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Of leadership he should on all these issues. >> i think there are things the president should have done differently. we talked about them endlessly around the table. on defense the other side is particularly divided. we just had a whole discussion about cpac and whats a true conservative and all the rest of the stuff. you have to have compromise. >> i can separate the talk radio types from john boehner. >> im not sure. >> i can separate. lets look again at the big picture. lets look at this from...

Children receiving vaccines for diseases like whooping cough and the flu. >> holy -- were doomed! students without financial aid will have to get jobs feeding 6 children to old people! why did i only buy the hat? >> welcome back to "morning joe." top of the hour, mike barnicle and steve rattner are with us with katty kay from washington and joining us former press secretary robert gibbs and joining us msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. we will begin this hour with a looming sequester. pre...

Something, they agreed. they voted to do this. so they would -- so they would then be forced to come up with a more reasonable way of moving forward and they didnt do that. i guess its going to happen. the assumption is it happens and then everyone scrambles to fix it. the argument is over how you fix the sequester, how you fix the bad thing youve done rather than how you avoid it. that seems to be where we are today. >> mike, look how theyre going about this. again, they havent talk. come on, t...

Mika, who do we have? >> republicans representative from georgia, jack kingston. >> hes a guy a lot of people have talked about running for senate for the chambliss seat. are you going to jump in there, jack? >> were taking a good look at it. i will let you guys know. >> i love an answer like that. an honest answer. >> i will seek advice of counsel. >> either be for you or against you. jack, whats happening with the sequester? you have both sides talking about republicans putting out press relea...

Live look at the lincoln memorial at 48 past the hour. lets do the must read opinion pages and rattners charts. david brooks writes in the "new york times," our second ad less sense. my dream obama would abandon the big government versus small government argument. hed point out that in a mature aging society, government isnt going anywhere. the issue is not size but sclerosis. the crucial point is not whether a dollar is spent publicly or privately, its whether its spent on the present or the fu...

>> gene, im at least not going play the blame game here. i personally think the president -- any president yields compare influence and can shape events far more than anybody in congress. lets not play the blame game. lets look at both sides and say these guys havent gotten together and talked in the new year. were about to have spending cuts that will go after true productions, military, and a true meat axe approach and as steve rattner said in the last hour not touching entitlements and instea...

Clinton, he comes from very insulated political world. >> one counter to the not talking to republicans from the context ive spoken to. you can roll your eyes at this, he is. >> let me take off my glasses so people can see me roll my eyes more effectively, go ahead. >> he is talking to them and in order to help some save face because boehner is having such a problem interacting with his own caucus, that has been kept quiet. im sure you wont believe that. you really think hes not talking to any. ...

Band aid plan. theyre not united on this. half the party would like to see sequester, you needunited aroun to give the president 100% flexibility in his administration nor see the white house who has $900 billion in spending cuts on the table as part of a grand bargain, you dont see the white house well take one year of those spending cuts as a sequester as a band-aid for now. neither side appears to be looking at a leadership moment and saying stop the madness. >> is it true both sides have not...

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Trial. all right. the president has been using his outside game to sell his position on sequester. talking to local tv affiliates and radio shows, surrounding himself with first responders. meanwhile republicans have been playing an inside game, trying to build support for their position against the cuts and begging the media to say its obama that started the sequester, not them. no one is really putting energy to making a deal. >> to know that some of those people are uncertain about where thei...