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[ theme music ] stephanie hello, current tv land, good morning. Good morning jacki schechner. Good morning, love what is going on . Stephanie well knowing more fun than a sequestration. Apparently it is both disastrous and it is the president s fault and its no big deal, but it is a disaster. Hashtag stephanie right. Hashtag lame ass rightwing moron. Yes. Good morning everybody, lets talk sequester. President obama is travelling to new port news virginia today where he will talk about sequestration. Many suppliers rely solely on the shipping company for its business the president will explain ...

Who loved being who she was. Anna nicole smith had fought all her life to escape her troubled past, recreate herself, and put her name in lights. And, for a brief time, she managed to do just that. [ theme music ] bill good morning, everybody, what do you say . It is the full court press here on a wednesday february 20th. Welcome to the prom on current tv, coming to you live all the way across this great country of ours, coasttocoast. Bringing you the big stories of the day and giving you a chance to sound off about them. 86655press is our toll free number. Lots to cover today. President obama...

And the fact is anybody coming into the speakership, kevin mccarthy coming in now is not going to have any republicans, or many republicans who are going to be eager to go along with the notion that, well, we've got to govern, which is what mccarthy himself said after the republicans took the majority in the senate. so nothing seriously changes except the deck chairs right now. >> michael there, seems to be a thesis that show the base it can't be done, let them walk to the cliff, let them incite a shutdown and they'll learn. and in fact the people that seem to be take the lessons the hardest, ...

Of extremism." michael, let me start with you. what do you think john boehner's politics truly are? jonathan chait posits that effectively boehner's differences with the radical republican base are more tactical than philosophical. molly ball in the atlantic says effectively john boehner is the front man for the gop's business-oriented wing. where do you think he actually is in terms of his ideology? >> i think he's what we would have called 20 or 30 years ago a rock-ribbed conservative. i don't think there's much question about that. but these days a rock-ribbed conservative who's possibly wi...

"khatallah ought to be held at guantanamo," which he has previously said we should close. graham tweeted, "naval vessels were never meant to be detention and interrogation sit sites #benghazi." now, indeed republicans could barely bring themselves to acknowledge, much less applaud a major development in a tragedy that sparked 13 public hearings, 25,000 pages of documents, and 50 separate hearings. as michael thomasky aptly points out in today's daily beast the republican response has been driven mostly by disappointment because just as they were all set to unveil their new select committee to ...