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But that's what he does. right after the interview where did he go? went to virginia, where some of the cuts, if they take place -- people seem to have amnesia about the whole point sequester was. it was the fourth conversation, fourth new negotiations. nobody wants to sequester. the whole point was pick something that each party thought was something that a third rail in their -- in their conferences so that they would force them to have a new conversation, so the whole re-imaging of the sequester. i understand the battleground state politics that romney's up to. but i think he's walking into...

State politics. i hate to say it. but that's what he does. right after the interview where did he go? went to virginia, where some of the cuts, if they take place -- people seem to have amnesia about the whole point sequester was. it was the fourth conversation, fourth new negotiations. nobody wants to sequester. the whole point was pick something that each party thought was something that a third rail in their -- in their conferences so that they would force them to have a new conversation, so the whole re-imaging of the sequester. i understand the battleground state politics that romney's up...

>> bill bennett, my impression spending time with governor romney and talking to him about these issues on camera and off is that he understands the need for some level of compromise, and to even take on conservatives. and yet in this interview there was a level of rigidity, even to the point saying this deal on a defense sequester makes no sense. >> well, he distinguished between the willingness on principle to compromise and the willingness to compromise on principle. and that's an important difference. but i agree with chuck, this was to set up a conversation about what's going to be cut an...

Against it. 95 democrats voted against it. all republican leadership in the house voted for it. doug, give you the last word. >> bottom line everything has to be on the table by democrats and republicans is we can't afford political orthodoxy anymore. i'm for putting obamacare, taxes, revenue, entitlements on the table, bottom line, monica may be right. bill: wow! double-barrel. >> she may be right, but if we stick to our positions rigidly we all as americans lose where americans before were democrats and republicans, bill. bill: thank you. the book's name is? >> what the bleep just happened w...

Now they're trying to wriggle out of what they agreed to do. >> bruce, the republicans are getting very nervous about some of this and especially, according to your reporting, the defense cuts. >> that's right. as you know, a big part of the sequester or the fiscal cliff, rather, is a $1.2 trillion spending cut, 600 on the defense side, 600 on the domestic side. and the republicans are very panic about the 600 on the defense side. dick cheney has been telling them, oh, you can't do this. our defenses will be gutted, and other things of that sort. and one of the interesting things is that they'...