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They could have accepted that. >> what are we voters to do? i mean, like, you know, to -- the american people we can't get our politicians to fix it. i mean, and everyone, like everyone who runs for office says i can do it. well, you know what? you are not. i mean, it's not happening. >> this came back to the middle. we had 14 of us and basically started meeting and susan and myself and we had our colleagues both democrats and republicans equally split, and it basically come back to the middle. you are not going to run this country, and you are not going to run your household, and you are not ...

>> what indication is there that that would not happen again? >> you know, again, i think the more that the republican members start to consider what the impact will be of a shutdown on the constituents and the public response to that, hopefully they are pressuring the speaker to bring this to the floor and counter balancing the views of the tea party but sort of tail wagging the dog. the more responsible members need to be speaking to the speaker as well and suggesting that this is not good for the country. in fact, it's not good for their party. if he hears from them, he may just bring a bil...

Not the approach he wanted to take. the 200 democrats in the house didn't want it. not many who want this approach. you said it earlier that speaker boehner needs to work with democrats to get things passed, but the thing that seems surprising is he doesn't seem to have the namty from both members. you have to trust me doing this kind of approach. shutting down the government is just not a good idea. >> politics of america, certainly on the republican side, has become very entrepreneurial. this is individual members out for themselves dealing with their own districts. people have said this is ...

>> well, it's the tail wagging the dog. i know something about this. i scheduled the president for three years, george w. bush. and, quite frankly, we wouldn't have had time for "the view" because it would have been jam packed with bilaterals at the the waldorf to sit down with the president and have a discussion, something that you really can't accomplish on the other end of a telephone. there's no substitute to sitting down with a leader. and the other people that he brings to the meetingabout the . look, if everything was great in the world, you'd still want to have the kind of reaction and...

Recoiled. now it's the tail wagging the dog that mitt romney has to explain himself when he had the guy who created the echa sketch for the campaign to say they agreed with the president. >> well, i actually think as we sit several months before an election, what the american people are paying attention to right now is the fact that the supreme court of the united states ruled president obama's signature pieces of legislation a tax. when the president went out and sold it to the american people in 2009 saying it was not a tax and sent his own solicitor general saying it is a tax and now i thin...