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And others have sort of expressed similar frustration that you guys, and not to lump you all in the same group, but 435 congressmen and the white house and the senate thought it would be a good idea to create a scenario that would be so unthinkable, so unfathomable that you guys would have to work together to avoid it before it happened. here we are, four days from doomsday if you will and you guys haven't been able to figure this thing out. why not? >> well, you're exactly right about how this was set up. it came in two different pieces. the taxes and then the across the board sequester cuts....

Coming up -- congressman paul ryan has been a supporter of the automatic military and domestic cuts known as se questions stration for most of his career in the house as he made clear this interview last year. >> what conservatives like me have been fighting for for years are statutory caps on spending, legal caps in law, that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money and if they breach that amount across the board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you can't turn that off without a super majority vote. >> but now it appears that, surprise, paul ryan is changing...

Never actually cut the spending. taxes went up, spending didn't go down. it's just for a number of reasons, tax increases are what politicians do rather than reform government. rather than make tough decisions. >> do you think in this case then republicans are wrong to seek some sort of work-around on automatic cuts in defense spending after the failure of the super committee? >> well, the super committee was supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over a decade. not a lot. but a start moving in the right direction. because they couldn't come up with a list, it goes to a seques...

Reasons, tax increases are what politicians do rather than reform government. rather than make tough decisions. >> do you think in this case then republicans are wrong to seek some sort of work-around on automatic cuts in defense spending after the failure of the super committee? >> well, the super committee was supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over a decade. not a lot. but a start moving in the right direction. because they couldn't come up with a list, it goes to a sequester. that's not a failure. that was option two. the politicians couldn't come up with a list, so yo...

The politicians couldn't come up with a list, so you go to an across-the-board sequester. that's not as good as the paul ryan plan, which the republican house has already passed. that was a $6 trillion spending restraint. we're not arguing with nothing on the table. we've actually had one body, the house, pass a responsible budget that cuts spending, doesn't raise taxes. senator schumer is the leader of the democrats in the senate. the senate didn't do a budget this year. they didn't do a budget the year before. they didn't do a budget the year before that. so if they would write down a budget...