that he s trying to do it. neil: i did talk to one republican on fox business network, which you don t get you should, tucker i watch it. neil: i m trying, tucker. one of the things he saying, i fully support this, but not mr. president. we re going to have a tough enough sell of avoid ago government shut down. we heard from chuck schumer this is a no-go. so we re picking a fight that we don t want right now and the president is focused on the big tack cuts. what do you think? it s the date they re willing to do it. oh, never. they re not in favor of stopping cheap labor from the south to the north. i m not attacking any one s favor. but we should have had it 50 years ago when the kennedy bill first passed changing immigration patterns. that s the truth. the largest truth is, tens of
unpopular with the american people. we ll be voting on things i know he s not going to like. i hope we can put them on his desk. let s talk. your about your relationship with the president. the first two years he had huge majorities in the house and senate. the last four years they controlled the senate. they guaranteed he never got nipping he didn t like. now he needs to talk to us and that s good. when american people elect a divided government they re not saying they don t want anything done. they are saying they want things done in the political center things that both sides can agree on. we talk about the things where there may be some agreement. there has to be some level of trust, right? um-hum. is there? do you trust the president as a negotiating partner? the only agreements made during these years on a bipartisan basis i negotiated the 2010 two-year extension of the bush tack cuts, the august 2011 control act and the 2012 fiscal cliff deal so i m not opposed to ne
trends that have been battering the middle class for decades so we took on a broken health care system, we invested in the new american technologies to end our addiction to foreign oil, we put in place tough new rules on big banks, rules we need to finalize before the end of the year to make sure that the job is done and we put in new protections that cracked down on the worst practices of mortgage lenders and credit card companies. we also changed a tax code that was too skewed in favor of the wealthiest americans, we locked in tack cuts for 98% of americans, we asked those at the top to pay a little bit more. so if you add it all up, over the last 3 1/2 years, our businesses have added 7 1/2 million new jobs. the unemployment rate has come down, our housing market is healing, our financial system is safer. we sell more goods made in
the middle, but no one has been there to meet him. even with the bush tack cuts. we should not be looking at raising taxes on anyone whatsoever. when you look at what is happening with a 3.6% decrease in household family incomes, that s not what we have to have noorin order for the econo to turn around. the policies are failing, but yet, he doesn t want to hear that, he wants to march down a certain path and understand that maybe he s not as far left as some of the people on the left want, but i think in this second term agenda he s laid out a very far left agenda when you look at what he said during the the state of the union address, it s just more government spending. if he was being bipartisan it would have been a totally different state of the union address. megyn: there are examples of him acting in a way that s bipartisan, but the comment that he s always been very respectful of the republican s you look at the list and he suggested that republicans want dirtier air and wate
you could make the case the argument that he s been bipartisan in his approach, but certainly he hasn t been on a charm offensive. i don t think he s bipartisan in his approach. if he had been we wouldn t have the quote unquote fiscal cliff deal, spending cuts and now he wants more tax revenue. we would not have a debt and deficit where it is and you know, it s interesting statistic that just came out today, 25% of washington d.c. is on food stamps. we have more people on food stamps than the entire country of spain. if he was bipartisan, he would have been talking to the house g.o.p. about how do we go back to have an opportunity society not a dependency society. megyn: his supporters point out obamacare, you mentioned obamacare, he wanted it to be more of a single payer situation, but wound up coming the more moderate view, we won t do that and talk about how not this last go round, but a couple of years earlier he did extend the bush tack cuts and sort of kept those in place a c