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Act? where was the presidents plan? why didnt they pass something? and here we are at the -- beyond the 11th hour, looking at each other. without having fixed it. >> do you think bob woodward has exposed something about the white house positions on all of this that we didnt know? >> i think he made clear that the sequester was the presidents idea. it was the white house that demanded it. i think bob woodward was right. >> the feeling is, you hear it publicly from the president. but also privatel...

Couple of tax expenditures and to say, well, we ought to use that to get rid of the sequester, well, every american knows washington has a spending problem. every american in these tough economic times has to find a way to balance their budget. they have got to make choices. they expect washington to live within its means and make choices as well. we know we have a structural deficit. the president has run up $5 trillion worth of debt in the last five years. we have another $1 trillion budget de...

Bill to replace the sequester came out of the presidents own budget. not all of them, but most of the changes. >> stuff that you put in there, you knew democrats wouldnt support, and its exactly what you say senate democrats are doing now, putting in things that the republicans wont support. >> the house passes a bill. the senate can pass a bill. if we disagree, we go to conference and work it out. >> what happens now? what do you think the impact of all of this is? the president is saying there...

But to arbitrarily pull out a couple of tax expenditures and to say, well, we ought to use that to get rid of the sequester, well, every american knows washington has a spending problem. every american in these tough economic times has to find a way to balance their budget. they have got to make choices. they expect washington to live within its means and make choices as well. we know we have a structural deficit. the president has run up $5 trillion worth of debt in the last five years. we have...

Showdown and some other debates this week. the future of the voting rights act and whether working from home is still ok. from nbc news in washington, the worlds longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." good sunday morning. so sequester is in effect. but the impact have yet to be felt. one thing is clear, frustration with washington has never been higher and both sides are still dug in on how to solve our debt crisis. more taxes versus more spending cuts. we have both sa...

Work on our budget. the house has done a budget every year since ive been speaker. the senate hasnt done a budget for four years. they have committed to do a budget this year, and i hope that they do. and out of that process maybe, maybe we can find a way to deal with our long-term spending problem. >> ill ask you what my white house colleagues in the press corps there have asked the president. do you bear any responsibility for a failure to find agreement? >> theres no one in this town whos tri...

Issue of whose idea it was of the sequester was when i disagreed with him on, but i could see how honorable people could disagree. i was trying to explain to him from a substantive point of view that the idea that the president of the united states was moving the goal post by asking for the type of balance of tax reform that raised revenues, which speaker boehner himself you know had called for, as well as long-term entitlements together to get rid of the sequester was not only not moving the go...

Bill to replace the sequester came out of the presidents own budget. not all of them, but most of the changes. >> stuff that you put in there, you knew democrats wouldnt support, and its exactly what you say senate democrats are doing now, putting in things that the republicans wont support. >> the house passes a bill. the senate can pass a bill. if we disagree, we go to conference and work it out. >> what happens now? what do you think the impact of all of this is? the president is saying there...

Years to go before the next stop discriminating on the basis election, and so how they go up of race, a sentence structure or down in the polls in a given that offended many people not unlike what we heard from day even though theyre really low right now is not really the scalia. issue. but the idea that states should be offended because theyre to me the issue is whether this included is one of the most becomes, as you described it, hollow, stale, and baseless the new normal. if we just kind of ...

>> 174 of your members in the house voted to support it at your urging. you both agreed to do this. >> the president demanded it at the 11th hour in july of 2011. because he didnt want to be inconvenienced by having another vote on the debt limit before his re-election in 2012. and as a result, with the agreement that senator reid, senator mcconnell and myself had that didnt have the sequester, he would not accept. so he demanded that we find a way so he could avoid a second debt limit vote befo...