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court. >> which is not -- >> and i mean republicans bragged when they passed the budget cut deal. boehner called it a positive step forward, eric cantor said it was the first big change that we have accomplished, and paul ryan called it a victory. i mean, they es guys do these things really that cost programs for children, yet they want to blame everything on president obama. >> rarely will you hear it without having said the president's sequester. all you need to do is look at the role call. they voted yes. even if they say it was the president's idea. >> the budget cuts and was a victory.
airline travel. and i'm not sure school lunches would do it. maybe. i'm not sure what else would do it. and what's unfortunate to me, you look at the gun debate and you had overwhelming public support for expanded background checks. i sat here a couple of weeks ago. we talked i think with art about this bipartisan miracle that we had these senators coming together and it still went down the chute. so i think we shouldn't understatement just how hard it is to get those guys and girls to agree on anything. >> rick: you know, the whole idea of the sequester and we heard from the republican who gave the republicans calling it the president's sequester. we hear the white house calling it the republicans' sequester. everybody is calling it the other side's sequester. i hope people out there realize that this was voted on by members of both parties. so when we hear these political shots being taken, i think people really need to listen and know what the truth of the matter is. >> it's like when you have kids
>> on death row from the nation's capital. >> something just happened in washington something that just about everyone in this city said would never happen even though everybody knew something had to be done. if you have been following the s sequester battle between sound breaks you might have impression it was the latest washington mud pipe another crisis not quite resolved. it is far more than that. for the last 8 weeks fox news reporting went inside the corridors of power. we discovered a struggle that really did have a part. it was a messy process. beneath the mess you will see something that looks like democracy at work and in that you may even find a measure of hope. are you blu we begin at the turn of the year. >> they said they would never agree to raise tax rates on the wealth yis americans. the agreement that is currently being discussed would raise those rates and raise them
just look at the fit speaker boehner threw over the white house decision to stop tours over atmatic budget cuts that republicans allowed to happen. >> what's the idea that we're going to shut down tours at the white house during the ooeszer season when washington is overrun by visitors, it's just silly. and i want to know who's being laid off at the white house? is this what's going on? all i can say is the capitol is open to visitors. we welcome the american people to come to their capitol. we've been preparing for the president's sequester for months. >> careful now. stand back. john boehner is out raged. wouldn't you love it if he were just as out raged to the cuts we're seeing to the poor or the cuts to the vital women's programs or, i don't know, how about 750,000 jobs that will be lost if we don't come together on a budget deal?
presidential leadership, that's what lamar alexander is calling the cuts. he is live now. senator, i want to ask you, gene sperling said that the president is reaching out to democrats and republicans. what is your sense of what is going on? >> well, he hasn't reached out to me. my sense is -- and mitt romney suggested it -- this is a colossal failure of presidential leadership. this is the president's sequester. in 2011, he made a deal, he wanted so badly to get through the election without a debt ceiling issue, he didn't want to touch the real problem, which is mandatory spending increases and he spent the last year doing nothing and the last month campaigning against his own sequester. that's not the way the president of the united states is supposed to perform. >> my understanding is that you voted for the budget control act, which had the sequester framework built into it --
the case directly to voters. most registered voters 50 percent say the only way washington will get the deficit under control is through automatic spending cuts. that is what the seek quec quew is. a lot with depend on how this s sequester plays out in the next week half. >> doug luzader live in washington thanks. >> oo before you leave the house this morning let's get the weather update with janice dean. >> i hear the snow is gone but now we are expecting a deep freeze down south. >> it will be cold heading into the weekend. we are already in march but we are still talking about winter. the never ending winter. let's look at the current temperature 24 minneapolis. 22 rapid city. 36 in memphis, 36 in atlanta,
>> tonight, 26 hours until march 1st and the sequester hits. so is anyone in washington going to do anything about it? >> none of these so-called budget cuts are necessary. >> the impact of the sequester will be onerous and severe. >> none of this damage is necessary. >> you're going to see a slow down in our economy and yes, you'll see services that are going to be delayed. >> it's not even going to be felt in reality. >> i'm getting kind of annoyed at the president lining up local police officers and saying their jobs will be lost when everybody knows their salaries are paid by local taxes. >> i find it fascinating that they're trying to blame each other for it. they all voted for it. what, are you crazy? >> it's not president's sequester. >> when you have got a president in campaign mode and never stays in washington to work. >> that would be a great way
because nobody wants to cut spending except and it will be some what painful. but not cutting spending is going to be disasterrous for our country. >> chris: let me pick up. you just heard republicans say the problem is the president isn't searous about cutting spending, senator mccaskill. let's watch. >> house republicans already pass today bills to replace the president's sequester. so the question is why won't he work with us? and the answer quite simply is because he wants higher taxes. >> chris: now, i know you talk about a balanced approach but clearly the republicans aren't going to agree to that. not saying who is right or who is wrong. but senator mccaskill, republicans are talking about passing something that week that would give agencies, give departments more flexibility to set priorities so that the cuts could be made according to what makes sense and doesn't make sense instead of across the
entourage, oh, no, we have to shut down the washington monument or yellow stone park or something important. and the point of that, identifying that syndrome is to say the reporters should make fun of it and attack, it's obviously you're doing this, and they're eating it up. >> we've heard that animals are going be to be released from the national zoo because they can't afford to feed the pandas anymore. >> not only that, secretary of state john kerry and we have janet napolitano our homeland security and saying it's worse than that, ladies and gentlemen, our nuclear weapons are not going to be safe and we're not going to be able to protect ourselves anymore, i mean, they're really going all out on this and i agree with jim. >> jon: the president was labeled president armageddon by the wall street journal after his doom and gloom kind of statement. is that an appropriate take? >> well, i mean, i have to think that the sequester would