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I hope this is a useful dinner. my only hope is that the president listened as much as he talked and that he thought later about what he heard. we have to break out of the current gridlock to be a healthy country. that's going to require both sides listening to the other. and if this dinner helps-- look, what i didn't understand as handily, why they didn't meet at the white house, i don't know if that was the republican request. >> i don't know if it's a sequester issue, maybe the chef, maybe furloughed. >> if the chef were laid off i'm sure we'd be able to do the white house tours. >> greta: ...

City is helpful. i hope this is a useful dinner. my only hope is that the president listened as much as he talked and that he thought later about what he heard. we have to break out of the current gridlock to be a healthy country. that's going to require both sides listening to the other. and if this dinner helps-- look, what i didn't understand as handily, why they didn't meet at the white house, i don't know if that was the republican request. >> i don't know if it's a sequester issue, maybe the chef, maybe furloughed. >> if the chef were laid off i'm sure we'd be able to do the white house ...

More of these detainees will be let go as a result of the budget cuts. governor perry went "on the record" last night with greta. listen to him. >> wonder who these people are, greta? we made the request. we asked ice and all the way up to dhs now we did get a response back from secretary napolitano. she gave us the kind of carpet bombing approach if you will that there will be huge discombobulated, and lots of problems and we heard and saw all of that and the fact of the matter is lot of that has been hyped up but when you start talking about turning loose individuals who could be quite crimi...

>> you have a bunch of polls that say on immigration the people are with the president. martha: we're tacking about in terms of the sequester issue. we've seen the president kind of back peddle on this a little bit. it was all doom and gloom and armageddon, then the day before he said you might not feel it right away. there was some acknowledgment that they sold this in the wrong way. >> over time he said there was going to be pain for a lot of people, including lines at airports and veterans not getting checks it wasn't going to happen day one. martha: the president does have leverage at his ...

Lumping with them and nobody can really find that elusive grand bargain and so your numbers go down as a result. i'm not sure his game plan changes a whole lot. i think "the washington post" article the other day had it pretty much right. he is focused on 2014. that does seem to be his long-term game plan. how it impacts stuff like immigration and the cr and the budget is kind of -- we'll see how that goes, i think. >> interesting to see how this sequester issue affects his plan to, quote, break the republican party as they put it in that wapo piece. john, thank you very much. >> thanks for ha...