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Very modest or you believe it's going to lead to 134g bigger and better? >> good morning, chuck. i take the long view. we come from a position that you can't negotiate if no one will negotiate. that suddenly changed. now we have got a deal that will take away in the first year most of the sequester cuts which we are going to vis rate things like defense and nih, transportation, nasa. we got an agreement. it should pass. then the backdrop of an expanding and improving economy and the backdrop of which you put up on the screen, the increasing success of the health care bill. what you are going t...

To trade sequester cuts unless there's a firm guarantee amended mandatory spending cuts. we don't want the extension of unemployment insurance. but these are discussions of actual details of a possible budget plan, not the sort of throwing down the gauntlet kind of, we're going to shut the whole joint down, thing we were hearing. you're not hearing that at all. and i think at least temporarily the biggest names in the tea party -- there's 20 people in the house who signed that letter. frankly, those are the last drags in the bottom of the teacup. they don't mean a whole lot. it's the rand paul...

Beautiful memorial service throughout the morning. we're going to take the president's remarks live which could happen in the next hour or so, maybe even less. we're waiting for one more speaker and then the president will dome the podium. but now some other news. republicans on capitol hill are bracing to push a last minute budget deal through congress. paul ryan and patty murray are close to striking a small deal that would avoid another fiscal showdown but far from the great bargain. it wouldn't reform entitlements or tax loopholes or address the rising federal debt but replace some sequest...

>> joining us, thomas friedman. tom the proposal would not reform entitlement, loopholes or do nothing to address the rising federal debt. i want replaces some sequester cuts. that's amazing, isn't it? >> i was blown away. i drove in through a blizzard to be able to talk about this. >> crazy. take it away. how impressrd you? >> the best that you can say is, i think our system has lost the reflection to reach any kind of an agreement and the fact that, you know, we might be able to begin to restore a little of that, i think is about the best one can say. it certainly is a thin gruel. for republ...

Spoke to her the other night, negotiations are making progress, moving in the right direction. >> i want to bring in our company, carrie budoff brown, ron fornier. good morning. >> good morning. >> carrie, is getting a deal done, if it does happen this week, a major milestone or is this the smallest possible thing they could do just to keep the government up and running? >> well, it's more significant than the deal that they got two months ago to keep the government running. that was a two-month deal and so it didn't really get them much. the way -- the reason this would be more significant is...