Norquist accused the White House of holding 'non-meetings.' | JAY WESTCOTT/POLITICO Norquist: Obama not negotiating

President Barack Obama has “not been negotiating” in fiscal cliff talks, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist charged on Monday.

“One of the challenges, of course, is people see this happening; they realize that the president has not been negotiating at all over the past three months,” Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, said on CNN’s “Starting Point.” “We learned days and weeks and months afterwards that they had non-meetings where this is going on.”


The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Norquist reiterated his call for more transparent fiscal cliff negotiations.

“I was a strong advocate of having C-Span cameras in the negotiating room so you wouldn’t have this situation where the president’s spokespeople say one thing happened in a meeting when the people in the meeting said the opposite happened,” he said. “The American people ought to have the right to see really what’s happening and what the president’s real position is.”