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A vote when the speaker and leader and whip call a vote because they believe they have the votes to go on. john? >> the omnibus spending bill, senator lindsey graham said republicans got their clocks cleaned on this bill. looks like as many as 100 house republicans will vote against it. how do you square that with the pronouncements out of this white house that this was a big win for republicans? >> i think director mulvaney dealt with that extensively yesterday. this is a great deal for the pre...

And ends the sequestration bill and got $1.52 billion in border security, which is the first installment in securing our nation border. $1.3 billion to coal miners which delivers on another promise he made. theres no obamacare bailout. the csr payments, which is something that the democrats want. theres a three-year extension of the opportunity choice, the children that will benefit from that. it increases funds for opioid crisis and eliminates and rescinds 150 programs or initiatives. i think w...

Have -- ministers clearly hyped this whole thing. keep in mind, the white house and the administration has a lot of leeway in how the cuts are administered among the agencies and phil gramm, former senator from texas who helped right the sequestration bill in the 1985s, hes going to be our guest in ten minutes. hes going to tell us about the president, if he makes the choices where they are deliberate, maximum cut for maximum political gain, that would be the wrong thing to do for america. >> gr...

>> there is some question whether it could pass the senate. the republicans wonder if this is a gamut without the vote to pass. >> bret: it has no chance in the house. >> it willle in the senate. this is why they didnt bring it up for a vet. there are democrats that are acceptty call of the buffet rule -- skeptical. they already interested lack of interest in buffett rule. >> bret: republicans, what are they saying? they have sequestration bill with $300 billion in targeted cuts. it would help u...

Kindly screwing up. it was laughable. i would play a sound bite, speaking of laughable of jay carney but thats too easy an it would be a cheap shot because its jay carney. heres more of the nominee. take a listen. >> well, you were after the sequestration bill had passed. >> not sequestration. the budget control act. >> but thats what included -- they were talking here about what would happen if you took these cuts. >> thats what i was talking about. >> gregg: he apparently has no idea what hes ...

President obamas policy on the iran nuclear program. >> i just been handed a note that i, i misspoke and said i supported the presidents position on containment. if i said that, meant to say that i obviously, his position on containment we dont have a position on containment. >> we do have a position on containment that we do not favor containment. >> hagel appeared unfamiliar with the massive cut on the department of defense part of the august 2011 budget control act. >> you were after the sequ...

Now the ball is in their court. >> sean: congresswoman, your reaction? would you have voted for it? >> no, i would not have. allens exactly right. we passed the tax extender bill. we passed the sequestration bill to take care of those issues. the tax reform pathway was passed, all of this was done between may 5 and september 19. those bills have been on harry reids desk since that time. they could have taken them up, amended, voted, gone to conference. this is a crisis of their making. leaders m...

Both sides make proposals. and right now all we have is a tax proposal from the democrats. we have no spending proposal from the democrats. we have no tax proposal from the republicans. we have no spending proposal from the republicans. and weve been at this now for a couple weeks, really since the day after the election. thats why some of us are a little pessimistic. >> a couple years. because the reality of it is whether youre going back to the sequestration bill of 2010, 2011 or youre talking...

The automatic defense cuts triggered if theres no deal reached. im assuming theres a compromise here in the end, but i i guess the question is whats the recent reduction in spending over the next ten years for the pentagon? whats a reasonable part of the deal for na? >> i think a reasonable one is actually about the amount in the sequestration. thats a little bit less than what the boles-simpson commission had. they had about $750 billion. if you take a salmi slice cut like the sequestration bil...

fact that the president has been a failure when it comes to reigniting americas economy. >> the romney pushback with senior adviser ed gillespie, then obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod. and the states brace for federal cuts. the view from the governors office with virginia republican bob mcdonnell and massachusetts democrat deval patrick. plus, floods, fires, and drought. what it means for farmers and your grocery bill with agriculture secretary tom vilsack. im candy crow...