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Is it that they are afraid of right wing primaries and they just can't find the courage to stand up to the right wing of their party who may challenge them? >> you know, i'm not sure they're out of touch and they're doing something that they don't want to be doing on their own. it's possible that the president made a miscalculation early on with this deal. the whole point of the sequester, if you go back a year and a half to the -- you know, the debt ceiling debacle, was that we'd come up with this punishment that was so tough on both sides, republicans and the democrats in the white house, th...

Know. what did they hear from the russians. how did they flag it. how did they proceed. certainly, janet napolitano has told us they were flagged when they left the country. however, was pinged when he returned. and the question is, well, did the russian authorities -- when did they let us know about this conversation that he had with his mother that they picked up on, after he returned, before he returned? that's going to be difficult to know. these are really important questions that some of these congressional leaders are going to want answers to because it's the lessons learned about the b...

Boxed himself in with those comments. we know that he's also reached tout russia. he just made a phone call to vladimir putin yesterday trying to get him on board to convince assad to step down, at the very least, relinquish his campaign against his own people. i think, chris, you're going to also hear questions about the sequester, as you know. congress just passed a bill. it took them two days to pass bill to cut off the part of the sequester to end furloughs of air traffic controllers basically ending those flight delays. but what they didn't address are the other issue of the sequester whi...

>> well, the speaker has not lifted a finger. he hasn't even allowed us, as i said, to have a vote on a proposal we've got in the light of day. if you want to vote against it, if you want to vote against relieving the sequester, go ahead. at least let us have a vote. what we said was we should get rid of some excessive agriculture subsidies. we should get rid of some of the tax breaks for millionaires. and by doing that, we can replace the sequester. get the same amount of deficit reduction without hurting the economy and without having this grinding impact on important services around the cou...

Laughable. they won't do that. now, we know that the president, much to your own discomfort on issues like social security, has tried to reach an agreement with speaker boehner, but he simply won't do it. and here was the president's response just a short time ago. take a listen, sir. >> the only way the problem does get fixed is if both parties sit down and they say, how are we going to make sure we're reducing our deficit sensibly? how are we making sure we're investing in things like rebuilding our airports and our roads and our bridges and investing in early childhood education? all the ba...