real conservative members of the republican house who are dug in on this. and we saw boehner has capitulated to them since 2007. boehner has been wanting grand bargains and it's fascinating because there is this segment of staunch idealogs who may not be looking at the larger picture who are driving these standoffs. the president bears some of this in terms of -- some of the blame here andticipate wanting -- thi is a reality that he has to maneuver and perhaps we haven't seen enough from him in terms of leadership on this issue either. >> let me bring in congressman peter welch. to liz's point, have we not seen enough leadership from the president? >> well, it's a mess, the whole situation. and i actually think that boehner would be wanting to make a pragmatic decision if he could get his caucus to do it. i think the president has been very clear and he won the election on a balanced approach where there would be some revenues. mr. boehner is practically saying -- >> the president got his revenues and so now it's time -- >> i understand it. but let's step back a minute. the presi

boehner. >>> and he's the activist who dressed up like a pimp to exsuppose acorn corruption. >> when i said i'll turn tricks, i was expecting them to like, whoa! they just heard it and it was business as usual. >> now james o'keefe is paying $100,000 to a victim of his stunt. today, ex-acorn employee juan carlos vera joins me for an exclusive. >>> thanks for watching. i remember when president obama got elected and they did the stimulus package and the republicans just couldn't wait to say, oh, this is obama's economy. you know, we show you this chart every month. the united states economy has experienced three straight years, that would be 36 months, of private sector job growth. more than 6 million jobs have been added after the worst crisis since the great depression. the trend did not reverse this month. why is that significant? in this -- and this is what has me fired up tonight because we couldn't erase a right wing bulletpoint. unemployment has been tick down. 7.7%. a four-year low, by the way. the country added 236,000 private sector jobs. experts were expecting about 150,000 j

highlight of "the kudlow report" this evening, my exclusive interview with john boehner. we talked about the chances of a big entitlement deal with president obama, also the plan to keep the government open, and the growing outrage over the obama team's decision to close down white house tours. go figure. anyway, "the kudlow report" begins right now. >>> all right. we lead again with wall street's historic bull run. today wall street set another record high closing with 14,296. let's go to our experts. here is andy cross, chief investment officer at the motley group. and ashley at the sea port group. i want to put up on the full screen the factory numbers. we'll look at core business investment orders excluding military. core business orders. if we can get that number up. the january number was an astonishing 7.2%. there you can see the three-month change has moved from minus 30 percent to plus 45.6%. abigail i cite this because first of all business investment is crucial to growth. second of all, it's having a tremendous comeback in the last six months and third of all it could be

john boehner has gone home. >> these cuts will hurt our economy, it will cost us jobs, arbitrary cuts. >> while there are smarter ways to cut spending than the process we're about to engage in -- >> it's unnecessary and at a time when too many americans are still looking for work it's inexcusable. >> there are smarter ways to cut spending. >> it will cost about 750,000 jobs. >> there are smarter ways. >> none of this is necessary. it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made. >> wile there are smarter ways to cut spending. >> we just need republicans in congress to catch up with their own party and the country on this. >> while there are smarter ways. >> couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let them leave the room until you have a deal? >> i am not a dictator. i'm the president. i should somehow do a jedi mind meld with these folks. >> why did you wait until friday? ♪ what have i done ♪ >> good afternoon. these cuts were supposed to be so savage, so onerous, so reckless that lawmakers would do anything to avoid them, even compromise. but af

wages. >>> speaker john boehner flat-out lies about the sequester. >> there is no plan for democrats or the white house to replace the sequester. >> the congressional panel will weigh in on the speaker's latest whopper. >>> and dennis rodman visits the rogue state of north korea and brings home a message for the president. >> he want obama to do one thing, call him. >> plus, rodman has a new best friend. >> he is a great guy. he is a great guy. if you sit down and talk to him. >> we'll bring you all the details from rodman's wild trip. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the republican party is struggling with branding issues and identity crisis that a demographic shift going against the party platform. and in the midst of all of this, here comes another bush. >> i have a voice i want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the republican party can regain its footing. because we have lost our way. >> jeb bush declared his voice to be an important one in the future of the republican party. just when you washed away the taste of eight ye

% said they want to replace this cut, cut, cut mess. no wonder speaker boehner didn't want to take a single question today after making a brief statement. what could he possibly have said? hundreds of thousands of people could lose their jobs. the economy would take a serious hit. speaker boehner, take it from me, these aren't the cuts you're looking for. joining me now, thanks for being on the show. >> thank you, rev. >> dana, we're joking about starwarz, but this is serious. how can republicans intentionally do something they know will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. >> well, the president was slightly wrong there. there is a secret sauce. it's merlot. but the fact of the matter is, reverend, the republicans are pretty happy where they are right now. they've got $85 billion in annual cuts to the federal spending. and they've done nothing in exchange for it. it sounds like they're just going to let it sit there for a few weeks. and then when we get to the end of the spending bill when the government is in jeopardy of shutting down again, that's when a whole new round of negotiat

because what speaker boehner and the republicans have said we cannot do any revenue. not a dime's worth of revenue. so what more do you think i should do? i am not a dictator. i'm the president. >> on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, we didn't hear much hopefulness from speaker boehner. we sat down for an interview that will air on "meet the press." >> have yoyou have emerged from white house there, is no deal. take me inside the room. what happened? >> a nice, politely discussion. i asked the president and senator reid with a plan to replace the sequester. we've known about this for 16 months. and even today there is no plan from senate democrats to replace the sequester. over the last ten months, house republicans have acted twice to replace the sequester. >> in the end, you don't really see a pathway open as you sit here? >> if i did, the meeting at the white house this morning might have gone better. >> what strikes me as significant, this week there didn't seem to be any effort to avoid this? >> they came in tuesday through thursday, the house gone by last night. so when did t

cronies. john boehner made it clear where he stands on the budget. boehner and his team stood under a boehner that said "spending is the problem and then "#cut waists. waists--wastes. >> we have been caught in this battle of having clips and having deadlines. this is no way to run a government. until the president is serious about the serious structural spending problem that we have, we'll have to deal with it. >> michael: boehner is promoting a republican plan that would continue funding the government through september. president obama is staying out of the spotlight and calling members of congress reforming entitlement programs and cutting spending. today congressional offices received a note from the white house saying all tours will be canceled beginning on saturday. the tours are arranged by congressional office. one hill staffer told "abc news" said the move was vindictive and designed to make congress look back. i say who says the white house isn't playing hard ball. former congresswoman gabby giffords is taking her battle for common sense reform to the airwaves. her group ame

mitch mcconnell or john boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, i can't have secret service block the doorway. >> let's make it clear that the president got his tax hikes on january 1st. this discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. it's about taking on the spending problem here in washington. >> taking a stand. the white house joins the legal battle for gay marriage by asking the supreme court to strike down california's proposition 8. >>> plus, hackling gun violence on the front lines. >> just for the record from my point of view -- >> how many cases have you made? >> it doesn't matter. it's a paper thing. i want to stop 76 -- i want to finish the answer. i want to stop 76,000 people from buying guns illegally. that's what a background check does. if you think we're going to do paperwork prosecutions, you're wrong. >>> milwaukee's police chief joins us to talk about his heated exchange on capitol hill. >>> plus, the bromance deepens for kim jung-un. couple extraord nar. the basketball star bonding with north korea's supreme leader. >>> capital dysfunction. what will it tak

speaker boehner would be speak fer that happens. i think he would lose the spikership. >> so as long as boehner does nothing, he'll hang onto his job as speaker. what a joke. eric abrahamson is a professor at columbia university business school and specializes in workplace leadership. he calls people who get paid to do nothing the michelangelos of work avoidance. and he's laid out the strategy they use to do nothing at work by always keep their job. first, spend as little time at your desk as possible, as the professor says, if people don't think of you, they can't give you work. this is something that speaker boehner has perfected. in the first session of this congress, they spent just 19 days at work and they left on another long weekend last night. second, deploy a good natured form of cluelessness. as the professor explains, the principle is you try to give work to a person and come to the conclusion that they can't even understand the instructions. cue speaker boehner. >> we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their [ bleep ] and begins to do som

john boehner home in ohio speaking to constituents and signaling that compromise is still far off. >> as i told the president, once again yesterday, we all know what the problem is. we've got run away spending. >> reporter: meanwhile, collective concern across the country from an army arsenal in huntsville, alabama where they're facing furloughs -- >> the sequestration will definitely affect my family. >> reporter: to the grand canyon. >> we're cutting travel. we're cutting training. we're reducing overtime. >> reporter: and on the arizona border where agents could see their hours cut back. >> cutting down the security of our nation i don't believe is the way to go at it. >> reporter: the disruptions will be felt gradually, some furlough notifications already having gone out like at the department of justice, but the first cutbacks won't happen until april. the defense department will be hit hardest with 800,000 civilian workers bracing for furloughs. cuts to the faa could slow air travel and educational officials say as many as 70,000 children could be kicked off head start progr

avenue, we did not hear much hopefulness coming from speaker boehner either. david gregory sat down for an interview with him that will air sunday on "meet the press." >> as we sit down here, you have emerged from the meeting of the white house and no deal. take me inside of the white house, and what happened inside that room? >> well, we had a polite discussion and i asked senator reid and the president to come with a plan to prevent the sequester, and we have known for 16 months, and yet today, no plan from the senate democrats or the white house the replace the sequester, and over the last ten months the house republicans have acted twice to replace the sequester. >> in the end, you don't really see a pathway here that is open as you sit here? >> if i did, the meeting at the white house this morning might have gone better. >> michael steele, what strikes me is significant in that this week there didn't seem to be any real effort to avoid it. it was all for show and came in tuesday through thursday and the house was gone by last night, whaen did they cut it loose and decide we can

speaker boehner digging in on the point of taxes saying republicans won't accept anything that includes new tax revenues. president obama digging in on the same point saying any deal has to include new tax revenues so they're as stuck as they have always been. the fact holding this meeting today, the same day that the sequester technically takes effect really says it all. they can't do anything at this point. it's really too little, too late. so moving forward, of course, they'll try to deal with this. president obama signaled what his strategy will be today during that press conference and said that he believes that bubble sentiment will ultimately cause republicans to give in to move the goal post to come over to his plan or at least closer to his plan and what he would like to see but the problem with that strategy, toure, is a lot of furloughs don't actually take effect for about a month so it's not clear that there's going to be a lot of public sentiment and anger. that's a big question mark in all of this moving forward. so the big question is, how does this all get resol

speaker john boehner and senate majority leader harry reid yesterday. >> it takes a lot of pizazz. they have done nothing. >> my response will be the same thing i told you today, it's time to do their job and pass a bill. >> so all but a done deal with congress wrapping up for the week. >> right now we should not have waited until the day that these are coming into effect before calling members of congress together. >> ronald reagan should be rolling over in his grave. shame on everybody who agreed this was a good idea on our side. >> all right. so it's ultimately going to be up to the president to put pen to paper zone as the sequester into law before midnight. >> my understanding is that the law has a provision that requires the president to order the sequester if he's ever hopeful. >> and joining me right now is south carolina democratic james clyburn. i want to remind everybody as we talk about this meeting that is taking place today at the white house with the president and congressional leadership, it was just on wednesday that we saw you with the president at the rosa parks statu

perceiving this we had the reagan era and the new gingrich year which if you look at the john boehner ear you know the speaker of the house there when you look back a new gingrich he was actually somebody that put some intellectual thought into the process even if people didn't agree with you today the party at least up on the hill and there's a lot of good people in both parties but the party the republican party is more interested in the in the campaign side of it the the donations side of it and both parties thrive on the mother's milk of politics which are campaign ads but on the republican side it's a party in flux they don't know which direction they're going to go yet but you see at the helm. bill who throw people off of committees because they don't like how they vote which has happened three members of the of the house that happen to them you also see the leadership and i argue to the speaker's office which really maybe doesn't want to get to the the nitty gritty and the tough things you have to do to make compromise happen which is such a filthy word but even under newt gingrich

. >> this morning, my exclusive interview with speaker of the house john boehner. and the white house view from top economic adviser to the white house james sperling, who found himself in the middle of a feud with bob woodward. >>> and later, insights and analysis from the roundtable. the politics of the budget showdown and some other debates this week. the future of the voting rights act and whether working from home is still ok. >>> from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. so sequester is in effect. but the impact have yet to be felt. one thing is clear, frustration with washington has never been higher and both sides are still dug in on how to solve our debt crisis. more taxes versus more spending cuts. we have both saturdides of the e this morning starting with john boehner. at the 11th hour of the sequester friday afternoon, he made a high stakes visit to the white house to meet with president obama. moments after he returned to his office, i spoke with him about that meeting issue what's next

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lines of communication. the president, of course in regular contact with speaker boehner. speaker boehner, of course, said he didn't want to be meeting one-on-one with the president. the president is reason out to more folks, republicans and others. >> did -- did paul ryan have any asks of the president? >> i can't get into the details of the conversation, chuck, what i can saycy think paul wanted to lay out what he saw as the political context and the policy views of the republicans. and the president, of course, expressed his views and the house democrats, we have always had our budget and we will have a bunnell pet as well. so, there was a conversation about the need to bridge the differences but it's too early to say that there's a clear path to doing that. >> let talk about what we are going to see this week. so we are going to have paul ryan unveil his bunnell threat week. senate democrats are going to do theirs. when do you unveil yours? >> we will the following week. so, we will a week from this wednesday, we will have a democratic alternative. >> will there be a lot of di

revenue issue because in some ways, one of the things that john boehner, the house speaker came out and said that it's off the table that there would be anymore revenue. from the short run he's right. >> it certainly looks that way. but what's intriguing that the administration's response is let's not try to move around the immovable object of speaker baner or the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who is dead set against that. that's why you set the outreach to paul ryan, the chairman of the budget committee perhaps in hopes of maybe doing an in-run around the leadership. gwen: does what happen in washington matter when it comes to wall street or when it comes to these job numbers? is washington action or inaction driving the markets at all or depressing them? >> oh, absolutely. i would say that the main reason that the stock market has had such a good strong start to the year is because washington didn't tank the economy of doing a variety of silly things like defaulting on the national debt. the absence of a negative is a positive. gwen: it goes without saying that there is a lot

out to them. the american people are weary of this. >> it sounds like john boehner isn't quite ready to join that congress. >> you like defense spending, that's going to be cut arbitrarily. you agree is this is stealth spending on the tax code. why not give on this, why not allow some revenues to come from tax reform. use defense spending and you unlock the key to getting entitlement cuts they would give you on tax reform. >> i want tax reform. we want to bring rates down for all americans. so that we've got a fairer tax code, but to arbitrarily pull out a couple tax expenditures and say, we ought to use that, every american knows washington has a spending problem. >> the president, is he not committed to spending? does his deal not include over $900 billion in spending cuts over 10 years? >> the president has asked for $1.3 trillion worth of increases in revenue, and only put up $850 billion worth of spending cuts. everybody in washington knows what the problem is, but nobody wants to address it. >> i've been here for 22 years, and i've watched presidents from both parties, i've wat

boehner and mitch mcconnell seem to have finally figured out things. the republican leaders unveiled a new perspective on how to deal with a divided capital and are now insisting that those emergency negotiations with the president on crucial issues and public policy choices we longer be negotiated in private meetings between the president and the republican leaders. instead, they are restoring regular order in the house and senate. senator mitch mcconnell releasing the following statement ter this mornings fruitless meeting with the president at the white house. he said we will have opportunity to ensure that funding is at the level that we promised while working on solutions for making spending reductions more intelligent than the across-the-board cuts of the president. but i want to make clear that any solutions will be done through the regular ord with input from both sides of the aisle in public debate. how speaker john boehner's office confirms that the house will only look to resolve the sequester issue through regular order as well. speaker john boehner saying that revenue is o

marriage act dead and why is john boehner using your and my tax dollars to hire private lawyers to defend it find out in just a moment also the united states has the highest health care costs in the world is the time we're pleased our four provinces to with something better yes it's a long liberal rumble and the n.r.a. and its members are compensating for something small tell you what in tonight's deal you take. you need to know this today the supreme court heard oral arguments in the case of the united states v windsor and it could be game over for one of the nation's most powerful symbols of sexuality based discrimination gender based the second the second same sex marriage case in front of the supreme court two days u.s. v windsor calls into question one thousand nine hundred ninety six law that prohibits the federal government from giving gay couples the same tax breaks and benefits as straight couples even of those couples live in a state like massachusetts where gay marriage is legal according to petitioner edith windsor x. ban on federal recognition of state law violates fer

and john boehner walked away from that. where they would push back is, look, he has been trying to do something about spenting in a broader context. boehner walked away from that and everything has unraveled since then. there is tough questions for this president though if boehner were to say yes i will take those medicare changes, would the president take a few steps back and say whoa, let me change it or we sign on to it? that's something we don't know yet. >> bill: okay. but i think that the issues are separate issues and correct me again if i am wrong. you have the federal budget that mr. obama wants for next year. i think it's $3.2 trillion, right? >> um-huh. >> the republicans don't want it that high. they want it to come down 10% or whatever. that would be, i guess, crazy numbers. but not really if you look at 2008. this country was fine and we could go back to their spending and we would be fine. but, what the president is talking about is changing medicare and social security. so, maybe raising the age. maybe having very wealthy people forego. all of that is what they call

. >>> house speaker john boehner on hiss political future and what's ahead for the gop. why he says republicans need to do a better job. jon: then there's this. >> [bleep]. [bleep]. jon: an epic rant from justin bieber over aggressive paparazzi. things are not looking up. latest in the saga as the beeb turns. it is all "happening now." jon: well, it is monday morning. it was a short weekend. now we have north korea threatening war. as the u.s. holds joint military drills with south korea. good morning i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. i'm jenna lee. north korea reportedly responding to those drills by scrapping the nearly 60-year-old armistice that ended the korean war. have this think about it like a truce. it is not a peace treaty. it is more of a truce. north korea says it will launch a nuclear attack as well on the united states. full of lots of words this morning. the latest threat from a nation growing more enraged at the west. days after new u.n. sanctions were put in place for north korea doing a nuclear test. in seoul, some from both sides demonstrated weapons the joint

the end of the world, and what we heard this weekend from speaker boehner? >> well, i mean, you know, chuck, i would like to think that it's very likely that we're not iffing to have another showdown on march 27th and the days leading up to it over shutting down the government. i think it's probably the party has recognized it's not in their best interest, but i would say, look, it is hard for me to go back to the language used around the sequester when it happened. this will never happen. this is a sort of thing you're bringing into place so we don't do it, and say, you know well, definitely will avoid a government shutdown because president obama and john boehner don't want to have one. can they make that a reality particularly as it relates to boehner? can he lead his caucus to vote for something that averts this, chuck? is he leading it or is he being led by it? we'll find that out. >> susan page, one of the things i hear is that standing firm on sequester, which is something john boehner and mitch mcconnell are essentially doing, actually gives them leway on not turning the

boehner and instead is approaching individual senators one by one in the hope of maybe reshaping a grand bargain, something he hoped to achieve two years ago? >> i think that's right. and remember, it also comes against the backdrop of president obama having been criticized for not reaching out to lawmakers. sop i think optics are at play here. but white house officials acknowledge president obama ramping up his outreach to rank and file republicans. and those are going to be attending this dinner tonight have been invited by the president lindsey graham really made this guest list. these are republican who is are perceived as being open or at least willing to talk about compromise when it comes to the budget issues when it comes to averting the sequester. also it's important to open to compromise to things like immigration reform, gun control. those are some of the items that are going to be on the agenda. but certainly the budget, a grand bargain will be the main course at tonight's dinner when president obama sits down with those 12 republicans. but, of course, this is sort of a large

speaker boehner as well. we're in a matrix of news, here, folks, all of a sudden. speaker boehner at the white house, meeting with the president on the budget issues, as they try to hammer something out, the day after paul ryan came out with his budget blueprint. so we may hear from him as well, in addition finding out who the new pope is. >> let's go back to our market discussion. larry, you heard what ed just said. it sounds like you disagree with that. you think there's some value in this market. >> absolutely. i love the way larry put it. the passover rally. but one of the things that larry said is spot-on. in terms of technical evaluation, we're probably getting up against a resistance level, where we might not see us break through that, so we could start to see the market come back down a little bit in the short run. but you said, not a lot of value. baa that is exactly the point. there is a lot of value in this market. i actually think stocks are very inexpensive relative to expected earnings. when you look at stock prices, you look at it from a fundamental evaluation or a technic

master and fascinated how this is setting up president obama. against john boehner. >> this changed too and you did see when the house republicans took up the lawsuit and started to fund it, this was in the spotlight and it was very interesting, the stuff coming out of john boehner's office had to do with the keystone pipeline and issues like president obama's organizing for action. nothing on these gay rights issues. the silence. >> even the lawyer does not want to talk to the press. immigration in arizona. michael bennett and chuck schumer and john mccain who will look at the border and seems the ball is moving on this to some degree. we are far away from the solution. >> the devil is in the details. we are supposed to get that the week of april 8th. we haven't gotten it yet. the press conference will be in no gals, arizona. i keep hearing they are close, but still nothing and we will have to find out. >> what is border security. senate madness. >> we have a great time. from my state of texas is facing a famous politician from new york state. we have a battle of southern titans in

am not a dictator, i'm the president. so, ultimately, if mitch mcconnell or john boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, i can't have secret service block the doorway. right? >> i'm sorry to interrupt -- >> i understand. and i know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that's been floating around washington that somehow, even though most people agree that i'm being reasonable, that most people agree i'm presenting a fair deal. the fact that they don't take it means that i should somehow, you know, do a jeddi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what's right. well, you know, they're elected. we have a constitutional system of government. the speaker of the house and the leader of the senate and all those folks have responsibilities. what i can do is i can make the best possible case for why we need to do the right thing. i can speak to the american people about the consequences of the decisions that congress is making or the lack of decision making by congress. but, ultimately, it's a choice they make and this idea that somehow there's a secret form

or john boehner say, we need to go catch a plane, i can't have secret service block the doorway, right? and this idea that somehow there's a secret formula or secret sauce to get speaker boehner or mitch mcconnell to say, you know what, mr. president, you're right, we -- if there was a secret way to do that, i would have tried it. gwen: house speaker john boehner offered a much briefer statement as he left the white house meeting, and he was more grim. >> let's make it clear, the president got his tax on hikes on january 1. this discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. it's about taking on the spending problem here in washington. gwen: so tonight, the much discussed $85 billion budget cut decried by economists and politicians alike takes effect. then what? david? >> we'll find out. finally we go over one of these lines in the sand. this was designed to be unworkable and uncomfortable to force congress and the president to do something else. the technical term for this is stupid. that's attributed to alan simpson and eskin bowles, the grand old men of deficit fighting. what

to the house speaker john boehner as he was commenting live outside of the white house about his meeting. it was fairly quick meeting. presumably over by now. i can tell you this. he said that the discussion about revenue that would be increasing tax revenue in order to come to some kind of a detente he said in my view is over. it's about taking on the spending problem. clearly the issue here, the republicans like spending cuts but not sledgehammer cuts. and also house speaker said that the house is going to be moving a continuing resolution next week to fund the government past march 27th. because we have a whole lot of deadlines coming up. in terms of this conversation, though, i believe that's over. democrats suggesting that int d spending cuts shouldn't be the only thing, republicans saying revenue is out of the question. jessica yellin joining us. i missed most of what the house speak he are said. you can do a better job at summarizing it for me? >> i was running out to him as soon as we saw him show up, but essentially let me put this headline on it. the meeting didn't go s

puts an offer to speak aer boehner in decembe even though the speaker walked away from the negotiations he's kept that offer on. and this offer has $2 in spending cuts for every dollar in revenue. >> mr. sperling, you knew you were not going to get new revenue. they signalled this repeatedly, and the president went out there to campaign to try to raise the stakes and raise the public pressure, and it didn't work. was it a miscalculation? >> david, i have to disagree with you. we were in negotiations in december where the speaker of the house john boehner who you just interviewed was willing to suggest put on the table $1 trillion in revenues for deficit reduction as long as it came from reform that focused on closing loopholes and deductions. >> right. but that fiscal cliff deal, what ended up being was just a tax increase that came out of that. there was not balance which is what the president says he's for now. there was no spending cuts. it was just revenue. that's what the speaker said. you got your revenue. now where are the cuts? >> let me answer. obviously, the presi

boehner and the key players in this. i just want to take one quick snapshot from what happens that we didn't know about, which is critical. when the talks blew up last summer and the president was quite angry, quite upset, he called the congressional leaders to the white house over here. saturday morning at 11:00 both the democrats and the republicans said we have to work out something and the democratic and republican leaders were trying to work out their own deal. and harry reid for democratic leaders said to the president, mr. president could you please leave the room? i have covered presidents for 40 years and i know of no other time that anybody asked the president to leave the meeting in his own house that he had called. i asked the president about this. how did it feel to be voted off the island in your own house? because that is what happened. he said he's not going to stand on protocol. the problem needed to be solved. the next day he called the democratic leaders to the white house at 6:00 on a sunday night and harry reid is fair and nancy pelosi, the house leader and the re

also republicans love to lecture us on the dangers of the national debt now john boehner says it's not such a big deal i'll talk to david serota uncover the real strategy behind the writes about face an impending fiscal do and the g.o.p. has become the party of stuffy old white men strategy from its past could save him from disaster i'll tell you why in tonight's daily take. you need to know the european financial crisis in a dangerous new phase this weekend and it could mean disaster for the global economy on friday the european stability mechanism the institution that provides funds for financially struggling e.u. member countries and the i.m.f. announced that they would provide eleven billion dollars in bailout funds to banks on the small island nation of cyprus but there was a catch in exchange for that bailout the e.u. and the i.m.f. plan to slap cypriots with harsh penalties on their bank deposits depositors who have more than one hundred thousand euros in their bank accounts will face a nine point nine percent an oldie eventually attacks and those who have less than that amo

somewhat skeptical? the president faces the same problem that speaker boehner faces with his own caucus. can the president deliver on the things that he wants to do, for example, on entitlement reform? we already had nancy pelosi saying no, we will not do anything with medicare that would change anything at all, we will not do anything with social security. can he deliver? can boehner deliver? in looks good at this point, but both of them have tough caucuses to pull together. >> the politico headline -- "the grand bargain is back on the table." is this going anywhere? washe president's strategy to see if the gop would blink first, and do all of these and his lyrics to scare people. come on, canceling the white house tours? you are telling me they could not take money from somewhere else? it is not clear to me if the reaching across the aisle is going to do anything. >> let me point out that in february the economy added 236,000 jobs, unemployment fell to 7.7%, the dow this week was going through the roof. it would indicate to me at the -- at least that the economy is recovering. duty fo

became the policy itself. that is why people around the country are so confused. john boehner said last week it was a bad thing and now republicans are celebrating to some degree that it happened. >> mixed messaging. karen, governor romney conceded that he does not think he is a republican leader now but does have ideas about how the party should move forward. take a listen to what he said. >> i lost. and so i'm not going to be telling the republican party come listen to me. the guy who lost is going to tell you how to win. >> you must have some ideas. >> among the ideas clearly we have to do a better job bringing minority voters in to vote. >> how active will mitt romney be in shaping party politics going forward? >> he is going to have another coming out party later this month at the annual conservative political action conference. but i don't think that republicans are looking to mitt romney for the future. and it was interesting because he said one of the main things that he had to do was reach out to minorities. in that same interview he seemed to not understand how damaging his ow

at stake, it's actually gotten pretty heated between speaker of the house john boehner and senate majority leader harry reid. it's very heated. take a look. this week, john boehner said, "we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something." >> steve: ooh. [ audience oohs ] oh, no, he did not. >> jimmy: pretty intense. well, in response, senate majority leader harry reid tried to take the high road and said, "i think john boehner should understand who is sitting on their posterior. we're doing our best here to pass something." [ laughter and applause ] well, boehner responded to that by saying, "oh, is someone afwaid of saying a bad word? you going to get in a little twouble with your wittle mommy?" [ laughter ] to which reid replied, "no, because i've been spending too much time with your mommy." >> steve: ooh. [ audience oohs ] to which boehner replied, "great, now i'm crying." [ laughter ] and then reid said, "yeah, what's new? come on, john, don't cry. i was just kidding." to which boehner replied, "i know, i'm just so stress

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