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You're not as hawkish and maybe when it comes to cutting budgets, you're reckless. you don't -- you have a plan for five years. republicans should be a little bit cautious about you. what do you say? >> it's hard for me to be anything except for who i am. i'm a forthright guy and i'll keep putting forward solutions. i had a good job before i came here. i'm a physician, i like doing surgery and i'm happy to go back at any time but the country is not looking for your traditional cookie cutter conservative. they're looking for somebody who can represent the whole country and the ideas i'm talking...

Pressure, on republicans to come back to the table. we're not seeing that happen. in terms of what it was supposed to do for political pressure, is the sequester a bust? >> it is. in that respect. the calculation that the defense cuts would be so severe for the republicans, that they agree to alternative, turn out not to be true. and it is a very interesting situation because it shows how really -- really extreme the republican tea party style commitment is to cutting budgets. two reasons. number one, this is very dumb. a hundred percent of members of congress think it is a dumb way it make cu...

The question of identity is what we are really talking about today. identity of the gop as they start this convention. what is the identity and 2012? when you see these governors as key to that identity? >> hello, jenna. conventions are about the party telling the story. they are saying who we are is this and this is what we want to do. you have an extraordinary opportunity to do a lot of things on a state level that governor romney and paul ryan have been talking about doing on the national federal government level. they have been cutting budgets, rationalizing services. looking at entitlemen...

>> reporter: the ballet of blame. waltzing towards the precipice and back again. >> get it passed and avert a shutdown. >> reporter: a dance till midnight. >> until senate democrats get serious. >> reporter: where the music finally stopped just in time. >> we didn't do it at this late hour for drama. >> reporter: oh, but it was a drama that only proved how difficult cutting budgets can really be. consider this, while the republicans can now take credit for forcing the largest budget cut in history, compared to what is spent apple piewise on social security, medicare, medicaid and defense, this...

Understanding and not fighting with them, we have not taken sides and we do not have a war and we get an idea how much this is costing us now, right, money-wise. >>reporter: in fact, we have done a tally and officials say it cost the first 11 days, $550 million and if you break that down it includes the missiles that are $1.5 million each and they expect they will spend $40 million a month from here on out but, again, they are saying the white house does not plan to go to capitol hill for a supplemental war spending for the $550 million which begs the question, where was the money in the defen...