i think it's clear what happened to bob bennet and others that did get primaried, and mike cassel, i don't know if the motivation for the primary is going to may too much attention to the sort of careful details of this deal. >> no, it pays attention to the emotional quality. that is the secret -- one of the important secrets of the republican party. you can be quite moderate like chris christie, you can be conservative, like bob bennet, but if you're a conservative deal maker, you're a seller. that's what people have to worry about when they are in a room alone with the president. >> i have to push back on that, you want to talk about christie or talk about anyone along the spectrum, right? the sort of central ideological principle, the line you cannot cross is taxes, core of the edifice, of course, the whole thing comes down on our heads unless you pay for the government. >> 235 republicans in congress have signed the pledge, no new taxes ever, no taxes ever. >> this is where the president is a player, and i'm making no excuses for the people on the other side of the table, they ha

bob schieffer. we heard from senator bennet which in many ways he sounded like a lot of the american people saying he seems fed up with the way things are going and they are not going to get anything comprehensive done he said in the next four days. we talk about how the vice of washington is right now. the republican party, how fractured is it on this friday morning as they try to get something done? >> they can't get enough votes together to pass its own bill. the leader of the house republicans is john boehner. he went to the floor yesterday with this bill. this was the republican bill and about 6:00 last night and this and this was 10 minutes before the vote was to start they pulled the bill down and said we have to go back into conference which means they didn't have the bills. this is enormously embarrassing for the speaker when he can't bring his own people along. it raises the question is he able to survive this? where are we right now? we are this far. if republicans can't pass their version of a bill, what do you think they are going to do when a democratic version of the bill gets there? w