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Issues going on in congress and thet president does not seem willing to take the time to work with congress, make the phone calls and work with congress to get this solved. >> tim, i don't have the numbers in front of me but i would imagine that you compare the vacation days that this president has taken versus the number of vacation that his predecessor took there is probably a wide chasm between the two. >> by the way, wherever the president goes having worked for a president, the white house apparatus goes with him. he can get work done anywhere unlike congress who decided thanks to mr. boe...

State of the union address was the president's idea in the first place. >> i've made it perfectly clear, though, the sequester, i don't like it, no one should like it, but the sequester is there because the president insisted that it be there. where is the president's plan to replace the sequester that he insisted upon? jon: well the political theater playing out in the media. on nbc news on its website political hot potato g.o.p. trade blame with obama for looming sequester. u.s. news & world report, obama plays public against g.o.p. on sequester. in the washington times, sequestration, angry...

Sequester showdown right now on capitol hill, a senate hearing underway on the impact of the looming sequester. march 1st is the date among those testifying, homeland security secretary janet napolitano and arne duncan. and 15 days away from the devastating cuts if the president and congress can't come to an agreement. mitch mcconnell said there's a familiar scenario going on right now. >> phase one, republicans identify a challenge and actually propose a solution. phase two, liberals sit on their hands until the last minute. phase three, they offer some gimmicky tax hike designed to fail and ...

Phone and call anyone to help. >> with his take on benghazi, the hagel brennan confirmation and looming sequester is richard bloomen tholl. i trust the weather's not too bad where you are. >> the roads are building cleared and people ought to shovel now, as you have suggested, rather than waiting, but we're undigging, digging out. and it's winter, it's new england. it's snow and we're dealing with it. >> i grew up in canada so i know about snow. >> let me go to what senator graham said on "face the nation" where he said he's going to do everything he can to block the nominations of john brenna...

Preferred policy. they wanted to save defense and to change the domestic cuts paid for by other cuts. i think you need an alternative. i don't agree can charles. i think if the republican position is accept sequester the president says theories a half -- here's a halfway proposal. i don't like that position. >> there's nothing against offering an alternative. and it probably would be a good idea but the alternative has to be equal amount of cuts and no hikes in taxes. you could -- anybody in an hour would device smarter cuts. but you have to be prepared for a sequester to occur. otherwise, you...