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I want to bring in steve benen, msnbc contributor. good to have you with us tonight. why are mainstream journalists repeating this lie about president obama not having a plan to replace sequester? >> well, i can only speculate about what brooks and others are thinking. but i would think in all likelihood, there is a forced equivalence between left and right and democrats and republicans, it doesn't really exist. i think for many pundits who are so eager to avoid any sense of bias or any sense of maybe one side is more responsible for problems than the other, that they have to say that both sid...

It's untrue, unfair, dishonest, disingenuous. the president is making stuff up. >> making stuff up. rand paul says he is not worried about $85 billion in budget cuts between now and september 30th, even though his own party leaders say sequestration threatens the nation's security. military readiness, and the economy. now senator paul wants us to believe sequestration is a good thing, and the president is just overreacting. >> the sequester is a slowdown in the rate of growth of government. it's the least we can do for the president to use this histrionics is beneath the presidency. >> let's g...

To the scene of the alleged crime, which is his house. needs permission to leave his town, and will have to check in with police twice a week. ed? >> that was nbc's michelle kosinski reporting from pretoria, south africa. tonight in our survey, i asked will republican lies prevent a deal on the sequester? 84% of you say yes. 16% of you say no. coming up, i'll tell you why i'm actually pulling for a republican on sunday night. david edelstein of "new york" magazine is here to preview the academy awards. stay with us.

Out of control, and we need deep cuts in the entitlement programs. the figureheads for fix the debt are these guys, the austerity brothers, erskine bowles and alan simpson, and believe me, they don't have to worry about their retirement being lost or their pension or their health care. now the current issue of "the nation" magazine reports peter timed the launch of this new $60 million campaign to exploit the wrangling over the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling and the sequester, the misinformation campaign has worked. a bloomberg poll on the size of america's budget deficit shows 62% of american...

Fairly good job in winning over the american mainstream. it's republicans who are really suffering, however. there is ample polling data this week that shows republicans are on the wrong side of the american mainstream when it comes to the sequester, when it comes to spending, when it comes to compromise. when you look at this larger arc, i think it's fair to say when it comes to the message war, democrats are coming out ahead. and that matters, of course, next week. republicans are thinking if they go through with this and the sequester hits, then they'll be able to say well, this is the whit...