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Or not the new sequester levels should be extended, which are ready to kick in. as you know there are democrats and people in the white house not happy about the sequester level. also the timing. is there some way to cut this in half and figure out how long a debt ceiling extension makes sense so we're not facing this again in a couple of weeks? >> i do think there will be an agreement. andrea, lets be clear. where republicans no question in the house overreach to try to defund the bill, it's an overreach. you know that. i know that. it's an overreach to undo a budget put in place in 2011. whi...

Probably be based in part on a broader agreement that's been under discussaturday and sunday. they're just not there yet. they have the outlines of where they want to go, but it's the details. the devil is in the details. they're pretty far apart on those details right now. >> senator susan collins of maine had put forward a plan that was rejected. why? >> right. that's the plan i was referring to. she was meeting with democrats. i know that it's rejected at this moment, but i think there are parts of that plan that can work, and i think there's a framework there. the reason they don't like it...

And what harry reid did was agree to the sequester level of funding for the government. >> this was a while ago. >> but the speaker agreed in that negotiation that he would not add this extraneous obama care provision. so that was a negotiation. and the speaker walked away from an agreement he reached and now he says,well let's negotiate some more. here's a guy who is not able to deliver his own caucus. >> but he was forced away from the agreement, obviously and he will admit that was his plan. it had to change. >> the republicans in his caucus didn't want to do it. >> he has a few dozen repub...

Destroy the affordable care act, which was clearly the law of the land. once we reopen the government, and move toward a situation where we confront the debt ceiling, and hopefully lift the debt ceiling to avoid a default, then i think we'll be back in a situation where we can discuss the future of the american economy and how to best move forward. >> so the position is, you seem to be articulating there, is raise the debt ceiling, reopen the government, and talk about anything, but there should be no conditions on those first two? >> also important to note that democrats have already agreed t...

Could be paying more for years, decades to come. >> congresswoman diane damageette on last word on msnbc last night. she made the point coming from the democratic perspective she would agree to a clean cr, a clean continuing resolution for a matter of six weeks. beyond that she is not willing to go along. they have already embedded the sequester levels. so the republicans have really won the battle of the budget, the battle over spending. the social programs democrats care about have been gutted by the sequester. >> i think the important point that's being made there is that is shows how unrea...