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Trash and police office and were talking about the extended police forces and things like that, teachers. while the sequester we wont sort out the real effects of that, but that wont take affect until the fall. we have time to figure that out. a government shutdown would be immediate. i think both sides are afraid of that. >> heather: so you think fear will inspire them to come to an agreement this time around. >> she mentioned time to figure it out there. >> isnt much time. the answer is simple...

Third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> what did you mean by that? and is that appropriate for the speaker of the house to speak that way? >> listen, i speak english. and the fact is, the house has done its work. we have this sequester because the president demanded it. and because senate democrats have refused to act. >> 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...

Approach that would combine spending cuts, that would combine reducing cuts in the entitlements along with new revenues and weve done some of that. 2-1 or 3-1 cuts in revenue but the cuts need to be meant with additional revenue and thats what the american people voted for but at this point the speaker has been unwilling and the majority of house republicans have been unwilling to do anything more than cut. it was a month or two to go that the sequester was to go into effect. this morning he rea...

The house has acted twice over the last ten months to replace the sequester. if were going -- the president got his tax hikes on january the 1st. >> speaker boehner this morning on the sequester cuts now in effect. of course, meanwhile, states are looking inward as they brace for impact. my next guest represents california which, of course, is already facing its own budget calamity, to say the least. joining me now from washington is golden state congressman adam schiff who also sits on the hous...

Coolers were still abuzz. on meet the press woodwards source in the administration gene sperling spoke out. >> i cant really explain it. all i can say is i hope bob and i can put this behind us because i think it takes away the focus. >> were you threatening him in any way? >> of course not. >> did the white house threaten woodward and did they move the goal post when it came to the sequester. joe was an aid to former president george h.w. bush. >> great to see both of you. >> the heart of the c...

Because democrat congressional campaign committee has issued a press release this morning. in that release say they in part, quote, fact check, speaker boehner faultily claims democrats have no plan to replace sequester. >> it was the president was the one who proposed this sequester mechanism. it was the congress that approved it. i think everybody has ownership on this. i thought something else was interesting that speaker boehner said where he said you cant cut your way to prosperity. the rep...

A good sunday afternoon to you. you are watching msnbc, the place for politics. today it is business as usual in washington, d.c. >> there are smarter ways to cut spending. >> our hope is that as more republicans start to see the pain in their own districts. >> as the sequester kicks in can the two sides come together to form a more perfect solution? and silence in st. peteers square as the vatican begins the process of picking the next pope. meanwhile here vice president joe biden joined civil ...

Numbers. i know here in l.a. we have city officials talking about potentially cuts in police hiring and homeless services and at the same time they dont really know whats coming down the pipeline so the mayoral candidates out here are making this a big issue in their race, and everyone is just trying to use it to their advantage. >> thank you so much for helping us do some fact-checking here of the sequester. thank you, ladies. >> appreciate it. >> thanks. >> right now the walk across the edmund...

Something about something the congresswoman has brought up twice, the sequester. were excited we finally passed vawa and now the sequester would take the law and they gate it because theres no money to do it. >> if the sequester lasts for a full ten month, thats 210,000 victims of violence that wont get the services they need. an ongoing problem with the republican problem, hostility towards women and if you look at the groups that the house vawa cut out of the bill, it reads like a whos who lis...

Ari melber, msnbc political contributor at "the nation." take us to it. >> there were two big stories in washington this week, of course the sequester and the idea that bob woodward was bullied while covering it. the famous "post" reporter said the white house tried to scare him. the administrations argument was that woodward, of course, was going to regret making a factual error, when all the e-mails came out the evidence showed woodward was exaggerating. it was a threat so veiled i cant see it...