. >>> joining me now is republican committee national chairman reince priebus, and kristen is talk about what is happening with these talks at the white house with john boehner calling them productive and the president hopeful about getting it done by the looming datef of august 2nd which is the deadline for the u.s. to default on the dets. in your estimation, what do you think will happen? can we make it to that date and get something moved to the middle? a compromise before that? >> well, i mean, obviously, as you know, and i think that youm -- you almost said it yourself that the devil is in the details, of course, and we don't know what the details are, but i can tell you this that the republicans are not going to go along with tax increases, and speaker boehner is going to talk about the tax reform. that is a lot different than tax increases, so i think that we need to make sure that is very clear. i think that at the end of the day, americans in the country are starving for a washington that is listening to what the needs of this economy is. i think that what we are really looking

veechbtly you, reince, forget.used it as a backdrop. >> this country needs a president who clearly needs that. >> the strength, the focus, the characteristics these times demand. >> i'm optimistic about america, because i believe in the people of america. i'm president bush, and i approve of this message. >> the gop logic here is, well, okay. there is none. when gerb gerb made a campaign video in the white house, it was a good move, great performance, you did it, mr. president, you were simply brilliant, but when president obama does it, it's against the law. another sad chapter in his time as the head of the rnc. the ridiculous double standard is a con job of the day. copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, wo

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we're joined by rnc chair reince priebus who is launching a new media campaign about it today.ing in the spokesperson, the president's spokesperson saying we need to share the sacrifice? >> right. well, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. i mean, they want to raise taxes and, you know, at the end of the day, they don't want to make the hard choices which are finding a way to shrink government, cut spending do the things that the american families across the country are doing. this is a president who delivered the biggest and largest structural deficit in the history of our country when he delivered a budget which, by the way, not a single even democrat voted for back in march or april. this is a president that just doesn't get it. and so, you know, what we're trying to do today is launch a new television ad campaign and you can see it at gop.com highlighting that we're going to go over a fiscal cliff in this country. we have a train that's off the rails and financially, america is heading for some really tough times and this president needs to engage his cou