clear. the country has to compete for the future. and electric vehicles are important to the president. so it s in there. and he did not come down on that. and the human investment is important to the president. so the red lines that the president has dictated, he will not raise taxes on people who make less than $400,000 a year. he will not let inaction be the final answer. and he s going to continue to invest in the american people and the infrastructure so we can win tomorrow. let me ask you about what your former colleague, the chairman of the house progressive caucus tweeted on friday. she said, i don t think republicans will ever compromise, and neither should we, when it comes to delivering for the people. let s go big, bold, fast and on our own. so, how much longer is the president willing to pursue a bipartisan deal before moving forward, or at least trying to move forward without republicans? look, he wants a deal.
electability argument in the clearest way to this point, don t be afraid. let s go big. she is running the long game and is bernie 2.0, standing right next to him. we did get a contrast there. it was stylistic in a lot of ways. sure. you saw how elizabeth warren is better a story teller, bringing in people she met. she s bringing in her own personal history in a way that perhaps makes those progressive goals a little more accessible to the average voter. i think we did see a little bit of a preview. this clash between them, as jeff pointed out, will come. it is inevitable if they both stay in the race and we got a preview of what that could look like. last night after the debate, sanders campaign manager was in the spin room. we were talking to him. he said yes, it is going to come. we are going to differentiate ourselves but we want it to be on a stage where there are very few candidates so that way we have the time to get into that nuance and there aren t any
who is going to have the best defense? we re watching all the shutdown talk just outside the white house. if these guys come out and say something, we ll obviously bring it to you. what s going to happen in this meeting? well, now as a staunch liberal, there better not be any deal-cutting going on that s going to bleed into social security, medicare or medicaid. let s start there. i m all about the debt ceiling, but if this conversation could roll, let s go big. i remember president obama back a few summers ago saying you want to go big, i ll go big. this is not the time. and i believe receipt n right nw what the president has to do is force boehner to do what he doesn t want to do. i remember boehner coming out saying, well, i ve got i ve got 99% of what i wanted. remember those conversations? no. this is not about who wins and
people thing about nick that has a deep root in the american imagination, however, as bill keller argued today, the president should i think the op-said said bring backç ken starr, and should call them and say you want to clean house? let s do this, let s go big. as somebody who lived through that, i wouldn t recommend that to the president if i was advising him. look, i think the american public think thinks there may be something wrong here, and i think they ll maybe give the republicans some latitude to find out some facts and get to the truth, because people are skeptical and concerned.
he s not doing it, so therefore, his position isn t credible. we re having an extension of the bush tax cuts for everybody. i agree on the 2%, but we can t afford them for the other 98% either given the fact that half of the population, the poor and lower income don t pay income tax any way. so the progressive ought to be no more tax cuts. we can t afford them for anybody. we re going after that pentagon and we re going to cut back dramatically this huge defense establishment we don t need. neither party is doing that, so we have this silly debate going on of one fairy tale versus another. president obama said let s go big. he was ready to go big on the deficit reduction package and the republicans didn t come to the plate. in fact, paul ryan played a real role in that telling his own leadership that if we do that, this is going to walk president obama right into a second term. so president obama was willing