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Came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to be here to stay, which brings us to the government funding bill that the house keeps passing and the republicans keep rejecting. the democrats keep telling republicans they should just suck it up and pass. that clean funding bill is for $986 billion. 986 billion you see right there. how s...

Washington. keep that in mind if the republicans do back down on obama care, if they do end up accepting that clean funding bill and letting the government reopen. you may here rush limbaugh or jim demint call him a traitor, but if the government opens for business it will be operating on republican terms. that game is already over and republicans have won it. joining us, congresswoman degette, thank you for your time. i want to pick up that point. this is sort of the forgotten fight, if it is f...

Republicans have been able to reduce the size and scope of the government through the sequester. what sort of is forgotten here if the government reopens, the sequester is not forgotten, did your party make the mistake by not having that fight as part of the shutdown deal? >> the problem is, the republicans have insisted on putting this completely irrelevant issue, one that they know the white house wouldnt compromise, one that they know that the senate wouldnt compromise on. and that is the aff...

Issue. >> dont you think its a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obamas idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually suppo...

Is basically absolutely no new revenue. do you think of those talks reopened again in any way, do you think anything is going to be different in terms of the republican bottom line which is absolutely no new revenue, which sort of blows up the idea. >> well, actually the people i talk to on a private basis think the only way out of this is a grand bargain. because if you look at the effect of the sequester on the national institutes of health, on all of the programs that we care about for our di...

But the uniformed division of the secret service is responsible for the grounds. it was in fact impacted by the sequester. these people have to deal with furloughs, not only to say they have may have been impacted to a certain extent by the government shutdown. despite that, security remains, of course, a priority here, and they are the first level of security, and the woman did not penetrate that level of security. she did not get through that checkpoint. there was at no time a threat to the pr...

It. >> its not surprising. they dont believe in evolution. they dont believe in climate science. they are know nothings. they are people who look at experts and see them as elites to be suspicious of because what they are saying doesnt sync up with their general view of the world. so ive been on shows with this networks with tea partiers that say theres a lot of different ways we can do that and they are willing to take that risk. the interesting thing from a game theory perspective, two years a...

This is sort of the forgotten fight, if it is forgotten, it is because the fight really has not been waged. but we talk so much about how republicans were able -- i hesitate to use the term "sequester" here, but how much republicans have been able to reduce the size and scope of the government through the sequester. what sort of is forgotten here if the government reopens, the sequester is not forgotten, did your party make the mistake by not having that fight as part of the shutdown deal? >> th...

Could be paying more for years, decades to come. >> congresswoman diane damageette on last word on msnbc last night. she made the point coming from the democratic perspective she would agree to a clean cr, a clean continuing resolution for a matter of six weeks. beyond that she is not willing to go along. they have already embedded the sequester levels. so the republicans have really won the battle of the budget, the battle over spending. the social programs democrats care about have been gutted...

>> the problem is, the republicans have insisted on putting this completely irrelevant issue, one that they know the white house wouldnt compromise, one that they know that the senate wouldnt compromise on. and that is the affordable care act. has nothing to do with the budget. and so now a lot of people are saying well, you know what? just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situati...