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As griff just said, they have got to do it on friday if they want to be able to pass tax reform with 50 votes. the good news is the margin is a little bigger because thad cochran who has been very ill is apparently back in washington, d.c. brian: which is a pleasant surprise. they thought for sure he was out for the week. steve: rand paul is ready to vote no. because, as griff just said, he doesn't like the fact that the g.o.p. is going to spend billions in spending. he wants to get rid of $4 billion in overseas war funding that exceeds the budget caps that they all agreed to back in 2011. bri...

Centuries stand up. how does paul and republicans like the two of you ride the bus? >> i don't think paul 'will be hurt by it. it's so interesting how he fell on this issue i was against the bucket deal. you wrote an editorial for the budget dell. i think things are so right now, i think the republican party is in such flux t. tea party right wing conservatives didn't want to have another government shutdown. i don't think a budget dell, i hate i. i don't think it hurts, palm, in the long run, do you? >> i a agree. i think they don't agree with the deal like you they want to keep the sequester...

They certainly are -- and, therefore, in their weakened state they can be made to swallow raising of these sequester caps as they're called. this is the spending limits that have actually, as you heard senator corker say, driven government spending down a little bit over the last couple years. i think it's a fool's errand. it's not going anywhere. even if you could get it up in the senate and somehow pass it, i don't think you could ever get it through the house, so i think it's dead. martha: what about mitch mcconnell and harry reid and all of the talk about how what a rift there is between t...

Really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps, these things that we put into law to restrain spending already. and it's funny they're all about obamacare being the law of the land, but so is the sequester. the sequester is the law of the land. if we exceed that, it's a real big step in the wrong direction. >> i agree with him on that. i do think, though, that he and lots of other people are stopping with the obamacare. you just get a little glimpse of it $635 million to create a website that doesn't work. that's the beginning of obamacare. they have had...

>> i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps. >> so where are we on that issue, sequester caps? harry reid as you know when he and john boehner entered into that agreement that boehner wasn't able to hold up in september, had agreed to the lower level of funding. now it sounds as though democrats are pushing for the higher level. where do you think we're going to land on this? >> you know, i think it's hard to know exactly but my guess is we stay with the budget control act of 2...