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i don t know what just happened but i m sorry. she had another point to make and we have to move on. awkward but it s live. joining me now, carrie woodruff-brown or politico and strategist chris kofonis. our apologies to the congresswoman. chris, the bottom line is you heard her say this is not the faults of democrats. she believes. as your party believes, that speaker boehner dropped the ball here. he is not making the next move. the republicans have not put up a proposal and they re not prepared for a vote here. well, you know, it s pretty clear that the republicans have come to terms with the fact they want the sequester to go through and the question i guess becomes how much pain is there going to be? if you look at where the cuts are, i mean, the problem i think here and what the american people need to be aware of, it s indiscriminate cuts. you have to do across the board equal cuts. that was the whole point here. that was the entire point of the ....
Deal that was reached between the president and republicans and that it would be so brutal and unfathomable we wouldn t get to this point. here we are. root canal politics usually doesn t work and right now the republicans sit there and wait and to see how much pain there will be. the problem they have and looking at a calendar, march 27th when the continued resolution expires and talk about funding the government and they start losing leverage right there so you have a lot of pain growing and you re going to start seeing some real pain across the key states in education, defense, health care whatever it might be. and then you have the continuing resolution being negotiated. they ll lose a lot of leverage on that but they re counting on a different reaction clearly. carrie, let me play some of the gop governors this weekend on the sequester. there s a lot of buzz over the fact there s not a united i guess speaking or talking point ....