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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 a...

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 n...

>> 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. ...

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 agr...

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 b...