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>> what will you do -- >> we are best and stay united on basic principles of less government, less spending. you'll see us stay unite thad we won't increase spending. the sequester has been one of the good things that's happened one of the few things we've done where we've actually controlled spending somewhat in this town. >> let me ask you two direct questions. if you say you're not willing to accept that, are you prepared to let this go past the deadline on thursday when the secretary of the treasury says we'll go into default. i'm not asking you whether you think it's default. >> no one wa...

With. how much leverage does he have? if the hopes of getting a deal now are in reid and mcconnell hammering something out, how much leeway does mcconnell have to actually hammer out a deal here? >> not so much. the only argument i'm hearing from senate republicans. they're going to democrats to chuck schumer and harry reid and saying, look, maybe if you push us too hard on sequester, push us too hard on bca levels, only get four or five republicans, that's not going to be helpful to you once you send this volley back to the house. you really should be looking harry reid and chuck schumer for ...

That means it's going to be a party-line vote. 54 democrats likely maximum are going to vote for this. and so that may put the pressure more on democrats, frankly. the democratic-led senate will be able to say they have the majority but not enough 60 votes to break a filibuster. it might put the pressure on the democrats to give a little bit on their line in the sand. >> where is the give room? what should, grover, the white house should give on? assuming -- are you talking about obama care or debt reduction? >> there are a couple of places. it is unlikely to move on obama care. what could hap...

Putting forward reduce the long term overspending in return for more spending today with sequester caps lifted temporarily. so i would pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. you can have the hamburger today, the democrats happy and republicans happy with serious long term savings in entitlement spending. >> that was a pop eye reference. >> this is not -- >> if you give the republicans something, for threatening the full faith and credit of the united states and shutting down the government you are giving them an incentive to do it again and obama is not going to allow that to happen and the am...

Despise, those parts of the government are hit really, really hard. those are shut down. the political incentives here are republicans have less incentive to end a shutdown than everybody else, perhaps the rest of the country. >> steve, the sequester means 57,000 fewer children are on head start, 140,000 low in come families could lose housing assistance. to david's point, has there not been a forceful enough argument from the left as to why these programs are important. >> in my view that's right. it goes beyond social support. we have investments in science that are critical, various clinica...