HuffPost's Howard Fineman Discusses The President's Budget Speech On 'The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell' (VIDEO)

WATCH: Howard Fineman Discusses The President's Speech On MSNBC
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HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Wednesday night to discuss President Obama's budget speech.

"I think more generally you're seeing a more combative, populist president here who's clearly in presidential campaign mode," said Fineman

Fineman went on to explain that President Obama knows "that raising taxes is not popular. He's right, even when you're talking about the rich."

In terms of Paul Ryan's budget proposal, Fineman stated that the president "generally thinks that he can take on Paul Ryan if he makes Paul Ryan the enemy here, Paul Ryan and his plan, it's a winner all the way through 2012."

WATCH (via MSNBC):

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