testifying. what happens after that is set, the hearing is canceled. the deadline becomes moot. there is no need to respond. this growing conflict comes to a dead stop. a march 27th deadline. it was moot. there was a tasid understanding that if we don t hear from you, we will go forward. what is he saying about putting off that testimony? when he was asked yesterday did the white house ask you to cancel the meeting, he did not answer. the white house denies it asked him to cancel the hearing. when he canceled the hearing, he said they are cancelling it for a private session with comey and rogers. that hearing still hasn t happened. the comey-rogers meeting hasn t happened.
standpoint. anybody winning? president obama is losing. if you take a look at the gallup poll, the president dropped from 53% since this drama began a week ago to 46% today. a big drop in a very short period of time. the president s typically this far into their terms don t move that way, that rapidly up move up or move down that rapidly without something big happening. greta: why does that matter? he s in his second term and dropped from 53 to 46, why do you care. when you get to the approval rating is equal or below your approval rating is an at or below your approval rating the quicker you turn into a lame duck. the president did this himself. he raised the expectations what a 2.4% cut in federal spending would do and american people simply found it not credible. greta: we talk about sequestration, the problem is the march 27th deadline when the continuing resolution cuts off and the funding for the government is cut off, if nothing is done. do you agree that s the more
be on their side and force the republicans to get to that negotiating table. so that is what they hope, as you point out. not a quick thing, but will be gradual and will click into place. maybe this will change in a matter of weeks. maybe by the march 27th deadline. we ll see. gloria borger, thank you very much, in washington here. coming up next, what we call our power block. big news on everything and everyone, from oprah, to a breathtaking buzzer beater, from facebook to the queen s health, hitting you with all of it next. a guide to good dipping. celery.yes. chips.delicioso. chicken nuggets. what s going on? carrots.craveable. sabra hummus: dip life to the fullest. [ male announcer ] the distances aren t getting shorter. the trucks are going farther. the 2013 ram 1500 with best-in-class fuel economy.
it in a more so fest indicated way. if you listen to ta interview in full, boehner kept coming back to the idea that spend sg a problem. he s making it appeal to those conservatives around the country who believe that. and there s large portion of people who do. even the president acknowledged that you have to do something to get the fed under control. the question is going forward in that march 27th deadline, the president has not been threatening, they thought, against it for another potential government shutdown which would be very damaging. but i think there is some sense, maybe, that they could find some temporary solution. i think that could be part of it. margie, explain the political strategy, though. we are now racing toward a potential government shutdown. there is the continuing resolution that will most likely make its way through the house to keep defense funding going. meanwhile, if republicans do want to choke off any forward motion for the president, isn t shutting do
drag over the next few weeks heading up to the march 27th deadline? that is what i m hearing. when it comes to the sequester the republicans are just not giving on anything involving new tax renooufs. no kind of compromise is really on the table there. that debate is more or less over at this point despite the talk. but, yeah, now folks are looking to this march 27th deadline. just to keep the government going. neither side really wants to have a big fight over our government shutdown. so you may actually see some real talk here as opposed to what we didn t see with the sequester. sit tight for a minute. we re going to take everyone to selma, alabama, where the vice president is speaking now about the right to vote. they re at a conference right now. the middle of a three-day march commemorating the 1965 march there in selma. let s take a listen. i want to tell you, for me, when i got back to delaware, reverend, my city was one of the cities burned down. a big chunk of it. jesse