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Ironically was a democratic plan when they called on congress to go ahead and pass the fax extension so you didn't have a tax increase on 98% of americans. they're doing that. remember if we go down this plan b route, it gets messy. we sort out the tax thing up front. that's done. the spending cuts, the automatic spending cuts and sequestration goes into effect on january 1. that's kind of messy because they're very ham-hanlded and they're very across the board. then what the republicans would do would be to use the debt ceiling when it comes up in february or march to force the kind of spendi...

This is why they are public servants. this is why first responders do what they do. you know, the -- this is who they are. they love kids, and they find a way instinctively to dig deep to create safe situations. now, the teacher, like victoria soto who actually put all her kids in a closet or a bathroom and stayed outside and that gunman killed her. the principal and the school psychologist who lunged for the automatic. these are stories that are more heroic than i know how to explain, but what is happening here is that you have a community that has gone through a tremendous trauma and a natio...

That changes every day economics? >> it's a great point. i often wondered about this. a lot of republicans for the last few years have been extremely critical of any kind of government spending that has to do with job creation. there's a mantra mong republicans. government doesn't create jobs. all of a sudden now with the tax increases and the sequester, the automatic spending cuts you have republicans saying my goodness if we engage in this -- if we go over this fiscal cliff we're hurting the job market. it's fascinating to see how they change messages day by day. another example is the incre...

Good morning to you. it's very interesting when you watch what some would call market forces, changing the dynamic in a lot of the states. what is going on in the autostate, in michigan? >> this is the state that gave birth to the modern labor movement, it is of enormous symbolic importance to the union movement. i have relatives in michigan. my father's family is from there, many have been union members. the economy has changed. it's now competing on a whole range of areas that it didn't before. the automatic though industry had to completely reinvent itself. indiana which is next door to mic...

And everybody knows that. 23 million jobs, balanced budgets, all the rest. it's not going to hurt anything. the second thing, the automatic spending cuts. so my view is we can climb down that cliff by doing what the president says on taxes, bringing home the money from the wars, and stopping those automatic cuts. we're off the cliff. and then we get together with goodwill, right in january with the new senate and the new house, and we hammer out the long-range solutions to all this. >> i want to you listen to something that your colleague, pattie murray, from washington state said on alex wagn...