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Though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. >> marsha, sounds reasonable to me. >> well, in the presidents words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a continuing resolution covers and say what is going to transpired in that window? the reason you have to have a discussion about obama care and look at what can possibly be delayed ...

Leader a month ago. he always wanted entitlement reform and you look at paul ryans op-ed in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning that just posted online. hes asking for entitle reform with chain cpi. thats what republican leadership has always been moving toward, entitle reform and budget talks whereas the tea party reform has been focused on became care. >> joining me now is a democrat from michigan. i am seeing the conversation turn from the discretionary budget, funding levels at seques...

Informed of all of the consequences of a shutdown and they are many, as we see, and, you know, a solution to all of this is not the piecemeal reaction to them or, you know, band-aid approach to solving them. funding levels that republicans set. remember, if anybody thinks that democrats in congress are getting a concession by extending the government on a short-term continuing resolution of funding levels, sequester levels agreed to by republicans are sorely mistaken. leader reid and pelosi dese...

The arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i dont think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even ...

Crisis. >> let me ask you, though. what i dont understand strategically, why shouldnt the republicans allow a c.r., clean c.r. to come up for a vote? because the republicans are saying the votes arent there. the votes arent there. if thats really true, why not let it come to a vote and take away that argument from the democrats? because the democrats are continuing to hammer that argument. if theres not the votes there why not let it come up and fail? >> well, one of the problems youre asking th...

The arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i dont think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even ...

>> well, you know, well see how long. mi i mean, i think once you push up against the debt limit it becomes more problematic. >> october 17th. next week. >> i think thats when youre going to see more, you know, more pressure on him to do something. but i think that one of the issues, you go back to 2011, is that what happened there was that we ended up with the sequester, which right now is what democrats are arguing is a concession that theyre giving to republicans and saying just pass the c.r....

Then the idea hes not willing to negotiate, he says im perfectly willing to negotiate after the threat -- the shutdown threat and debt ceiling issue is there. trying to sort of shift the rhetoric so it isnt all about, which republicans are trying to frame it, hey, the president wont negotiate, the president trying to push back on that talking point. im more than willing to negotiate just not under these preconditions that republicans want. i think its notable you see a different tone and a littl...

More than six weeks, accept the sequester levels going forward, which is what the the republicans want and put something on the table in terms of entitlement reform, which the president without on the table in his own budget. to adjust sequester level and entitlement reforms to come up with budget savings meaningful, long-term budget savings that could get the republicans off their demand regarding obama care. >> i think youre right there, andrea. i think chuck is onto something in that the pres...

Development. >> exactly. >> were looking at the fact that they already negotiated at sequester levels, at least in this cr thats not getting picked up. >> exactly. >> so none of that stuff is going to change but it is affecting and choking everything off. >> and you see it in the schools. like that -- i mean the tone and tenor, i have to give it to nbc, the tone and tenor of this ed nation is really different. its really looking at what it takes and not vilifying teachers. and teachers voices ar...