passenger tries to open an emergency commit door mid flight. the 23-year-old man made unusual statements, witnesses say. they are not being specific about that, but unusual statements before he tried to open the plane s door. the alaska airlines flight was headed from anchorage to portland and ten minutes away from landing . passengers and crew members say they used shoelaces and seat belts to restrain the man. 137 people were on board at the time. thankfully no one was hurt. jon: remember the president s charm offensive, where he left the white house to wine and dine republicans at dinner back in march? well, two months and a few scandals later, and some republicans are feeling a bit jilted. apparently concerned the president is not following through on his plans to negotiate a deficit reduction package or reforms for social security, healthcare programs, and the tax code. joining us now bob cusack, managing editor of the hill. i know, bob you are not the president s schedule keeper,
education, to particularly early childhood education and infrastructure and research. we are not as thrilled with the approach to social security and medicare. particularly with social security on social security has nothing to do with the deficit. it doesn t add to the deficit, and we don t really think it should be a part of any kind of deficit reduction package. but, in general, the budget is a very balanced approach, it does provide for new revenues, as well as for spending cuts, and from that perspective, i think thematically anyway it s what most of us would like to see. the words unpopular, unwise, and unworkable have been used. your fellow democrats on the congressional democratic caucus have used that. what do you think? well, you know, i think there s a difference of opinion as to what these the adoption of chain cpi would actually do.
more than 35 years took place at the lincoln memorial. 6,000 gathered for a interdenominational sunrise service and at the vatican pope francis delivered a plea for world peace. it was his first easter mass since becoming pontiff. now back to the best of up with chris hayes. you re watching the best of up. last week we sat dawn with paul krugman about the continued economic recovery and here s what happened. this week ahead of the president s state of the union address on tuesday the white house began laying the groundwork for yet another deal to temporarily stave off the looming sequester, a series of automatic spending cuts to discretionary programs in the pentagon scheduled to take effect in march unless congress can agree on a broader deficit reduction package. president obama said if congress fails to agree on such a package as seems likely he wants to delay the cuts to give lawmakers even more time to hammer out a
house. yes, we put forward the design how to too this. which was the sequester. david. which was the success sergio, the right answer is we all did afree to this. does anyone here at the white house regret the the fact that people inside the white house came up with this good in the first place? well, senator graham and ruddman came up with the idea. the fact at it called that is because nat what s called in the 1980s under the deficit reduction package that president reagan signed. this is all pretty irrelevant. neil: it was not irsvelte when they were going on and on about and it all the hell to pay. i m not here to parcel through everything discussed last week by anybody, but last week at this time, ill know we were preparing for the end of the world. it might still materialize, but so far no evidence of it. that s right. and i think it is not unfair, and i think it s perfectly within bounds, to rub it in
each other. it was divided on january and now it s time to talk about spending. keep in mind, $85 billion is about about 0.5% of the entire budget. robert, real quick let me ask one question. this may take longer, i apologize. i think you were in congress in 1995 when they came together for a deficit reduction package, even though they had just been a through a pretty nasty national election. what do both sides have to do to get to that point in 2013? one thing that newt and president clinton had is they were focused on a deadline and they realized these things had to be done. they couldn t get away with postponing them forever and ever. back then the senate passed budget and the senate hasn t passed a budget since the ipad was invented. four years now. so, i think that we had a