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This fair or not, this is the government he's running. >> well, you know, it impacted him, katty, when terrible things were going to happen, a lot of people -- it's already been caked into the bake that this president wants to use s sequestration to prove his political point. that's what a lot of americans think. and his numbers fell after he lost the sequestration battle. this could be another bad moment in this fight. >> yeah, i took a flight up from d.c. yesterday, it was an hour and a half delayed. that was the first day of this problem. if this carries on, the noise from all of the people...

Investment. >> jon meacham, a republican that went out talking about breaking up the banks, ending too big to fail, ending carried interest, ending a tax code that makes billionaires pay half what their secretaries pay, i think that republican would catch fire and would start being able to cobble together a reagan-type coalition. >> i think so. and what's so interesting about the bair op-ed, that's essentially a jacksonnian op-ed, the interests of the few and the many. what i think is so remarkable about the last five years is even after the crash, the real weakness of economic populism in the...

Their side in a few months after we get through the sequestration battle and a couple of other legislative things going on on capitol hill. on the surface, it does win where democrats are. >> i want to take a listen and we'll talk about it on the other side. here it is. >> it is reassuring to see republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage. that's senate leader harry reid there. house minority leader nancy pelosi rejected the plan. did the republicans make a real effort here or was this a gimmick as nancy pelosi said? >> the most important thing for republicans i...