"outfront" tonight, former white house deputy press secretary, bill burton. great to see both of you. bill, there were some pretty harsh words here, tough words. obviously, david ignatius saying, here's how the president could turn it around, but pretty frustrated with his leadership on fiscal issues. and of course, we just had a deal that ended up boosting spending and slashing revenue, which is not sort of the whole goal, right? so what do you think about david ignatius' point? the president needs to be bigger and come up with a plan? >> well, it's hard for me to see how somebody on the left, anybody who supports the president, could be disappointed with the deal that the president just got. think of what just happened. he got republicans to vote for a tax increase for the first time since 1990. he saved unemployment insurance, extended it, without having pay-fors in it. extended the earned income tax credit, extended the wind energy tax credit. and even got the rates back to where he wanted to get the rates. now, we're in a divided government. you're not g

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>> hey there, congresswoman, it's bill burton. i was asking do you think there's any hope for republicans who you can work with in the house in order to get anything done? what do you think there are republicans, what do you think that any republicans might support at all? >> i actually do think, because of the new super pack that gabby giffords and her husband and of course they are gun owners, they've been nra members, we have a new political reality out there, and i think that there is a mobilization of americans like we've never seen before and that's going to include the sportsman and it's going to include the gun owners that are saying we can do better to protect our communities and to protect the second amendment. so i think politically, we're going to see some of those members and areas that have been with the nra saying, taking another look and saying, am i going to be hearing from people in my community, from my voters that are saying, no, we have to make some sensible changes now. i think that can happen. >> congresswom

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bill burton, governor ed rendell and buzz feed's ben smith. see you back here monday at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific when i am joined by former chief economic advisor to vice president biden, jared bernstein, deputy new york city mayor howard wolfson, former bush advisor mark mckinnon, curt anderson, the new yorker's hendrick kurtzburg, and the hill's amy parns. that is must see tv. not that this wasn't. until then, find us at facebook.com/now with alex. andrea mitchell reports is coming up next. happy friday, andrea. >> happy friday to you. good afternoon. coming up now ending america's longest war and the battle over guns here at home. we're just moments away from a joint press conference between president obama and afghanistan's president karzai. joining us former homeland security secretary tom ridge, general brent scowcroft, former national security advisor to ford and george h.w. bush. andrea mitchell reports next only here on msnbc.

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joining us now is bill burton. he's former white house deputy secretary for the obama administration. he's co-founder of priorities usa political action committee and he's a good sport who rushed over here when we suddenly changed the time at which he needed to arrive. thank you for hustling over here. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> is this a punch the hippie moment? is the white house concerned by the critique of drones from the left or do they share any of the aspects of that critique? >> well, even if you just take this back a step from talking about whether we're just talking about the left who has a critique or the american people who have a right to know certain things about what the government is doing, i think it's worth noting that the cia is accountable and they are accountable to congress and anytime congress wants to have a conversation with the head of the cia they bring him down and have a conversation with him. sometimes those conversations are open. sometimes those conversations

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joining me now, bill burton, former white house press secretary and co-founder of priorities u.s. and michael grisham. happy new year to both of you. >> happy new year. >> likewise. >> let's hope it's a happy new year. but michael, is this any way to run a railroad? >> absolutely not. we've adopted a european model here, going from crisis to crisis, doing the minimal to solve problems, kicking the can down the road rather than confronting the real issues here, those things were completely avoided in this round of this debate, which resumes in two months, and then will continue beyond that and create economic uncertainty. that isn't the right way to run this system. >> while the white house is celebrating somewhat in the house republicans were put back on their heels and had to cave in and 171 democrats carried the day last night in house that's led by republicans nominally, but the next fight is really going to be all to their advantage. the president can't let the debt ceiling expire. he can't face another downgrading, a further downgrading of the debt of the united states. >> ju

. >>> former white house deputy press secretary bill burton and co-fonder of priorities usa, a pro-obama super pac, joins me along with tim carney. bill, the vice president came out yesterday and said, we're going to use executive order if we need to. that really riled a lot of people up. executive order, you guys aren't going to get it done, we're going to do it. we just heard john avalon say, look, those ideas are plaur, a lot of republicans agree with them, you can't do it by executive order. >> i think he's just talking about the possibility that there are some things that maybe you can do through executive order and it's part of the, you know, big menu of options that are out there. but the truth is, if there's going to be real reform, if there's going to be real restrictions, you have to do it through congress. otherwise, you know, what you do could end up getting gummed up in the courts, and it could have no effect at all. >> that's got to be frustrating, though, that every time they try, there's always loopholes put in. i guess loopholes aren't everything from the tax code on, bu

bill burton works in the obama white house, also as a senior strategist for usa action. margaret hoover in the bush white house. ron brownstein of the national journal. it is said in wash that some things said in washington are true and others not so true, that second terms are tougher. yes, no, why? >> you heard congressman king say something right now that's pretty important and a lot of republicans are thinking. president obama won an election, but they all won an election too. you don't see a lot of chastene this election. it's going to be hard to get things done. but the president got a lot of big things done in his first term, so i'll expect it again. >> when he got a lot of big things done, it was immediately, as soon as he got into office. i think he's in a sweet spot. before outside events begin to shape the context and text you're of a second term. the time is really now, but it's shorter, and i think you have less ability in the second term. >> substantively, i think you have to say this is a president whose first term handed him a tougher set of problems. whe

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bill burton a former deputy white house secretary and a close adviser to the president, very in close with the obama inner circle say as much in an interest view. he said we want chuck hagel there to allow us to bring through what he called huge cuts to the military. so you've got somebody close to the president who is saying that chuck hagel will make it easier for the obama administration to bring in this new era of military cuts. martha: the president's critics say that he has been really unconcerned and really has not spoken out much about the military cuts that would be part of the sequester. is that true? >> this is one of the things that i find most interesting about the past 18 months in washington. you've had uniformed military leaders and the secretary of defense and others screaming at the top of their lungs that the kinds of cuts that we would see in the sequester would be, quote, catastrophic to site one of them. you've had a president who seems almost indifferent rent to that advice that he's getting from his top advisers. so it would seem to me that the president was ea

what burton was saying -- bob, i called you bill. what bill was saying was exactly right, that you have to just have somebody that you can trust, you can go to bed -- president go to bed at 11:00 knowing the chief of staff will still be there at 2:30 the next morning. >> here's the other side of the argument. if you buy what rich is saying, you have to disagree with what we've heard from charlie rangel and the fact that passed over at least from what we're hearing for chief of staff were two deputies, nancy-ann deparle and alyssa mass trow mondayco. ? a problem for the administration? >> well all due respect i think it is a phony issue. when they are done picking the white house staff and cabinet, this will be the most diverse group of people that will reflect the country just as they did in the first term. just as the democratic caucus in the congress does. when it's done, you'll see lots of women and min orts. it will reflect america and i just think it's a totally cheap shot at the obama world to criticize them for this. >> steve.

george moscone, philip burton, represented that which we all now richly enjoy. george went on to become a state senator. and in that capacity, scott, it was george moscone who shepherded the bill that removed criminal penalties between consenting adults in this state that cost people their positions as teachers, as doctors, as nurses, as lawyers in those days. it was a bill that we orchestrated together. and george did what has never been done since, and that is cause the senate to hookup in a 20 to 20 tie in the late dimely was flown in from colorado to break the tie to give us that bill. that set the stage, scott, for all the things that have occurred in this state, and ultimately in this nation on the issue. i must tell you that george moscone was extraordinary. (applause) >> and then george decided he wanted to be the mayor of his city. and believe me, it was a ball having george as mayor of this city. mr. mayor, i never had so much fun. [laughter] >> as i did with george, enjoying every aspect, having been a son of the city, having been raised by a single m