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Trust in the presidents willingness to cut spending at all. he had 18 months to lead us and he hasnt. the fact of the matter is that we have tools to avoid the kind of thing we are talking about if congress will sit down and the perhaps ar republican repue willing to grant the democratic president the flexibility to make the cuts in the way he determines and he desires. >> there is movement behind the scenes on this. i think some of the democrats have gone to the white house and said now wait a ...

>> i think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. courts are not military commanders. the commander in chief has the right under law and authorization to use military force to designate the enemy. i think we do need drones to patrol our borders but i dont think you need a drone to attack an al-qaeda operative within the united states. i very believe we are at war and any american citizen mo aids al-qaeda should be treated as a criminal co...

Consulate. she was not clear eyed. she was blind and deaf and the president of the united states never picked up the phone to call anybody in libya to help these four people under attack. the first ambassador killed in 30 years. they withheld information. i think they manipulated the evidence after the attack to create a political narrative rather than sharing with the public the truth about an al-qaeda attack that was preplanned and precoordinated. we will get to the bottom of this. >> chris: l...

You just heard senator graham say no, it isnt fine that that would further jeopardize our national security. well, ideally we would have done the right thing and that is pass appropriations bills and reduce spending where we think is fit. the sequester is sort of a hammer. it was requested by the president. it was his idea. signed into law by him. so i think it is disengine with us for him to go back on it. to put it in perspective it is a trillion dollars that over the next ten years spending...

Have a role in this. and i think we are missing this is where you to look at the trees. in the mandated cuts lets take the national institute of health. 5% cuts. this is one of the crown jewels of american science. what has -- a the nih has done in these grants and a 5% cut is going to be devastating to them. >> chris: but couldnt you do $85 in cuts that wouldnt be devastating. >> but it is mandated in law and the white house has said you -- >> chris: that is the point of the house republicans. ...

Quiet time. timeout. >> richard wolf. so john boehner now says he invented the whole thing. at the time i believe he said i got 98% of what i want. it is at most 2% the presidents sequester. maybe he has a short-term memory loss. as i recall, you recall the specifics of the 98%. there was the whole debt ceiling crisis and that is how we ended up with the sequester. it wasnt the presidents idea to play with the default. i thought he out smarted those guys at the time. he is trying to admit that a...

Will likely to vote to end it. hardly the only political split playing out in washington. spending cuts go into place in two weeks. unless they go into sequestration. >> were going to insist that they finally pass a plan to replace the presidents sequester, this sequester was the presidents idea, his party needs to follow through on their plans to replace its time for the senate to do their work. if theyre willing to pass a bill well find some way to work with them to address this problem. >> ...

Its at most 2%, the presidents sequester. right? the presidents got 2% 06 that. >> you know, maybe he has a short-term memory loss problem, but as i recall, i mean, you recall the specifics of the 98%. there was this whole debt ceiling crisis where they were about to default on american debt and send the entire global economy into a tailspin. and thats how we ended up with the sequester. now, if i remember rightly, it wasnt the presidents idea to play around with default. but i could be wrong. i...

50/50 arrangement. and for the republican membership maintenance, they have to allow the sequester to go into effect. theyre going to take us over this next cliff, but that really is a disservice to the country and just another manmade crises. >> thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. >> i want to bring lynn and dana back. whats your reaction to the comments you heard there by the representative? the president said lets delay this, put a short-term delay in for a bit of time. he di...

Road anyway and as obama pushes other agenda items in the state of the union, the blame game just doesnt work outside of the capitol. i think people dont understand why congress cannot do a basic job of deciding on what to spend and what to cut. >> theyre not watching that minutia is what youre saying. >> right. this is not -- theyre not looking at decimal points and the broad theme is dysfunction and gridlock and therefore, i think, its just both houses. >> weve seen a very confident president ...