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On that i think that that's where the deal comes. i do believe that the sequester, the automatic spending cuts, will be pushed forward, punted but on this tax issue i don't think the white house is going to move on that. i don't think they should. >> to be very clear, i mean in terms of how this works out electorally, what we'd be saying is those members who were willing to do whatever we see happen, were doing it to save tax cuts for the very richest americans. so as long as the debate is framed that way, that this is all about preserving tax cuts for the very richest americans at a time when...

Repair your car wherever you want. barry steinberg opened his auto repair shop in watertown, massachusetts in 1974, and for decades he says he and his mechanics could fix any problem on any car. that changed in the 90s when automakers installed computers in their cars and refused to give you and other mechanics the diagnostic information. >> yes it did. the cars went from mechanical to technical, and we weren't getting the full book of knowledge like the dealers had. >> reporter: which he says forced many of his customers to go to dealers and pay exorbitant dealer prices. last year steinberg s...

Cuts on our military. we're saying don't cut the military by $1 trillion. not increase it by $1 trillion, don't cut it by $1 trillion. >> quickly, vice president biden on this. i want to move on. >> we don't cut it. i might add, this so-called, i know we don't want to use the fancy word, see quester the automatic cut. that was part of a debt deal they asked for. let me tell you what my friend said announcing he supported the deal, i'm paraphrasing, we've been looking for this moment for a long time. >> can i tell you what that innocent? we've been looking for bipartisanship a long time. >> the...

That there will be some type of grand deal spruk by tstruck by end of this year. maybe 2013. but congress is not very good at doing one thing. now they have to do a slew of things. the debt ceiling, cut to medicare doctors, pentagon cuts. so much to do in a short amount of time. >> so if they don't avoid the fiscal cliff totally, what might we see? could we see some type of piece meal deal here? >> i think you'll see a piece meal deal that will punt it into 2013. but the credit rating agency, they could downgrade the nation's credit rating again. >> just about all government workers will be af...

You hear a good deal about that. and for speaker boehner championing the issues and republicans defining themselves backing away from those rules that the speaker agreed and an issue that i wanted the speaker to address. virtually every republican leader has talked with us about it. as the democratic has on this issue except for the speaker. to the democratic representative who will be leaving congress. one of those gooding blue-dog democrats, here we stand on this stuff, congressman, the automatic cut that is kick in and now trying to change the rulings. i can understand that but couldn't tha...