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And later, insights and analysis from the roundtable. the politics of the budget showdown and some other debates this week. the future of the voting rights act and whether working from home is still ok. from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." good sunday morning. so sequester is in effect. but the impact have yet to be felt. one thing is clear, frustration with washington has never been higher and both sides are still dug in on how to solve our debt crisis. more taxes versus more spending cuts. we have both sides of the debate ...

President was warning of the meat cleaver approach, it's going to jeopardize our military readiness, that this was really going to hurt people who would lose their jobs. and then on friday, he seemed to change his tone. this is what he said. >> this is not going to be an apocalypse, i think, as some people said. it's just dumb. and it's going to hurt. >> did the president exaggerate the case to try to win enough political pressure on republicans that he didn't get in the end? >> no, not at all. you know, independent economists from the president of the federal reserve and others have estimated...

Using revenue derived from tax reform closing deductions to actually pay down the deficit? >> i'm going to say it one more time. the president got his tax hikes on january 1st. the issue here is spending. spending is out of control. there are smarter ways to cut spending than the silly sequester that the president demanded. >> joining me now for strategy talk is former vermont governor, dnc chairman howard dean and former rnc chairman and msnbc analyst michael steele. gentlemen, good to see you both. thanks for joining me. governor dean, i'm going to start with you. does the first part of spea...

Third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> what did you mean by that? and is that appropriate for the speaker of the house to speak that way? >> listen, i speak english. and the fact is, the house has done its work. we have this sequester because the president demanded it. and because senate democrats have refused to act. >> 174 of your members in the house voted to support it at your urging. you both agreed to do this. >> the president demanded it at the 11th hour in july of 2011. because he didn't want to be inconvenienced by having another vote on the deb...

Spending mechanism that would have the type of harmful impacts on defense and on education and research. and the idea -- and this is the critical part. the idea was not that these would go into effect but that people of good faith would come back and compromise. and we know that's important. republicans aren't getting a win by letting the sequester go into effect. they want more funding for border security. they say they want more funding for defense. the speaker says he wants more on long-term entitlement reform. this gets nothing. it gets long-term entitlement -- >> was the president right o...