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In the first place. >> let me ask you what he has to show for that. one year later, were back to lurching from crisis to crisis. you know, its so absurd to people outside of washington who have to scratch their heads and say wait a minute. this is the white house that proposed these automatic spending cuts and now they are saying it would be so awful. leon panetta, the defense secretary, saying it would hollow out the military and have grave reactions. this is not how washington is supposed to o...

Preparing to ground the blue angels this year, and the plans to send more troops to the gulf will be put on hold, and they insist there will be no cuts in the war already taking place. and this could slow growth by 1.5% this year, and becoming essentially a drag on the economy. joining us is the former u.s. comptroller, and i know, david, your views of what to get done are well known, but the sequester, the point is to bring both parties together to do something, and now there is resignation on ...

>> thats a serious look at entitlements, which the country needs. >> mayor, you know just how hard the politics are on that. plus the sense that the president is feeling, look, i dont have an opposition to trust in that if we move forward on something like that. >> the president is prepared to move. he showed with mr. boehner he is prepared to do deals and to move. but he has to have a republican party thats really willing to dance with him. i know that. now everybody is talking about sequestrat...

In a sense its got to be confrontational, because that is not the view of the republicans whose help hes going to need at least on the house side in order to avert the sequester, which doesnt look like its going to happen. i would say the state of the union is pretty fractured and argumentative right now. i think that will come through to some extent in the speech. >> when we looked, though, at the quinnipiac poll, though, logan, a percent says they trust president obama to be able to lead on th...

But they will tell you, yes, i want a future. but what about my mom and dad? you know, they understand full well that these family structures are critically important to the future of america. in the senate, we have a bipartisan goal of pathway to citizenship. not stopping at the dream act, beginning with the dream act and pushing forward. >> i want to get back to the automatic spending cuts and ask a fundamental question that i think republican critics of this president are asking. do you not c...

And i think all of us understand if it goes forward in less than three weeks its going to have a dramatic negative impact on many agencies equally important on the economy. so we need to come together. what the president is proposing for the rest of this year at least is that we deal with the sequester the same we have the first two months, evenly split between revenue and cuts. i think thats a sensible approach. its consistent with simpson-bowles, which many republicans say should be our standa...

The issues that he fought about and that were debated most heat heatedly, revenues being a part of the equation for cutting the budget. the president won on that. so, i think, you know, on that particular issue, hes got the upper hand, and it makes sense for him politically to hammer it strongly. >> well, i dont think that the deal being offered makes any sense for republicans, because the deal that hes saying is give up spending cuts in trade for tax increases, okay? like, theres literally no r...

Recession. a growth declined in america in the last quarter. what america needs is an investment in the future, the kind of things that the sequester will cut are exactly the kinds of things that are an investment in the future -- r&d, education, infrastructure. and whats more, it doesnt even tackle the long-term debt problem because these cuts expire in ten years time. so, you have -- i mean, of course, america has to deal with entitlement reform. youve got to spend less on your health care. bu...

America. in the senate, we have a bipartisan goal of a pathway to citizenship, not stopping at the dream act, beginning with the dream act and pushing forward. >> i want to get back to the automatic spending cuts and ask a fundamental question that i think republican critics of this president are asking. do you not concede that there is a spending problem in washington, even when it comes to the 50% cuts out of the sequester that are for the defense department? you have said in recent interviews...

Again, let people who earn the money keep more of it. the presidents not talking about that. what hes talking about is trying to raise more taxes for washington to spend the money. >> how does this end? i mean, in the end, republicans, from everybody ive talked to, they can live with this across-the-board cutting. it would hurt your state deeply, it would hurt the defense industry, but are you willing to just live with it? >> heres what i hope will happen. we have in our alternative several prop...