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But certainly graham and mccain are very big to passing immigration reform. >> what do we make that snoor rubio is not part of the group going to the white house? >> it is the interesting politics mix. rubio trying to sell immigration reform to conservative media outlets, people like rush limbaugh, folks on fox news and when youre trying to do that, you probably also cant be seen at the white house with president obama. so marco rubio had a delicate dance supporting reform. and he doesnt want to...

Final deal. thats exactly what we got. this is the presidents bad idea, and now were living with it. >> let me ask you on sequester, would you -- is it bad enough that you would like to see it postponed completely or would you rather have sequester than nothing? >> well, if the alternative is to continue spending on the path that were on, then thats not an option. heres what i would say. theres been a lot of talk about scaring people. if the president really wanted to scare people, instead of ta...

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...

State of the union address was the presidents idea in the first place. >> ive made it perfectly clear, though, the sequester, i dont like it, no one should like it, but the sequester is there because the president insisted that it be there. where is the presidents plan to replace the sequester that he insisted upon? jon: well the political theater playing out in the media. on nbc news on its website political hot potato g.o.p. trade blame with obama for looming sequester. u.s. news & world repor...

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The president as not being willing to pony up to the table when it comes to spending cuts. however, when we saw him earlier this week give remarks on that, he did talk about knowing that the common sense approach is the fact that we need more revenue and we need to cut. >> well, you know, with all due respect to the president, he doesnt have a vote on this, on sequester. this is the institution that is led by speaker boehner so we can talk about who is to blame or whos -- has the initiative or w...

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