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That's an absolute disgrace. >> that's right. >> congressman, the president was worked with this congress on cuts. he's worked with them on sequester. he's met with them on tax reform. but he doesn't want to negotiate over the full faith and credit of the united states, nor does he believe we should go into shutdown for laws that are good law in the affordable care act. what else can he possibly say today? >> well, i think he's got to be straight to the american people. you have to say listen, we passed obama care in 2010. and in 2012 the president was re-elected, the house republicans lost ei...

>> what sort of leverage might they cagain? >> well, it remains to be seen. certainly, there's a lot of jockeying on both sides for leverage. republicans are divided on this obama care strategy. some senators, including senator buhr and senator mccain, don't agree with senator cruz and senator paul that they're going to get what they want. democrats, on the other hand, they're at odds with each other on sequester. they don't want to pass any funding bill that continues sequester. fasten your seat belts. it's going to get pretty ugly over the next week. they're nowhere close to a deal. >> you m...

September, 2012 and ended last month. what kind of cutbacks took place? does this have anything to do with the so-called sequester cuts. >> that's the take away. this is pre-existing. >> presequester. it can't be blamed on sequester. >> you can blame it on the general pressures of the entire federal government over the past several years to bring down their costs. they're been budget cuts to the defense department and the navy. this isn't the sequester, this isn't the thing you've heard washington talk about. >> the forced budget cuts. >> this is a decision that somebody made, this wasn't some...

Will the reality of how dumb it is do the trick this time? >> i don't think so. matt bennett at third way when the sequester was put in, called it sort of a slow roll disaster and as you showed in your intro, lots of communities around the country had been hit by elements of the sequester until enough members of congress hear from enough people in their districts about the real world impagts of sequester, nothing's going to happen with it. the other thing we have to keep in mind is that when we were facing sequester before it went into place, there were people in the building behind me who wer...

Genius. do not have to look far to see examples of the dumbness of the sequester. there are 41 countries, you think there's a reason to investigate theft, 41 countries, because of the sequester, we're only following up on one. the other 40 ripping us off, we're just letting them slide. and this is not even to mention the 50,000 american children who have been forced out of preschool because of cuts to federally supported programs, leaving those kids to have to try to raise money for preschool by decorating tiny little toddler sized chairs to pay for their preschool tuition. trying to see this ...