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As i've said on this program repeatedly, these people are on a mission to discredit this president. they are on a mission to make sure that this default happens on his watch. the bill is there. the clean bill is there. all they have to do is vote on it in the house and boehner can't do that. so now we're at a point, we're supposed to believe that mitch mcconnell and harry reid are so close to a deal. whose numbers are we using? are we using sequester numbers, numbers worse than that? and how long is this deal going to be? month, two months, three months? mr. president, when you meet with the, ...

Issue. >> don't you think it's a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obama's idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? they love saying -- >> it was agreed upon to be something both sides disli...

That? >> please educate tom. >> first of all, the number we're talking about, the spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this is agreed upon, because i think on all of our sides, we agree that $17 trillion is just a little high debt to have. we need to start bringing spending down. so he didn't really -- >> really? >> it's been stuck at 16.7. >> the deficit has been coming down for a number of reasons. >> we have a $16.7 trillion debt right now, so yes, he's gone along with though from 2011, but beyond that it's been my way or the highway on obama care. >> but the sequester numbers, which bot...

Schultz wants the to see this happen. we get -- we open up this government and then we sit and talk. >> yeah. and congresswoman wasserman-schultz, why doesn't john boehner do this? i can't get an answer from anybody. why doesn't he just bring it to the floor? where is the loss for them, because they're playing with sequester numbers. they can always come back and fight another day. they have chosen to hurt americans, to get -- to make a point. that's the key here. why won't he bring it to the floor for a vote? >> they absolutely have chosen, deliberately, to hurt americans. and the reason that...

Having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything, the paul ryan budget has suggested. >> was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? >> it was agreed upon to have both sides disliked, and now it's a republican cr that accepts those sequester numbers, which is bad for defense, particularly in a state like mine of virginia, but the democratic number is 1056. the reps are at 988. we have accepted that number, which you yourself agreed is bad for our defense, so the republicans are winning a fight that's hurting or defense sector, and the president is saying -- i think we sho...