after congressman walker, we'll here from victor fazio, who's a senior advisor.he's likewise, a 20-year veteran of the house 1979 to 1999, as a democratic representative of the third congressional district of california. while in majority, he served on the campaign committee for two terms. he served in the minority a democratic caucus and on the legislative branch appropriations. third we're going to hear from the guest scholar, matthew green at the matthew university and an associate fellow of the institute of politics, is it political research and catholic studies. >> policy research. okay. i have a typo. he's the author "the speaker of the house" published by the press this year, i believe. >> uh-huh. >> she's currently working on a massive project. -- he's currently working on a massive project, that's why i invited him here. he's well suited for today's topic. last week many of you recognize jaquline calmes. prior to that, worked 18 years with the wall street journal, covering the budget and tax, as well as conventional, she was able to swap here, we are gra

congressman fazio, based on your comments is the word bipartisanship merely a pipe dream? >> i think it's going to be in this period of economic distress in our country, a very important thing that i hope will prevail on some occasions. i think it's going to be a very rare occasion. but maybe essential. i'm afraid that we have come a long way from bipartisan relationships, let alone ability to work together and accomplish things together. >> and for congressman walker, mr. boehner has said, congressman boehner has said that he's going to return the power to the chairman. the committees are now going to have the power. so does this mean that someone is going to be the adult as we are going to go back to -- mr. boehner going back to picking up what you just spoke about. you are going to go back to the committees. you are going to do the laws there. >> well, you certainly said that. you certainly said he's going to open up the processes on the floor. i hope he means it. he's a former committee chairman himself. he has seen that process work. for john boehner and george miller

so right now they're asking peter fazio and others, slow things down, point out they're still tryingprocess what happened last week and until they fully process that, they shouldn't move forward with electing new leaders. >> i wanted to play a little of hillary clinton's interview. she was in australia and talk and "nightline "asked about the analogy of what happened to bill clinton in 1994 and whether president obama should move to the middle. this was her response. >> yeah. i don't think that bill changed his principles or changed his objectives or reversed course in any way. i think what he did was take a very clear-eyed assessment of what was going to be possible with the congress after the election and moved on every front that he could to get things done, and i think that's what you'll see president obama doing. >> well, i'm not sure that many people are going agree with the analysis. the political analysis, but is that what you see president obama doing is? >> reporter: that's what they're indicating they're doing. the question is, what they're going to be able to work on. rep

congressman fazio, based on your comments is the word bipartisanship merely a pipe dream? >> i think it's going to be in this period of economic distress in our country, a very important thing that i hope will prevail on some occasions. i think it's going to be a very rare occasion. but maybe essential. i'm afraid that we have come a long way from bipartisan relationships, let alone ability to work together and accomplish things together. >> and for congressman walker, mr. boehner has said, congressman boehner has said that he's going to return the power to the chairman. the committees are now going to have the power. so does this mean that someone is going to be the adult as we are going to go back to -- mr. boehner going back to picking up what you just spoke about. you are going to go back to the committees. you are going to do the laws there. >> well, you certainly said that. you certainly said he's going to open up the processes on the floor. i hope he means it. he's a former committee chairman himself. he has seen that process work. for john boehner and george miller

after congressman walker, we'll here from victor fazio, who's a senior advisor. he's likewise, a 20-year veteran of the house 1979 to 1999, as a democratic representative of the third congressional district of california. while in majority, he served on the campaign committee for two terms. he served in the minority a democratic caucus and on the legislative branch appropriations. third we're going to hear from the guest scholar, matthew green at the matthew university and an associate fellow of the institute of politics, is it political research and catholic studies. >> policy research. okay. i have a typo. he's the author "the speaker of the house" published by the press this year, i believe. >> uh-huh. >> she's currently working on a massive project. -- he's currently working on a massive project, that's why i invited him here. he's well suited for today's topic. last week many of you recognize jaquline calmes. prior to that, worked 18 years with the wall street journal, covering the budget and tax, as well as conventional, she was able to swap here, we are gr

after congressman walker, we'll here from victor fazio, who's a senior advisor. he's likewise, a 20-year veteran of the house 1979 to 1999, as a democratic representative of the third congressional district of california. while in majority, he served on the campaign committee for two terms. he served in the minority a democratic caucus and on the legislative branch appropriations. third we're going to hear from the guest scholar, matthew green at the matthew university and an associate fellow of the institute of politics, is it political research and catholic studies. >> policy research. okay. i have a typo. he's the author "the speaker of the house" published by the press this year, i believe. >> uh-huh. >> she's currently working on a massive project. -- he's currently working on a massive project, that's why i invited him here. he's well suited for today's topic. last week many of you recognize jaquline calmes. prior to that, worked 18 years with the wall street journal, covering the budget and tax, as well as conventional, she was able to swap here, we are gr

you also have another group, people who have yet to declare the leaders' race, like fazio of oregon whoet's not do it next week let's delay it, the current democratic leadership held a meeting yesterday and decided they didn't need to wait so they're going to try and ram this through. so look, this is a bad thing for the democrats. this is the leader who crashed the democratic party after six years in power in the house and did so in a spectacular fawrks yet, she's intent upon remaining leader and it's hard to remove them if they don't want to go. jon: illinois congressman mike quigley is saying the reality of the situation is she is politically toxic, yet m some respects doesn't she wind up in a better position than she was in before because so many of the surviving democrats in the house on balance are more liberal in political persuasion than they were before this last election? >> well, that's right, but here's the reality. all of these democrats are going to have to go through redistricting. if you're from one of the big states like michigan, ohio, florida, pennsylvania or wisconsi

after congressman walker, we will hear from dick fazio, the senior adviser, having served from 1979-1999as a democratic representative of the third congressional district of california. while a majority, he served as the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee for too terms. he was and the minorities serving the caucus for two terms and he chaired the appropriations subcommittee on legislative branch appropriations. third, we will hear from mark s. dollar, matthew green, assistant professor politics of the catholic university and an associate professor at the institute of politics -- political research? policy research. i have a typo. he is the author of a book on leadership publics by yale university press this year. he is currently working on a master project which i was aware of. one minority tactics. he is very well suited for today's topic. last but not least, our guest journalists the national correspondent for the "new york times." she has worked there since 2008. prior to that, she worked for 18 years with the "wall street journal," is covering tax matters as