every one of those republicans house also voted 4 $6 trillion reduction in debt. and a $6 trillion reduction in spending. that is the call ryan but it. sometimes people ask how come republicans do not compromise. they wrote a budget to reduce spending by $6 trillion from where obama, reid, and pelosi wish to spend. there was a tremendous amount of compromise on the part of the republicans, not cutting spending as much as they would like to. i have no objection to republican saying, "let's go to a $4 trillion spending restraint." they did not say raise taxes. ron paul was one of the signers of that. this is not a collection of people that want to raise taxes or the whatever that into the agreement. it is kind of fudge. if i were a member of congress, i would say, let's go big. that is not problematic. we do know the the republicans -- the two narratives -- obama has decided that his presidency is a mess and while he was a very good campaigner, he has been a very bad president on domestic discretionary stuff, and he is going to run for reelection. how do you run for

when the republicans took the house and senate in november 1994 is when the stock-market did this. the dispute with the growth go up? 1997. when we cut the capital gains tax. republicans cut the capital gains tax and clinton signed it and growth went from here to here. there was in the second half of the 1990's, when republicans took control of the house and senate, took all of clinton's tax and spending programs off the table and cut the capital gains tax, you had a very good six years there towards the end. but the first two years of the clinton administration was not a period of growth or jobs or opportunity for stock market going up or deficits falling. his tax increases were only scheduled to fund additional spending what happened was republicans came in and we're stuck with these tax increases but did not do the spending, and that is why we ended up balancing the budget. >> what tax increases were specifically walled off toward deficit reduction? that is it, there can be no new spending and you took the tax increases to help achieve real deficit reduction only. whatever fall u

so 60% to republicans in the house, 40% to democrats in the house, in this example. hey are tilted a little bit more republican in their giving anyway, which would suggest that perhaps there won't be as much democratic heat that they can take. >> we're going to put up a picture of dawn sweeney, we found one, the head of the national restaurant association. she is running a group that is of course tilted toward republicans, because one of its primary lobbying issues, almost the number one issue, is they oppose any increase in the minimum wage, which goes of course to restaurant workers, dishwashers and so forth, and they oppose any increase in tax rates, pretty much across the board, especially top tax rates. so that is where their lobbying is centered, but in this congress, chris, you can't pass anything without democrats. >> oh, absolutely, and in the senate, that's very true. and what's interesting about the national restaurant association is that herman cain really put them on the map. they were a pretty sleepy organization by all accounts, when i talk to folks who

. >> why think so, he was running against a do nothing congress in 1948, a republican house and a republicanelection and we will work with dewey but we will it is on our hands and here we have a republican house and a democratic senate with a republican house passing initiative after initiative and beginning to die in the united states senate under the leadership of harry reid, so, the president is counting on the failure of the super committee to the republican's disadvantage. it does to a slight degree with a new poll saying who do you blame for the failure of the super committee? obama and democrats 389 percent but the republicans 44 percent, but it is not all, there ought to be a bigger gap. but here is the problem, do you have, do you approve or disapprove of president obama's ability to deal with congress? approve in may was 49 percent and today it is 38 percent. disapprove was 44 percent in may and today it is 58 percent. this eats away at the image of the president as a strong and effective leader, that is the most important thing a president has going for him, and, frankly, we will

famous for writing the house republicans' kill medicare budget. ul rye wrap voted to block the epa from doing anything about this.ç maybe he will help himself in the cleanup now. that vote in the house was 2 1/2 weeks ago. this week, part of the oak creek power plant collapses and coal ash and god knows what else in storage units the size of semi truck trailers careened into lake michigan. they have a line of boom out there trying to clean it up. what did the house spend their time doing today? now, this is a trick question. because remember, the republicans control the house. this is the new tea party republican congress, where after the 2010 elections, one out of every three republican members in the house is new. elected in 2010 in the great tea party election. and the tea party breed of republican, if you listen to the spin, they are supposedly not interested in your old traditional republican ideas. they're not interested, for example, in social issues and the whole gun, god and gay. they're populists, libertarian populists at that if you lis

me that when they started talking about revenues, the republican members all said, we'll never pass anything with any revenues in either the house or senate, because of the pledge. but let me take a step back here. because i think it's important to outline this. the one good consensus we have on both democratic and republican sides, is that we have to reduce the deficit. we're sort of like a blindfolded man walking towards a cliff. and if we keep walking, we're going to fall off and die. some may argue the cliff is 50 yards away. some may argue 500. but we all agree if you keep walking, you die. now, how did we get into this problem? first, there is the growth of entitlement programs, medicare and medicaid. in 2000 we had a surplus. in 2010, we have a deep deficit. what changed? first, the growth of the entitlement programs, as i mentioned. second were the tax cuts put in place by president bush. and those are the two leading reasons. third, lesser important, but still important is the war in iraq and afghanistan. you have to deal with both of the first two to get this done. >> well, let me ask you about that because you say the

is the republican house next week would repeal dodd frank and allow us to put pressure on the senate to repeal but frank you'd see the housing market start to improve overnight dodd frank kill small banks and kill small business the federal regulators are anti housing loan and it has naturalized the frame of a. so there really that simple you guys if you just allow the economy to reboot then that's where closures will go away or according to you gingrich if you just repealed thought frank the housing crisis will easily be fixed i mean these are the most childish ridiculous answers that i've ever heard and these are candidates the want to be the president of the united states so that's the excruciating part of last night's fiasco is that none of them offer any concrete solutions they just spew off more parrot talking points i had if you were watching the mainstream media's coverage of the debate today you forget all about that who wants to get into those details or playing fifty three seconds of awkwardness is just so much more fun because rick perry making himself look like an idiot t

we passed -- we, the republicans in the house, passed the ryan budget. cuts $6 trillion over the next decade. then this summer we -- the republicans agreed with obama to cut $2.5 trillion. that was a compromise. we didn't get the $6 trillion we wanted, we got the $2.5 trillion we wanted. what happened? we had already taken tax increases completely off the table and what happened? $2.5 trillion in spending restraint. the previous two times that we put tax increases on the table, no spending restraint at all. so we have some examples. this isn't fury. we know it -- theory. we know we have to put tax increases on the table, you take tax increases off the table, $2.5 trillion on spending restraint and we wrestled a powerful president to the ground there. but this whole idea of the partisan thing, i'll use in some cases republican, when i may be should say conservative or free market but that's because during the lifesometime of ronald reagan, we moved away from this situation where being a republican just told you somebody was born north of the mason-dixon li

it wasn't 200 plus republican house members who signed the letter. here are a lot of republicans who want to have an open mind about how to deal with this going forward. if we're talking about tax reform and not simply moving marginal rates. >> it's hard to say that when every time things get real, republicans walk away from the table. you saw it in the last -- >> there's walking away from both sides. come on. >> major garrett will take you both and resolve this right now. thank you so much. great to see you, tony, thank you again. >> escalating violence in syria. is this the start of the civil war? the latest next on andrea mitchell reports. on november 26th you can make a huge impact by shopping small on small business saturday. one purchase. one purchase is all it takes. so, pick your favorite local business... and join the movement. i pledge to shop small at big top candy shop. allen's boots... at juno baby store. make the pledge to shop small. please. shop small on small business saturday. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea,

there is only republican house. that is what the congress consists of now days.fort to up-or-down vote on bowles-simpson. in a minor way embarrass the president. this is an issue that goes to country as part of the fabric of the congressional electio elections. the public will decide who it can trust and what to do about this crisis of debt and spending. >> bret: mitch mcconnell put out a statement saying for those of us who hoped the committee could make tough decisions, president obama continues to avoid the democrat rejection of not one but two good faith republican proposals is disappointing. democrats you might not be surprised to know take a much different take. and say republicans are tied to grover norquist with the americans for tax reform. that is in the reid statement and pelosi statement tonight. who is winning the spin battle of the back and forth of how it's playing out? >> if you ask the american people in polls, it's clear. they think that what we should do, washington should do is close the loopholes. secondly, tax people who make more than $200,

no way parties with obama at one end ideologically and the republican house on the other is going to ree on this. but second, the trigger is a phony. we have heard from mccain. figures on republican side. no way they would agree to the sequestration of defense. now from the obama secretary of defense, this letter which lays out what it will do. where he says it would devastate the military. not a budget he could recommend. they are going to disarm the trigger. >> the trigger was meant to be a wall. the back up against the wall. we are not going to do this. we have to get it done. now we are talking about taking down the wall. >> in the end, as we learn with the other attempts for congress, to force itself in to doing "x," if you put a padlock on the refrigerator but you are a congress, you keep the key to undo it any time you want. >> moving this forward no matter what happens, the big issue of tax reform essentially gets punted to the presidential campaign. >> triple punt. the tax reform won't happen and this doesn't sol tv fundamental long-term problem. you have one political party

for the house republicans. it's hard to believe a was just 2008 when there was pretty much a consensus on the immigration reform. you had ted kennedy, george w. bush, john mccain, barack obama, all pretty close to the same position which is that we need to find some kind of pathway towards citizenship for those who are here illegally and come up with some kind of process they may have disagreed about the details, but there was a pretty wide consensus and we are in a very different place now with nobody in the gop presidential field favoring anything like that and certainly not in the house republican conference. the democrats, nevertheless, keep bringing of the immigration policies from 2008 and precisely improve their prospects among the ever growing hispanic population so president obama is making the calculated bet as he weakens in some of the traditional midwestern industrial states he can venture forth and try to recapture nevada, capture arizona the your etc. you know, i don't think we know how the politi

he wants a simple majority vote on republican house bills? republicans in the is that the wouldn't even allow a debate, never mind a vote on the american jobs act. or on jobs for teachers and firefighters. or on jobs to rebuild our roads and bridges. if you think that's appalling, just listen to what speaker boehner said. now, he really takes the cake. >> i think it's unacceptable for the white house to be anything less than 100% engaged in the legislative process. >> you call this white house not engaged? >> we've got to invest in new roads and bridges and airports and wireless infrastructure and a smart grid. steps to help responsible homeowners refinance and take advantage of low mortgage rates. we should be doing everything we can to put a college education within reach for every american. it's time to put country ahead of party. it's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election. >> joining me now is hilda secretary soli, thanks for coming on. republicans claim president obama is not engaged. are they serious? >> well, i'll t

we elected 100 republicans in in house. they have taken the pledge. in 1988, on the republican president for -- candidates for president signed it. it is a written pledge by candidate or official saying to the american people that i will not raise your taxes, no net incocrease. bush in 1988 to the pledge along with all the other candidates except for bob doyle. during the new hampshire debate, dupont offered him the pledge and said the rest of us have made this written commitment. will you? lost new hampshire. bush won the primaries. bush was losing 17.2 michael the cactus -- dukakis. this is going well until 1990. the two smartest men in the world [inaudible] he raised taxes and threw away an otherwise quite successful presidency. he lost in 1992. he raised taxes. there were other things going wrong. he managed the collapse of the soviet union. he pushed iraq out of kuwait. he had a very successful presidency. in 1994, becaues the republicans watched bush win by taking the pledge and lose when he broke the pledge, people realized what the power of the

let's take up bipartisan bills, house republicans have already passed and actually do something. ere is no betterime to tackle the problems we face than now. let's not squander this moment because some political strategists over at the white house is enamored with the own reelection strategy. let's take advantage of this moment when the two parties share power in washington to act. as i often note, it's only when the two parties share power that they can share the credit and the blame. that's why some of the biggest legislative achievements have taken place at moments like this. and that's why i've been calling on democrats in washington privately and publicly for the past year to follow the example of those congresses and those presidents before us who were wise enough to seize an opportunity like this one for the good of the country. we face many serious crises as a nation. we know how to solve them. let's not let this moment pass ht. well, madam president, today i would like to discuss the jobs bill we're currently debating and how important it is that we pass this right away.

the republicans have a comfortable majority in the house and democrats have a two- seatman in the statee. former republican congressman davided gop candidates are -- david said gop candidates are taking victim of the void in popularity and republicans are generally steering clear of talking about hot-button social issues. >> they're capitalizing on the atmosphere and talking about jobs and the economy. >> reporter: the republican house drew districts and the senate regrew districts to favor democratic candidates but congressman david believes they may pick up an additional five to eight soots in the house and have a descent sense of capturing the main the senate. the professor at george mason university agrees with davis on the senate side. the democratic majority is very much in play. >> it's going to be a tough place for a lot of people on that one. >> reporter: what happens if republicans control both houses&as well as the governorship. >> there is a lot of partisanship, and i think that will allow them to get the educational forms they wanted. >> reporter: in the past, he's looked a

republicans have a comfortable majority in the house. mocrats have only a two-seat majority in the state senate. former republican congressman tom davis says gop candidates are taking advantage of president obama's slide in popularity and republicans are generally steering clear of talking about hot button social issues. >> they're capitalizing on the atmosphere. they're talking about jobs, growing the economy, the kind of issues people are interested in. >> reporter: the republican house redrew districts to favor gop candidates and the senate redrew districts to favor democratic candidates, but congressman davis thinks republicans may pick up an additional five to eight seats in the house tuesday and have a decent chance of capturing the majority in the senate. professor michelle travis agrees with davis on the senate side the democratic majority is very much in play. >> they may sweep it up. it's going to be a real tough race for a lot of people. >> reporter: what happens if republicans control both houses as well as the governorship? >

opposed by republicans and some democrats who object to new spending and a surtax on millionaires to pay for it. in the shadow of the structurally deficient key bridge, the president mocked house republicans for passing a bill affirming in god we trust as the country's motto while more than a million construction workers search for jobs. >> i trust in god, but god wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work. >> house republicans say cutting taxes and regulations will create jobs, but that their bills have gone nowhere. >> there's stock in the senate, that's where the jobs are. >> who is going to rebuild america? haven't seen it. >> two construction contractors rebuilding a historic georgetown home think the president is just playing politics. >> he's a good talker and he says what you want to hear, but it never happens. >> they are more mad that presidential security has caught their supply truck on the other side of the bridge. >> will you vote for him next time? >> no. no way. >> away can't wait for congress to do its job. >> but among the hundreds of unemployed and union workers invited to see the president's speech. >> this year, i have been layed off twi

even though they haven't created a single job republicans in the house have worked hard to preserve their individual wealth as well as the wealth of their corporate donor for example there's an analysis by roll call magazine that found the net worth of congressmen members members of congress is up twenty five percent over the last year that's pretty amazing one year twenty five percent of congress until now worth is two billion dollars so what these folks have been doing is basically protecting tax cuts for themselves and pushing for pet projects meanwhile the big five will corporations so far have made over one hundred billion dollars billion dollars being a thousand million axon mobile shelled b.p. conoco phillips and chevron these five companies have made over one hundred billion dollars so far this year and yet gas is still three fifty a gallon. what's wrong with that picture well ronald reagan stopping force in the sherman antitrust act corporations just got together and you know hundreds of companies became five companies in virtually every industry and we wonder why the country see

house solyndra3ú.l. solyndra which is based in fremont, received a 528 million dollar federal loan before filing for bankruptcy and laying off 1,000 workers. the republicanuse energy and commerce subcommittee voted today along party lines to authorize the subpoenas of top white house officials. >> the purpose of today's meeting, business meeting, is to authorize the issue of two subpoenas to the white house and to the office of the vice president. >> a subpoena to the white house is a serious step in a congressional investigation. and it is a step that should only be taken after alternative avenues have been exhausted. >> a spokesperson says the white house is cooperating with house investigators and has provided more than 80,000 pages of documents. >>> right now closing arguments are underway in the manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctor. they follow 22 days of testimony from several of dr. murray's girlfriends and patients. jackson employeesçç, emergency room doctors and medical experts. dr. murray is accusused of giving jackson a deadly dose of propofol. the defense argues the pop star administered the fatal dose himself. the jury could get

single job republicans who have controlled the house since january so what do they have to show for it here to defend the republican job killing economy crashing agenda is george landreth president of frontiers of freedom george welcome both of us could be with you i'm guessing you wouldn't characterize it that way but if you know what what kind of mandate do different public really have a mandate to attack abortion reaffirm the national motto go after n.p.r. and planned parenthood of it i don't recall any of those issues being raised in election two thousand. i wouldn't disagree with that but i don't think that's a characterization that's accurate of what they've done in the last year they actually have fifteen bills actually more than have been at least fifteen that are job bills they're sitting the senate waiting for a vote some of them are actually things that obama expressed some support for one of them. one of them but and it is then it's not acting you can have the democratically controlled but you know the vast majority of them the rest of them have to are you know are variatio

thank you very much. >> heather: the white house firing back saying no to a subpoena in the slipped vertebra scandal, claiming the republicans partisan politics. the committee chairman is saying that the white house could have avoided the situation. peter doocy reports from washington. >> the white house says that the subpoena issued by house republicans this week is a significant intrusion on executive branch interests. in a letter to republicans, white house counsel says the committee should be thrilled because the administration has already turned over 85,000 pages of solyndra-related stuff, writing also, quote, earlier we made a good faith offer to work with the committee to accommodate its concerns. you rejected our offer without explaining how it fell short. i can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena authorized by a party line vote was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation. that letter also called the subpoena a vast fishing expedition and they credit john dingell with thinking of. oversight and investigations chairman disagrees. he thinks every