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Hes not moved in any serious way, but we remain anxiously waiting for him to come to the table to work with us to solve this problem. >> bottom line, you could live with the sequester if it happens? >> i dont want to live with the sequester. i want reductions in spending that make sense. these indiscriminate reductions do not make sense, and were going to hurt a lot of people, and its up to the president really to act now. >> let me talk about immigration. you gave a big speech this week where y...

General public. we talk about icht if were really at a point where there needs to be a whole new new deal but were still responsive to the tale party moment of 2010. >> right. the sequester -- the budget control act has been kicked down the road enough that were still trying to jump over it. >> theres still a case. theres something to be sads for signaling well in advance if youre going to be changing things, if youre going to be changing the social security retirement age you may want to let pe...

White house that proposed these automatic spending cuts, and now theyre saying it would be so awful, there is leon panetta, the out going defense secretary saying it would hollow out the military. this is not how washington is supposed to operate, is it? >> no, its not, and let me explain. when the president proposed a sequester, it was as an incentive to those of us in congress to work together on a bipartisan basis to solve these problems. it was supposed to be so awful that the super committe...

The next washington crisis. >> it is still the economy. >> doomsday machine. >> 85 billion in cuts. >> whats getting cut? the pentagon. >> were only a few weeks away from this. >> it doesnt make any political sense. >> it would be brutal for everybody. >> devastatiing effects on the economy. >> pushes us into a second recession, something so terri e terrible -- >> all right. settle down. >> they recognize that the sequester is a bad idea. >> i dont like the sequester. >> we see the republicans p...

I am prepared, eager, and anxious to do a big deal, do a big package that ends this governance by crisis where every two weeks or every two months or every six months we are threatening this hard-won recovery. >> the latest crisis faced in washington is the sequester, a package of drastic spending cuts, which congress seems to have forgotten they actually voted for. congress now dreads the sequester they voted for. president obama has offered john boehner a way out of sequester

Understand that, yes, we need to reduce the deficit, but it shouldnt just be on the backs of seniors. it shouldnt just be on the backs of young people. >> professor, do republicans not realize that they are protecting the interests of massive oil companies and their profits and potentially throwing the poor into abject poverty? >> if they look at the data and look at the facts, i would say they would absolutely have to acknowledge that. you know, this is kind of a tricky situation, right, becaus...

>> you know, i wish i had the answer to that question, but congressman cole is not alone. hes not all by himself in that view. republican member of congress told me yesterday that he didnt think that the sequester was a big deal. so you have this stick that professor peterson talked about and that we knew about in 2011 that was supportsed to force and cajole congress into doing the right thing. >> jonathan, im going to have to interrupt you because the president is now speaking at the armed forc...

Actually need to get in the military are somehow in some ways represented here. so its kind of like shiny candy from both sides, and i think the republicans think they can ride this in the same way the president sort of rode out the fiscal cliff deal to his advantage, but it just wont work out that same way. so we have to understand the sequester is really just code word for undermining the safety net and food security and economic security for the poorest folk in this country. >> absolutely. jo...

Be specific about what were facing. the sequester. if the sequester goes in to effect, if it goes through 10%, faa would be furloughed, usda food inspectors would be furloughed, 25% coast guard operations would be cut, sup lemtal nutrition plans for 600,000 women and children would be cancelled. i mean, he can talk about the real impact of those that are trying to not meet him and, in some common ground, and force us into an unnecessary sequester. >> i think thats absolutely right as well. when ...

Precisely at a time of rising instability across the globe. this is no way to govern the united states of america. this budgetary crisis creates uncertainty. it creates doubt and most importantly from my point of view, it undermines the men and women in uniform who are willing to put their lives on the line in order to protect this country. >> those planned budget cuts are part of the sequestration deal agreed to by congress as part of annest to force compromise on the national debt. house speak...