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>> clayton: top of the if you have fin to you: that's tucker carlson, alisyn camerota. i'm clayton morris, thanks for waking up with us. get your emails and tweets in now. coming up in a little bit it may kohl's you to send that email. one california lawmaker is proposing how to -- you know that big budget problem that the post office has? >> alisyn: sure. >> clayton: why not deal with the stamps. we are going to tax emails. every email you send you may be taxed if you live in california. >> alisyn: i would go broke. >> tucker: to support the post office the least efficient organization in the...

Agenda that was preexisting. >> rahm emanuel has had a tough tenure there. since newtown we know they have some of the toughest gun laws in the country. now that they moved to this sentencing strategy and truth in sentencing is the feeling is that that is going to work? >> reporter: you really hit the nail right on the head because the prisons are down state in illinois. the prisons are already overcrowded. so you may get some pushback, if you make the sentences stiffer, ultimately you will have more convicts in more prison beds. and the rest of illinois has to foot the bill. so you may get th...

Other. the president is going around the country and trying to talk about how it's going to first first responders, hurt this and hurt that. the republicans weren't in town this week and hopefully everyone will be in town next week and that leaves five days and that's not enough time to get this done. as was the case that began with the first budget problem in august 2011 when they do talk, they talk past each other and they're talking to their base rather than talking to each other to try to get the big deal and the op ed that i wrote talked about the fact that people have been saying you hav...

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...

When asked about pelosi's absurd denial. jay carney had no he choice, but to completely contradict her. watch this. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi one of the sunday broadcasts, referring to the sequester on the future of the united states and talking about education and scientific research it's almost a false wrong that we have a spending problem. does the president think we have a spending problem. >> i think this is a little bit of deja vu here, of course the president believes we have a spending problem. >> sean: at least carney admits it. joining me now to explain why the dismal eco...