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Tours, people that are just going to walk around the white house, i mean, it is insulting to the american people's intellect that act like this is what we're worried about. >> insensitive, insulting and completely unnecessary. what we need to do is come to the table as president obama has pushed them to do. he's reached out and had dinners with republicans, had lunch with paul ryan at the white house at the end of last week -- >> he's even going to the hill. >> he's coming to all four caucuses and conferences this week in the house and the senate, so the outreach is ongoing from president obam...

Where do you find the middle ground on those two? i'm joined by david corn, who's with "mother jones" of course, and grio.com's the great joy reid. i'm flabbergasted only in the sense everybody keeps telling me paul ryan's got some smarts. here in the middle of this get-together, let's find a middle ground, let's work together, he pumps out with let's kill president obama's place in history to start the conversation. that will warm him up. your thoughts. >> absolutely. i don't know if it was about him that paul krugman said it's a dumb person's view of what a smart person sounds like. paul rya...

Protection off the president of the united states or in any way disrupt protection for the american people at large events like the super bowl or anything else that they protect people at. >> so reihan, did they make the right choice? i understand john's point that maybe they didn't have a choice. if they did have a choice, maybe this helps the president make the point that these cuts are dumb and we need to do something about it. >> there was a larger blunder in my view in that you had two republican senators who offered a compromise proposal which basically said, look, we know this is a meat...

Dumb and we need to do something about it. >> there was a larger blunder in my view in that you had two republican senators who offered a compromise proposal which basically said, look, we know this is a meat ax and sequestration is going to cause a lot of stupid decisions to be made, so let's give the white house the discretion to make these cuts in a more coherent way. yet, the president diz not embrace the proposal, nor did the democrats. that's a big, big problem. the truth is had the white house had this discretion, they would have been able to make decisions to prioritize. that would hav...

The united states or in any way disrupt protection for the american people at large events like the super bowl or anything else that they protect people at. >> so reihan, did they make the right choice? i understand john's point that maybe they didn't have a choice. if they did have a choice, maybe this helps the president make the point that these cuts are dumb and we need to do something about it. >> there was a larger blunder in my view in that you had two republican senators who offered a compromise proposal which basically said, look, we know this is a meat ax and sequestration is going t...