reason. there s no doubt he won fair and square. 66 million votes. but 61 million people voted to fire him. and about 230 congressional districts, those incumbents don t care about emails from the president and michelle. he has to get out of the way of immigration or the deal will blow up. and the republicans in the short-term have the politics to hunker down. in the mid term elections, some of the senate races are in places where the president is unpopular. so the path he started on, which was i ve got a very broad agenda and i m going to still keep a campaign style thing of pressuring you won t work with these guys, and that will result in gridlock for the country which is horrible. if he does nixon and china, he can have storied stuff. katty, how much does he feel he has to do when he feels at the height of his confidence at the moment? he s got this kind of fairly short window, where he s just been re-elected. his first state of the union where he s not running for re-election.
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president, it s awfully early. and risk overexposure. the immigration fight. rubio is not to be focused on immigration in his response of the state of the union. he s going to be talking about political philosophy, how limited government helps the middle class, which will help him with conservatives. katty kay, here you have chris christie taking on his weight on his terms. we just showed the pictures of him on letterman. he takes out the donut. and he said i m the healthiest fat guy you know. he is taking this issue on. it would be an issue if he ran. he joked about it then, but he spoke about it much more seriously, about his efforts to try and lose weight, how much it s working, how much he identifies with other americans. clearly, this is a huge problem for the country. people are dying. the cost to health care because of obesity. i m not sure that joking and taking out a donut helps his cause and helps his presidential standing. his opinion poll ratings are incredibly hi
in place before. we ll find out about that in the oversight that we ll pursue. all right. leader cantor, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. david, thanks. coming up, we ll preview the president s state of the union address. i ll talk with one of his closest allies in the senate, senator dick durbin. plus, our political roundtable is here with reaction to leader cantor as well as insights and analysis of all the politics behind the big issues. gun control, immigration reform, and more, that the president will pursue in his second term. joining me, democratic mayor of atlanta kasim reed. former speechwriter for george w. bush, now columnist for the washington post michael gerson. strategist mike murphy, and bbc s katty kay. as well as michael isikoff who broke the headline this week about america s drone policy. all coming up after this short commercial break. meet the press is brought to you by northern trust, providing solid financial to you by northern trust, prov