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>> i know it feels like ground hog day when ever we talk about this government shutdown. the sequester, were going to have a debt ceiling. its just because we never fixed this problem and we have to go back and try to fix it again now. i dont know when this starts getting better. just feels like its getting worse. a much needed best new thing in the world is coming up. stay with us. we have got to get the three-technique block! im not angry. im not yellin. nobodys tackling anybody! we got absolu...

Spending. we do need to get our financial house in order. we have to get the deficits under control, so the idea that youre going to get the republican controlled house in any way to do anything substantive on sequester is really wishful thinking. >> so, the republicans are threatening to shut down the government again, threatening to bump up against the debt ceiling, which is scary in the long-term because of how expensive it is for us to borrow. the democrats have tried to open up the menu of ...

Debt ceilings and continuing resolutions. so youve got -- im not calling it fiscal cliff anymore. thats too academic. im calling it a recipe for budget bedlam. or give you a new one, fiscal fiasco. >> i think the public is there. it seems in the reporting ive done, you quietly hear theres bipartisan agreement to get rid of at least some of the sequester, so it does seem as if theres room for compromise somewhere. the republican leadership knows debt ceiling is a political loser. they also know t...

Their own flights. from the center for american process, danielle, liz of the ap and republican ad maker, brad todd. am i being overly cynical? brad, you like to beat me up. am i being overly cynical about watching the senate act in its own self-interest on sequester? >> predicted there would be 6,000 cancellations a day and there were 900 on tuesday. this terrible faa problem is one sixth they predicteded. >> twice in the last two day, my flights were not delayed. >> theres an inherent dishones...

Where we saw a tremendous amount of job cuts were retail. that is a sector of the economy that is most acutely dealing with the impending obamacare and down the horizon the potential rise in the minimum wage. so you cant blame it on sequester. this is direct result of government intervention. its so sad because it doesnt need to be that way. we could be growing at a much quicker pace if government would get out of way. >> gregg: during the reagan recovery it was 5.2% economic growth. were out of...

Big leader on the big issues? or does he want to keep beating the heck out of us politically -- he is doing a great job with that? >> chris, last word? >> you know, i love matt. i love how hew he -- >> thank you very much. >> he puts all the uinous on the president. but lets be frank here. the reality, the republicans have to meet him halfway. they have not. they wont do it on the budget or gun control. they wont do it on sequester. they wont do it on immigration. the presidents not a dictator. ...

Unsubstantiated, theyre saying hes lying again. harry reid has made a habit of being dishonest on the floor of the senate and what he is trying to do is just cover the presidents butt on sequester. the president himself started to cover his own butt by playing such silly games as shutting the white house tours down. this is just another version of that. remember, donald trump offered to pay for all those white house tours. >> sean: whoa, whoa, whoa. >> and the president didnt take him up on it. ...

His people monitor these polls each day and they do their own polls, they mirror what you see in public and they see that the charm offensive was a necessary counterweight to the presidents brinksmanship on sequester. >> planes would fall out of the sky, old people will die and children would starve and the president shut down the white house to tours. listen to his own wife, michelle obama. >> this is well what the white house is all about, and i say this all the time, it is the peoples house. ...

The department of homeland security released two thousand illegal immigrants and blamed it on all budget restraints. now live from our los angeles bureau. dominic, as i understand it, there is the possibility that thousands more could be released? >> absolutely. 2,000 have been release the and a possible 3,000 more to be set free according to the socialed press. the plan was uncovered in internal government documents but homeland security is quick do say it is not locked in. in a statement to th...

>> theyre in worst shape than on election day. because theres an after effect where now theyre out of power and now the house republican look divided and no one knows who the leader of the party is. i think youre going to see -- once you guys release the whole poelsz, theres going to be a lot of numbers that make clear the republican party has a brand problem with the general public and i think they have an issue internally within the party, which is theres lots of republicans who think the part...