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Partner the democrats and the president. >> eric: mattville another dinner, sit do you think with the g.o.p. senators, after hoe comes back from the democratic fund-raising. what does he say? can they get anywhere with these meetings and in terms of the policy? >> it depends on the mind-set of the people around the table. i mean, the president -- he's got such a hiewmg sway over what is going to happen on these big-ticket issues. if he really wants to do something, he can get it done. the political question in the minds of most republicans i talked to on the hill is: does he really want to get...

Said that the speaker's plan, plan "b" was dead on arrival. it wasn't going to be votessed on. so this was an exercise in futility. >> that's right. here's the challenge. obama clearly believes right now that he can bluff the house republicans and they will cave. i think people forget when they talk about bill clinton and i got a lot done -- which is true, welfare reform, four consecutive balanced budgets and serious reforms and we closed the government for six days in november of '95, closed it for 21 days in december and january. we had a knock-down drag-out period, beginning to realize we w...

Republicans would go home, relax, they voted to stop a middle-class tax increase f. harry reid wanted to stop it in the senate, that's fine. the president wants to veto it, that's fine. this is not a crisis that will end the republic. it's a mess. i wish we would go back to open negotiations, to open hearings, to open markups. letting the american people see the process, i think negotiating in secret in the white house, producing a $1 trilln, $2 trillion deal in the next 10 days i think is the worst possible outcome. >> to me, i have been surprised because they have known this was coming for a...

Who says that speaker barron may have a hard time hanging on to his job. do you know who is saying that? who is your view? >> no, i don't know who is saying that, greta. i saw the report coming in. i think it was reported that someone in washington, d.c., i got back down here in florida yesterday. this is the thing. i would rather have our leadership team than the house democratic leadership team or the senate republican or democrat leadership team. i don't want to have the president of the united states, who is really absent in leadership. i have to tell you, i feel like charlie brown, when h...

Long deal, but we don't believe there is good faith on the part of speaker barron. every time there has been a deal and every time he negotiated, he had to back off. the headline said he is losing control. the way he set it up is a grave yard. it's an upon or down vote with no up. we are not going to fall for that. we believe in the middle class tax cut and so does the american public. who would have thought that the american public, 50 to 35 would prefer democrats on this issue, but they are seeing through what speaker boehner and the house republicans are doing. >> what do you do? go home? >...