needed to because his caucus wanted him to be. that may be the type of guy that barack obama can relate with the most over at the white house. but here s the thing, joe. the big deal is dead. i mean we may have wanted it and loved it and had wonderful it is dead. boehner and obama what is dead? what is dead? the $4 trillion deal is dead. the big deal is never dead, pat. it is boehner s time, it is his moment. he ought to go back to his kau sus and say you done like this. i m going to put together the deal that goes through the house and goes through the senate and we are going to send it down the street to the president and he ain t going to veto it. john boehner can be man of the hour. but he s got to get out of these negotiations with the president, excuse me, and get into negotiations with mitch
they re going to need to do something. what it will be remains to be seen but i know for a fact that the two leaders of the house and senate republicans do have a plan in mind and they re want goi not going to tell you what it is but we ll find out soon enough. mara, the president s secretary saying they will try for the best deal possible. i think the biggest deal is the $2 trillion get you through the next election deal which is the deal they were talking about in the biden negotiations and then i think the president and the speaker did try tried something bold and creative and ambitious which is to not kick the can down the road and try to make a big deal that would really solve the deficit problem by doing the three things that everybody has always felt was needed. tax reform where you get more revenue while lowering tax rates, entitlement reform and real spending cuts. and it didn t work. i don t think, you know, boehner couldn t bring his bring the votes along for that.
have give and take, maybe late august, early september. where does it stand? the house has kerosene all over it and someone is throwing matches at it. there s a chance someone lights it or it misses. there s a match august 3rd and august 4th. so it s the magic date? exactly. who tells you when the president is meeting with boehner and cantor, who tells you what happened at the talks? two groups, the president s advisers. they call you up and fill you in? yes, i was down there talking to them all last week and second, harry reid. he has been in good touch with me and the entire caucus. do you get the vibration their conversations are fractious? i got the feeling that the conversations were quite good until sunday, until yesterday.
something. what it will be remains to be seen but i know for a fact that the two leaders of the house and senate republicans do have a plan in mind and they re want goi not going to tell you what it is but we ll find out soon enough. mara, the president s secretary saying they will try for the best deal possible. i think the biggest deal is the $2 trillion get you through the next election deal which is the deal they were talking about in the biden negotiations and then i think the president and the speaker did try tried something bold and creative and ambitious which is to not kick the can down the road and try to make a big deal that would really solve the deficit problem by doing the three things that everybody has always felt was needed. tax reform where you get more revenue while lowering tax rates, entitlement reform and real spending cuts. and it didn t work. i don t think, you know, boehner couldn t bring his bring the votes along for that. tax reform in a debt limi
they re going to need to do something. what it will be remains to be seen but i know for a fact that the two leaders of the house and senate republicans do have a plan in mind and they re want goi not going to tell you what it is but we ll find out soon enough. mara, the president s secretary saying they will try for the best deal possible. i think the biggest deal is the $2 trillion get you through the next election deal which is the deal they were talking about in the biden negotiations and then i think the president and the speaker did try tried something bold and creative and ambitious which is to not kick the can down the road and try to make a big deal that would really solve the deficit problem by doing the three things that everybody has always felt was needed. tax reform where you get more revenue while lowering tax rates, entitlement reform and real spending cuts. and it didn t work. i don t think, you know, boehner couldn t bring his bring the votes along for that.