Stations. Today, it was with africanamerican radio stations including joe madison, Yolanda Adams and al sharpton. Their basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations. And they would prefer to see these kinds of cuts that could slow down our recovery over closing tax loopholes. Republicans, however, maintained that the sequester goes through, the blame they say lies with the president. We in the house have passed on two occasions legislation to replace the across the board cuts in sequestration to, thankly, reasonable, better thought out cuts. The president and the democrats in the senate refused to do that. And throw this in to the pot. New poll numbers today, usa today Pew Research Poll says 31 pstz would blame president obama and 49 would blame Congressional Republicans and the Approval Rating at 51 . Bloomberg poll puts the ratding at a threeyear high, 55 . Joining me now live nbcs luke russert, live on capitol hill. Whens the l