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Particular. but i think that there was potentially miscalculation in terms of how democrats were going to respond to this moment. the thinking was ultimately they would come to the table and there was an attempt to make that happen a number of times. but ultimately when push came to shove they couldn't come to an agreement. >> is there any sense that the president will head to ma mara lago? a couple has to pay up to a quarter million dollars for this big event? you can imagine these folks want to see the president? >> reporter: it's an important way to frame it. not only is it a big ticket eve...

Helping themselves out in what was really a tragedy as well as this one and it was very vivid, maybe more vivid in terms of national coverage than new york, i got to tell you, i didn't hear anybody talking about offsets. i heard them saying let's get the money to people like haley barbour. let's get them the money. >> i understand that, but let's look at history. the dynamics were a little different. you were in a totally different political climate. all we've been talking about in the last two years is cutting spending and revenue versus spending fights. it's more to do about where we are in ...

Their own pocketbooks, when the southern republicans were helping themselves out in what was really a tragedy as well as this one and it was very vivid, maybe more vivid in terms of national coverage than new york, i got to tell you, i didn't hear anybody talking about offsets. i heard them saying let's get the money to people like haley barbour. let's get them the money. >> i understand that, but let's look at history. the dynamics were a little different. you were in a totally different political climate. all we've been talking about in the last two years is cutting spending and revenue vers...

How can they govern with so many members that are determined to show up with concrete -- to say no? >> i haven't read the piece and i have a lot of respect for tom cotton. he served in america combat, an awfully good american. to the point, i personally think it was a mistake not to have supported john boehner's plan b. would have given us the leverage we needed and would have walked off with a better deal than we got. going forward on the spending fights, republicans are united. honestly the president has said himself these things need to be done. he just never has been willing to specify it....