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Created in the last three years, which is great. 166,000 new private sector jobs last month. but now youve got congress by its inaction, and youre right, the house republican leadership told us all go home today after 2:00. were going to now cost the economy 3/4 of a million jobs by not dealing with this so-called across-the-board cut, the sequester. and so while the economy wants to launch, here youve got this manufactured crisis where republicans decided not to try to come up with a bill to de...

Cornyn, all believe they cannot politically making a deal that includes tax increases and keep their jobs. so here we are. not a serious attempt all week along to get rid of the sequester. it makes you wonder if they all really think may they just want to let it happen, but somehow not get blamed for it. now to the supreme court, which will hear arguments later this month on proposition 8, the amendment to californias constitution that approved a ban on same-sex marriages in 2008. after first ...

Mcconnell and john cornyn, tony, because the republican alternative got 38 votes? that was another thing that i cant figure out. at least democrats are united on the message. they may not have much else on the sequester, but reps are split. you have boehner claiming, but you have a bunch of them saying -- >> they were united for different reasons. the people who voted against it felt that giving flexibility to the president was a bad thing. they didnt want to cede that power to the president. it...

Resolution to continue the operation of the government and can you not sign that? that could be the next sort of inflection point. >> i wonder, john, theres a lot of talk about the entitlement programs. the president mentioned them today at the press conference. i thought this was really interesting. politico quotes a senior gop congressman who says this notion that republicans are eager to reform entitlements, folks, democrats have it all wrong. republicans would love to avoid the issue politic...

Some people will be hurt. but overall, it may not have the political impact that the president and the democrats may think it will have. >> not only that, you know, there was -- the way the white house was spinning this this week, they were almost making an assumption that government workers were just going to drop their hands and stop working and not work as hard and all of this. >> meat inspector were going to start spitting in food. >> the other part of this, theres a lot of agency heads who ...

Single one of their taxes went up and i think they are starting to understand that if we try and tax our way out of this, that maybe the republicans have been telling the truth for the last two years, which is if you tax your way out of it, everybody is going to pay more taxes and they are not interested in that. they want to know how to responsibly reduce spending. so im glad to hear that folks across the political spectrum back home at least are willing to talk about reasonable spending deduct...

>> sure. >> as i said for some time, weve just been looking at what happened in this chain of e-mails. this comes after the white house pushing back pretty hard on you for quite some time because the president said he had nothing to do with the sequester. you pointed out in your piece that he did. the white house started pushing back furiously. gene called you up. and we love gene here. but it was a 30-minute call. as i said to david, i mean, lets just not pretend here. that when you say the wor...

Believe themselves and believe their own deadlines. they didnt even agree with their own motives. if republicans are not willing to stop defense cuts, then the sequester was structured all lo wrong, and they dont know who they are. thats the biggest problem of all. if they dont know who they are, how are they going to get to a deal? you talked about the president wants 100% tax rises. its all taxes in terms of revenue. >> the fiscal cliff was 100% tax. >> i do think it was a mistake to pull thos...

Do you think you might have overstepped the way you described the scenario? >> no. i mean, the e-mails speak for themselves. >> they do. >> people have characterized them. but the issue here is, this is where we get tangled up in ourselves is the automatic spending cuts and the sequester and how we got there and what its going to mean to people. and its often a technique employed by white houses either unintentionally or intentionally to say oh, lets make the conduct of the press the issue rathe...

Its time for "get to know the sequester." ♪ >> pre-sequester. lincoln memorial. post-sfeser. lincolns statue is laid off. "get to know the sequester." >> oh, man. >> there it is. hes not in there. >> so pretty. >> with us from washington, moderator of "meet the press," david gregory, political director and host of "the daily rundown," chuck todd. guys, hows it going, man? >> were still here. >> i want to hear more of axelrod. >> awesome. >> how you doing, david? >> im great. >> youre grumpy to...