there be an electoral price to pay at the polls...

Going to have to talk about inequality, democrats are going to have to talk about inequality. the biggest issue with the economy and middle class voters. minimum wage is the perfect issue to run on for democrats. you take polls about minimum wage, 58% of republicans are for minimum wage, the ballot initiative cleared new jersey by a huge margin. i think that's going to be a sleeper issue for any democrat should run on that. i think republicans are going to need to find a policy that speaks to the middle class and speaks to inequality. >> whatever that may be. >> just find one. right now it's r...