joe kline, politics is a tunny business.he stands with the president for the $4 trillion bargain. i think she doesn't think it's going to happen so you don't have to have medicare or social security cuts before her caucus. you're going out on the road, get out of washington, talk to real people. >> that's right. >> but when you watch this, i'll call it politicians behaving badly, what do you see? >> deja vu. kind of like 1995 when the republicans were about to close down the government and there was all this infighting within the republican party. bob dole going after newt gingrich. you're seeing it on a grander scale now with the boehner versus eric cantor and mitch mcconnell, who has always been a real political guy, not a policy guy, saying, we have to mind the policy here and not allow us to go past this debt ceiling. but i'll tell you what, john, it's driving me crazy. washington and new york are coat and tie kind of towns. and i'm not a coat and tie kind guy, i want to get back on the road. last september, i spent a mo

get in touch with joe kline. give him advice to come to your community. tell him what you think about what's happening in washington. give him a good food recommendation too. see you here tomorrow night. "in the arena" starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm tom foreman. welcome to the program. another day older, deeper in debt, that's what we're looking at tonight in washington, folks. i think we can call this a crisis. two groups of people who simply cannot find common ground. republicans and democrats led by president obama have made, as far as we can tell, not an ounce of progress toward a deal to cut the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. meanwhi meanwhile, the specter of default comes ever closer. frankly, it's the tone of these debates that has a lot of people scared and this is a guy who's scaring a lot of folks tonight. congressman joe walsh, republican from illinois, a freshman backed by the tea party. he's been known to say blunt things when criticizing president obama. these comments might just take the cake. i want to show you a video congre