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Welcome back. with one week before the sequester hits, no signs of progress on a deal and no meetings set between the president and congressional republicans. the president met just a couple of hours ago with democratic governors who will hold meetings this weekend in washington with their republican counterparts. >> our message to our republican governors this weekend will be quite simple. speak up. stand up. or be part of the problem. ask your friends in the republican congress to do the sensi...

Closed for this quote unquote balanced deal to come to a deal with the sequester. now what people arent talking about is another deadline, which is the continuing resolution. that is the funding of the government. that happens at the end of march, march 27th. so, you know, we go from crisis to crisis here in washington lately. martha: so true. >> reporter: and you may have the sequester go in place on march 1st and you may have a couple of weeks where there is this pain, and a lot of stories abo...

Housing prices are slowly going up. but the economy is still really are fragile. unemployment remains really high. and anything that puts a drag on the economy, including spending consults at this point say concern. >> but you can help me out here because heres some irony. the sequester was described to be so awful that congress would have to prevent it. but the national review reports, that would be willing despite their concerns over the cuts to defense spending. i think thats actually the pre...

Actually need to get in the military are somehow in some ways represented here. so its kind of like shiny candy from both sides, and i think the republicans think they can ride this in the same way the president sort of rode out the fiscal cliff deal to his advantage, but it just wont work out that same way. so we have to understand the sequester is really just code word for undermining the safety net and food security and economic security for the poorest folk in this country. >> absolutely. jo...