Rahm Emanuel

100 Democrats vote against it because in the balanced budget agreement.

Other reasons they voted against the balanced budget.

They voted against that.

Ten years later, it's the second bill President Obama signs to get reauthorized and expanded.

Led the negotiations on that.

Second, something I practiced when I was mayor in negotiations.

So let's say before you kick off formal negotiations, I used to bring in all the presidents of each of the individual unions.

And there are 70-some-odd separate agreements we had.

And I said, I'm going to have five of my top priorities, or four, pick your number,

you bring your four i want you to lay out why they're on the list i will lay out mine we will meet a week later you will respond to my four and i'll respond to your four so before you get sit down and you get your helmet on your shoulder pads you wear your jersey

We're going to sit here and hear each other without, and I have to be respectful to the leader, they get elected.

So they have pressure points like I have pressure points.

I have to respond to the taxpayers.

They got to respond to their members.

Now, some people say, you know, this is, I said, okay, I would usually say in the first meeting, I get these all four.

Tell me which one's one.

etc now the second meeting was i can live with one but two and three ain't happening not happening yeah on the fourth here's what i'd like to change are you open to this and we would hear each other so when we got to the negotiations and the whole goal of that was can we create a context of a win-win sometimes

I'm going to win and you're going to lose.

But you don't start there.

It's better in a negotiation or striking a deal to work your way up rather than start at DEFCON 5 and see if you can strike your way down.