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Criticizing john boehner for allowing these defense cuts within the context of sequester. >> you know what i find pathetic about the whole thing, the leader pelosi, rather, with this nasty youtube video and any other republicans going around town saying the president wants to inflict pain on americans and go out to dinner and i suspect the taxpayers, but is anyone doing anything? the sequester is because they haven't done anything in the first place and spectators are watching it and then they go out to dinner. >> if you looked at the time that elapsed since the july 21 debate over the debt ce...

Able to brand the republicans as deficit hawks and folks who were successful in cutting spending, and it really took the urgency from some republicans of having a government shutdown fight off the table, so i think boehner has been pretty effective in how he has been able to manage this politically, and i do think that for republicans they can now go about -- by the way, i agree with stephanie. i think most republicans do on the idea of sequester is not the best way to get the deficit reduction, and over the long-term, what you really need to do is come up with entitlement cuts, entitlement gr...

States seemed really stressed out yesterday. he's back from his golfing vacation with tiger woods and there he is in front of some first responders talking about these automatic spending cuts that are supposed to happen in less than a couple of weeks. >> brian: this year, 1 point # trillion over ten years. >> steve: keep in mind, these are spending cuts. a lot of people in this country think spending cuts is a good idea. a recent fox news poll shows 83% of you think that the federal government spends way too much money. so the president, who has gotten his way in the past with republicans yest...

Details. >> you used to be in congress. you were part of this fix the debt campaign. the whole point the sequester and the idea of sequester, it's been used in the '80s, was to force both sides to come together. if this doesn't work, why should we ever believe they'll come together? >> it's going to be hard but it's easier to do a big deal, easier than at sequester than it is to do a small deal. i think there's not really the trust between the two parties, which is part of it, but also there is this debt denier element that's trying to say if we just do a little bit more, that's enough. it was...

Because of the billions of dollars of cuts that are going to happen. what you're going to see senate democrats do is push the buffett tax, a minimum level of tax for people making more than $1 million and that's going to pay for a lot of sequester, a lot of those cuts to take effect. republicans say more taxes is absolutely a non-starter. they want deeper spending cuts and the two parties at an impasse. we may have to wait until the sequester to take effect before any deal is reached. >> john brennan, the headline of "the national journal" says john brennan shows hagel how it's done. we had an...