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Tactics like that, this event at the white house, do you expect the democrats to keep pushing in those directions on this? >> absolutely. but that's basically all they have left. they had their opportunity in december. they had republicans over the barrel. they were not going to shut down the government over unemployment insurance. democrats reasoned well, we'll get more sequester relief if we don't go for unemployment now. they kind of gambled with these people's unemployment checks. the problem here is we don't really have a national political system. nationally, this is very popular stuff a...

>> absolutely. but that's basically all they have left. they had their opportunity in december. they had republicans over the barrel. they were not going to shut down the government over unemployment insurance. democrats reasoned well, we'll get more sequester relief if we don't go for unemployment now. they kind of gambled with these people's unemployment checks. the problem here is we don't really have a national political system. nationally, this is very popular stuff and locally, it's popular, but people are not going to vote out their individual republican members of congress over this pa...

Enough. does not do enough on budget relief, does not do enough on sequester relief. >> that's right. i think it's very clear that both of us would say we didn't get what we wanted. we didn't accomplish huge, giant steps, but i think we set a path forward for all of us in congress to take a step back and applaud bipartisanship in a bipartisan conference in a bipartisan government and recognize that's how we have to accomplish things today. >> in our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll, 51%, and that's the highest number since we've been asking this question since 1990, 51% are calling this...

Fiscal year an elevation from the 967 billion that they were supposed to have. the question is how do you pay for that difference. that's why they are struggling to mind common ground. the latest proposals is to take pension money from federal workers and from military personal to help pay for that difference and i can't imagine it would be too political popular to raid pensions of military personnel but that's because revenue is always off the table. so the question is can you find that money to pay for sequester relief. they seem optimistic they can do it. i'm not sure if the final details w...

Middle class is why he got into politics, bill. bill: what has been the republican response on this, wendell? >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell accuses president of doing endless political road shows when he wants to change the subject. he says the president should be working with republicans instead of talking at them. mcconnell says he will push to keep the spending cuts forced by the so-called sequester. >> i know the administration is anxious to undo the commitment to the bill the president signed. i'm sure they will want to talk about sequester relief. i think it's impor...