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Campaign-style rally. here is house speaker john boehner. >> the president says we need another tax increase in order to avoid this sequester. well, mr. president you got your tax increase. it's time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, if the president was serious he'd sit down with harry reid and begin to address our problems. martha: senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler joins us live from newport news, virginia where the president is. what are republicans accusing the president of, exactly here wendell. ...

Business, you wouldn't talk to any of these people. they're playing a game. both sides are playing a game. you just heard the speaker of the house say, you know, the president of the united states insists on playing games with our military men and women, using them as campaign props. all right. so just take that one statement. a high school math teacher could go in and look at the defense department budget and cut it responsibly, but if you talk about the defense department budget you immediately get comments like that, national security. >> exactly. >> the iranians are going to attack us. bot...

To push his plan to close tax loopholes. white house speaker john boehner rules out the possibility of any new taxes. >> i stand by those commitments to make the reforms for smart spending cuts. we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform speaker boehner championed just two months ago. >> the president says we have to have another tax increase in order to avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. it's time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, if the president was serious, he'd sit dow...

Avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. it's time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, the president was serious, he would sit down with harry reid and begin to address our problems. >> the president will be in newport news today to discuss the local economy, particularly military spending. the president met at the white house. they are critical about how the president is handling the situation. >> now is a time for him to show leadership, proposed $85 billion, propose the are you ductions in a more bala...

Personally approved the plan to propose the sequester. that's been cited by everyone from john mccain to bobby jindal. it all mere theatrics until we see the cuts take effect? here is the great speaker. >> -- than he is in urging his senate democrats to actually pass a plan. listen, we know there are smarter ways to cut spending and to continue to grow our economy. that's why republicans have acted twice, as kathy said, to replace the sequester with what we would argue are smarter cuts. listen, the president says we have to have another tax increation in order to avoid the sequester. well, mr....