cocoons now as a society. we don t talk to the other side as much. it is like the washington problem on steroids. it happens at homeowners association meet. in d.c., outside of d.c., broken down into two tribes, blue tribe and the red tribe. sometimes when you are a member of the blue tribe everything your side does is great. it is fine. can be defended. if you are on the other side you actually think the worst of all that person. and the problem is that it is very hard to find that middle when everyone is in their own two camps. it is. that s actually this is a problem in communities all around the country. the election. a look at the 2008 election. it was so divisive and ugly. you have members of the other i m talking about 2008. when you have members of congress, you know, stand up in 2008 or 2009 and say you know, main objective is to make him a one-term president that sets the tone for what will happen. social media and advocacy media only certain to amplify. it
saturday said okay, you are right. we won t go that route. we need serious proposals from the president and it is not just the congress. it is we got to work together to solve the country s problems. let me let me split off debt limit here. are you willing to do the debt limit on its own without any president say he s not going to negotiate, are you willing to pass a clean debt limit? you know, i think passing a clean debt limit is problematic for the american people as well as for the congress and the country. i think that we should find common ground here to look at spending reforms for the long term to gettous a path to reducing debt and deficit. i think we should look at current spending reductions that could take place and in ways we can grow the economy. i would like to see us work together on this matter and not just say your way or the highway. you know, the president when he was a senator voted to increasing the debt limit and said it was a failure of the leadership.
of people who wanted a new direction for washington, d.c., and i think that s going to be the name of the game now in california. you have to talk to all of the voters. you can t everybody number one question i get is this system where you sort of have this work view where you have where public opinion is here and the public opinion and republican districts is in another place. california came through with this redistricting reform. so you believe that this is a better with you to do you think other states should adopt the policy? you will see more high performing members of congress. reach across the aisle which washington if you don t you think could you lose. i think you can lose, right. unless you are in a district that s 100% democrats or 100% republicans, you have to talk to the other party because they could be the difference if you have a dem on dem or r on r matchup in november. i would say it was five or six of them in california. in the general elec
acknowledge that there are political challenges ahead. all of them get through this congress, i don t know. but i m confident that there are some steps that we can take that don t require legislation. vice president biden, who met monday with house democrats on the issue, told them a lot of executive actions are going to take place. they can range from new limits on guns imported overseas to requiring general agencies to share mental health records, to directing the centers for disease control and prevention to conduct research on gun debts. vice president biden indicated that there was some 19 areas that he was able to identify that the president could take action on through executive order. the difficult politics of getting any sort of gun restrictions lou congress hangs in the air with even the president resigned to the fact he won t get everything he wants. new polling may help the white
in newtown monday a poignant reminder of the sandy hook tragedy. some of the victims family members and other residents launched the group called the sandy hook promise. it is pushing for a national dial bog guns in america. it has been one month since i lost my son, dylan, and 25 others family members lost their loved ones. i still find myself reaching for dylan s hand or crawl into bed with me to kid. on friday, december 14 i put two children on the bus and only one came home. i pray that no mother, father, grandparent or caregiver of children ever have to go through this pain. the only hope anybody has of making any new laws is going to come from the lobbying from those families. finally, as difficult as the politics are of getting any sort of gun restrictions through this congress, there is an issue which we are seeing a bipartisan consensus forming. wasn t clear how important