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Just ninety- nine bucks. senators john mccain and lindsey graham are at this very moment meeting with the president at the white house. while the premise of the meeting is immigration reform, their discussion is expected to also address the impending sequester. however, in what has to be the ultimate irony, mccain and graham, the two most vocal opponents of chuck hagel's nomination for defense secretary, which is being voted on right at this moment, find themselves chatting with the president while across town in the senate hagel may be about to be confirmed before the end of our very broadc...

Approach to the debate, the conversation? >> i do, actually, because, you know, in your previous segments you had the mayor of new orleans, and i think anybody that looks at it clearly said that banning assault weapons isn't going to top is it because there's 3.5 million of those out there, but the president's focus on mental health, making sure that guns don't get in the hands of criminals or the mentally ill, that should be the focus and something that people should be able to work out. >> it seems as though the gun violence debate is a hot potato. however, the poison pill that was expected ...

Amazing. we were in a top six snowstorm here. we'll get an update for the snow total in the city within the hour. but in '78 we had almost the same amount of snow but a 2-foot storm a week before. so imagine these banks up to here. that's what they were dealing with 35 years ago. >> we wouldn't be able to see you, erik fisher. anyway, listen. it's all good at this point. >> might be an improvement to the report, right? >> not at all. don't you go there. erik fisher, thank you so much there from boston. let's go now to politics. president obama is on a mission to avoid a series of automatic c...

Because senate democrats and the president are not going to go along with it. so what are your expectations? do you really expect democrats to go along with your plan? >> well, i think they should. obviously obama care is not going to be repealed while the president's in office. and at the same time, we know that more than half the states have said they're not going to set up the exchanges that are called for in obama care. so i don't know of anyone who thinks that the federal government is going to be ready to implement the full -- all this program next year. so why not delay it for a couple ...

Both sides are really digging in and we're seeing the same old sticking points. president obama making the case that he wants any package to include new revenues. they have put forth ideas that include rolling back tax breaks for big companies, large corporations, oil and gas companies. republicans say look, we just gave the president new taxes in the last budget battle. so they are saying that this should solely be worked on in terms of entitlement reform. so those are the sticking points. but alex i have to tell you, economists have warned that if the sequester does in fact kick into effect ...