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Though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. >> marsha, sounds reasonable to me. >> well, in the president's words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a continuing resolution covers and say what is going to transpired in that window? the reason you have to have a discussion about obama care and look at what can possibly be delayed in that program is because it has gone from being an 863 billion-dollar program to an estimate of 2...

Leader a month ago. he always wanted entitlement reform and you look at paul ryan's op-ed in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning that just posted online. he's asking for entitle reform with chain cpi. that's what republican leadership has always been moving toward, entitle reform and budget talks whereas the tea party reform has been focused on became care. >> joining me now is a democrat from michigan. i am seeing the conversation turn from the discretionary budget, funding levels at sequester levels, et cetera, somehow the conversation is moving to entitlement reform and kbugt cuts. >...

Informed of all of the consequences of a shutdown and they are many, as we see, and, you know, a solution to all of this is not the piecemeal reaction to them or, you know, band-aid approach to solving them. funding levels that republicans set. remember, if anybody thinks that democrats in congress are getting a concession by extending the government on a short-term continuing resolution of funding levels, sequester levels agreed to by republicans are sorely mistaken. leader reid and pelosi deserve credit that they agreed that it was too important to not shut the government down and unfortunat...

The arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don't think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. >> marsha, sounds reasonable to me. >>...

Crisis. >> let me ask you, though. what i don't understand strategically, why shouldn't the republicans allow a c.r., clean c.r. to come up for a vote? because the republicans are saying the votes aren't there. the votes aren't there. if that's really true, why not let it come to a vote and take away that argument from the democrats? because the democrats are continuing to hammer that argument. if there's not the votes there why not let it come up and fail? >> well, one of the problems you're asking the wrong guy because i didn't think that the fight should have been on the c.r. i was for a cl...