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Ultimately who is responsible? >> i think it's on both houses. if you read about woodward's book and i think it will be in the post tomorrow that clearly sequestration was something that jack thought up during the discussions and you know, the republicans adapted and i voted for it and so to say that it's the president's fault here, it's counterproductive. we got here with at least in this last generation, in my opinion in august 2011 when the president and the speaker were meeting behind closed doors that reached the simpson-bowles type agreement, and they were both pulled back from the extre...

About, layoffs and more unemployment and people not getting paid, well, what kind of situation do you think we have now and who is responsible for the layoffs and the cuts in r and d and all of the fiscal disaster that we're already seeing despite sequestration? >> brian: one thing i always thought is where are the other democrats? i don't know if they're for the president, behind the president. you don't hear anything. here is senator baucus and i'm sure the president wasn't happy to hear this. >> the president is part of the sequester. the white house recommended it, frankly back in august, ...

President and the democrats in the senate, as well. here's the thing. whale the white house is trying to walk away from it, there's a senator from montana, he's a democrat, max, and he went off the reservation yesterday when he revealed, oh, yeah, the president, he's responsible. listen to this. >> the president is part of the sequester. the white house recommended it frankly, back in how long, 2011. -- august, 2011. now we are feeling the effects of it. i don't want to say the president is solely to blame,'s not. >> the original thing was to key it up, the idea of draconian cuts for both side...

Powerpoint that speaker boehner's office had put out at the time. they did that yesterday. he created it when he was trying to sell the deal to his more conservative members. so republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a montana democratic senator, max caucus who's up for re-election in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester. >> the white house recommended it frankly, back in august 2011, so now we're feeling the effects of it. >> of all the dumb things washington does, this who started it argument has proven to be one of the dumber ones. this morning usa t...

The last piece of the august 2011 debt ceiling agreement whereby the president, senate democrats and house republicans said, okay, let's raise the debt ceiling but for every dollar we raise that debt ceiling, we'll lower spending by a dollar. so i am in favor of keeping that agreement. >> but keeping that agreement, if the sequester goes into effect, according to the cbo, it says it will cut u.s. growth in half. it will cost at least 1 million jobs and jobs by extension, consumers, which drive the economy. don't you agree that losing 1 million jobs will be disastrous to the recovery? >> if you...