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Moving the goalposts. joining me is the republican senator lyndsay graham. thank you for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> you did an interview with politico in which you said and i quote, the president is a pathetic leader. he is only engaged in the last couple days. you are not one to minutes words. >> it is not, but i dislike the president as he has shown tlez leadership when america needs it most. we have 46 senators and you need 60 to do big things. president obama is still president. ...

Agreement to turn it off. >> senator, im going to open this back up to our panel. katrina, i think its an important question sam skrks the question of sequestration, which has been sidelined and in the process the goalposts have decidedly been moved to the right. this is a strategic question for democrats. >> absolutely. >> how much will they push and how much ground to republicans they dont know despite all that polling whether they want to open the government back up. >> i think youre right th...

Hostage. the white house feels correctly they need to stop the cycle now before it gets embedded in the fabric of the regular way of doing business. eventually the sides wont agree on the ransom and the united states will default. >> they wont give up until they win something. >> even pretend to win something is problematic by that logic. >> before we go, the budget were working off of, the senate budget is lower than paul ryans original budget. to say the republicans havent gotten anything, the...

God bless her. ill keep her in my prayers. >> theres legal problems on the horizon. you have the civil suit and department of justice. any thoughts on the attorney general, what youd like to say to him? >> if i had the opportunity to say to mr. holder, id say, mr. holder, at some point we have to stop moving the goalposts. then they asked that the verdict be respected. were back where we were in february of 2012 and insisting george has to pay for defending his life. im very disappointed that he...

With the s&p at an all time high and lawmakers away on vacation, youd think americas fiscal house was in in order. members of congress may be drinking pinna ka coladas but i back to work soon. before they left both houses managed to pass budgets but dont misstake that for progress. the gap is so wide a deal may not be possible. the house republicans budget aka the dreaded paul ryan plan consists entirely of spending cuts. with the fiscal goalposts so far away from one another and unemployment st...

Legislation hed like to see through. the republican party has been in disarray yet they are flashing the v sign for victory. what do you make of that? how do we interpreter this? >> its a particular time to flash the v sign when the republican party is an historic low. if thats a strategy, its an odd strategy. lets just keep on doing what were doing and see if we can go even lower. the american people want action. they want to see problems addressed, particular loin the economy but also other is...

With the s&p at an all-time high and lawmakers away on vacation, youd think americas fiscal house was in order. members of congress may be drinking pina coladas, but its back to work soon. before they left both houses managed to pass budgets but dont mistake that for progress. the gap is so wide a deal may not be possible. the house republicans budget aka the dreaded paul ryan plan consists entirely of spending cuts. with the fiscal goalposts so far away from one another and unemployment stuck a...

With the s&p at an all-time high and lawmakers away on vacation, youd think americas fiscal house was in order. members of congress may be drinking pina coladas, but its back to work soon. before they left both houses managed to pass budgets but dont mistake that for progress. the gap is so wide a deal may not be possible. the house republicans budget aka the dreaded paul ryan plan consists entirely of spending cuts. with the fiscal goalposts so far away from one another and unemployment stuck a...

About, are actually really in step with the presidents approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, lets talk about the progressive community because on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as this is all washington talks about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could argue that, in terms of th...

Presidents approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, lets talk about the progressive community. because, on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as, this is all washington talks abou about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could argue that, in terms of the goalposts, were arguing in and aro...