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Alex? >> michelle, thank you so much for that. now to washington. in his weekly address today, president obama doubled down on his opposition to cutting entitlements as the deadline for sequestration draws here. >> i disagree with republicans who think we should do that by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training. or medicare and social security benefits. that would force our senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction while the wealthiest are asked to do nothing more. that won't work. we can't just cut our way to prosperity. >> joini...

Many of his members vote against him but get enough democrats in the house and then in the senate to put something through. but i think they're going to muddle through with some mediocre little measure that puts all this off again. >> if no deal is reached to avert the sequester, who has more to gain in that regard politically? who has more to lose? >> i think that both sides now assume that the sequester goes into effect march 1st. when they passed it last year, it was seemed as impossible -- a dire thing, no way it will go into effect. everybody now thinks it's going into effect march 1st. t...

Has been making a more emotional appeal to get stiffer gun legislation passed. that is an uphill battle he's going to have once he leaves his vacation here in florida. another fight he's going to face with congress, of course, over the sequester, those deep spending cuts that are set to go in effect in just two weeks now. >> thank you very much, kristen. joining me now, washington bureau chief for "usa today," susan page and jim warren, washington bureau chief for "the new york daily news." let's go with ladies first. are you surprised the president talked about his father like he did in pub...

Think it's probably going to happen, we're going to go to the sequester? that means that you and likeminded democrats of which you seem to be much more coalesced around one concept and your party's platform on this as opposed to to the splintered-up gop. are you willing to go into sequester to stay to your party's ideals? >> we don't have much of a choice. i think the gop in the house is not willing to share any sacrifice or make a balanced deal. so we don't have a whole lot of choice. i think we're subject to this internal divide among the gop. but what i do think is going to happen is a sequ...

The last piece of the august 2011 debt ceiling agreement whereby the president, senate democrats and house republicans said, okay, let's raise the debt ceiling but for every dollar we raise that debt ceiling, we'll lower spending by a dollar. so i am in favor of keeping that agreement. >> but keeping that agreement, if the sequester goes into effect, according to the cbo, it says it will cut u.s. growth in half. it will cost at least 1 million jobs and jobs by extension, consumers, which drive the economy. don't you agree that losing 1 million jobs will be disastrous to the recovery? >> if you...