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Vice president-elect mike sense ta pence outside trump tower. we wanted to get in what mike pence was saying on this ethics commission. we missed the first part of what he had to say but you can see that mike pence was choosing his words carefully when it came to the dismantling of this ethics commission. i guess i'll ask you again, the trump people seem to think, you know, they're taking a wait and see attitude? republicans say that it was a commission running amok. and you again have to say what? >> well, you know, i haven't seen it running amok and i certainly know it's bad optics for this ...

The government shut down. they do not want to be tied with that brush this time around. >> i don't think they -- >> why are you smiling? >> well, she's going to occupy the space that ted cruz occupied on the other side of the spectrum -- >> no, she's going to occupy wall street is what she's going to do. that's ridiculous. >> ooh. >> what. >> raul yesterday on the air, he didn't even know about the provision put in here about raising contribution limits from $32,000 to $320,000. >> exactly. >> chuck todd informed him on our air yesterday about that. so, the one thing that we don't have time fo...

Year? >> sequestration was a provision put in an attempt to get an agreement about reducing the deficit. it was a mistake and we should acknowledge that. now we are staring at loss of a million jobs. we're look at the loss of nearly a trillion dollars in income. we are looking at a devastating impact on our economy and again, the president of the united states has shown no leadership. he should be calling us together. we should be sitting down and by the way, the effects of this, quote, sequestration, according to his own secretary of defense, would be devastating to our national security. tha...

I do think the debt limit will be increased, though 70% of americans oppose it for good reason. not because we will fall in default, a scare tactic, but the dislocation that will be caused in the market. what needs to happen, when the debt limit is increased, serious spending cuts are done as part of it. more importantly, some type of mechanism to hold spending down in the future. a provision put in place to focus on spending, not deficit. along the line along what senator corker proposed. >> jamie: robert, it sounds like it could work if we could cut spending. we could really make a dept in t...

Change. obviously, gop lawmakers behind closed doors voting to put that independent entity again under the thumb of lawmakers. now democrats, obviously, have fired back quickly, but republicans defending it. take a listen to one of each. >> i haven't seen it running amok and i don't know -- i certainly know it's bad optics for this to be the ffrts thing for this congress to do. this was a democratic provision put in by nancy pelosi after there was corruption on both sides of the aisle. i think the american public is not -- the rating of congress is very low. this will certainly make it lower. ...