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Know what? the vast majority of senators and members of the house won reelection. yeah. congress is an institution is very, very unpopular, but as long as people still get reelected, they have some leverage negotiating with the president. >> what's your predicts since we do not have a balanced budget amendment where the government is open for business. what's your prediction that when this continuing resolution that had passed in the house at the end of the week, what happens? do we see a government shutdown? >> no. first of all, it would only be a partial shutdown. most of the things, the che...

First time in ages, discussions about how members of congress, how people in washington were going to limit the growth of government. we hadn't had those kind of discussions until the november 2010 elections, until the tea party triumphed and in some respects, when you look at everything that's happened even through the president's reelection victory in november of 2012, you could say that the tea party is winning, the tea party brought this issue to the fore, before the november 2010 elections, the discussion and the debate was how fast can we spend this money? and after that, it was we need ...

Show star mark levin complaining about the gun debate and reports that the president will use executive orders to rewrite part of the gun laws. as you heard his complaints go beyond the guns and extend that he believes it gave the mandate to enact all of the policy gold. and listen to the excerpt from the news conference today. >> if we want to have a conference about how to reduce our deficit, let's have that. we've been having that for the last two years and we had an entire campaign about it and by the way, the american people agreed with me. >> megyn: joining us now by phone, mark levin. m...

Often he said toward the end of the negotiations the president became irritated and said i'm getting tired of hearing you say that. really? you've tripled the deficit and you're tired of hearing we have a spending problem. >> here was john boehner's reason as to why he believes the president decided not to move at all on cutting spending in these negotiations. number one, he says, he's so ideological himself. number two, he's unwilling to take on the left wing of his own party. i would add a number three to that which is the president won reelection. this is all about who is in power. you reme...

gigot. headed into friday, fiscal cliff talks with congressional leaders, president obama gave us a hit list of his negotiations strategies, repeating his intention to immediately raise tax rates on top earners. >> when it comes to the top 2%, what i'm not going to do is to extend further a tax cut for folks who don't need it which would cost close to a trillion dollars and it's very difficult to see how you make up that trillion dollars if we're serious about deficit reduction, just by closing loopholes and deductions. the math tends not to work. >> paul: but does the president's math add ...