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Of leadership he should on all these issues. >> i think there are things the president should have done differently. we talked about them endlessly around the table. on defense the other side is particularly divided. we just had a whole discussion about cpac and what's a true conservative and all the rest of the stuff. you have to have compromise. >> i can separate the talk radio types from john boehner. >> i'm not sure. >> i can separate. let's look again at the big picture. let's look at this from 30,000 feet. we've always said the grand bargain. said this for years when republicans give up ...

Children receiving vaccines for diseases like whooping cough and the flu. >> holy -- we're doomed! students without financial aid will have to get jobs feeding 6 children to old people! why did i only buy the hat? >> welcome back to "morning joe." top of the hour, mike barnicle and steve rattner are with us with katty kay from washington and joining us former press secretary robert gibbs and joining us msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. we will begin this hour with a looming sequester. president obama and republicans have reportedly not spoken directly since last week and yet to meet fa...

Something, they agreed. they voted to do this. so they would -- so they would then be forced to come up with a more reasonable way of moving forward and they didn't do that. i guess it's going to happen. the assumption is it happens and then everyone scrambles to fix it. the argument is over how you fix the sequester, how you fix the bad thing you've done rather than how you avoid it. that seems to be where we are today. >> mike, look how they're going about this. again, they haven't talk. come on, they have not talked since the beginning of the year. if you are running a business, running a c...

Mika, who do we have? >> republicans representative from georgia, jack kingston. >> he's a guy a lot of people have talked about running for senate for the chambliss seat. are you going to jump in there, jack? >> we're taking a good look at it. i will let you guys know. >> i love an answer like that. an honest answer. >> i will seek advice of counsel. >> either be for you or against you. jack, what's happening with the sequester? you have both sides talking about republicans putting out press releases talking about how troop training is going to be damaged, national security is going to be dam...

Live look at the lincoln memorial at 48 past the hour. let's do the must read opinion pages and rattner's charts. david brooks writes in the "new york times," our second ad less sense. my dream obama would abandon the big government versus small government argument. he'd point out that in a mature aging society, government isn't going anywhere. the issue is not size but sclerosis. the crucial point is not whether a dollar is spent publicly or privately, it's whether it's spent on the present or the future. the task today is reform institutions and rearrange spending so we look like a young nat...