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Alex? >> michelle, thank you so much for that. now to washington. in his weekly address today, president obama doubled down on his opposition to cutting entitlements as the deadline for sequestration draws here. >> i disagree with republicans who think we should do that by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training. or medicare and social security benefits. that would force our senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction while the wealthi...

Many of his members vote against him but get enough democrats in the house and then in the senate to put something through. but i think theyre going to muddle through with some mediocre little measure that puts all this off again. >> if no deal is reached to avert the sequester, who has more to gain in that regard politically? who has more to lose? >> i think that both sides now assume that the sequester goes into effect march 1st. when they passed it last year, it was seemed as impossible -- a ...

Has been making a more emotional appeal to get stiffer gun legislation passed. that is an uphill battle hes going to have once he leaves his vacation here in florida. another fight hes going to face with congress, of course, over the sequester, those deep spending cuts that are set to go in effect in just two weeks now. >> thank you very much, kristen. joining me now, washington bureau chief for "usa today," susan page and jim warren, washington bureau chief for "the new york daily news." lets...

Think its probably going to happen, were going to go to the sequester? that means that you and likeminded democrats of which you seem to be much more coalesced around one concept and your partys platform on this as opposed to to the splintered-up gop. are you willing to go into sequester to stay to your partys ideals? >> we dont have much of a choice. i think the gop in the house is not willing to share any sacrifice or make a balanced deal. so we dont have a whole lot of choice. i think were su...

The last piece of the august 2011 debt ceiling agreement whereby the president, senate democrats and house republicans said, okay, lets raise the debt ceiling but for every dollar we raise that debt ceiling, well lower spending by a dollar. so i am in favor of keeping that agreement. >> but keeping that agreement, if the sequester goes into effect, according to the cbo, it says it will cut u.s. growth in half. it will cost at least 1 million jobs and jobs by extension, consumers, which drive the...

The sequester to go into effect, at least temporarily. its a way of managing their own members. they have a deep, internal divide between the tea party republicans and the more mainstream republicans. and i think they feel they need to do this, much as they felt they had to go over the fiscal cliff, at least for a day or so, to say that they werent raising taxes. so i think were seeing the same thing played out here. but frankly its going to be a disaster for the country. if the sequester stays ...

>> joining me from charlotte, north carolina, is south carolina republican congressman mick mullvaney. we appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> lets get to where you stand on things. youve said you are for the sequester and for letting these automatic spending cuts kick in. there are a lot of economists who say that could be disastrous to the recovery. do you see any downsides to these across-the-board cuts? >> and technically i support the sequester instead of doing no sequester. im...

Making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training or medicare and social security benefits. that would force our senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction while the wealthiest are asked to do nothing more. that wont work. we cant just cut our way to prosperity. >> republicans arent holding back in their gop address today. criticizing the president over the upcoming threat of sequestration. >> what the president failed to mention was that the seq...