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Sequester, its really hard to see how anything is going to happen. eventually washington turns to immigration to gun control to midterm elections and then you really cant have it. >> we wait until the markets collapse? >> markets dont care. theyre up. defense stocks like we hear it will be cut so much and it will be the end. >> care about profits. dividends. balance sheet is great. >> the market doesnt care. >> no. the market is actually saying washington is a big distraction. we got the tax rul...

Sequester. in fact, he is taking the long view. because you have said that you believe that we need to close loopholes, because that is the presidents position, because of the long view on the economy, why is it over the weeks and weeks and weeks leading up to today, not just a meeting tomorrow but leading up to today, hasnt there been a move to a long view that involves dealing with loopholes and preventing the sequester from going into place? >> i hope, melody, that we will get to a place wher...

These people. >> is it possible that they didnt follow watergate? they dont know all of the presidents men? they dont know the history? is it possible they are ignorant of the greatness of this man that defined journalism? is it possible? >> a guy that keeps breaking stories. broke stories first in afghanistan. breaking stories as we move forward. listen, lets get to the bottom line here. they caught the white house in the lie. at the end of the day, they are kicking back. its stupid. ill say it...

Year and so this isnt the last step in the process of this debate. i think were going to have a number of opportunities over the course of the next several months to talk about spending and debt but we ought to talk about it in how can we reform and restructure entitlement programs. ten years from now entitlement spending and interest on the debt will represent 91% of all federal spending if we dont do something about it. >> senator, you mentioned earlier -- >> this is josh green with bloomberg....

Budget machine. theres a front page story in "the new york times" where both sides are starting to say maybe this wont be so bad after all. what is it the republican conferences position on the sequester today? >> well, two things, joe. one, we need to honor the commitment that we made and not shut it off. not do away with the sequester. secondly, we shouldnt allow it to be replaced with a tax increase. the president got his tax increase in january and so the republican position on this really i...

Different. >> lets officially name it now the square heft quester because thats what the white house is trying to do. the house republicans have passed two fix-it sequester bills but the u.s. senate, led by the democrats, abarren hi next week will suggest a new bill that will replace part of the sequester with a 30% minimum, minimum 30% tax on millionaires. yesterday -- which is extraordinary. yesterday rush limbaugh was -- he had had it up to here with the scare-quester, and he said this, and t...

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Congress of the united states takes a week off. theres no leadership at all back in washington. i dont care what side youre on, there seems to be none. its like listening to two people arguing who is going to be the next host to the fear factor. and this is a game thats being played and we out here in the public of the ones its played upon. i hope the public stands up and says fine, hit sequester. get there. because it seems you two cant work together at all. remember, it was the presidents idea...