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Obviously its at the lower sequester number, but ill certainly vote to extend funding. >> sir, over the weekend, gene sperling spoke on "meet the press." take a listen. >> we will still be committed to trying to find remembers and democrats that will work on a bipartisan compromise to eliminate, get rid of the sequester and thats why the president was calling leadership on friday. thats why he spent saturday afternoon calling republican and democratic senators who he thinks could be part of a ca...

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...

>> i still care and i still believe that there are principles that we need to stand for. when i look at whats happening right now, i wish he i were there. it kills me not to be there, not to be in the white house. >> do you think that the sequester was coming back maybe, just maybe you thought a president romney would be in place and things would be different rye now under it? >> well, i wish mitt romney were here. i think one of his great strengths were to bring people together. he did that as ...

On january the 1st. >> tax heights, indeed. cuts b, not cash, seems to be the one issue nighting the party these days. the "new york times" states, gon clings to one thing it agrees on, spending cuts. president obama and democrats are betting that public pressure will eventually work in their favor. >> it may take a couple of weeks, it may take a couple of months, but im just going to keep on pushing on it and my view is that ultimately, common sense prevails. >> so action on the sequester has b...

In, were spending 6.2% more than we were spending in 2008, and, chuck, people are just saying, wait a minute, you got to deal with the debt. heres a great example of that. he said, look, youre cutting 2%. he said when you are borrowing, 35 cents to 40 cents on the dollar, you have a 35% cut that you need to be addressing, and i think a lot of individuals across this country share that sentiment. if this is just scratching the surface -- >> lets remember, its not a 2% cut. you exempted so much fr...

>> 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...

Likelihood -- i mean, i think the big thing about the sequester is everybody talked about how bad it was going to be. now its its probably going to be bad, but were not quite sure how and where it will be bad. but the white house, i think, is bedding that it will be bad enough and certain republican districts that some kind of action can be taken in the next couple of months. what do you think of that logic? >> well, look, the reason that nobody ever cuts anything out of the federal government i...

Stephanie cutter, former obama deputy campaign manager and former members of the west wing team, and john a republican strategist who was a former republican speaker of the house back in the day. stephanie, let me start with you. last week sequester just now weve got the president. let me play for you what the president is saying about sequester from his cabinet meeting just a few minutes ago. >> we are going to manage it as best we can to try to minimize the impacts on american families, but it...

Theres a house version that ive cosponsored. my senator, senator white house has sponsored a version in the senate. we ought to have a real debate about how to surplus sequester with responsible cuts, closing tax loopholes, passing the buffett rule, a combination of generation of revenues with cuts in spending. but protecting the things that are necessary to grow our economy. so i think its going to be -- you know, the sequester has begun. i think were not going to begin to see the real impact o...

Latest on the government spending slowdown looms lawmakers are making their voices heard on the failure to reach a deal. steve centanni is live in washington. what are republicans saying in the wake of that sequester? >> house speaker john boehner says he doesnt think anyone understands how the situation gets resolved. he blamed the president for kicking the can farther down the road saying were running out of road to kick the can down and he says he doesnt seem to have a plan of his own. >> if ...