that s not the president he governed as january 2009 to august 2011. he did try to get republicans to help with health care, stimulus, all of these things to doing the attempt at the grand bargain with john boehner. he thought he was going to get that. i think when boehner pulled back and could not deliver a single republican vote for a tax hike, i think that was instructive for obama that these guys are never going to cooperate for me particularly on taxes. there s a much more pop pew louse tone. my guess, this is a guess, but my guess is this is a bottom line issue to him. it bothers him. it really bothers him how they behaved with the debt ceiling. he looks at this as it s not going to happen again. all the tax hikes and cuts will go away and i can propose the obama tax cut for 98% of americans. it s interesting. there is this other place where
country. republicans suggested tax savings should be used to other tax cut and not lower the deficit. some are reluctant to raise the debt ceiling. none of us want to raise the debt ceiling. up in of us think it s a good idea to spend money we don t have. it s a problem we have been doing it for so long. senator paul says the balanced budget would make him more comfortable with the debt ceiling hike but there is not enough time for that. one thing the white house says both sides agreed on today the august 2 is the deadline for increasing the government s ability to borrow. it s simply inescapable fact that on august 2, without a vote to raise the dealt ceiling, we will be in arrears. house democratic leader nancy pelosi says one bottom line issue she hopes is resolved sunday is whether the deficit cutting deal is over 10 years or 12. the president s $4 trillion proposal over a dozen years. the congressional budget says it s www.less, over ten. bret: much more on this
and so have the republicans not just introduced privatization and abolition of medicare and their paul ryan budget, i think president obama would have had a lot more room to talk about potential changes to the program. in that context, i think all that the democratic base in particular wants to hear president obama say about medicare is i will defend it from the people who are trying to abolish it. my counterproposal, to what they re offering, no, you re not going to get that. so the line in the sand is a bottom line issue for the democratic base. well, that said,รง there are some liberals, if you look at his voting record, dick durbin qualifies as a liberal, the only war he voted for was afghanistan, voted against the iraq war, and we went to a briefing with him this morning, and he said that liberals are going stages of grief. he said we need to get past denial on spending, that when he entered the talks, the gang of six, those six three republicans and three democratic senators
portrayed as something exhaustive looking how this counterinsurgency strategy is working and executed ed id in t possible way. it is whether the strategy we have is working. the ultimate conclusion from the administration is progress is being made. they identify areas they need to improve, getting insurgents out of the tribal areas. there was a lot of emphasis on how far pakistan has come and how much it has done. the administration is highlighting the way the al qaeda senior leadership in pakistan has been degraded by some of the counterterrorism measures the administration has undertaken. the real bottom line issue for so many people is when can the troops begin to come home. they are talking about the july 2011 date as the beginning of the draw down as the surged
unless the democrats agree to fund the wall into what does the wall actually mean? he s talking about border security. democrats were i think pleasantly surprised how the meeting went because they can sign onto the idea of more border security that falls short of a wall. we don t know where his final position is. what i thought was refreshing about trump yesterday was the way he breaks out of the norm of politics by saying we ve got to get thing on dreamers. he contradicted himself about the whole bill love idea from the campaign. he could break through some of the most strident opposition on the right. he can say i m the guy who can pull this off. trust me to get more security. and also we can do the right thing. he s got the ability actually to do that. i don t happen to think that the wall is a bottom line issue. it s how you define what the wall amounts to. what we saw yesterday was not a great negotiator. what we saw yesterday was somebody who wants a win and who said to people,