Party. MICHAEL DUFFY: In the House, yes. TONY JONES: And there they are in the House. They haven't gone away. MICHAEL DUFFY: No. They lost some in the Senate, but I think their standing in the House has increased and they've become stronger in that body. and in fact we talked to some Republicans before all the polls closed and they said, "We're going to hold our majority. We're going to increase the number of Republicans who are anti-tax, who want to cut the budget." As they get more concentrated and more distilled in the House, they're going to get more conservative and they're going to be less - even less inclined to help Obama, and I think, particularly in the immediate aftermath of this, what to them is a shocking victory by someone they thought they had on the ropes. TONY JONES: Let's talk a little bit about this fiscal cliff you're talking about. This is the most urgent problem the president is facing. It's $110 billion worth of federal spending cuts combined with the ending of a whole series of tax cuts which George W. Bush brought in many years ago. They've actually come to their climax. They're not going to be renewed. And that means a lot of money taken out of the US economy. There is a fear that these cuts combined could actually plunge America back into recession. Ideological minefield here. What's the president going to do? MICHAEL DUFFY: Again, anyone's guess. These cuts and