to compromise? >> yes, i do. alisyn: how is that. >> first of all he's compromised all over the place. he compromised on healthcare, he compromised all throughout. the reason we haven't gone back to the clinton tax rates and never honored the sunset provisions of the bush tax cuts was because the president continued to give republicans what they wanted, time and time again. he's compromised so much that a lot of progressives are a little upset that he's compromised so much. alisyn: the fiscal cliff in particular. >> we got to the fiscal cliff because you had a bunch of republicans who wanted not to work with this president. now you've got republicans all of a sudden saying they are not going to take tax pledges like grover more question is wants, they are open to revenue enhancement. if they had said that two years ago or one year ago moody's wouldn't have lowered the pwhopbd ratinbond rating of the united states. they've created such uncertainty. alisyn: now that we are at the 11th hour where do you think we are now. >> i know that alan hasn't had a lot of private conversations with republican lawmakers, but