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Congressman chris van hollen of maryland, ranking member of the house budget committee. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> the budget process that you've been arguing for for several months came to a crashing halt even as it started with congressman paul ryan saying he will not budge on tax cuts, and yet fitch last month said the reason it may downgrade the u.s. is because people won't budge on the budget process. so how do you negotiate with a man who states his uncompromising position from the absolute beginning? >> well, martin, you're absolutely right. look, the good news w...

On the sequester, we're actually succeeding as a movement in reducing government spending on the domestic side pretty significantly. but there's no acknowledgment of that by some folks in the washington establishment. i think we should have been talking more about that. it's a real accomplishment by our party to try to reduce spending in that way and what we should do is now move to the entitlement side to start to work on that side as well. then we can really look towards tax reform and other things that are consistent with what a lot of folks who call themselves members of the tea party want...

It really remains to be seen whether this will happen, but certainly he's feeding red meat to the base and that's really what counts in those iowa caucuses. >> eleanor, i want to go through the budget with you. on wednesday the house and senate budget negotiators are going to try to begin hammering out some sort of deal. one key element, the sequester. "the new york times" is saying, quote, while the most dire predictions may not have materialized in 2013, the tricks have many agencies employed, deferring maintenance, using unspent money from earlier years, are likely to be exhausted by 2014 w...

They would have won. >> i want more ted cruzs elected. >> yes. >> i want this conservative solution caucus formed. >> i guess what i'm wondering, rebecca is, susie makes a good point. you look at the sequester, you look at john mccain, lempbd say graham, these guys. i think his frustration with ted cruz stems from the part that he does not want it hurting the department of defense. ted cruz is one of the reasons it is, he's upset by that. i remember the experience of watching these republicans gain up on john mccain in 2000. i'm wonder, you get hannity going after him. you get cruz, could we s...

>> the sequester has accomplished what washington has not done since the korean war, cut the growth of spending. >> it's the only thing that's prevented the government from growing larger the last two years. the deficit is lower for the second consecutive year. sequestration is not the best way to cut spending but right now, it's the only way that spending is being cut. >> now in the present rounds of budget cuts, the g.o.p. may try to use the sequester as a bargaining tip for mainly entitlements. >> there could be an overall count on the growth of government across the board, both entitlement...