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About. >> and this is the part, lets -- this is a quote from harry reid, so the deal was struck on wednesday, it went to effect and now on the budget talks and this is harry reid setting the stage talking about, would you give ground on, like, social security, talking about, like, this chain cpi for social security, would you give ground on that, and in exchange for getting rid of the sequester? he said, thats no trade. were not going to affect entitlement so we can decrease defense spending. if...

Takes shape here. chris coun chris kuntz joins us from wilmington. thank you for being on the show. we were just getting into this in the last segment, if the goal here for democrats, if the goal is to address the sequester, to get that turned off or get a big part of that turned off at least and the sort of contours of these discussions as reported are sort of -- theyre small in scope, maybe not talking about revenue like we were before, not talking about the concessions that president obama wa...

Have just enough time to put in place a new budget that replaces the sequester, so that really is the goal. this is quite different than the not so super super committee you were talking about. we dont have the expedited path to the floor, the special legislative way of taking whatever deal we work out and getting it right to the floor without a filibuster, which the super committee had. so the scope of our total goal is a little bit more constrained. the other thing that i think, steve, makes i...

Entitlement reform. thats the bottom line. i take the same oath of office as the president of the united states. ive got the same responsibilities as the president of the united states. and i think thats for both of us to do whats in the best interest of our country. >> and so that set the stage for the super committee. remember that? the last second deal to avoid a default in 2011, called for, a special bipartisan committee to come up with a blueprint to strike the deal that obama and boehner c...

>> define what victory is for both the sides. the democrats, you know, they have a little bit -- it is a little bit broader for them. if they get anything out of the committee and get anything out of conference, they can put together and put a budget together. obama can say look, i governed across the aisle, we can do this for the party, the republicans have a much harder sell with this. their problem is what used to be a big defeat for them, the big upcoming defense cuts in the sequester, if th...

Congress, and obviously the low approval rating you referred to suggests that a lot arent, but those of us who are listening who are connecting to our home states are hearing just how difficult this is for classroom teachers, for parents whose kids are sick and who are hoping for new drug treatments from the nih, or for those who defend our country who are either reserve or guardsmen. there is real pain across our country as a result of this sequester and as a result of this government shutdown....

Know, preposterous cuts that have ever been and when you have one side saying, hey, these are pretty good, you change the entire picture of the game. this is a big deal because if you have the democrats saying that this sequester is really awful, and republicans saying it is not so awful, you know, lets trade for it, but democrats saying were not going to trade anything for it, you know, it puts a lot of onus on the democrats in terms of what theyre willing to accept. >> the one thing about sequ...

Were not buying shirts from them. theyre saying that their sales were down for two weeks. so when you look at it, who held the whole thing up? the president and john boehner said every time we go back to the tea party, they said, no, they said no. you have to remember that the republicans have to appease them, but they have to bring them in line. >> i guess the question with ryan is maybe this is just -- this represents the limits of the tea party, but is it possible hes buying himself space for...

>> bret: if they do alter it? >> wed have to look at it but i caution against it. >> bret: congressman van hollen you were one of the 151 against the c.r. your district has a lot of federal workers. a lot of people tied to the federal government. this would fund the federal government. why vote against it. >> the good news is we will not shut down the federal government. we can do better in this bill. this is the last chance this month to replace the sequeste sequester. i asked four times for al...