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Tactics like that, this event at the white house, do you expect the democrats to keep pushing in those directions on this? >> absolutely. but thats basically all they have left. they had their opportunity in december. they had republicans over the barrel. they were not going to shut down the government over unemployment insurance. democrats reasoned well, well get more sequester relief if we dont go for unemployment now. they kind of gambled with these peoples unemployment checks. the problem he...

>> absolutely. but thats basically all they have left. they had their opportunity in december. they had republicans over the barrel. they were not going to shut down the government over unemployment insurance. democrats reasoned well, well get more sequester relief if we dont go for unemployment now. they kind of gambled with these peoples unemployment checks. the problem here is we dont really have a national political system. nationally, this is very popular stuff and locally, its popular, but...

Enough. does not do enough on budget relief, does not do enough on sequester relief. >> thats right. i think its very clear that both of us would say we didnt get what we wanted. we didnt accomplish huge, giant steps, but i think we set a path forward for all of us in congress to take a step back and applaud bipartisanship in a bipartisan conference in a bipartisan government and recognize thats how we have to accomplish things today. >> in our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll, 51%, and t...

Fiscal year an elevation from the 967 billion that they were supposed to have. the question is how do you pay for that difference. thats why they are struggling to mind common ground. the latest proposals is to take pension money from federal workers and from military personal to help pay for that difference and i cant imagine it would be too political popular to raid pensions of military personnel but thats because revenue is always off the table. so the question is can you find that money to p...

Middle class is why he got into politics, bill. bill: what has been the republican response on this, wendell? >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell accuses president of doing endless political road shows when he wants to change the subject. he says the president should be working with republicans instead of talking at them. mcconnell says he will push to keep the spending cuts forced by the so-called sequester. >> i know the administration is anxious to undo the commitment to the b...

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