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>> i know it feels like ground hog day when ever we talk about this government shutdown. the sequester, we're going to have a debt ceiling. it's just because we never fixed this problem and we have to go back and try to fix it again now. i don't know when this starts getting better. just feels like it's getting worse. a much needed best new thing in the world is coming up. stay with us. we have got to get the three-technique block! i'm not angry. i'm not yellin'. nobody's tackling anybody! we got absolutely... i don't think this was such a good idea. i'm on it. if we can't secure the quarterba...

Spending. we do need to get our financial house in order. we have to get the deficits under control, so the idea that you're going to get the republican controlled house in any way to do anything substantive on sequester is really wishful thinking. >> so, the republicans are threatening to shut down the government again, threatening to bump up against the debt ceiling, which is scary in the long-term because of how expensive it is for us to borrow. the democrats have tried to open up the menu of options to include ficking the sequester. this needs to be decided in very short order. seems like ...

Debt ceilings and continuing resolutions. so you've got -- i'm not calling it fiscal cliff anymore. that's too academic. i'm calling it a recipe for budget bedlam. or give you a new one, fiscal fiasco. >> i think the public is there. it seems in the reporting i've done, you quietly hear there's bipartisan agreement to get rid of at least some of the sequester, so it does seem as if there's room for compromise somewhere. the republican leadership knows debt ceiling is a political loser. they also know trying to defund the president's health care law is a political loser. if they all agree on se...

Their own flights. from the center for american process, danielle, liz of the ap and republican ad maker, brad todd. am i being overly cynical? brad, you like to beat me up. am i being overly cynical about watching the senate act in its own self-interest on sequester? >> predicted there would be 6,000 cancellations a day and there were 900 on tuesday. this terrible faa problem is one sixth they predicteded. >> twice in the last two day, my flights were not delayed. >> there's an inherent dishonesty the administration has taken to this process. to let the secretary use discretion to move existi...

Where we saw a tremendous amount of job cuts were retail. that is a sector of the economy that is most acutely dealing with the impending obamacare and down the horizon the potential rise in the minimum wage. so you can't blame it on sequester. this is direct result of government intervention. it's so sad because it doesn't need to be that way. we could be growing at a much quicker pace if government would get out of way. >> gregg: during the reagan recovery it was 5.2% economic growth. we're out of time. good to see you. thanks so much. that is going to do it for us. >> heather: we'll be talk...