retroactive tax cuts. the president -- i cannot state this enough, the president does not have to cave to republicans in the house and scared moderates in the senate. bill clinton taught us this lesson time and time again. we ended up getting a lot of what we wanted and needed. in the end the crisis erupts. you've got to pass budgets, continuing resolutions, get things done. that's when you get them in the room and go, guys, i got the veto lip liner and i'm not going to sign it. >> give me my lip liner back. >> i'm going to veto this bill unless we work together. i'm not giving millionaires tax cuts. get over it. >> i just don't to think that -- use the word indistinct. frank rich used that word, talked about stockholm syndrome in washington, his republican captors have done this too him. there's a kind of blurriness to the president.