Sequestration Spending Levels News Today

Republicans today to address automatic spending cuts and make a deal to avoid a government shutdown in just a few weeks, but can the president fight his lame-duck status to get another win in a republican-controlled congress? correspondent kevin koerk has the story. >> is it likely? president obama today tooled a group of cold cos that the american economy would suffer greatly in lawmakers shut down the government. the white house and capitol hill at odds once again, this time over sequestration...

Conservative. could the country survive them? now sequestration spending levels and government size levels, those are the norm. those are what president obama is essentially begging for. and he said hes willing to accept as the normal now. so speaking boehner and the right have actually orchestrated this situation where they have used the threat of a government shutdown and a debt default to normalize spending levels that were previously very recently considered way too radical for the country. ...

Offering obama a haf loaf, as it were, ill give you the debt ceiling for another six weeks and thats all, but im not going to give you the shutdown being over just yet until you agree to negotiate. and obama is bringing him into the white house, talking. but its kind of a non-negotiation negotiation from obamas point of view because he doesnt want to admit hes doing any actual negotiating. theres a lot of kabuki dancing going on here, and its difficult to say who is giving up more at this partic...