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Has been pointing out. tucson wouldnt have happened in there were background checks. theres an economic message that the president is trying to convey. how difficult is this if he does not lay out the kind of specific alternative to the sequester that republicans are demanding in the house side? >> well, heres whats hard, ab drae. if he is going to talk about how we need to invest in infrastructure and education and all these other things, republicans will say wait, wait, wait. the problem we ha...

There. thank you very much for your views. >> thank you. were back now with the roundtable. mayor reed, well get to drones in a few minutes, even though we ended there. politics now in washington over these automatic spending cuts and whether theres a spending problem. whats your reaction to what youve heard? >> my sense is there is, but we have cut the presidents legs, $2.5 million in cuts working with republicans so far. i want to talk about this notion of the president conceding or him taki...

Mayor reed, well get to drones in a few minutes, even though we ended there. politics now in washington over these automatic spending cuts and whether theres a spending problem. whats your reaction to what youve heard? >> my sense is there is, but we have cut the presidents legs, $2.5 million in cuts working with republicans so far. i want to talk about this notion of the president conceding or him taking a more conciliatory tone. i dont agree with that. i believe he needs to reach out. but the ...

But they will tell you, yes, i want a future. but what about my mom and dad? you know, they understand full well that these family structures are critically important to the future of america. in the senate, we have a bipartisan goal of pathway to citizenship. not stopping at the dream act, beginning with the dream act and pushing forward. >> i want to get back to the automatic spending cuts and ask a fundamental question that i think republican critics of this president are asking. do you not c...

National institutes of health where you are hindering growth you are not delegate t going te deficit. we need more revenue and more cuts. i would like to see that in a big balanced bold proposal. short of that, we must do something to avoid the sequester. >> chris: here is what house speaker boehner said this week. >> at some point, washington, has to deal with its spending problem. i have watched them kick this can down the road for that i have been here. i have had enough of it. its time to ac...

You raise the taxes $650 billion right away. >> yeah. and that was a very good thing to do on people making over the high end in our population. so here is the thing, though. we are here to have a budget that has revenue coming in that has investments made into the future. we also want to make decisions in those two areas where growth with jobs are created because more are jobs more revenue coming in. nothing brings more money to the treasury of the united states than investment in education of ...

You raise the taxes $650 billion right away. >> yeah. and that was a very good thing to do on people making over the high end in our population. so here is the thing, though. we are here to have a budget that has revenue coming in that has investments made into the future. we also want to make decisions in those two areas where growth with jobs are created because more are jobs more revenue coming in. nothing brings more money to the treasury of the united states than investment in education of ...

Either party. there is leak today that the president in the speech will talk about debt and deficit reduction because they saw the pew poll that shows this is what people care about. the polls show it. the public pegs this debt problem to the part of the reason why the economy is lagging yet the president ignores this. >> he never mentioned any of this in the inaugural. remember, it is not a spending problem? he never mentioned the economy and now the numbers are going down. >>gregg: i only have...

To a state title. remarking about err had accomplishment the both at home and at the olympics, franklin simply said it has been incredible. on todays "meet the press," house majority leader eric cantor weighed in on the budget cuts. >> every time you turn around, the effect is to raise taxes. he just got his tax hike on the wealthy, and you cant in this town every three months raise taxes. again, every time, thats his response. weve got a spending problem. everybody knows it. >> joining me now...

One of the bills that we put across the floor that passed i was a sponsor of for exactly that reason. these are indiscriminate cuts. we can do a lot better. and what i hope to be able to hear from the president in the state of the union is he wants to join us in trying to effect much smarter cuts in spending so we dont have to have -- >> but thats what hes saying. >> so we dont have to have the impact that you discussed. >> why not work with him on some short-term measure that hes talking about ...