warning everyone about. it makes it personal and takes the emphasis off the substance of what they are finding in their investigations, and it makes it easier for democrats to say, darrell issa is just a hatchet man and not trying to find the truth of these controversies. politico is reporting in leadership meetings this week, darrell issa has been told to cool it and other leaders are reminding members that this is what can happen. this is the one thing that could derail what they have here as a lot of material to work with for republicans. other self-inflicted wounds. this week we have seen on morning joe republicans making stupid comments about women. again, teeing up a great issue for democrats. politico reporting that senate democrats are going to use this in their campaigns and they will be out there this week calling on republican senate candidates to dance distance themselves from these remarks being made in washington.
how did they get away with it? i don t think there was a mote exempting it. there never was one. not until they started day traiting. congress as far as i know, i do know that the institution and intelligence which i deplore has been around much longer than that. it is lucrative and part of this said lobbyists who only collect intelligence for their clients have to register with the house and the senate and tell us what they are doing. that s part of the involvement as well. they have been exploiting the opportunity as much as republicans. i don t know about that. i have not heard of a democrat being mentioned on it as yet. many of us in the leadership
king stirred controversy last month by leading hearings on muslim radicalization here in america. here with more of the daily drama on capitol hill. dana bash knows all about the daily drama. part of the best political team on television. following the budget battle threatening to shut down the government. or at least bring it to a standstill. dana, what have you learned from the white house and the congressional leadership meetings that just wrapped up? reporter: right. there was a meeting in the last hour at the white house. president obama got involved really for the first time. the house speaker down, senate majority leader to try to figure if they can come to some compromise that will overt a government shutdown, at least parts of it, in just three days from now. that s what we re talking about. three days. i m told by sources on both sides of it no agreement was reached in the meeting. down boehner released a statement saying there was a good discussion but confirmed no agree
republicans agreed on a number, on which to base our budget cuts. that number is $73 billion below the president s budget proposal. now i have to figure out how to get to that 73 number. as i said all along, this isn t just about dollars and deficits, mr. president. it s about principles and priorities. what we cut is mucht more important than how much we cut. martha: there you have it, harry reid apparently got a different impression from that meeting, he said we re working around that $33 billion. you know, certainly, that s not the perspective that i have. i sit in the leadership meetings each week, have conversations one on one, sit in the freshman class meetingsers never at any point was a deal reached. in fact yesterday speaker boehner told the entire class there is no deal agreed to. so we re still waiting for them to come back with real solutions and it s interesting, when he talks about having principles and priorities this is the perfect time to identify them. we have to
they were the indians, war whooping, yelling, screw the other guy, there is something about certain personalities that are always i don t think it is always the left wing, just some guys were always like that all the time and they loved being in leadership meetings get own the floor and everybody when we gonna vote? when are we going to get out of here? want to go home. let s go to this other question, 37% of those polled have a 41% view negative, 37% positive. that s not so hot. so basically that is just sort of mediocre. it is. you need to point out for the republicans, the first time in our poll in five years they are up one. they are up one. a net positive. that does say. swept it by 60-some seats. this is the honeymoon. the question is can they hold that at all? if you asked that question