times during this press conference. -- even petulant at times during the press conference. in this press conference, hostage-takers. >> [ talking over each other ] >> he is a democrat. you can expect those kinds of things from a democrat. democrats are going to say they have the best ideas, same way republicans did. >> he couldn't get the tax cuts through unless he held hostage the republicans. >> that's the real barack obama. he can act like a leader, but this is the real barack obama. >> i don't think he sees himself as president of all of us, -- [ talking over each other ] >> he's spinning it. he didn't say the democrats would have held hostage the middle class, because of the tax cuts for the wealthy. [ talking over each other ] >> that's why he feels that way. because we are still divided. we still haven't came together we need to compromise.