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On the forced spending cuts. dan lothian is at the white house with more. dan, progress, finally. fingers crossed. what do we do? >> reporter: i think a lot of people are hoping that. what youre seeing is an aggressive effort by the president to reach out to senate republicans as you pointed out, cnn confirming that in fact the president has invited a group of gop senators out for dinner. its unclear whether or not it will take place at the white house or elsewhere tonight or who is on that list...

>> these are very harsh cuts that were not ever designed to go into effect. >> careful what you sign into law. >> well, you know, thats -- i hope that doesnt turn out to be the case because the idea of this enforcement mechanism, these very deep cuts, both on domestic spending, and on defense spending, was that they were to -- designed to be so onerous that they would force both sides to go back to the table and finish the grand bargain. >> it is what candy crowley actually inserted that i wante...

Im a -- i am not a registered republican im a registered conservative. >> youre for the republican party. >> sean: sir? sir? >> 100% of the time. >> sean: keep going. >> good. let me say this. what the president said is true. the president, people watching this show should ignore all of the comment teary you put in and all of the hyped music you put on and should pay attention to what the president actually said. what the president said was true. the president, you, by the way are inaccurate whe...

Defense department was bloated adding quote the pentagon needs to be paired down. i dont think our military has looked at themselves strategically, critically in a long, long time. >> theres no reason why a secretary of defense should go into office thinking cant change anything cant cut anything. >> he has gone from being a war model fight it would go wars to a one-and a half war strategy under president obama given cuts over recent years. >> what everybody forgets is if we suddenly have a cris...

An urgent meeting at the white house. then the president calling a last-minus conference as they posture each hour we get closer to true damage to our paychecks and retirement funds. deep cuts to our military and more. the story developing this hour. lawmakers may not be able to stop one of the largest tax hikes in u.s. history. >> im optimistic we may still be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time. >> well be working hard to try to see if we can get there in the next 24 h...

There are two kinds of approaches to this. the one approach says weve got this deficit problem, and we want to address it. the other is the norquist approach, which is really more about reducing government to its irreducible core. and that is an indiscriminate sort of slashing. thats the wrong path for the country. and thats the path we cant take. >> things have changed so much since i was there. you talk about discretionary versus mandatory. when i was there back in the 90s, you could actually ...

Big college town. i bet the entire town is on world of war craft. the only people that are not going to vote for her are the ones invested in which ever level delaware is in. >> she is not in delaware. >> are you confused by this? >> i have never been to maine. how do they fight there with pep ridge farms? particular the milano and drive it into your head. >> we have offended two perceived states. by the way, i love maine and i love delaware. >> you also love callers at kimbo. >> i honestly look...

In an interview with national review online a romney aide argued there was no change in romneys position on health care. quote, governor romney will ensure that discrimination with individuals with pre-existing conditions who maintain continuous coverage is prohibited. its different than existing law which would require insurance companies to provide new coverage for people without it. now romney again tried to blame the president alone for a bipartisan debt deal that includes potential deep cut...

Right support for ryan. there was a story in the daily beast that hes been getting briefings and so forth and they are concerned about this as a sensitive spot. whether he can overcome that remains to be seen. i think this remains as mark said a real strength for the president and i think also unfortunately for the president, not one thats going to be a determination of the election. >> maybe paul ryan should wear a white beard and carry around a passport with a lot of stamps in it. coming up, c...

but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they dont keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they dont. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. hes kept 37% of those promises. hes working on 23% of them. hes broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he has...