mitch mcconnell was clear about this.enable and that he needs to move from it toward them by toward them, he means to their position entirely. >> bill: which is to -- allow all of the tax cuts to continue including the tax cuts for the wealthy. >> to only have these loopholes which they haven't specified except bob corker from tennessee who's come out with a very, very detailed plan which is going to be unpopular but at least he's come up with a plan. >> he's the only person who says something. they keep saying we're all for revenues but you're right. it is only closing loopholes. they haven't said which loopholes they're going to close. again, that doesn't put enough money on the table. so they're trying to confuse people by saying oh, look, forget grover norquist, we're all about revenues. it is about revenues versus rates. they don't want to touch the top rate. that's the problem. if they think the president is going to budge they've got another thing coming. >> bill: meanwhile let's stick to grover norquist for a seco

that mitch mcconnell is worried about -- we have a mandate for the president but mitch mcconnell is worriedople to his right both in his own caucus and in his own state and he's going to come out and disrespect the president like that. >> i just want to read it real quickly because i have it in my hand now what mcconnell had said. he did start by saying he extends his sincere congratulations to the president and the vice president. however, he said, "the american people did two things. they gave president obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office and they preserved republican control of the house of representatives. the voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term. they have simply given him more time to finish the job. they asked him to do together with the congress the restored balance to washington after two years of one party control." all right. so when we come back we're going to dig deeper into the counties that decided this election. our richard lui is going to be standing

facing off against the same republican tandem from the 112th congress, house speak enboehner and mitch mcconnellwo are engaged in good cop/bad cop. mcconnell up for re-election has been taking the hard line and boehner has been extending olive branches. boehner's aide has begun negotiating with his white house counterpart. can the speaker corral the same tea party members that gave him migraines in the last term of congress. according to boehner this won't be a problem because there isn't any tea party in congress. >> we don't have a tea party caucus to speak of in the house. all of us who were elected in 2010 were supported by the tea party. >> tea party? what tea party? some of its rowdiest members may have left, joe walsh booted out and allen west reluctantly on his way out, 60 of the tea party caucus still remains. the speaker may wish otherwise but the party ain't over just quite yet. mr. rather, can john boehner, i like the term herd cats in a wheel barrow in this one? >> if he's determined to do so, i think he can. the key here is mitch mcconnell in the senate. he's up for re-election in

yeah, but it's -- if it's demint versus mitch mcconnell, mitch mcconnell wins. >> and he's going to win this thing. the question is how do they manage -- >> what do you do? >> -- republican leaders have not figured out how to manage the base. that's a fact. >> the whole campaign on the president level, they get pushed to the right. >> thatd don't know how to manage. >> because of the conservative bubble. on the down ballot level they nominate candidates who come out of that bubble and a policy or -- >> or they did mainstream candidates like george allen who feels the need to placate -- >> of course. and on policy. and on policy, there's a roadblock from moving towards stances on issues like immigration because you're going to get blowback from the base. but keep in mind what happened yesterday township it wasn't just john boehner who moved on immigration. sean hannity said he had evolved on the immigration issue. election type consequences. >> this is the problem i feel like. that your natural tendency in politics is to say, we'll let our voters work their will. that's always there. we'

robert, let me ask you, with the fact that mitch mcconnel is coming out holding nothing back, basicallynd the vice president said that maybe the fever would break. do we think that mitch still has a fever going forward? >> mitch has two issues going on. first he is running for re-election in 2014 in kentucky. what mitch does not want is a tea party challenge that happened with his friends. number two there could be a challenge from the right within the senate caucus. i hate to say this. if mitch mcconnel goes too far to the left what he is doing is he is making sure that his home fires keep burning and the process hopefully does not have a challenger on the far right. tonight is very, very historic for a lot of reasons and one would think that the minority leader would go in terms of rhetoric. >> thank you for saying that. but with all due respect, and i do respect you. this is what is going on here. mitch mcconnel is worried about people to his right both in his own caucus and in his own state and he's going to come out and disrespect the president like that. >> i want to read what mcc

which may be bad news for mitch mcconnell. i'll explain in a minute.arah, ben chandler without a job is a dangerous potential if you're mitch mcconnell running for re-election. >> it'll be interesting to see how the minority leader handles politics heading into his own election as you just eluded to. >> he's in a vice grip. he's got a potential primary challenge he was worried about. >> here the thing about mitch mcconnell. he is a smart political operative. he will put together a great team there. he's already reached out to rand paul. i think he'll be fine. we're already talking about 2014, by the way. >> i'm going to talk about 2016 in a minute. i don't know how much mitch mcconnell is able to be a good negotiator for republicans. did he earn the right to lead senate republicans next year? this has not been a good run for him. >> i'm not sure he gets all the blame for it. there's a little bit of blame to go around. you know, senator cornyn probably will get some of the blame. some of the blame goes to the individual candidates who said stupid things

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do what's in mitch mcconnell's best interest.lculation that adhering to a fairly hard line is going to guarantee he doesn't face a primary. the disingenuous thing about the republican argument right now, this whole thing about rates is unfortunate because you cannot do what they say they want to do, which is deal with the tax code and deductions, without impacting the middle class. because any time you touch a deduction, whether it's home mortgage deduction or even capital gains or whatever, you're talking about middle classes being impacted along with wealthier americans. so, this is all phoney. we've got to do something with the rates. the president is absolutely right to hold to his line. the american people are on board. and i think eventually the republicans will fall in line. >> i know that you head up the bourbon caucus, a most excellent caucus, if everyone there was one. you invited republican massy ey with you. could you not invite mcconnell and introduce him to working with as opposed to this president? >> absolutely. t

wait until you hear what mitch mcconnell said about it yesterday. the "full court press." >> on this tuesday, other headlines making news. as much as dunkin' donuts may think it brews the best coffee in america the chain cannot trademark that phrase. a bid to use the phrase best coffee in america exclusively in its marketing campaigns was rejected by the u.s. patent and trademark office. they say it is too generic to warrant that trademark. >> bill: you know, i don't know because i'm not a coffee drinker but a lot of friends of mine have told me they think dunkin' donuts has the best coffee. >> i'm one of those. i drink it all the time. >> it is good coffee. it is not the best coffee i've ever had. >> bill: is it better than starbucks? >> i think it is better than starbucks. i don't like starbucks plain coffee. if i go to starbucks i'm usually getting a latte or something. but you can't trademark that. that i know of. >> too generic. they tried and failed. jenna bush hager is adding a new job as a writer to her repertoire. the daughter of the former

senate republican leader mitch mcconnell had a statement that was hardly conciliatory saying, quote, the voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term. they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do. now it's tame for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the republican controlled house of representatives and a closely divided senate. house speaker john boehner was more conciliatory. he wrote in a statement, quote, if there is a mandate, it is a mandate for both parties to find common ground. boy, totally different tones in those two messages. realize mitch mcconnell may have a tough fight for re-election, possibly for renomination and for his senate seat in kentucky. boehner makes a statement also on the fiscal cliff negotiations today at 3:30 this afternoon. will either party ultimately have a mandate in those negotiations as they go forward? will republican lawsuits produce soul-searching? does boehner and mcconnell figure out the best thing to do is do all of the compromising now, g

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mitch mcconnell saying the president should be speaking to members of his own party. interestingly enough, moments ago we heard from someone within mitch mcconnell's party, speaker john boehner, saying he thinks a deal is possible. take a listen. >> it's time for the president and democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. but i'm optimistic. >> he's optimistic. we also have boehner saying he is disagreeing with tom cole, one of the few republicans who have come out to usual his party to strike a deal. right now, get this done. keeping the bush tax cults for 98% of americans, give up on keeping tax cuts low for the wealthy, 2%. take a listen to what cole on capitol hill had to say moments ago. >> in my view, we all agree that we're not going to raise taxes on people who make less than $250,000. we should take them out of this discussion right now and continue to fight against any rate increase, continue to try to work honestly for a much bigger deal. >> has the tipping point been reached, sir? is the compromise in front of us right now b

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high-end audio equipment business says they could do the same thing in 2014, and this time take out mitch mcconnellraise taxes. >> we shall not raise taxes in this country. we do not have a revenue problem. i would like senator mcconnell to recognize that the washington leaders are like a bunch of crack addicts. they need evermore money for evermore growing government and it is at the expense of the ordinary citizen that they pursue these policies. >> reporter: but the brighter those lines are drawn, the harder it will be to get a deal. owen williams worked more than 20 years on wall street. now he runs a small college here that sits on the board of the henry clay center for statesmanship. the way to a solution, he says, is for both sides to have a voice. >> both have taken the attitude that it's my way or the highway. and americans recognize that that's just not the way things typically get done in this country. and if we continue along that line, we will go over the fiscal cliff and who knows what the abyss beyond it will be like. >> reporter: the united states senate's always valued its reputati

president for sending treasury secretary ti tim geithner to capitol hill with a proposal that led mitch mcconnell literally burst out laughing. >> the white house took three weeks to respond with any kind of proposal. and much to my disappointment, it wasn't a serious one. >> their beef is the president campaigned on $800 billion in tax increases by ending the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. but is now proposing double that. $1.6 trillion. by adding tax hikes on dividends and capital gains. plus, the white house wants $50 billion in new spending next term alone in long term deal about cutting spending. >> they want to have this extra spending greater than the amount they want to cut. not serious proposal. >> but the president may have the upper hand because the fiscal cliff talks allow him to back opposition to a corner, by framing this as the republicans raising taxes.

. >> and you got a statement from mitch mcconnell? >> yeah.ublican leader in the senate who, remember, said that he wanted to make his job number one was to make barack obama a one-term president. tonight released a statement that, forget the kumbaya. he said the voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term. he went on to say now it's time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the republican controlled house in a closely divided senate. and then he goes on to say, we look forward to hearing the president's proposals. so this is the first shot across the bow. mitch mcconnell, as you pointed out, is up for re-election. could be primaried by a more conservative republican. he is the leader. >> what does this tell us about second terms for president? >> tough. i can't think of any offhand. >> bill clinton. >> bill clinton. >> he was impeached. >> but he actually got four straight balanced budgets. he got welfare reform. >> i think impeachment will be in the second paragraph

but if you listen carefully to mitch mcconnell, folks, we have trouble brewing. chris van hollen joins me. stay with us. [ male announcer ] coughequence™ #8. waking the baby. [ coughs ] [ baby crying ] ♪ [ male announcer ] robitussin® liquid formula soothes your throat on contact and the active ingredient relieves your cough. robitussin®. don't suffer the coughequences™. screen. chris van hollen joins me. >>> coming up, congressional leaders had a constructive meeting with the president today. but will it lead to progress on the fiscal cliff? congressman chris van hollen weighs in next. >>> then governor scott walker is one of the republican governors in america refusing to implement obama care provision in his state. john nickels explains why that's a good thing. >>> and this is a story that burns me. the post office suffers record losses because of republican legislation and republican inaction. the postal workers union to discuss how the service can be saved in this lame duck session. we're coming right back. [ husband ] transfer! [ male announcer ] free data

mitch mcconnell it's for you!ed congress. >> stephanie: the one you've been so helpful with. the way you've been so helpful and bipartisan all along? oh really? whatever. get back in your terrarium. let's go to -- >> he's just upset he didn't get control of the senate. >> stephanie: yeah, i know. michael in sarasota, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi michael. >> caller: how are you, my love? >> stephanie: i'm fine. >> caller: you and your merry band of elves have made my absolute life just a joy! >> stephanie: oh, thank you, honey. >> caller: darling, the french -- i have a story about your dad but before i get to that -- >> stephanie: what? >> caller: hang on a moment. the french may have given us that beautiful lady in new york harbor with that gorgeous torch beaming across new york right now, hoping it will bring some sort of consolidation of those folks but you know what? there is a torch on the west coast beaming across this country. darling, you're the reason why the president has been re-elected. >>

. >> mitch mcconnell, we are told, literally laughed at the white house's offer. and if you listen to speaker boehner, it's not going very well. take a listen. >> i'm disappointed in where we are and disappointed in what's happened over the last couple of weeks. but going over the fiscal cliff is serious business. and i'm here seriously trying to resolve it. and i would hope the white house would get serious as well. >> and the speaker tweeted, "how serious is the white house about avoiding the fiscal cliff?" reports suggest, in some cases, not so serious. and also, joanne, what is the strategy here, and is there a risk like looking like you're not really negotiating? >> well, you know, i think what's interesting is that there's the posture that everyone is taking in public, but then what you're hearing behind the scenes is that everyone's sort of understands what the contours of the deal are going to look like. and what i see is john boehner trying to sort of protect his caucus at this point because he probably understands that at the end of the day, that top rat

that was the reaction from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. what would it mean to you if the president got his way despite that reaction? that's no laughing matter. we'll have details on that and both sides of that contentious issue coming up. >>> and then a lot of theories about who would replace treasury secretary geithner. we'll hear from someone who says the best candidate to succeed him just met with president obama yesterday. trust us when we tell you it's not a name you've heard before for this job. >>> meanwhile, the parade of companies offering special dividends ahead of the cliff keeps getting bigger. why this boom for shareholders may turn into a bust for others. we'll explain when we continue on "the closing bell" for this friday. [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- ♪ you can stay in and like something... ♪ [ car alarm deactivates ] ♪ ...or you can get out there with your family and actually like something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursui

>> i think mitch mcconnell is a little worried. you saw some of these people on election night. you saw karl rove's response. you saw mcconnell the next day. you saw speaker boehner, who is the most -- i think the most flexible of the group. they know that they're going to have to come to the table and give on a lot of things. not just that we won the election, but when i see the organizing around the president's message. he'll travel the country and talk to people, and the country is overwhelmingly with him. even people that didn't vote for him, many think the rich should pay battle more and focus on jobs. when you put that together, it's clear that the president is in a good position to win this. it really is another campaign in so many ways. >> ed, i think people think the negotiations happened for the last year in this country. we had a national debate on this question. the people have spoken. we want our government to answer the call. so for us, the issue of negotiating is we need the republican in the house to extend the middle class tax cuts permanently so they can show th

an uneasy peace with rand paul, and it looks to me like mitch mcconnell wanted to be majority leader ever since he and his beagle dog won the 1984 senate race -- one of the best ads ever, youtube, mcconnell and beagle. awesome. he may never be majority leader because things do not automatically look all that much better for republicans two years from now than now. and he also will be facing a primary in two years. we should warn people. >> he may or may not. i think what he has been trying to do -- back in 2010, of course, mcconnell, there was a contested primary in kentucky and mcconnell back j. grayson and rand paul won, so it caused a little problems and people were upset with him. but he has done a lot of work over the past two years to really hug rand paul so close to him, and he has let rand paul do just about whatever he wants to do on the senate floor. when rand paul says i want to go on the floor and cause a big stink about something, mitch mcconnell says, go right ahead. i am not going to try to stop you. and he is really sure of -- mitch mcconnell is such a talented's -- po

and we certainly heard from mitch mcconnell who congratulated the president and vice president on theirction and said they may find a willing partner in these fiscal negotiations going forward. but he also set the terms and mcconnell was sort of tough in the way he laid things out encouraging the president to take on a leadership role. >> the time for the president to lead is now. and that means offering a concrete plan that takes into account the fact that half the congress opposes tax hikes. not because we are selfish, not because we're stubborn, but we know it is the wrong thing to do. we know it will hurt the economy and we know it will destroy jobs. >> so the most bipartisanship we are seeing in the early hours of congress being back is about the fact both parties agree that something must be done, that they must work together and that's what voters were saying with their ballots last week. the hard part is how you get there. as you know, hill leaders will be at the white house on friday. conversations have been going on behind the scenes. sort of on an ongoing basis. the real work

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put yourself in mitch mcconnell's shoes. if you were mitch mcconnell, you too would be complaining about the president leaving washington to talk about these matters. no republican would want the guy they are negotiating with to be out talking to the country about this issue once you look at how the country feels about this issue. specifically, about what the two parties are negotiating about, their respective positions. look at this. look at this new washington post polling on this. the president's idea is raising taxes on income over a quarter million dollars but keeping the bush tax cuts for everybody else. that idea is very popular. 60% support. it is a very popular plan that the president is trying to drum up even more support for now with these campaign style trips. now, on the other side, what the republicans want to do, their plan is to limit deductions, limit tax deductions. that's their plan instead. that, in contrast to the president's proposal, is not popular. more people oppose that idea than support that idea.

and mitch mcconnell said of the president, to the extent he wants to move to the political center which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we'll be there to meet him half way. in his next term, president obama will have to avoid that fiscal cliff we've all been talking about. navigate the debt ceiling debate, coordinate the drawdown from afghanistan among other things. he is also under pressure to come up with comprehensive immigration reform. mark halpern, i asked you earlier but i'll ask you again, why should we believe things will be different this time? is it just becausest fiscal cliff? if we do clear the fiscal cliff, why does that change the politics? >> if they get a big deal like that, i think the bipartisan muscles will work and the personal relationships will be required. that's, to me, the big missing element. there is not in the first term particularly the last year of the president's first term there is not a lot of warmness between the president and mitch mcconnell and john boehner. they're both back as the leaders of their party. he has to breakthrough

do you think the president needs a beer summit, mitch mcconnell, john boehner? the three get together and figure out how to work together. >> we need to get everybody in the room. everybody should be at the table, and everything should be on the table, and the time is now to do that. >> my power panel, thanks so much, gentlemen. i appreciate your insights. coming up in just a few minutes, i'm going to have a chance to talk to dnc chairwoman, congresswoman debbie waserman schultz will join us. >>> congresswoman gabby giffords will come face to face with the shooter who nearly took her life and the lives of 11 others. >>> why are we waiting on florida once again? we're going to talk to debbie wasserman schultz about her home state. president obama reelected. what should be the first thing on his agenda? . ♪ 99 bushels of wheat on the farm...99 bushels of wheat! ♪ [ male announcer ] yep, there's 8 layers of whole grain fiber in those mini-wheats® biscuits... to help keep you full... ♪ 45 bushels of wheat on the farm. 45 bushels of wheat! ♪ ...all morning long. ther

now today mitch mcconnell is willing to do a 1 to 1 deal. republicans lost all of their leverage in this election. they made a big gamble and came up empty handed. in 2011 president obama was cutting deals with john boehner on the golf course. it was very favorable for the republicans. the president agreed to more than a trillion dollars in cuts, benefit reductions of social security, raising the medicare eligibility age and actually lowering tax rates on the wealthiest americans. now in the end, republicans, what do they do? they rejected the deal. they wanted more and the way to get it was to beat the president of the united states in november. the president fought back almost a year ago. he announced the message of the reelection campaign. the same place where teddy roosevelt gave birth to progressivism. >> we have to ask ourselves, do we want to make the investments we need in things like education and research and high-tech manufacturing, all those things that help make us an economic super power, or do we want to keep in place the tax

hat about the sequestered ta how is delighted to see an interview with direct quotes from mitch mcconnell appeared he said we're not raising taxes to avoid the sequester appeared out rather have the savings over a decade -- from mitch mcconnell. he said we're not raising taxes to avoid sequester. i would rather have the savings over a decade. i am not -- i would rather have the sequester them lose the savings. i would rather have a different ly structured sequester. we're not giving up savings. we either had the sequester or reconstruction it differently. ,hat i think you're going to do at the one thing he could have a compromise on, maybe the only thing you have a real compromise like theoneis republicans savings for the sequestered but they do not want to come out. the democrats theoretically would like the sequesters savings but they do not want to have domestic discretionary. they would both like to in the sequestered but republicans will not do it in a way that allows spending to go higher rather than lower. you can take that all out of entitlements. you could delay certain entitleme

when you heard from republicans -- it is like mitch mcconnell who said his job was to see that obama is never reelected. so, he has an edge year. he does have leverage. but it will be a long haul. he does need partners. >> rich mcconnell is on record as saying that -- mitch mcconnell is on the records sayi thahe knows that the election makes some people think that the republicans are going to roll over. that does not sound like compromise. >> your definition of compromise is rolling over and excepting higher tax rates. that is the democratic definition of compromise. i would never suggest bias. the president ran -- i will say it -- the most negative campaign. he did not run on his record. he could not. he did not run on a program. there is one thing he got a mandate for, and he now has a mandate to raise the top tax rate on two percent of the population by four. ? that is the smallest mandate in american history. >> can i say something? >> no, not until i am done. this is true. i am not going to get into this for meridian -- >what the republicans will agree to come up brainer came ou

which may be bad news for mitch mcconnell. i'll explain in a minute.'re mitch mcconnellr re-election. >> it'll be see how the minority handles politics heading into his oelection as you just eluded to. >> he's in a vice grip. he's got a p challenge he was worried about. >> here the thing about mitch cconnell. hes a smart political the way. >> i'm going to talk about 2016 minute. i don't know how much mitch mcconnell is able to be a good republiche right toeadyear? this r sure he gets all blame for blame to go know senator cornyn probably will get some of the blame. some of the bl:same indi things. i mean you can't rea himtÑ" mourdock said.oes in there and it happens. >> it's a difference between the the most challenge inside to mcconnell isro t you these disastrous candidates from his right. it doesn't seem there'sn obvious path f do think that theo sort tea party movementroadly defined will have to these occurred -- >> you think jim to step back. >> if youbé look at the outside groups who really egg there's a lot of sou searchin on. republicans would