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Spending cuts, a combination similar to the balanced approach the president backs. if the sequester does go into effect, this poll shows republicans stand to pay a steeper price. 49% would blame congressional republicans. just 31% would blame the president. 49% said the cuts should be delayed. and most worrying if youre the white house, most americans arent paying attention to the coming deadline. only about a quarter surveyed say they have heard a lot about it. some fatigue, is it setting in on...

Its virginias bob macdonald. macdonald doesnt have to run for relocation. he doesnt have a governors race in his future. the next one he faces may be with republican primary voters in the state of iowa in 2016. when it comes to health changes under the healthcare law, 25 of the 50 states have -- looks like the red-blue map. 17 states in the district have said they are planning on running their own exchanges. were going to go more into this throughout the months ahead. up next, a sequester strate...

We plugged everything back in. we asked, since president nixons historic visit to china, how many sitting presidents have not visited the country? the answer was just one, jimmy carter. the chinese vice premier visited the u.s. during carters presidency. carter is the only president since nixon not to visit china during their own term. congratulations to todays winner, paul axel. well, let me bring back the panel here. patty solis doyle, michelle bernard. sorry about that. the good news is, it w...

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Powerpoint that speaker boehners office had put out at the time. they did that yesterday. he created it when he was trying to sell the deal to his more conservative members. so republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a montana democratic senator, max caucus whos up for re-election in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester. >> the white house recommended it frankly, back in august 2011, so now were feeling the effects of it. >> of all the dumb things washingt...

To things like proposal to -- >> nobody who is going to buy a corporate jet is going to not buy it because of a small tax break. >> but you understand these middle class workers say it is because of the threat of this proposal to take away. >> im sure that some of these companies who want to keep these tax breaks for their customers, i get that, but thats not the reason that theres going to be an impact in terms of their sales. >> you could tell which states actually have some of these companies...

Because they say it worked the last time, right? >> right. that is the strategy, to put public pressure on congress to get something done, but at this point in time, it doesnt seem like its working. right, not scheduling meetings, havent had any read-outs of any meetings, trying to get a sense of if thats going to come. doesnt seem like the presidents going to be picking up the phone at this point in time. it does seem as if its deadlocked. the question is how does it move forward? if you talk t...

What time is it? >> its time for the "morning joe," but now its time for "the daily rundown" with chuck todd. >> stop thinking about it. >> dont get me hungry with a lot of burger references. i know what you are, but what am i? that could be the sad synopsis over the debate of the sequester. numbers show the president has the upper hand but speaker boehner and other republicans are pointing the finger back to him. reports on how much the chinese military is involved in disrupting cyberspace. and...