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Here, lauren. six days now away from the sequester. give me your assessment. is this a foregone conclusion? >> i think we are definitely going to see sequestration happen. but there's going to be a lot of drama next week. we're going to turn to the senate. republicans and democrats are both expected or democrats have already introduced legislation that they're going vote on. so democrats want to see 50-50 replacement of the sequester with 50% spending cuts and 50% tax increases through new revenues. so we're going to see them vote on that. and republicans have even kind of thrown around this i...

Fanning the flames of concern now, sounding the alarms this week it was their idea. they're saying the president needs to come and meet us and sort of acknowledge we gave a little bit on the fiscal cliff on taxes and not going to do it this time. that's the strategy the republicans are using to pin it on the white house. >> joann, they're really blaming the gop for the sequester. really by the way does it matter at this point who brought it up? both sides signed on >> exactly. it's funny that the argument that republicans really are choosing to sort of fight on the hill on is whose idea was th...

With congress, alex, we could see drastic changes kick in this time next week. >> all right, michelle frandsze thank you for that. >> joining me now with reaction republican congresswoman marcia blackburn. representative blackburn, nice to have you back to the show. >> good to be with you, laenale >> the president says this is a no-brainer and says the congress can stop the sequester at any time. how do you respond to that? >> well, i find it all very interesting. because we didn't have to be in this situation in the first place. if the senate would have taken up any of the bills we had last y...

Try to resolve this problem? >> oh, alex, i get a sense that not only is there a feeling among all of the freshman democrats and republicans that we want to come together and find a way out of this ridiculous sequester situation, i get that sense from republicans who are senior in the ranks, higher-up republicans, higher-up democrats. i believe that there are a lot of people in the house who do want to get together and work on this. we need to be in washington rolling up our sleeves and tackling this problem, but house republican leadership is not inviting us back to work on it. it's ridiculou...

Shorten visiting hours and even force them to close off some areas to visitors. as transportation secretary lahood explained air travel could also come to a crawl. >> travellers should expect delays. flights to major cities like new york, chicago and san francisco and others, could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer controllers on staff. >> reporter: meantime in washington, president obama plans to speak with congress this weekend to avert another crisis. but both sides are ramping up the blame game. listen to what the president said about the looming...