news made in that interview and it had to do with an open disagreement that romney has with the republican leaders who struck a deal to extend the debt ceiling, you remember last summer, that required automatic spending cuts for defense and social programs that would take effect january 1st. this is what he said. this sequestration idea of the white house, which is cutting our defense, i think, is an extraordinary miscalculation. republican leaders agreed to that deal to extend i think it s a big mistake. i thought it was a mistake on the part of the white house to propose it. i think it was a mistake for republicans to go along with it. and here is from the national review last july, romney s running mate, paul ryan, defending his vote yes for that sequestration deal. he said i support this reasonable, responsible effort to cut government spending, avoid a default and help create a better environment for job creation. chuck, what does this say that there is this open disagre
we had the opportunity to sit with governor romney. here was i think a key piece of news made in that interview and it had to do with an open disagreement that romney has with the republican leaders who struck a deal to extend the debt ceiling, you remember last summer, that required automatic spending cuts for defense and social programs that would take effect january 1st. this is what he said. this sequestration idea of the white house, which is cutting our defense, i think, is an extraordinary miscalculation. republican leaders agreed to that deal to extend i think it s a big mistake. i thought it was a mistake on the part of the white house to propose it. i think it was a mistake for republicans to go along with it. and here is from the national review last july, romney s running mate, paul ryan, defending his vote yes for that sequestration deal. he said i support this reasonable, responsible effort to cut government spending, avoid a default and help create a better env
i think it was a mistake for republicans to go along with it. and here is from the national review last july, romney s running mate, paul ryan, defending his vote yes for that sequestration deal. he said i support this reasonable, responsible effort to cut government spending, avoid a default and help create a better environment for job creation. chuck, what does this say that there is this open disagreement? well, this is about, i think romney s playing battleground state politics. i hate to say it. but that s what he does. right after the interview where did he go? went to virginia, where some of the cuts, if they take place people seem to have amnesia about the whole point of what sequester was. it was the fourth conversation, fourth new negotiations. nobody wants to sequester. the whole point was pick something that each party thought was something that a third rail in their in their conferences so that they would force them to have a new conversation, so the whole re-imagi