trust in the president s willingness to cut spending at all. he had 18 months to lead us and he hasn t. the fact of the matter is that we have tools to avoid the kind of thing we are talking about if congress will sit down and the perhaps ar republican repue willing to grant the democratic president the flexibility to make the cuts in the way he determines and he desires. there is movement behind the scenes on this. i think some of the democrats have gone to the white house and said now wait a minute, can we delay this sequester for one year and that makes sense. granted it is another kicking of the can. republicans won t go for that. they might. no. and i think wait a minute, you have got a situation where this is so idiotic and juan is right. this is about jobs. it is about the state of the economy. it is about spending and refusing to be chris: i m glad we cleard that up. thank you, panel. but don t forget to check out panel plus where our panel will pick right up