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i'm harris falkner. let's get you back to "huckabee" >> mike: the weeks leading up to the deadlock. politics blaming each other and blaming them for the consequences ultimately before a debt deal was reached. what was the point of the drama if the credit rating was going to be down anyway. congressman, it is good to have you. >> linn, i got to say, mike, did i not get it right, last week? we have to stop meeting like this. i thought it was ground hog day. huckabee wants you if again. >> mike: we only bring back the ones that nail it. one of the reasons we want you to come back, we'll talk about how much of the back and forth and indeceasiveness that was going on in washington affected the decision bystandersard and poor's. >> it played a role and early inications that it might happen. the president suggested it might happen. i think we have learned a lott and a wake-up call. we can't tinker around the edges. we have to be bold and strong and the statement that came from the president from my perspective