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Quiet time. timeout. >> richard wolf. so john boehner now says he invented the whole thing. at the time i believe he said i got 98% of what i want. it is at most 2% the president's sequester. maybe he has a short-term memory loss. as i recall, you recall the specifics of the 98%. there was the whole debt ceiling crisis and that is how we ended up with the sequester. it wasn't the president's idea to play with the default. i thought he out smarted those guys at the time. he is trying to admit that after

Will likely to vote to end it. hardly the only political split playing out in washington. spending cuts go into place in two weeks. unless they go into sequestration. >> we're going to insist that they finally pass a plan to replace the president's sequester, this sequester was the president's idea, his party needs to follow through on their plans to replace it's time for the senate to do their work. if they're willing to pass a bill we'll find some way to work with them to address this problem. >> would you rather see the

It's at most 2%, the president's sequester. right? the president's got 2% 06 that. >> you know, maybe he has a short-term memory loss problem, but as i recall, i mean, you recall the specifics of the 98%. there was this whole debt ceiling crisis where they were about to default on american debt and send the entire global economy into a tailspin. and that's how we ended up with the sequester. now, if i remember rightly, it wasn't the president's idea to play around with default. but i could be wrong. i mean, what do i know in. >> and i thought that the president outsmarted those guys at the tim...

50/50 arrangement. and for the republican membership maintenance, they have to allow the sequester to go into effect. they're going to take us over this next cliff, but that really is a disservice to the country and just another manmade crises. >> thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. >> i want to bring lynn and dana back. what's your reaction to the comments you heard there by the representative? the president said let's delay this, put a short-term delay in for a bit of time. he did that last week, not his front-burner issue right now. he's on the road. does he need to amp up ...

Road anyway and as obama pushes other agenda items in the state of the union, the blame game just doesn't work outside of the capitol. i think people don't understand why congress cannot do a basic job of deciding on what to spend and what to cut. >> they're not watching that minutia is what you're saying. >> right. this is not -- they're not looking at decimal points and the broad theme is dysfunction and gridlock and therefore, i think, it's just both houses. >> we've seen a very confident president during the recent weeks, we saw the state of the union showing that confidence, that swagger ...