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>> gene, i'm at least not going play the blame game here. i personally think the president -- any president yields compare influence and can shape events far more than anybody in congress. let's not play the blame game. let's look at both sides and say these guys haven't gotten together and talked in the new year. we're about to have spending cuts that will go after true productions, military, and a true meat axe approach and as steve rattner said in the last hour not touching entitlements and instead going after discretionary domestic spending. this is no way to run a railroad. >> no, it isn'...

Clinton, he comes from very insulated political world. >> one counter to the not talking to republicans from the context i've spoken to. you can roll your eyes at this, he is. >> let me take off my glasses so people can see me roll my eyes more effectively, go ahead. >> he is talking to them and in order to help some save face because boehner is having such a problem interacting with his own caucus, that has been kept quiet. i'm sure you won't believe that. you really think he's not talking to any. that's crazy. that's just my opinion. >> democratic senators tell me that he's not talking. he h...

Band aid plan. they're not united on this. half the party would like to see sequester, you needunited aroun to give the president 100% flexibility in his administration nor see the white house who has $900 billion in spending cuts on the table as part of a grand bargain, you don't see the white house we'll take one year of those spending cuts as a sequester as a band-aid for now. neither side appears to be looking at a leadership moment and saying stop the madness. >> is it true both sides have not spoken or met face to face since the beginning of the year? >> they had a phone call last week. ...

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Trial. all right. the president has been using his outside game to sell his position on sequester. talking to local tv affiliates and radio shows, surrounding himself with first responders. meanwhile republicans have been playing an inside game, trying to build support for their position against the cuts and begging the media to say it's obama that started the sequester, not them. no one is really putting energy to making a deal. >> to know that some of those people are uncertain about where their job is going to be is very, very scary. >> probably put me down, the lowest wages i could possibl...