the surge started under obama. we passed in the house and got it passed judiciary committee back in 2015 but they did he ever did anything. steve: what do you make of the tone on capitol hill yesterday. for instance it, looks like an intern used the f word. f you president trump. and then have you got members of the one or two members of the congressional hispanic caucus heckling the president of the united states. i saw like six of them. they knew exactly what they were doing. republicans meet in the capitol, what s called hc 5. they went and staked themselves out. they had their signs. such an immature bunk move. they knew exactly what planted themselves in front of cameras. it s a scorched earth philosophy from the democrats. just trying to embarrass i think they embarrassed themselves. we are a more civil society than that. brian: rudeness from roberts de niro to celebrities to lawmakers. everyone feels like fourth graders and learned how to curse for the first time. it s
reagan s friend chip after the tragedy in beirut in 19282/83. i was there that day. i was in the embassy that day. wow. well, when the news that day hit washington, d.c., richard reid writes about it in his reagan book. tip o neill tunnel called all the democrats to hc-5 and they all sat there and they were sure that this tough liberal speaker was going to be giving them talking points on how to attack the republican policy that obviously turned into this abject failure and cost the lives of 240-plus americans. instead, tip o neill tunnel went up to the podium and he said ladies and gentlemen, today we re not democrats. today we re americans. and if any democrat criticizes the commander in chief before i tell you you can criticize the commander-in-chief you won t
wants, and we got a heads-up. i m going to give you over to the hallway. i think we re going to be seeing governor pence come down here. down the hallway here. and just to give you kind of a sense of where we are, we re in the basement of the capitol building, the room designation is hc-5, kind of like classrooms in school, some of these rooms. this is where the gop conference meets. this is a very we re down here a lot because they do this regularly. you re going to see him walk down the hallway and into a door behind where we re standing right now. waiting for him in there are members of the republican conference. this is going to be the first of his meetings before he goes in to one-on-one meetings with leader pelosi, the democrat, and speaker paul ryan, and then heads across capitol hill to mitch mcconnell s office and then to chuck schumer. and here is mike pence walking down the hallway here to meet with the republican conference.
isn t like a house that you say here s my offer, screw it, walk away. i don t think that s what they were saying. i think they were awfully reckless yesterday with this first offer. let me play devil s advocate. although i do agree with what you re saying to an extent. look at the other side that they re dealing with. the republicans they re dealing with. many of the same people that they ve been dealing with for the past four years. so what would you do if you knew who you were up against? would you come out there with something that was incred reply giving from the get-go? no, but mark halperin, i wouldn t go out of my way undercutting john boehner because this is all about the president and john boehner s relationship. john boehner now, when he walks back to hc-5 and he has that meeting with a republican caucus that he s having to drag to the table to bring generate new revenue. he now goes back, and boehner faces a very angry caucus. tom cole came out and said, hey, let s
and they were constantly scheming trying to figure out, okay, how do you get around scarborough, around matt salmon, largent, you know, the usual suspects. he s just made it so much harder for boehner to go back to hc-5 and say, come on, guys, we re going to have to meet halfway, hasn t he? am i missing something here? you might have thought that having known the storm clouds over grover norquist and hearing the uprising and all the fury over that that obama was going to have to give them some sort of fig leaf, some sort of concession, say well, yes, we had broken a promise, it was a really difficult decision for a lot of us, but we got x. you know, the geithner offer of yesterday didn t have any x. and what s fascinating about this, obama seems totally, totally convinced that if we go over the fiscal cliff, this benefits him. the public will blame the republicans. okay. i suppose it s entirely possible. in fact, it s probable of that category.