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The president wants to raise taxes and keep spending as is. thats very different from the republican side which says enough with the tax increases. get on with serious spending cuts. they are very, very far apart. >>gretchen: republicans were on the record yesterday -- we played at the top of the hour -- saying were willing to increase revenue by reducing some of these tax loopholes if -- if -- we talk about the big spending issues like entitlements. >>steve: and tax reform. >> they are edging t...

Steve is live in washington on this monday morning. despite the fact the presidents cabinet and the president said pretty much the sky was going to fall, it didnt fall. >> not yet. even some republicans, however, mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader, saying the sequester only imposes modest cuts, though. hes downplaying the size of the sequester, the possible impact of the sequester. nothing on the horizon that could reverse all that. house speaker john boehner saying spending is out of c...

Washington. they blame the president and down-playing the cuts as you heard. house speaker john boehner says spending is out of control. the president kicked the can they are running down the road they kicked the canon. no agreement was reach to do head off the sequester cuts. he says there was no lack offer fort on his part. >> no one has tried harder to come to an agreement with the president. the fact is the president and senate democrats have done nothing to pass a plan to avert this and d...

>> president obama still urging republicans to work with him on a compromise, but the crisis appears to have hurt him. one poll has the presidents approval rating down from 51% to 49%. a top white house official said over the we could nobody wins in this situation -- said over the weekend nobody wins in this situation. >> this is not a win for republicans. republicans are supposed to be for stronger national defense. this cuts our military preparedness dramatically. they are supposed to be for b...

Washington. they blame the president and down-playing the cuts as you heard. house speaker john boehner says spending is out of control. the president kicked the can they are running down the road they kicked the canon. no agreement was reach to do head off the sequester cuts. he says there was no lack offer fort on his part. >> no one has tried harder to come to an agreement with the president. the fact is the president and senate democrats have done nothing to pass a plan to avert this and d...

Sequester cuts, it seems both sides are eager to fund a crisis when it comes to the government. maybe thats the good part of it. >> the president of this morning agreed that we should not have any talk of a government shutdown. >> the president doesnt believe in manufacturing another crisis. >> so if were looking for a silver lining, jackie, is the general consensus there in washington that there will be less drama to avoid a government shutdown? >> well, the devil is in the details and i think ...

The news now in washington, steve? >> harris, yeah, republicans are both blaming the president and down playing the cuts as you heard it. house speaker john boehner said that spending is out of control, and that the president has kicked the can so far down the road and were running out of road to kick the can on. he said its unfortunate, no agreement was reached to head off the sequester cuts, but insisted there was no lack of efforts on his part. >> theres no one in this town whos tried harder ...

Troopers -- prison on lock don after prisoners got into a brawl. officers were quickly able to break up the fight. 17 inmates hospital, two staff members hurt. visitations are canceled while the officials investigate what started that fight. our secretary of state handed mohammed morsi $250 million in aid. next up hell meet with mahmoud abbas in the saudi capital today. >>steve: you remember the white houses doomsday scenario if those sequester spending cuts took effect. look at that. presiden...

Washington. they blame the president and down-playing the cuts as you heard. house speaker john boehner says spending is out of control. the president kicked the can they are running down the road they kicked the canon. no agreement was reach to do head off the sequester cuts. he says there was no lack offer fort on his part. >> no one has tried harder to come to an agreement with the president. the fact is the president and senate democrats have done nothing to pass a plan to avert this and d...

Country? we cant ever cut anything ever? imagine -- so instead of going into this with courage and bravery the way its been said to the country, heres where we are and we have to make cuts and its not how we would have designed them, but heres where we are. and we feel confident so you should feel confident. well get through this. which seemed to be a message he tried to tack on to his fearmongering friday at 4:00. but where are we that we cant cut that teeny bit out of our federal government? b...