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Forces in the arctic. administration undermines that,under mines its credibility by cutting forces in alaska but throughout the country. they cut the only combat airborne combat brigade in the asia-pacific. weakness is provocative. expect more provocations from russia from china, from north korea when we're exhibiting weakness in terms of our force structure in the asia-pacific. >> in 2013 the army in budget documents it prepared said going below 450,000 troops army troops could prevent prevailing in a war should it come to that. we're getting to that point. if sequestration kicks in an additi...

Going to be right back in this same position? 90 days from now? did paul ryan have a trick up his sleeve? and patty murray? do they vai trick going owe change people's minds on entitlement spending and taxes? it's never worked in five years? >> well whurks put it that way, it does sound bad. but... look. here is the thing. we did this, we did almost exactly this. and n.2011. last time the president won a big debt ceiling increase. and he paid dearly last time for what we had what we call sequestration caps on automatic increases to spending. there is another big round that have coming up in ja...

When income and wealth, inequality is growing in leaps and bounds, when the middle class is disappearing, when real unemployment is close to 14% while at the same time the wealthy and large corporations are doing phenomenally well, what we need is a budget which creates millions of jobs. a budget which addresses the crisis of low wage work, a budget which rebuilds our crumbling infrastructure, and a budget, by the way, which says when one out of four corporations in america does not pay a nickel in federal income taxes, that that has got to end. so we need -- sorry. >> let me ask you this ques...

Matt lewis in washington. also joining the table, visiting professor from nyu,er democratic congressman harold ford. >> professor. >> and in washington, we have political analyst eugene robinson. i'm not done. in charlotte, north carolina, former co-chair of the president's bipartisan debt commission and co-founder of the campaign to fix the debt, erskine bowles. >> we love erskine. >> later this morning senator mitch mcconnell will present, a bipartisan plan to his fellow republicans that could end the shutdown and extend the nation's borrowing limit for a couple of months. the deal would kee...

Borrowing limit at least for a couple of months. >> yay. >> have i heard this before? the deal would keep the government funded until january 15th, the same day a new deeper round of sequestration kicks in. it would raise the debt limit through february 7th and create a new budget conference to resolve major tax and spending issues by no later than december 13th. the senate could vote on the bill as soon as tomorrow. however, the deal does not include any language to dismantle obama care, nor would it include a repeal of the medical device tax, two sticking points for the tea party caucus. sen...