i think both parties are to blame. when speaking at cpac he needs to address both sides not just the president. chris: senator brown? sequestration. i was told to us that listen we will make this draconian deal that no one wants to see forward and we will get a select committee and do our jobs and we will take care of it and they didn t. revenues were never part of it. it was strictly finding the appropriate cuts and the problem is there is plenty of blame to go around. chris: in terms of romney s critique? spot on. they should not have been here during the vacation up at camp david in a room working things out. when the select committee failed there should have been another one and another one and another one. that is the problem they don t talk up there. there is a complete lack of attention to detail. country firstuntr condition ft versus the party and political interests first. chris: i think the white
thanks to our reporting and others he has been forced to step back. chris: i loved him saying well, it is not going to be the apocalypse as some people say. he had ray lahood and arnie done canadian and janet napolitano saying it will be an apocalypse. if you you look at the way it has played out i think they have got and little surprised at the fact that there was some pushback in the media and an effective pushback from the republicans about don t overdo how bad this is going to be and number two, you are president maybe you can do something to mitigate it. that just tells me that there is still a lot of surprises left to go in terms of how sequestration plays out. people treat it as sort of this one off event. happens and then we know the results. not so fast. there is six months of process ahead of us. all kinds of little details. all kinds of little things that are going to happen. and furthermore, as sequestration goes forward and
washington. chris: well, it is groundhog day here in washington as president obama and speaker boehner dig in their heels again about how you to resolve the conflict over those $85 billion in automatic spending cuts and we are back now you with the panel. the next step in all of this bill is that the house is expected to pass a bill this week that will keep funding the government at these new sequestration levels minus the $58 billion cuts keep funding it through september to avoid the government shutdown which we would get in march and the president has indicated this week if that kind of a bill comes to him he will sign it. question, has the white house cried uncle on sequestration? maybe to some degree if you think that again sequestration was their idea. republicans convinced themselves chris: but they have been fighting it for the last few months. one reason he is fighting it is the cuts in defense are just
tried to do the combak room deals it didn t work. if we did it with boehner he couldn t deliver. i voted for it. we already did the $1.2 trillion. the president has been out campaigning for the last two or three weeks. he didn t ask him to come to his office until the day the sequestration was going to come into effect. that s not negotiating. that s not coming together that s not putting the country first that s putting politics first that s what we need to step back from. on the other hand one of the things i was struck by is romney continues to talk about the president giving things to people like obama care. and saying that i won against white voters but didn t do so well against minority voters. isn t that what got him into trouble in the campaign in the first place? yes, but on the other hand there s some truth to it. if he performed as far as george
too deep and it is terrible. chris: we will get to defense in a men. it could be a tactical win for republicans but then they need to look and say that defense is totally inadequate levels for the rest of this year. chris: do you think they are crying uncle, two questions that the white house is crying uncle and sequestration saying i m willing to sign a bill so we don t have a fight about a government shutdown and secondly part of the bill that the house is talking about putting in is to give more flexibility to the pentagon so the leaders there can say this program shouldn t be cut and this program can be cut even more. the white house says they won t accept that. they don t want flexibility. you heard mitt romney say why on earth would a president not want more flexibility to make the cuts smarter. both sides have said this is dumb and yet it is still happening. the best case scenario in a bad