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Cut. the full effects because of furloughs from the sequester are still to come. lt at any moment were expecting to hear more about the sequester from democratic and republican leaders who have been meeting behind closed doors this morning. lets bring in washington bureau chief lynn swede and ryan grim. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, chris. >> on one hand, the impact were seeing at airports would seem to give credence to presidents warnings. on the other, michael sheer wrote in th...

Joining me now are ryan grim and patricia murphy. let me thank you both for being here tonight. ryan, mitt romney is irrelevant, but having his ideas, 47% make herbs and takers, have been absolved by this party? >> in a lot of ways, thech. and this is because they dont have a unifying philosophy anymore that they can -- that they can get behind that they feel confident they can take with the american people and win a majority. so that allows, you know, cranks from all different sectors of the ...

>> im going to have to hold it there. ryan grim, patricia murphy, thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> thank you so much. >> ahead, republicans acted like bully who is wanted to fight. now theyve forgotten. president obamas new plan. no more mr. nice guy. and the blurb lines between fox news and the republican party just got even closer. stay with us.

One day he says its dead on arrival, the next day he says were making progress, had a good conversation with the president. >> this was a great move by the president strategically, there is no doubt about it. and he said he was open to conversation. he didnt say it was his plan and thats it. they said they were going to work together. as you said, they were both very diplomatic. and now it is on the republicans to show that they can work with this administration and they have more incentive beca...

And thats it. they said they were going to work together. as you said, they were both very diplomatic. and now it is on the republicans to show that they can work with this administration and they have more incentive because, frankly, its very much in their own agenda. the problem that the president potentially can have is within democrats in his own party who are up for reelection in 2014 on this and a couple of other issues. he may also have to call some democratic senators to get this done. >...

Barack obama? he is president of the united states. he wants to play with the best golfer in the world, arguably. the white house has said the golf game was played on a private course, and therefore the press pool was not invited. lets sort it out tonight. if were talking about transparency and access, im joined by joan walsh of salon.com, ryan grim of "the huffington post," and susan del percio. great to have all of you with us tonight. joan, if it is about transparency and it is about access, ...

With this administration leapfrogging them at times and using social media and other tools to get their message out, which is perfectly acceptable in this world. i think that the press probably hasnt caught up to it yet, the more traditional press. >> ryan, did tiger woods have anything to do with any of this? it would have been a heck of a story if somebody had gotten access and they would have had fun with it. it would have been ratings. >> if it was just obama and a staffer and two other folk...

Senator rubio? >> well, it seems like it helped. and it is also clear there had been staff communications all along that the president is not doing this in a vacuum, and that they know that they cant do it without democrats either. so its actually a rare sign that something might get done on this, and that they decided to dial back the insanity and not slap him and slap him back when he called. i think its a good thing from what we can tell. i think theyre probably still pretty far apart. >> it ...

Something deeper, which is the complaints the press has had with this administration leapfrogging them at times and using social media and other tools to get their message out, which is perfectly acceptable in this world. i think that the press probably hasnt caught up to it yet, the more traditional press. >> ryan, did tiger woods have anything to do with any of this? it would have been a heck of a story if somebody had gotten access, and they would have had fun with it. it would have been rati...

Senator rubio? >> well, it seems like it helped. and it is also clear there had been staff communications all along that the president is not doing this in a vacuum, and that they know that they cant do it without democrats either. so its actually a rare sign that something might get done on this, and that they decided to dial back the insanity and not slap him and slap him back when he called. i think its a good thing from what we can tell. i think theyre probably still pretty far apart. >> it ...