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>> chris: i'm chris wallace. today our exclusive interview with mitt and ann romney. speaking out for the first time since the campaign. we asked them to describe the drama of election day. >> when did you know you had lost the presidency? >> we find out how they are adjusting to a loss they say was a surprise. >> mrs. romney, as we sit here right now, have you gotten over the defeat or is that going to take more time? >> and we talk with the governor about the mess in washington. and what he would do differently. >> how do you think the president has handled the sequester, the $85 billion in ...

Any word on what went on behind closed doors? john boehner revealing his cards that no new revenue is on the table and they are going to continue to move forward with the resolution. >> reporter: that meeting lasted about an hour and if you listen to speaker boehner's tone, not a lot of optimism in talking about turning off the sequester. this suggests that no real tangible progress has been made. i would say at this point nothing has changed. this meeting is largely, by all accounts, what president obama has to say and it's no indication that there is anything more than that. remember, the se...

Weapons. we have heard a little bit about mental health, but there's really not been a lot of discussion, there's not any laws that are being proposed on that and yet we do see the knee jerk reaction to just say, let's just take it only to the issue of how we do background checks or we prohibit people from having certain kinds of weapons. we know if we take a look at just what has happened around the country, in chicago, they have the strictest gun laws right now, and yet they have one of the highest rates of violence with use of guns. so obviously, it's going to take a lot more research than ...

More flexibility. i would do it by simply giving the agencies the ability to request program changes, but have congress or the committees of jurisdictions be able to approve it so that you're not giving one person the ability to change the spending priorities of the country. and also this argument that the across the board cuts or meat cleaver, well, obviously they're not perfect. no formula is perfect. but it perfectly preserves the priorities of congress and the president. the president had an opportunity to change this and didn't do it. >> steve: ultimately, it looks like they're going -- t...

All that is missing is a couple of wookies. excuse us? >> so what happens if this sequester kicks in. >> fewer fbi agents, shortages that could jack up prices. i just want to state first as a matter of policy, there is nothing wrong with wookies, we love them. the big story today in washington is that nothing is happening, nothing at all. and that may not seem like a big story, right? a nothing happening. how could that be a big deal? but if you have been through a lot of these budget showdowns, and i've been through a couple of them now, usually 24 hours or three days or a week before som...