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Got to go. thank you, gentlemen. michael steele. thank you, gene robinson. the group emilys list says the nation is ready for a woman president and have begun their campaign to put a woman in the white house. wonder who theyre thinking about. our new "hardball" feature comes on tonight, the unkindest cut. remember shakespeare? republicans like to say president obama is exaggerating the pain from the sequester cuts, but lets see about that. lets ask the people who run soup kitchens, for examp...

Havent you given away the leverage to get that woman her chemotherapy now that the thing everyone said was the most pressing problem, which you, yourself, voted to fix, has been fixed? >> actually, i think it helps our cause, because now that weve seen we can actually vote -- in congress, we have the ability to instruct the agencies how they use these sequester cuts and how they have some flexibility. so, that actually bolsters the issue and helps me to get more cosponsors on this bill. were up ...

Her by the jury. and even her tweets. so to not see any emotion from her after this time after this exhausting trial to this point is intriguing, to say the least. >> absolutely. and everybody is watching jodi to see how she reacts. in previous days of testimony, she would hide her face with her hair. she would start sobbing. she would say it was too much for her. sometimes they ended the day early because she said she had a headache. to see her not showing any reaction is really puzzling. and t...

Was it really ever about the deficit. >> with regard to the sequester, if anybody is going to get political capital from it, its unclear. because the sequester cuts are so discrete, theyre not sort of -- with the exception of the faa furloughs, theyre felt in certain districts and not others, if you look at the polling, theres a pew poll that says who is to blame for flight delays? 34% say congressional republicans, 32% say the obama administration, 10% says both. its split down the line. so whe...

Efforts to try to undo the sequester cuts. my question to you is do you still have the juice the get the rest of your agenda through congress. >> if you put it that way, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. i think its a little, as mark twain said, rumors of my demise may be exaggerated at this point. we understand were in divided government right now. republicans control the house of representatives. in the senate this habit of requiring 60 votes for even the most modest piece of leg...

Foiled attempts in times square, or in detroit that we are not going to stop living our lives because warped, twigsed individuals try to intimidate us. we are going to do what we do, which is go to work, raise our kids, go to ball games, run in marathons, and at the same time were going to make sure that everybody is cooperating, and is vigilant in doing everything we can, without being naive to try to prevent these attacks from happening in the future. >> jonathan carl. >> mr. president you are...

Daylight as possible between himself and sequester cuts. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us what the president said and the swift republican response. >> it slowed our growth. resulting in people being thrown out of work. and its hurting folks all across the country. >> president obama says his warnings about sequestration are coming true and blamed congress. today a spokesman for house speaker john boehner responded, quote: the american people are still asking where are the...

Well-heeled travelers going through the express lane moaning about the delays. the theyre fine with sequester hitting the low-income people because thats not their agenda. and the president cant just bring them to heel by taking them out to lunch. >> ben there is some analysis out now that the democrats have really not played this one particularly well and the president hasnt played it particularly well. if you sort of look at the precedent that the faa furloughs and the unwinding of those, what...

Obviously it didnt. congress has ignored your efforts to try to get them to undo these sequester cuts. theres even a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 democrats in the house voting yes. my question to you is -- do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? >> if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. jonathan, you seem to suggest that somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is t...