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Theyre pushing forward their own position and thats why theres really no compromise happening on this issue barring some, you know, amazing dramatic event that none of us can foresee at this moment by 11:59 tomorrow that we all turn in to pumpkins or whatever happens when the sequester hits, it is coming. >> im a fan of amazing dramatic events so i hope one is coming but im not sure if its coming. this is the fifth manufactured budget cut since the gop take over the house. the gops image right n...

The president is, quote, ever hopeful. but as you have the private conversations with aides here at the white house, they make it very clear theyre continuing to focus on the same priority which is to try to convince the american public that compromise, a balanced approach, is the way to go on this. hoping that the public ultimately will influence congress. congressional republicans to back down from their positions right now. you know, we do as we head in to tomorrow have been focusing on this ...

>> the big ax. >> one of those college football rivalry games. minnesota and wisconsin. >> a hashtag and all set. >> rachel, i want to bring up sort of a funny point. theres a list of things that cost the same as the sequester. one of them is the aig bail youth. the sequester about $10 billion less than what we spent on beer in 2011. 17% of what we spent on gas in 2012. and yes, someone found out and did this calculation, it is 1/100,000th cost of the death star. im wondering, have we in the med...

Equality, tax fairness, saying that its the box, its the messaging, not the policies, strikes me as just sort of horribly dumb. can you not read? >> will he be okay in 2016? >> i think so. i think its too many for republicans to let christie off the hook. >> yes. >> theyre not doing that. >> cpac, i will point out, is not the whole of the party. >> bingo. >> there it is. >> so turning back to bob woodward and those that did not follow the story on twitter last night saying that the president is ...

You are in "the cycle" and its the final countdown. t-minus one day until the sequester kicks in. this hour the senates voting on two final replacement bills but neither are expected to go far. no surprise. that means tomorrow the president has until midnight to sign the sequester order and 11 months ago he suggested and the republicans agreed to and with that, the first cuts bear down on americans. can you feel the an mos if i growing over the dysfunction in washington? >> yes! >> speaking of d...

Memory. was he really threatened over the story on the sequester? lets spin. save you spence, no he was not. well get back to that later. lets start with chris christie and questions about whats going to happen with him for 2016. has he angered the conservative base so much that he couldnt survive a primary? i think at this point associated with the national republican party is not a great thing and him not appearing at cpac probably not a big deal. heres the other thing. plenty of time. re-elec...

Only. its worse from their standpoint than the sequester itself and from the republicans standpoint to get to the point to compromise where revenue or something is on the table they have to stand up to the president and stare him down on the sequester so dont they need to buy some more time and going through here? >> thats right. you can debate whether theyre acting rationally. some americans might disagree with that but certainly this is the self interest. that part is very clear. i mean, presi...

Them happy to cut washington spending and compromise is difficult moving forward. i asked john boehner today whether hes open to grand bargain talks with the president of the united states and said as of right now he likes to do things through regular order so well see. >> all right. peter alexander and luke russert, thank you for that. we want to bring in deputy managing editor at politico, rachel smokan. the idea is this is madness, chaos, potentially catastrophic. i guess i sort of have a dif...

Comparable plan of republicans. >> just as -- thats not true. >> well no. but -- >> passed in the house. >> okay. but pete -- hold on, pete. i dont mean to interrupt. it passed in the last congress and by all reasonable estimate there iss no way the republicans have the votes to pass what they passed in the last congress in the new congress. they have not put a new plan forward. >> but they have passed two plans. the issue is with the rhetoric of this administration. is that they talk about the ...

State of the union address. advocated for raising the minimum wage, infrastructure, all things i think to help the middle class and working class. what sort of middle class proposals are you looking for from this president? >> well, i do think the problem with the sequester to bring it -- not just back to that, it cuts a lot of discretionary pieces of the fwhaugt are in good investments, provide equal opportunity and so cutting those and being unwilling, completely unwilling to reform entitlemen...