from his colleagues. senator, thank you, sir. thank you. greta: coming up president obama having a dinner party and what a guest list he had tonight. g.o.p. senators, but not everyone was invited. senator ron johnson was there and he s here, that s next. and a student takes to ÷÷
well, if you look at nikki haley and susanna martinez we have a great potential future as a party and i think that the challenge for the party is to recognize the old republican party isn t going to get there. you have to really rethink the world we re in. you have to understand the 21st century and i think you have to forget red versus blue, get rid of the consultants who don t understand it and focus on serving 311 million people. greta: and i know it s a dopey question, but always ask and curious whether or not you d be interested in running again. ask me that in january of 2015. greta: so it s not a no? it s not a no. greta: not a no. speaker, always nice to see you. fun to be with you. greta: nice to see you. and what do you think, is president obama trying to make the sequester as painful as possible for political reasons? go to gretawire.com and tell us. and straight ahead is speaker of the house john boehner going to have to start mopping floors? well, he might. we
elements of the problem. particularly entitlement we talked about, it s not rocket science. we know what we have to deal with. it s a matter of coming to terms. i think we talked about tax reform as being, you know, great. a wider variety of variables there in terms of trying to grapple with that issue. this is the great town to talk and harder to get anything to do. did you talk about how you re actually going to accomplish the principles on which you have a common ground? we talked about having to establish a process to move forward and i got the sense that president obama is probably planning on doing something a similar gathering with some democratic senators and he seemed very sincere in and engaged in the process and members of the administration to help us really work on, you know, the different elements of a solution to the problem. greta: why do you think the leaders of the two houses weren t there in the republican party? well, he met with them on friday and he told u
party which breaks loose from this which will happen eventually will be the party that looks to the future, listens to the american people and offers innovative solutions. it won t be an anti-obama republican party and it won t be an anti-republican obama party. it will be a party that puts the american people first and which ever party figures that formula out first is going to end up as the governing majority. greta: it seems that both parties are sort of angling for the hispanic vote. the democratic party already having not looking toward the future and i know you ve written paper and talking about the future and looking towards new ideas and big ideas, but the two parties said, trying to be, you know, cutting up the pie and seeing the republicans are trying to do it, scramble to get the hispanic vote and the democrats already have it. no question about it. and the it s like playing king of the hill and on the top of the hill. democrats have the advantage of asian americans, l
since 11 this morning. it s tough to go that long and he s a fighter and doing everything he can to make his point. greta: what is the point, what does he want? what he wants is assurance from this administration, from president obama to the effect that he will not authorize any lethal drone strikes on american citizens on u.s. soil. greta: and has the administration said that they might or maybe or won t or what s the administration s response been? well, the administration so far has been to give a series of somewhat ambiguous answers, answers that don t get to the heart of the matter. answers to the effect, well, we probably won t do that, or we might not do it and it doesn t seem likely that we ll do it, but maybe we will, under certain circumstances and that has made senator paul nervous, so much so that he has felt the need to continue this protest through this lengthy filibuster. greta: you ve gotten into it and i understand you like the word imminent the way the