in the "crossfire" tonight, democratic strategist maria cardona and faith coalition ralph reed. let's start with the democrats, we'll get to the republicans. but for now let's focus on the democrats. maria, van clearly wants to push the president to the left. he wants the president to reach out to those progressives. but look at the president's approval ratings in the most competition states for the senate this year. he is not doing well. in red states where democrats are vulnerable. wouldn't it be suicide for the president to take van's advice, which is why i want him to. >> no, i don't think it would be suicide. and i think the reason is because a lot of the issueses that van mentioned and a lot of the issues that the president talked about when he was inaugurated for his second inauguration speech and how many people talked about it was such a lefty libbereral speech, immigration reform, climate change, minimum wage, even talking about income inequality right now. the majority of the american people, the mainstream of america are there, they're with him. now, there's no quest

more now from democratic strategist and cnn political commentator cornell belcher, and ralph reed founderthe christian coalition and president of century strategies. >> cornell, there's no doubt a lot of people have been spinning what the cbo report says. today the cbo director said it will reduce unemployment, but the report also said it's going to reduce people's incentive to work to the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time workers over ten years. and the report says businesses might be encouraged to reduce employee hours to avoid the mandate. it's not quite as rosy as some democrats hope it is. >> the truth of the matter is, anderson, if you look back when we first put aca into action, we've had 45 of the strongest months of job creation in this country since the '90s. 8.1 million jobs have been create since obamacare's been in effect. we're reducing the deficit. and guess what? something that we've been struggling with for a long time, actual costs of health care in this country, are actually coming under control. so that's the reality of obamacare. i'm mind boggled by the fact that re

more now from democratic strategist and cnn political commentator cornell belcher, and ralph reed founderident of century strategies. >> cornell, there's no doubt a lot of people have been spinning what the cbo report says. today the cbo director said it will reduce unemployment, but the report also said it's going to reduce people's incentive to work to the equivalent of 2.5 million workers over ten years. and the report says businesses might be encouraged to reduce employee hours to avoid the mandate. it's not quite as rosy as some democrats hope it is. >> the truth of the matter is, anderson, if you look back when we first put aca into action, we've had 45 of the strongest months of job creation in this country since the 90s. 8.1 million jobs have been create since obamacare's been in effect. we're reducing the deficit. and guess what. something that we've been struggling with for a long time, actual costs of health care in this country, are actually coming under control. so that's the reality of obamacare. i'm mind boggled by the fact that republicans again think they can take 2012 an