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Cruel it can be. my question, it's a tough one pour the president if i were to get at him today, what exactly is your offer to the republicans that you think they might accept to get around the sequester? are you really going to push for higher taxes? are you going to push for these other programs they really don't believe in? what are you going to cut the deal? i think it's on the president's docket right now to come up with something. >> well, yeah, i think you've heard a lot of that being pushed on congress. having the president act first, the faa issue is anomaly in the way that congress h...

Businesses are reluctant to invest but consumers, one thing we saw out of this report from the commerce department today is the consumers although they're spending up, the savings went way down and if you combine that with a bad jobs report for march and also a lot of worries about their taxes, their social security taxes going up, and the sequester, i am concerned that for the government to pull back right now is exactly the wrong time. >> you know what is interesting about this robert you and i have debated this for a number of years, you said that taxes don't really matter. one of the inter...

Standards that have to be maintained, when you take controllers out of the picture, and you have to make do on a lower staffing level, there is going to be fewer flights that can be handled and that's what we saw with the delays. >> nancy, these delays are basically the most visible, the most widespread of the forced budget cuts up to now and washington approving a temporary solution for the fur lows, but does that make it less likely we'll see a complete fix for the sequester or do we have a congress that's going to lurch from crisis to crisis and when people scream and yell and suddenly they...

Quarter, so time to break out the champagne? maybe not. we're already seeing slower retail sales job growth and manufacturing output and when you factor in the effects that higher payroll taxes could have on consumer spending as well as the forced government spending cuts sequester, what that could do to the economic expansion, you might want to hold the champagne for another occasion. steven moore is on the wall street journal. robert robert reich worked under president clinton. should we be happy with 2.5% growth? >> let's take anything we can get. the average growth over the last year has b...

He is trying to bet leno again. i'm just looking for some jokes. >> judge jeanine: and what do you think the biggest joke is going to be tonight? i mean years of obama car and what are they going to joke about? >> the sequester. with everything going on the planes and white house tours and everything. i think it will be sequester all the way. >> judge jeanine: and brian? >> obviously probably going to be the congress that can't seem to get anything done. universal background checks for guns. nine out of ten americans want it. not going to happen. want them to stop messing around with social se...