how do you negotiate with them? >> i don't think the president believes that, clearly. i think the president has from the very beginning taken the negotiating stance that you believe fundamentally as the precondition to negotiation discussion in the good faith of your opposition. i don't think anything will disabuse him of that notion. it's a dispositirtional. it's who he is now. nothing will knock him off that. i think there are members of coalition that genuinely believe we're on the precipibu of some sort of debt crisis. >> that was early last year, the president making fun of the fact that the republicans abandon their own positions for partisan gain, abandoning positions they hold because it's what the country needs. the president is aware of that. he saw what they did on the individual mandate, on cap and trade and pay-go and the deficit commission. he has made fun of them for