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Very modest or you believe its going to lead to 134g bigger and better? >> good morning, chuck. i take the long view. we come from a position that you cant negotiate if no one will negotiate. that suddenly changed. now we have got a deal that will take away in the first year most of the sequester cuts which we are going to vis rate things like defense and nih, transportation, nasa. we got an agreement. it should pass. then the backdrop of an expanding and improving economy and the backdrop of wh...

To trade sequester cuts unless theres a firm guarantee amended mandatory spending cuts. we dont want the extension of unemployment insurance. but these are discussions of actual details of a possible budget plan, not the sort of throwing down the gauntlet kind of, were going to shut the whole joint down, thing we were hearing. youre not hearing that at all. and i think at least temporarily the biggest names in the tea party -- theres 20 people in the house who signed that letter. frankly, those ...

Beautiful memorial service throughout the morning. were going to take the presidents remarks live which could happen in the next hour or so, maybe even less. were waiting for one more speaker and then the president will dome the podium. but now some other news. republicans on capitol hill are bracing to push a last minute budget deal through congress. paul ryan and patty murray are close to striking a small deal that would avoid another fiscal showdown but far from the great bargain. it wouldnt ...

>> joining us, thomas friedman. tom the proposal would not reform entitlement, loopholes or do nothing to address the rising federal debt. i want replaces some sequester cuts. thats amazing, isnt it? >> i was blown away. i drove in through a blizzard to be able to talk about this. >> crazy. take it away. how impressrd you? >> the best that you can say is, i think our system has lost the reflection to reach any kind of an agreement and the fact that, you know, we might be able to begin to restore...

Spoke to her the other night, negotiations are making progress, moving in the right direction. >> i want to bring in our company, carrie budoff brown, ron fornier. good morning. >> good morning. >> carrie, is getting a deal done, if it does happen this week, a major milestone or is this the smallest possible thing they could do just to keep the government up and running? >> well, its more significant than the deal that they got two months ago to keep the government running. that was a two-month ...

The sequester. >> right, yes. jon: is cutting tens of billions more the way to go right now? >> i dont think that is the way to go, and most republicans dont think that thats the way to go. but, jon, if they dont come up with some agreement, you will have those sequester cuts in the defense budget. and again, republicans want to decrease the -- increase the budget. so i believe that, listen, you had "forbes" magazine that did an article that college students can actually balance the countrys bud...

Some type of conclusion, but the bottom line is this, the house wants to go out of session hes 13th. the senate on the 20th. so they have until friday the 13th to come up with some resolution. jon: theyve got $91 billion more in sequester cuts that are coming up this the middle of january. >> yes. jon: i mean, that axe is going to fall if they dont come up with some kind of a deal, right? >> right. exactly. and republicans, they want to stop the mandatory budget cuts to the defense. so in other ...

To stretch my party budget. but when my so-called bargain brand towel made a mess of things, i switched to bounty basic. look! one sheet of bounty basic is 50% stronger than a full sheet of the bargain brand. bounty basic. the strong but affordable picker upper. senator pattie murray of washington state and u.s. congressman paul ryan of wisconsin are getting closer to a budget deal. but it wont be anything close to a grand bargain. but murray of the budget committee and ryan the republican cha...

Committee have until december 13th to reach a deal. thats next friday. and politico reports theyre inching toward a small scale deal at least. to replace sequester cuts for the next two years. most importantly the deal could potentially reduce the threat of another government shutdown come january 2014. and well be right back after this. [ male announcer ] campbells homestyle. mmm! this is delicious katie. its not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup....

Save money on food. good evening, jennifer. >> reporter: good evening, bret. defense department budget cutters say everything is on the table in light of more sequester cuts, including a plan to close all u.s. base commissaries where military families shop for food at reduced rates, saving thousands of dollars a year on their grocery bills. the entire budget for commissaries is $1.4 billion a year. 178 commissaries would close in the u.s., including alaska and hawaii. 70 commissaries overseas wo...