congress more than they are blaming him, and the white house knows this everyone is going to be blamed eventually and the mud is going to spatter on both sides. that s true. josh, we have another crisis around the bend. the sequester is going to happen tomorrow and then march 27th we have to figure out how to fund the government. when is the time? we keep asking this for a grand bargain. if it s not the fiscal cliff, if it s not the debt ceiling, sequester tomorrow, government running out of funding, when does that moment come if it ever does? what simpson and bowles has done is come out with a new plan meant to replace the old one and deal with the sequester. it s twice as big. $2.4 trillion. it s phased in gradually so you don t get that hit and drag on growth all at once. there isn t any indication that anyone in congress is interested in that. i think and i write in this piece, i say if we don t get this grand bargain in the next six to eight weeks using the forcing mechanism
i think other reporters can be intimidated. bob is not intimidated. bob did an interview saying he was threatened. he s not intimidated. isn t that part of the process. you get people pushing back on you when they don t like your reporting. some get intimidated and some don t. i m focused on the dooms day budget machine. i love you, bob. i need more. we re not calling it sequester. i m falling asleep just saying it. look at these people. they just came off the fashion week runway. look at them. i am threatened by melody s outfit. it s hot. good lord. that s incredible. i think i m going who do we have? i m glad that joe wore a tie today. i knew you were coming in. everything down to the watch is perfect. look at that scarf. and his hair was perfect. former director of the white
being challenged is not a big deal. he stands by his reporter that the white house initiated and designed the sequester. the budget dooms day machine. jim vandehei, thank you. we haven t talked about the civil rights challenge at the supreme court. we re not going to talk about that now. we ll talk about it next hour. it s fascinating. supreme court going to take up contraception next? we re going back to 65. what s up next? interesting arguments on both sides. john roberts asking the question do you think southerners are more racist than people in the north? fascinating. we ll talk about that in our next hour. coming up, josh green joins us. you re watching morning joe brewed by starbucks.
woodward and there s a statement that reads in part the e-mail from the aide was sent to apologize for voices being raised in their previous conversation. the note suggested that mr. woodward would regret the observation he made regarding the sequester because that observation was inaccurate, nothing more. former obama adviser david plouffe took to twitter writing watching woodward last two days is like imagining my idol mike schmidt facing live pitching again. perfection gained once is rarely repeated. if bob woodward was this weak and old as he s suggesting, the white house wouldn t be threatening him and they wouldn t be howling the way they are. this is just childish. it s a sort of childish attack you don t expect coming from
people back to work. we increase take-home pay and fiscal picture that we face going forward becomes a lot smaller. more people working. more people investing. more people making money. more people paying taxes. why isn t there more urgency addressing these issues? why are people taking vacations and why is the meeting tomorrow opposed to today? it s unfortunate that we waited until tomorrow. tomorrow is quote, dooms day, as you said and today is the last safe day to go outside. the president has flown over 5,000 miles around the country campaigning using scare tactics when he should have been back here working with congress. my guess is that those meetings tomorrow will be more informational and more for optics than anything else. we ll probably the sequester will go into effect tomorrow. we ll see what happens. we have another opportunity march 27th to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government for the rest of the