he hasn t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. and committed to do so. and as i told the president, i think helping us find common ground. i think that there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to actually commit to work together, to try to deal with these problems. and they understand that these aren t times for us to be playing games. well, a day after both sides agreed to work out a compromise on taxes, senator mcconnell sends his letter and boehner says this today on the situation room. i don t know what my colleagues across the aisle didn t hear during the election. american people spoke pretty loudly. they said stop all the looming tax hikes and cut spending. obviously that wasn t on the situation room that was a press conference. stopping the tax hikes even for the wealthy, that s what they re saying. democrats are calling statements like that and senator mcconnell s letter today a slap
obviously that wasn t on the situation room that was a press conference. stopping the tax hikes even for the wealthy, that s what they re saying. democrats are calling statements like that and senator mcconnell s letter today a slap in the face. republicans are saying they re listening to the american people and the priority should be on the economy. you can decide for yourself which side you believe or support. but keeping them honest, some of the claims for extending the tax cuts aren t necessarily supported by the polling data. no tax increases for nobody. the american people spoke loudly. the american people spoke in deafening terms. the american people spoke loudly and clearly. the american people spoke on election night. the message i heard this last election cycle was, we don t want anybody s taxes going up. americans don t think we should be raising taxes on anybody. the message was clear from the american people. we should prevent a huge tax increase. k
benefit of the american people, given the problems that we face. and i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that he hasn t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. and committed to do so. and as i told the president, i think helping us find common ground. i think that there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to actually commit to work together, to try to deal with these problems. and they understand that these aren t times for us to be playing games. well, a day after both sides agreed to work out a compromise on taxes, senator mcconnell sends his letter and boehner says this today on the situation room. i don t know what my colleagues across the aisle didn t hear during the election. american people spoke pretty loudly. they said stop all the looming tax hikes and cut spending. obviously that wasn t on the
internet and mostly by gossip columnists. geraldo: also the white house left you dangling. the secret service got blamed for your passing through lines that your name wasn t on and now you are tarred with this image of, you know, social climbing white house crasher. i don t look at it that way. i look at it that desire was already moving on. i live in washington so i know a lot of people there. she had done a great job in what she was supposed to do there. geraldo: the one thing that diane does cut you loose aside from an affair that doesn t need to be brought up again is the apparent lie that your brother attests that you were never a cheer leader for the washington redskins football team. will you right now as you sit here today and remembering that we are all friends here, will you say that you misstated that it was not true that you were not a cheer leader for the washington redskins. it is funny when my brother said that we talked about it after.
you react when they use words that they wouldn t use for mahmoud ahmadinejad, the iranian president who was in town. it is painful. i don t think people should prejudge and i think you should get to know someone and maybe not always hear everything and listen and believe what you hear. geraldo: i m convinced having read diane s book that your appearance at the white house that evening is at least defensible and explainable and i think that is why you have not been indicted for trespass. were you surprised that the white house made you seem as if you were terrorists, if not terrorists at least wannabe trespassers who got themselves side by side with the commander in chief of the ar armed forcef the united states, the president of the united states. it will tore you forever, mate. having a name like salahi was fuel to the fire and just run child by the bloggers and