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Asleep on the sequester and better hope they don't wake up. let's be honest. we mentioned at the table a lot of scary cuts will happen later. some will happen slowly. some are not going to happen at all and a lot of them will be given discretion as to how they deal with sequester that might make the cuts less painful and frankly entire regions that may not feel the pain at all. i am wonder figure you think obama may have miscalculated a little talking about his public popularity. miscalculated his ability to scare republicans and scare the country away from this looming sequester. >> i agree w...

Reducing military spending will make us safer in the long run. the guest spot is a 24 year veteran of the central intelligence agency and the author of the cost of american militarism. i hope you didn't out you there. >> it's too late to avoid that. >> tough love. >> steve is too. i forgot i was supposed to say that. >> neither confirm or deny. to your argument, we can afford and we should be aiming to cut military spending. two questions about that. the approach that the sequester provides for, this across the board 9% reduction. we are not targeting specific areas and leaving others alone. d...

Cuts, it's possible that the sequester can prove unpopular, i'm skeptical that it will produce a ka taft rory that forces republicans to save. they released a bunch of immigrants and maybe tomorrow they will decommission the uss ronald reagan. we have one of these every day for a month. if two weeks from now, you will that happens is the lining of parks are really long, that's not the way they are forced to give up on the agenda. the shut down or threat of it, that i think could get republicans to budge. >> you you referenced the poll numbers and more specifically, 40% of americans were paying...

To push his plan to close tax loopholes. white house speaker john boehner rules out the possibility of any new taxes. >> i stand by those commitments to make the reforms for smart spending cuts. we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform speaker boehner championed just two months ago. >> the president says we have to have another tax increase in order to avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. it's time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, if the president was serious, he'd sit dow...

Interests of the senate and of the country, if he thinks he has a partner. that certainly happened last time. >> yeah. let's remember the number one and number two republicans in the united states senate, mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, are both up for re-election in 2014. and compromise -- the sequester, these ideas of cuts are not unpopular with the part of the republican party that would be the first ones to recruit a challen challenger against mitch mcconnell or john cornyn. i can't picture -- i cannot picture how mitch mcconnell is the deal maker. >> except for the fact kentucky is not t...