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Efforts to try to undo the sequester cuts. my question to you is do you still have the juice the get the rest of your agenda through congress. >> if you put it that way, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. i think it's a little, as mark twain said, rumors of my demise may be exaggerated at this point. we understand we're in divided government right now. republicans control the house of representatives. in the senate this habit of requiring 60 votes for even the most modest piece of legislation has gummed up the works there. it comes as no surprise that right now things are pretty d...

Foiled attempts in times square, or in detroit that we are not going to stop living our lives because warped, twigsed individuals try to intimidate us. we are going to do what we do, which is go to work, raise our kids, go to ball games, run in marathons, and at the same time we're going to make sure that everybody is cooperating, and is vigilant in doing everything we can, without being naive to try to prevent these attacks from happening in the future. >> jonathan carl. >> mr. president you are a hundred days into your second term. on the gun bill you put it seems everything into it to try t...

Daylight as possible between himself and sequester cuts. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us what the president said and the swift republican response. >> it slowed our growth. resulting in people being thrown out of work. and it's hurting folks all across the country. >> president obama says his warnings about sequestration are coming true and blamed congress. today a spokesman for house speaker john boehner responded, quote: the american people are still asking where are the jobs and the president still has no solutions for them. the president had a lot more excuses than ...

Well-heeled travelers going through the express lane moaning about the delays. the they're fine with sequester hitting the low-income people because that's not their agenda. and the president can't just bring them to heel by taking them out to lunch. >> ben there is some analysis out now that the democrats have really not played this one particularly well and the president hasn't played it particularly well. if you sort of look at the precedent that the faa furloughs and the unwinding of those, what that substantively means is it might open the flood gate to other special interests and lobbyis...

Obviously it didn't. congress has ignored your efforts to try to get them to undo these sequester cuts. there's even a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 democrats in the house voting yes. my question to you is -- do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? >> if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. jonathan, you seem to suggest that somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. that's their job. >> the president also lass soha some thoughts for ...