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Theyve lost all credibility. >> december 12th, the house passes the bill. but 62 republicans vote no, including tea party conservative paul brown. >> does this budget agreement roll back what republicans say they accomplished with the sequester? >> absolutely. theres no question. weve got to stop spending. and weve got to do it today. because thats the only way to stop this federal government thats out of control. >> months ago, few predicted that the gop would agree to ease the sequester. but t...

Listen, if you made the case to the american people that obamacare wasnt working. i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, its a delay until we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. >> in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to ...

Another shutdown scenario next year. well concede the one victory they have had since the obama era began. >> shouldnt they be having ptsd? shouldnt they be worried? >> well, they should be a little worried. look, the government shutdown was a disaster. the reason for that is we had no chance whatsoever of defunding obamacare. the lesson isnt that republicans shouldnt fight. its that we shouldnt fight stupid. we shouldnt pick fights we cant win. we can win the fight for the budget control act. i...

Republican party where the automatic reflex of being pro-defense has been at least overlaid with an equally important impulse towards smaller government. >> it would take months for that x-ray image to fully develop. >> i think both parties have a say that this would be a negative event for the economy. >> remember maryland congressman john delaney? on february 12, he headed to his first state of the union address. >> i dont think a sequester is going to happen. >> defense cuts were supposed to ...

Tough decision, and i voted against the bill tonight. you know, while it eases -- i actually think "the new york times" described it the best this morning as a minimalist budget deal. and while it does ease the across-the-board indiscriminate cuts, the sequester, in fact, we have seen an unbelievable erosion of the priority of this nation in education and health care, child. head start, biomedical research. they suffered such a blow over the last decade that there is no ability, in fact, to incr...

At the time found the majority of americans supported those measures. the lobbying effort began immediately. families of the newtown victims became a familiar sight on capitol hill. the gun industry, led by the powerful nra, countered with an equally intense effort. focusing on democrats in conservative states up for re-election in 2014. finally in april, a bipartisan deal on the scaled back measure to expand background checks, but in the democrat-controlled senate the bill fell short of the 60 ...

Hillarys second term before you see real deficit reduction. walk us through some of the initial signs from our conservative friends. >> you wonder if theyre going to give congressman labrador a hell no button he can press when he votes tomorrow. as a policy matter, this thing is a nothing burger, right? so it doesnt do a whole lot on the deficit, it doesnt do anything in terms of tax reform. doesnt do anything to entitlements. doesnt really fully replace the sequester. doesnt deal with unemploym...

Head start would be staying at home. how many more cancer research grant from top researchers nih would be denied. you cant start to estimate how harmful this would have been. the first year of sequester, you can find a certain amount of money under the cushion. you can delay things. but i think this year it would have hurt very deeply. not just national security but in things i think are very important to investment and education and research. so i can say very clearly, its not perfect. i under...

The people who really are causing problems in our country and those are the democrats. and you have people like senator pryor from arkansas, senator landrieu from louisiana, who have been big supporters of obama care and big supporters of you losing your insurance of specifically being canceled under obama care. i rather direct our resources towards trying to take over republican majority than trying to eat our own. >> nevertheless, that appears to keep happening again and again. you get a signa...

Temperature plus the wind, you get the windchill. look at this, 47 degrees below normal at international falls. 25 degrees below normal in minneapolis. and it doesnt warm up at all. we are going to stick with that very, very cold arctic air across much of the north. and look at this, by the weekend, we will have our next system possibly impactinghe northeast. could see an icy mix, yes, even new rk city and boston. already, guys by this weekend. not much of a breather, yuck pipe dont know what to...