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S, anti-austerity programs. and ben bernanke, saying you guys did this all wrong, if you hurt the sequester and hurt these jobs now it will be harder in the long-term. >> at a time like this, one of the best ways to actually contribute to your revenues is to get the economy growing quicker so more people are back to work paying taxes. when you have ben bernanke, who is no radical, in fact, i think he is a republican. >> appointed by george w. bush. >> making these points, you know we're in upside down land. and where you are is where i kind of landed now. people say what should we do? even mem...

And president obama and speaker boehner publicly say they don't want it to happen. this is the first time we actually let one of these happen. what is stopping the sequester from being stopped? there is one thing, one single policy decision that lies at the heart of the washington crises. it is the same thing that made the super committee fail and the grand bargain fail and that led to this debacle that led to this sequester. it is the republicans' insistence, combined with the utter refusal to make it part of a deal. it is true, house republicans did declare to let them raise the taxes by 6 b...

Idea. jared bernstein, thank you for joining us on friday. sure. >> coming up, what does it mean when republicans say the president is not leading? i actually don't quite know at this point, except it is a funny thing to say from people who then wax poetic about the constitution. that is next. and what does the harlem shake video have to do with the sequester? more than you think. you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha! never even came close. sometimes, i actually think it's mocking me. [ engine revs ] what?...

Taxes have been about a quarter of our total debt reduction. but this is no more. the tax debate is completely over. they prefer the sequester to replacement that includes even a dollar, even a hint, a shadow of revenue. in 2011, when the sequester was created there were two ideas for keeping it from happening. one, the super committee, which could maybe come to a deficit deal before this sequester hit. the other idea, and this was the big one, was the election would decide the tax issue. the american people would decide the tax issue. here is eric cantor, speaking about the failed grand barga...

They're under the federal government's jurisdiction. often the attorney general's office, and the fbi are many miles away. often they can't enforce a protection order when something happens because it is out of their hands. so it is really important that the new vowa includes the provisions to prosecute those men. and it includes inserted language that when it comes to gender and sexual identity. there are grants called stop grants given by the state. now, some people that claim because of gender and sexual identities were not noted, now they have no excuse to do those resources. >> thank you....