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For what we take out. is. martha: i hear you. >> brad, constitution says all money begins in house of representatives, controlled by republicans. >> come on, bob. martha: but it is endless, endless pot that continues to be spent. >> that's right. martha: bob, one of the things that strikes me is the sequester. we were told the sequester was going to be so horrible and so scary and it would cut back so many things that meant so much to americans. it didn't happen. if that wasn't so bad, what is the president afraid of in terms of saying you know what we'll raise the debt ceiling but we'll go fu...

Entitlement spending was going to be central to those changes. he hasn't done anything about it. he never offered a plan. he mocked republicans when they offered a plan. when david axelrod asked last summer about the president's priorities for second term, he listed six issues. didn't once mention debt and deficits. we saw yesterday the president had a sum total of four sentences on debt and deficits as he launches into his second term. it just seems like the president doesn't care about cutting spending. bill: but would suggest, then, steven, he doesn't think it is a problem and that's what y...

Slim, the congress and president don't seem to be able to work this out in an orderly way. my sense, ground work has been laid to get something fairly significant done. the president had a fairly big give. and put on the table in the last round, adjusting the poll to have it calculated in a more accurate way. that is a big issue on entitlement reform. i'm hopeful that he and the speaker and senator mcconnell and snok reid can get together before we hit these pressure points which will be the sequester vote, and three pressure points coming up. before we have the brinksmanship, i hope we can ge...

Congressman cole, a big head line in the "washington post" today, "why tom cole is right," cole and mcconnell seem to have grasped that the long-range strategy dictated a deal be done on the fiscal cliff with as little public airing of grievances as possible. do you think that for future fights your colleagues will follow your advice and how much damage has this done to the house gop brand? >> i don't think it's done a lot of damage. sometimes in politics like in war you find a holding action so the army can escape. i think that's what you saw. the army is off the beaches and back where it bel...

Stuff still looms. >> well, kristen welker, dominica, montenara, thank you very much as well. >> joining us now from nashville, tennessee, is republican congresswoman marsha blackburn. thanks very much for being here today. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> do you think there will be a small-scale resolution to the fiscal cliff before the end of the year? >> i have to tell you. i think the answer to that is ask harry reid because the house has passed all the bills that are necessary to have prohibited this. if harry reid had taken action on the reconciliation bill that went to him in may o...