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>> bret: we are nine day aceway from the imple mation of the reduction of growth of federal spending. were calling it the sequester. we are talking about at it lot. as we learn earlier, not everyone thinks its a bad thing across the board. but lets get some thoughts tonight from a former director of the congressial budget office. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> bret: how does it work? >> sequester is across-the-board cut. one for defense and up with for nondefense. weapon you get under...

Day, whether its syria, iran, the sequester, the big budget cuts about to hit. we want access to the president, thats what this is about. >> megyn: its not just ed henry be, ann compton, abc news the way the presidents availability to the press has shrunk in the past years is a mike mccarry says, the balance used to be in favor of the press not the president and bill, you were in the bush administration and throw something out to you, michael good win of the work post comes out today and says th...

Why it matters to you," its a conversation weve been having a lot around this table, whether or not the debt matters today or sometime down the road in the future, and i think your question or your statement in that title is one that should be answered because i dont think most americans understand in the now, in the here, why debt matters to them. whats the short answer to that question for the average american, why they should be concerned or perhaps not concerned about the government debt? >>...

Results, unlike people on capitol hill who have the luxury of being tied to the party, because as weve seen through fiscal cliff, debt ceiling and now sequester, they dont have to get anything done, even when they put the guillotine over their own necks to get something done, they still wont get anything done. is that why glenn beck doesnt like chris christie anymore? >> jonathan, krystal and nia-malicka, thank you. coming up the vice president loads both barrels. first off, the chinese have h...

Relying them in the next segment. im going to find out if im going to actually fly in the next segment. joy reid, and ari melber, thank you for joining us. coming up, on the sequester thing, the democrats are the republicans enablers. the republicans get to be really, really crazy because they know the democrats would be responsible. but what would government look like with no democrats? what would republicans do? the answer is they would raise taxes and may even raise taxes higher than democr...

You cant do that. we cut it regardless a good or bad idea. >> bret: year over year the budget overall is increasing the pentagon is unable to avoid affecting personnel negatively because they have to cut across the board to those individual buckets. >> absolutely. they have no choice. it seems crazy because it is crazy. if you were doing rational, you know, management of anything you would say what is important, people are important, make sure they get paid and take the cut somewhere else. they ...

Grow. the heard and president and republicans talk about what could happen. this is a quote from the post about the democrats talking about this. democrats no longer see sequester as sufficient to force republicans to cave op new revenues. rather they increasingly see the looming government shutdown deadline of marm 27 as the real means for them to force a g.o.p. surrender. in other words, ready to fight another day. tucker carlson. a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles kra...

Point, too. i dont think the public is engaged in this fight, and until they are, its not much evidence on march 1st they are going to become so, especially since this is going to bleed into the c.r. debate. >> howard, the always wise chris cillizza in the fix talks about the obama strategy and uses his gimlet eye to talk about it. since the collapse of the grand bargain talks in summer 2011, obama has become a far more cynical and politically successful operator. what the president is doing wit...

Joining me today, deputy new york city mayor howard wolfson, the queen bee of thegrio.com, joy reid. the intrepid maggie haberman of politico and msnbc contributor and senior fellow at the center of budget and policy priorities, jared bernstein. while president obama continues to warn of the damaging effects of the sequester and republicans lob insults from the sidelines, youd never know anything was wrong from the market. damn the sequester screams one headline. the dow closed up another 50 p...

Literally, on august 3rd the estimate was we were going to default on our debt and the republicans were willing to do that to the point the house didnt vote on what became this, the sequester, until july 31st and the senate didnt vote until august 2nd. on the one hand, the public isnt engaged because theyve seen this movie before. the politicians were willing to go down to the wire. but on the other hand, republicans are now suffering the consequences of the deal they made, which was to exempt s...