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They're pushing forward their own position and that's why there's really no compromise happening on this issue barring some, you know, amazing dramatic event that none of us can foresee at this moment by 11:59 tomorrow that we all turn in to pumpkins or whatever happens when the sequester hits, it is coming. >> i'm a fan of amazing dramatic events so i hope one is coming but i'm not sure if it's coming. this is the fifth manufactured budget cut since the gop take over the house. the gop's image right now is at a historic low, 62% of americans saying the gop's out of touch. 56% not open to chan...

The president is, quote, ever hopeful. but as you have the private conversations with aides here at the white house, they make it very clear they're continuing to focus on the same priority which is to try to convince the american public that compromise, a balanced approach, is the way to go on this. hoping that the public ultimately will influence congress. congressional republicans to back down from their positions right now. you know, we do as we head in to tomorrow have been focusing on this is happening sort of like an overnight thing but the white house is almost backed off that language...

>> the big ax. >> one of those college football rivalry games. minnesota and wisconsin. >> a hashtag and all set. >> rachel, i want to bring up sort of a funny point. there's a list of things that cost the same as the sequester. one of them is the aig bail youth. the sequester about $10 billion less than what we spent on beer in 2011. 17% of what we spent on gas in 2012. and yes, someone found out and did this calculation, it is 1/100,000th cost of the death star. i'm wondering, have we in the media helped to manufacture this crisis? >> well, both parties would probably say yes. republicans in...

Equality, tax fairness, saying that it's the box, it's the messaging, not the policies, strikes me as just sort of horribly dumb. can you not read? >> will he be okay in 2016? >> i think so. i think it's too many for republicans to let christie off the hook. >> yes. >> they're not doing that. >> cpac, i will point out, is not the whole of the party. >> bingo. >> there it is. >> so turning back to bob woodward and those that did not follow the story on twitter last night saying that the president is responsible for the sequester. he wrote it in the book and "wall street journal" op-ed and white...

You are in "the cycle" and it's the final countdown. t-minus one day until the sequester kicks in. this hour the senate's voting on two final replacement bills but neither are expected to go far. no surprise. that means tomorrow the president has until midnight to sign the sequester order and 11 months ago he suggested and the republicans agreed to and with that, the first cuts bear down on americans. can you feel the an mos if i growing over the dysfunction in washington? >> yes! >> speaking of dysfunction, lawmakers spent the morning blaming each other for the sequester and setting the stage...