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There's a balanced way. >> steve, it's good to have you. as we've been talking about through this hour, there's a new poll from cbs finding more americans blame republicans for the sequester over president obama and the democrats. in the first hour of the show, i had an opportunity to speak with congressman schiff, a democrat from california who has problems with the plan drafted by house republicans. take a listen. >> what the house gop is now suggesting in terms of keeping the government open is that they'll provide some flexibility from the pentagon in these cuts but they don't want to prov...

To be more important to them than avoiding tax increases and that is not true. >> i think that's a mystery. you have the rand pauls of the world. plenty of tea party saying a cut in defense is a cut and we need cuts. >> i think so. and i think that there is enough of them in the republican caucus that really have no problem with the sequester happening. i think to some degree it. the problem is, again, these kind of cuts, these are hatchet cuts. they're not strategic scaplpals where you go in there and making cuts that make sense and programs that don't work and spending that is not beneficial...

Say yesterday, there is increased potential for conflict because when america is not strong, other rogue actors around the world, they will act. look where iran is right now, trying to acquire the capability of having a nuclear weapon. this is not a time to undermine our national security and what is deeply troubling, martha, the assistant commandant of the marines says if these cuts go forward the marine corps will be unable to respond to one major contingency. think about it. we need to protect our country and it is irresponsible for us to allow these hatchet cuts to our department of defens...