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The same talking points that the president presented a precise, specific, detailed plan to solve the sequester problem in a balanced fashion. but the president has never laid out such a measure. so we really don't know. i think the president has been content to this point in raising these concerns about the impact of the sequester. he was happy to have secretary of transportation ray lahood go out and say 5,000 air traffic controllers are going to have to be furloughed. the interior secretary salazar says i'm going to have to close all the national park campgrounds. the homeland security secre...

Laid off or kids not have access to head start, or deeper cuts in student loan programs just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of americans don't benefit from. that's the choice. that's the question. >> gretchen: i don't understand is, in the debates way back before the election in november, the president said that he wanted to solve this sequester problem. if you are the president of the united states, don't you have the power to figure out how to solve this? that's six months ago now already. now we're coming down to the deadline of march 1. t...

Good morning. i'm chris jansing. developing news from the white house. in 45 minutes we are expecting president obama to talk about the $85 billion in the harsh automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. he'll be in the south court auditorium of the white house with a group of first responders. those are the folks whose jobs are on the line if the president and congress don't reach a deal. time is running out. the cuts would go into effect march 1st and congress in recess this week, it gives them five days to work out a deal once they get back. right now, democrats and republicans aren't ...

Happy with that, going to sit pretty at least until that happens. >> molly ball and matt friedman, big thanks to you both. >> thanks, craig. coming up, making it personal, how president obama's using the emotions of the shooting in newtown, connecticut, and other gun tragedies to make his case for new gun laws. plus how will congress solve the sequester problem in the short term? if it's left? if it's gone home? it's gone home for recess. why go on recess? i'll ask congresswoman marsha blackburn straight ahead. but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little...

The policies we did and it cost money, no question about it. on the other hand, in the relative scheme of things we, thought it was very, very important to address those issues. i think it's very important at this stage to come back on this basic fundamental proposition of debt. what drives the entitlements? defense is a small portion of the budget. we've already agreed to cut $500 billion out of that in a budget that's going to start in october. they want to take out another $500 billion out of defense. it's going to be devastating to our military capabilities and he appears to let that simpl...