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That well never -- well never get here. >> well never have to do this. >> this will never happen. well do such drastic cuts -- >> this would force us to work together. >> right. now were acting like the sequester was some arrangement that the president and the republicans was supposed to negotiate on. secondly, the president put major cuts on the table. and when we went through this in the beginning of the year, cuts in health care. he put cpi on the table. all of which is still on the table. he...

Mike barnicle, ed rendell and al sharpton are still with us. sorry about that. i hear it was kind of worse than just bumping the deer. tell her im sorry. thats horrible. and joining us from washington, moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. hello, david. >> hey, good morning. >> what a handsome man. >> he is a good-looking guy. >> that was the vice president in connecticut yesterday. >> yep. >> to our top story now, were just one week away from those automatic cuts that will slash $85 bil...

The cuts to deficit reduction. americans have clearly indicated they want a balanced approach. they want wealthy americans to pay their fair share and generate some revenue and they want responsible spending cuts. thats what democrats want and we need to be in washington working together to avoid huge lines at airports, to avoid tens of thousands of kids getting kicked off head start, to avoid layoffs of food inspectors, and the impact on real people. we should not light the fuse no matter how l...

To prevent trial attorneys saying the omb or the government is going to sue? and the government is going to have to pay for it. >> bret, that is quite a lot in one step. so let me try to answer. i do believe that last year there was an understanding that the whole design of the sequester, something we would have preferred not to have taken place. we wanted to get an agreement. we would have preferred if we had enforcement to be combination of revenue and specific spending. this is what happened....

For local and state economies. and, of course, mccrory promised fiscal restraint. this is what fiscal restraint looks like for governor mccrory. $13,200 pay hikes for his cabinet secretaries. his cabinet makes a combined number of $1.1 million. an 8% increase from his democratic predecessor. this is what you voted for, north carolina, next book conservative economics. instead of us affecting military readiness and a whole range of other things that are really important to our security and our ...

Now. >> this is a sample of how some in the conservative media are blaming the president. >> he will inflict maximum pain on us, the taxpayer and the economy if we go through with just a 2% redoes in spending. >> dishonesty is all over the place, karen. >> it is. and, again, theyre not talking about how we got here, which was the budget control act. and how did we get to the budget control act? because john boehner couldnt control his caucus. dont forget, thats how we got into this mess in the f...

Im joined tonight by congressman peter welch of vermont. and also with us is jerry nadler of new york. gentlemen, good to have you with here. >> good to be here. >> good to be here. >> congressman welch, in your area, this is going an immediate affect to families on your assistance program. what about that? >> its tough. you know, the price of fuel is going up and the temperature is going down. and its really tough on a lot of families. and we depend on getting some help for low income heating a...

Go after the big three. what about that? >> i think there is something to that. i mean clearly their hopes all along were the sequester, as damaging as it is gives them the cuts that they want without any real revenue. the president was able to get $600 billion in revenue towards the end of last year. but at this point republicans are thinking no more revenue, no more compromising, and they want a deal that has 100% cuts, zero percent revenue. and for all the ills, all the damage its going to do...

Reason. at the moment theyre not doing that, because in the weird calculus of the sequester, they created a thing so terrible that we would never let it happen, and thus we would come to some bigger deal they would like better. we didnt come to that bigger deal, and so we now need to let the thing that we would never let happen now happen. it doesnt make a lot of sense, but it appears to make a kind of twisted sense that is appealing to house republicans. >> lets say they did not do the thing th...

It. >> democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists, they have already said that these cuts known here in washington as sequestration are a bad idea. >> if the looming sequester strikes, 70,000 young children would be kicked off headstart. 10,000 teacher jobs will be at risk. >> let me make clear i dont like the sequester. >> i think we should in bipartisan fashion stop sequestration before in the words of the secretary of defense destroys the pentagon. >> everybody hates this thing. ...