>> the state of the union address last night. it's not supposed to be a political a speech yet it seemed to give us a view of some of the strategies that president obama is going to use in the upcoming campaign. he's going to hit hard on what the middle class sees as unfair distribution of wealth and power in this country and also hit hard at congress. fair assessment?
>> well, i think they're both accurate. it's one thing to have a congress that is do-nothing. another thing is a congress that stops everything. we can't function that way. he made it clear he wants to see that changed. with regard to the middle class , this is what it's all about. we have been talking about this from the day we got elected. what's fair for the middle class and it's fair for the middle class to have a shot at a good job, fair for the middle class to keep their house payments up to be able to refinance, to be able to educate their kids. we must restore -- it's not about the other guy. it's about the middle class . what should we do to help them?
>> on the subject of taxes he wants millionaires and billionaires to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes. he says you can call it class warfare , americans think it's fair. he admitted he can't get it done this year. why should we believe if he's re-elected and republicans retain control of the house that he can get it done then?
>> because the american people are making it clear. look, i may be mistaken but i think you and i talked at the end of last calendar year about the payroll tax and how the republicans are never going to do it. they just weren't going to do it. guess what. the american public said enough is enough. we didn't change their mind. what happened is not only did the american public change their mind, the wall street journal , the people said, whoa, what are you doing? look, i still think there is a center of the republican party , particularly their leadership, that's going to begin to regain control of this -- the element of the republican party that doesn't want to do anything in the house. the american people aren't putting up with this. we want to bring jobs back and these guys aren't going to act? we'll all be surprised if the american public will move them.
>> during the speech the president said the americans feel nothing will be done in congress because of deep division and of course it's a political year. maybe not the year after that. but in 2008 didn't candidate barack obama run on the idea that he could fix washington and change the status quo. if he hasn't accomplished that, why should we give him another chance?
>> what we should do is get rid of folks in the congress who are preventing it from happening. the president came in and immediately passed the recovery act, the health care bill. immediately started putting people back to work. he immediately put us in a position where we created for 23 months in a row created jobs. there was an old song -- and along came jones . along came the tea party . along came 87 members of the house who said, we're not going to do anything. i was part of the negotiations. we shook hands a couple times and the leaders came back and said, joe, sorry, we can't get it done. it's about clearing away folks who are obstructionists. not the opposition. obstructionists.
>> let me turn to the upcoming campaign. on the republican side it seems to be boiling down to a battle between mitt romney and newt gingrich with apologies so rick santorum . i'm sure he would have something to say about that. they are now trading shots at each other. newt gingrich on mitt romney 's days as a venture capitalist and mitt romney seems to be attacking newt gingrich 's temperame temperament. you were in the senate when newt gingrich was in the house. he'll be joining us next. do you believe he has the temperament to be president of the united states ?
>> i think newt's a fine guy. i think his policies are a big mistake for the united states . i think they will take us back to the economic policies of the last administration, unleash wall street , all the stuff you're hearing. i like newt. i think newt's a good guy.
>> you don't think there is a temperament --
>> no. i don't have a dog in this fight.
>> you may soon have a dog in this fight.
>> there may be dogs in the fight but we'll know who all of the dogs are at that time. i'll let the republicans sort out who's going to run against us.
>> vice president joe biden . mr. biden, nice to see you. thank you very much.
>> good to see you, matt. thank you.
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