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The debt limit, which resulted in significant spending cuts. the republicans wanted more than that. a provision of the deal is spending would be slashed even further if the bipartisan budget was not passed in a year and a half. of course the deadline for the comprehensive bipartisan bill came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to be here to stay, which brings us to the government funding bill that the house keeps passing and the...

>> well, don't forget, the sequester is only six weeks, it only goes into the middle of november. what we should be saying is oh, you can have your sequester for six weeks. in the meantime, you have to reopen the government. and you have to raise the debt ceiling with no limits without putting all of these ridiculous extraneous issues on the debt ceiling. for six weeks, if we can come up with what our appropriators really call a grand bargain, which is a budget for 2014, that would make a lot of sense to me. and even i, somebody who opposed the sequester from day one, i would hold my nose and ...

A six-extension, but i'm not going to hold my nose and vote for anything explore than that. >> we're not sure that republicans and john boehner are open to pursuing some kind of grand bargain, again, you look at the history of john boehner and the republicans on the lines they have drawn in this, which is basically absolutely no new revenue. do you think of those talks reopened again in any way, do you think anything is going to be different in terms of the republican bottom line which is absolutely no new revenue, which sort of blows up the idea. >> well, actually the people i talk to on a pr...

Took over the house, in the summer of 2011 they forced what was an unprecedented fight over the debt limit, which resulted in significant spending cuts. the republicans wanted more than that. a provision of the deal is spending would be slashed even further if the bipartisan budget was not passed in a year and a half. of course the deadline for the comprehensive bipartisan bill came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to be here ...

Just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situation, i don't know if this is by grand design on their part or just a happy coincidence for them. but you ended up in a place where exactly what you described is happening, the democrats are in a place of, well, fine, have your sequester, we just don't want a debt default, should democrats have been applying pressure the other way so that the terms are not just that, they are oh, do something about the sequester, too. >> well, don't for...