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Anniversary, there's no ban on campaigning today. there's no rule about what you can and cannot do. mitt romney gave a speech today before the national guard association in reno, nevada, and at times it sounded like his normal stump speech. he did go out of his way to attack president obama for defense cuts that are part of the sequester deal. which incidentally, are cuts that paul ryan voted for in congress. that's the kind of thing he's been stay save saying on the stump. after a week and a half of bipartisan blistering criticism of mr. romney for leaving discussion of the war in afghanistan...

Because they would rather protect tax cuts for some of the wealthiest americans than make tough choices needed to reduce the deficit. even if it risks big cuts in our military. >> joining me now is robert reich, former labor secretary under president clinton, now professor of economics at the university of california berkeley. bob, i didn't foresee this. coming. i have to say, when this sequester deal was being written into the debt ceiling, i did not expect us to be here today watching it play out this way. democrats hanging tough, willing to live with go off the cliff with that deal made on ...

Strong. right now, as i noted earlier in answer to ed, congressional republicans are trying to get out of what they agreed to because they would rather protect tax cuts for some of the wealthiest americans than make tough choices needed to reduce the deficit. even if it risks big cuts in our military. >> joining me now is robert reich, former labor secretary under president clinton, now professor of economics at the university of california berkeley. bob, i didn't foresee this. co-ing. i have to say, when this sequester deal was being written into the debt ceiling, i did not expect us to be he...

They see some unease among senate republicans. so they're really pushing now to get sequester cuts. so the collins plan was floated. it got a lot of coverage, but was never really -- never had political capital behind it. it started to fade away. what you're seeing senate republican leader mitch mcconnell do now behind the scenes is very quiet publicly, but he's very worried now that a senate democrats assert themselves, maybe those bca levels from the 2011 sequester deal, maybe democrats start to go at them and try to adjust the levels, he's very worried about that. politically, whey? if they...

Let's talk about this. of course, washington. while no one is in washington right now. they all left on their vacations and the sequester deal is trickling along it looks like it will hit by the end of the week if nothing is done. the president though out talking about this and wanting to -- it seems like now the white house trying to frame this hay we didn't come up with this idea. this is a tragedy. this is a barreling tray. we are heading for a wall but we didn't come up with the site. >> that's not true. bob woodward hardly a republican activist wrote a book called the price of politics in...