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Because they do consider it to be on the defense and defense sides. devastating. they want to see a path forward to reducing worst impacts. >> sam, do you think the democrats could have held the extension of unemployment insurance against the defense department piece of this? that seems to me to be a very strong republican incentive here to get this deal done. to take care of the defense spending piece of it. and it seems like the unemployment piece could have been balanced. >> they felt it was a politically advantageous contrast. throughout the past two years, you have had a pairing of defens...

White house sees as the positives of the deal from their perspective. >> everything sam mentioned. you are lifting sequestration. you also are getting some kind of deal. allowing appropriators do their work, back into a normal budget process. showing, we don't, lurch from crisis to crisis. they've don't love the deal. not what they wanted in a big bargain. get at all their priorities. again i keep wanting to point this out. most vulnerable people. doesn't help the unemployed. get left out of the deal. 1.3 million, long term unempl unemployed. republicans made it a red line they would not do ta...

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