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Reflects our position. >> thank you, mr. president. you said a few minutes ago and youve said repeatedly that the country has to stop careening from crisis to crisis. so, with a few crises behind us and a few more crises ahead of us, taking a step back from this specific debate over the sequester, how, as the leader of this country, do you plan to stop the country from careening, from crisis to crisis? >> well, a couple of things. number one is to make sure that we keep making progress wherever ...

Republicans and what they actually want out of this. we talked about the fracturing within the party and priorities. you have rand paul on one side saying the cuts arent deep enough and we need to go further and then other republicans who are saying, we cant put our defense industry at risk, we need to avoid these cuts. there seem to be two lines of conversation about whether or not the sequester is good, just from the gop. >> in this story and in the hagel story, incredibly power constituency t...

Through on the threat. >> these are not the right way to move forward. the president agrees with that. bob, from the very beginning, he said we need a balanced way forward that includes both cuts, and that includes cuts in entitlements, and revenues. and thats exactly what he wants to do now. and to say -- i think what gene was reacting to was that you suggested he had moved the goalposts. the goalposts have been in the same place from the very beginning. >> no, they have not. because in 2011, h...

And where the greatest impact will be on people so that you arent hurting the most vulnerable people. the president isnt sitting in the oval office saying, lets increase the pain as much as we possibly can. i, the leader of this country, for the sake of a political argument, but at the same time, weve got to figure out a way to do this given the kinds of contracts and commitments that departments and agencies already have. >> well, there wont be the immediate pain that some anticipated. there is...

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 deal with the sequester, and so we ...

To close loopholes. he took representative reigle back down to newport news, a republican, that we have to start dealing with more issues and more revenue. lindsey graham said if entitlements are on the table, im open to more revenue. so these cracks have started to appear. and i hope that that is the beginning of something larger that brings both sides to the table. and brings a balanced approach. >> did you see the floor yesterday? >> i saw a little bit on the show. >> have you built a bomb sh...

Reporters there. compareed to this. here is what the same room looked like on the press conference on the sequester. it is a standing room only crowd for a bill that everyone knew was dead on a rival. what is the new bill? and why is no one listening to it. the bill would place a small tax of three points on non consumer financial trades. a tax of three pennies on every $100 traded in the markets. that is $1.50 on a $5,000 modes virtually no impact on most mef americans. it taxes something we wa...

After 115 days under a proverbial rock, two weeks before his highly anticipated speech at cpac, mitt romney has finally broken his silence. in an interview to air on sunday, the romenee was asked to report about the sequester. >> the president campaigning to the american people, doing rallies around the country and flying around the country and blaming and pointing. what does that do? that causes the republicans to retrench and then put up a wall and to fight back. it is a very natural, human em...

Priorities like defense and the economy, while also credibly reducing the deficit. whats going to happen going forward? are we going to have an attempt to do cuts only, to turn off the sequester for this year, and then negotiate tax reform, see if theres new revenues out that? >> chuck, as you know, being new, im still trying to discern whats kabuki and whats tug up here, but let me tell you what i think will happen. i started to see this week, with the pending votes yesterday, an awful lot of...

So open invitation here on "the daily rundown" for you to come on together or any pair to come on together. >> super. >> thank you. next, the state of the sequester, virginia democrat tim kaine, he hasnt even been in the senate for two months, and hes already facing a crisis to try to save his state from those sequester cuts. independence day, get ready people, the clear kine that the lieutenant governor of virginia is looking for a reason to get in, no the to not run. but first todays tri...