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Figured things up. >> reporter: lawmakers are not entirely on vacation. theyre back in their districts talking about the impact of the sequester. in boston, funding for health research would be reduced. >> we have got to stop the sequestration cuts, we cant strand our researchers. >> reporter: in indiana, they could slow production driving up the cost of your main course. and in san diego, about 30,000 military jobs would be in jeopardy. >> im as frustrated as you that they sent us home. >> repo...

Party. >> well, let me defy marks advice and lead with sequestration. >> sure. in the news. >> i appreciate it. you see whats happening with the debate right now which is that republicans who several months ago were talking about the sequestration was akin to the apocalypse in governing the military. are now more and more accommodating, willing to accept the sequestration cuts to the military. the rand paul of the party, cuts are better than no cuts. to your point about rubio, it seems to me, th...

The president and the speaker and the republican leadership. >> not that im aware of. and this was the presidents ideas on sequestration, the republicans, weve put forward a replacement, to replace the sequestration cuts with other types of cuts. weve put forward a proposal >> north korea says its tested a nuclear device, a mini device. south korea confinger the third nuclear test. concerns that the test that the test began after an explosive-like 4.9 magnitude areg was registered, where north k...

The president and the speaker and the republican leadership. >> not that im aware of. and this was the presidents ideas on sequestration, the republicans, weve put forward a replacement, to replace the sequestration cuts with other types of cuts. weve put forward a proposal six weeks ago that passed the house. we put together a proposal six months ago that passed the house. >> why doesnt he want to just pick up the phone. pick up the phone and call him, look, this is the job. and why we send eve...

Down. how long? >> not quite eight years. >> yeah, may of 2005 is when it started. >> a seven-year reign. >> and it ends on february 28th, according to well be following this. to washington now. members of congress remain focused on deficits, spending and how to head off the looming sequestration cuts poised to kick in early next month. in separate interviews on sunday, house minority leader nancy pelosi and majority leader eric cantor laid out the economic dividing lines. >> what we need is g...

Focused on deficits, spending and how to head off the looming sequestration cuts poised to kick in early next month. in separate interviews on sunday, house minority leader nancy pelosi and majority leader eric cantor laid out the economic dividing lines. >> what we need is growth. we need growth with jobs. and if you have spending cuts, education of our children and other investments like the national institutes of health where you are hindering growth, youre not going to reduce the deficit. so...

And i think that we do need to have a more aggressive background check, and i have been pretty public on that. >> how about the president? does he have to recognize reality here and go for what he can get? get a single, not a home run? even though he knows hes giving protection to the people on the center right and right? still be able to say they did something. theres a lot of strategy here. >> theres a lot of strategy. i used to work for senator kennedy, and senator kennedy after he got past h...

Reason, no reason for that to happen. when our fiscal house in order calls for a balanced approach not massive indiscriminate cuts that could have a severe impact on our military readiness. >> the president wants some tax reform and spending cuts to stop the sequester. the republicans say the president got what he wanted during the fiscal cliff debate with a spokesman for speaker boehner saying, the president got it with no corresponding cuts and the tax issues have been resolved and speaking of...

>> how about the president? does he have to recognize reality here and go for what he can get? get a single, not a home run? even though he knows hes giving protection to the people on the center right and right? still be able to say they did something. theres a lot of strategy here. >> theres a lot of strategy. i used to work for senator kennedy, and senator kennedy after he got past his 30s and 40s decided what you should do in legislating is take what you can get and come back for the rest la...

And get higher scores in math. >> i love that way of thinking about it. that were not just the bundle of things that we come with but that we can grow over space and time. >> specifically theres one nugget which comes out of it, praise kids for effort rather than their results. its something they practiced with my own kids. it didnt come naturally at first. to praise them for something that takes them a week to do instead of something that comes really quickly. >> its not that you got the a. its...