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Having said that, is it a type of progress, particularly in getting rid of some of those damaging sequester spending cuts next year? >> yeah, sort of meets the definition of compromise, right? like, both of them -- everybody on each side is a little bit upset. yes, it does. the great thing is, it restores some of the deep spending cuts. but i think one of the things we forget to do is step back in the midst of these really pitched budget battles. the reality is, though, ari, we are still at a real low in terms of how much as a nation we spend on discretionary spending. and that's on basically ...

It's magical, the thinking is that the president. the next round will drive people to come up with a solution. but we know reality is that real deadline for washington is mid term election coming up in november what. we'll see is more stumbling and bumbling up to november. >> what about that list? some saying this their one victory. if they had one. which was keeping the sequester cuts, decreases to the increases they kept those in place. because democrats also wanted to put those on, in the mix republicans one thing they held firm on saying we're not going discuss those, that sequester spendi...

It's magical, the thinking is that the president. the next round will drive people to come up with a solution. but we know reality is that real deadline for washington is mid term election coming up in november what. we'll see is more stumbling and bumbling up to november. >> what about that list? some saying this their one victory. if they had one. which was keeping the sequester cuts, decreases to the increases they kept those in place. because democrats also wanted to put those on, in the mix republicans one thing they held firm on saying we're not going discuss those, that sequester spendi...

It's magical, the thinking is that the president. the next round will drive people to come up with a solution. but we know reality is that real deadline for washington is mid term election coming up in november what. we'll see is more stumbling and bumbling up to november. >> what about that list? some saying this their one victory. if they had one. which was keeping the sequester cuts, decreases to the increases they kept those in place. because democrats also wanted to put those on, in the mix republicans one thing they held firm on saying we're not going discuss those, that sequester spendi...

While a majority of republicans would vote against the bill which would pass with some democrat and republican votes. that doesn't mean they would vote against boehner, he would allow them to vote no, and then survive. that doesn't mean he is going to be in a strong position, but my guess is that he would survive. >> now what about the discussion at the last minute, the democrats got greedy. they were getting the opening of the government, saying oh, and we want the sequester spending to go back up. a major republican victory to get them down in the first place. do you believe that that will c...