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Responsible. youre right; with the sequester, look, any time you reduce spending, youre going to have an impact. its going to be an impact in my district. but he has tried to oversell this. and i believe he has purposefully making it as painful as possible instead of cutting waste. hes putting -- hes protecting waste so he can have the pain for workers in programs to make his political point. why doesnt he cut some waste? are we that efficient where theres no waste in the federal government to c...

>> sean: yeah, well manage through. and while the president continues to refuse to admit his role in the sequester, his own men, the people that work for him, apparently cant lie for the liar in chief anymore. >> we know, everyone knows that the president wanted enforcement mechanism that included revenues on the most well off. the speaker insisted, the republicans insisted that this be an enforcement mechanism that would be on all spending cuts because we were forced to do that, it is true we s...

>> sean: yeah, well manage through. and while the president continues to refuse to admit his role in the sequester, his own men, the people that work for him, apparently cant lie for the liar in chief anymore. >> we know, everyone knows that the president wanted enforcement mechanism that included revenues on the most well off. the speaker insisted, the republicans insisted that this be an enforcement mechanism that would be on all spending cuts because we were forced to do that, it is true we s...

Lets take a look back. >> first of all, the sequesters not something that i proposed, its something that congress has proposed. it will not happen. the budget that were talking about is not reducing our military spending, its maintaining it. >> sean: i wonder if the president would agree this is a clear example of misleading you, the american people. i guess after weeks of fear mongering, and honesty is not the best policy for this white house. here with reaction, former florida congressman alle...

Today, all the while main streetry main owes edge with americans carrying pink slips from the sequester, is president obama losing the messaging wars about what it will take to hammer out a deal. right in the middle of the immigration debate, why has jeb bushs not squared up with what hes saying on a press junkette. when you hear the phrase the make it visible campaign, its attempting to go viral for helping our returning vets. well explain how you can help that and much more coming up in the ...

A lot of this is debt driven. thats why were talking about a grand bargain. it is not a fun picture as you just described to look at. >> well, john, the sequester has not been kind to president obamas approval numbers. hes down to 46% approval and disapproval is up to 46%. those are lowest and highest respectively since his re-election. do you think that the president hears that and tries to at least appear more participatory, cosilicon sill tori or stick and hope that something else turns this ...

Woman mayor of americas second largest city. >> good morning from the s street dog park in washington, d.c. its tuesday, march 5th, 2013, and this is "the daily rundown." heres chuck todd. go get it, chuck todd. >> that was a good catch, and yes, that dog is named chuck todd. thanks to him and his owners, michael and lul sauna. as washington gets ready for what may be the first significant snowstorm in two years, the snowquester, bread and milk buying and worrying, as only washington can, d.c. d...

Of what theyre doing down there. so i dont understand it. i dont understand why they havent fixed it already. real leadership would get this fixed. you get everybody in the room and you fit fix it, not kwaulg a meeting two hours before the thing is going to hit to have a photo open in the driveway at the white house. thats not real leadership. >> joining me to talk more about this democratic congressman adam schiff of california. its good to have you with me. lets begin by talking about the real...

Come up, if not hillary. >> yeah, we got to go really quickly. eugene, you write about the sequester, a stupid idea whose time has not come. >> i hate it. i hate the name. i hate the way everybody has handled it. i hate the way it bolsters the stupid both sides are at fault argument. thats rarely the case. it drive mess ks me crazy. in this case, the both siders point. >> were going to take a quick sequester here. chuck todd, thank you. well see you on "t he daily rundown." joe klein, thank you ...

>> megyn: all right. >> let me tell you something, here is the presidents big s thing. they repassed the budget control act. and whats the excuse for the president to be on the road campaigning when he hasnt submitted a budget to congress? theres three things that the president needs to do with that budget. how much we are he going to spend and how much revenue were coming into and how much the deficit is going to be increased. he hasnt done any of that. how are we supposed to move on to self-in...