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Will the sequester force a deal?

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    Brian Benjamin and Tony Sayegh discuss whether the sequester doomsday scenario is working

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Away from the sick quest.

That round of automatically -- spending cops say if congress and the president can't agree on a deal to a vote them and it looks highly unlikely.

That they will agree on a deal and that that point midnight tomorrow night.

The sky when -- the full planes will drop out of the sky and the US naval ships will stall in the middle of the Pacific.

-- tentatively nothing at all will happen.

It's -- let's discuss it without political panel Tony said.

Fox News contributor and Brian Benjamin managing director of the Genesis companies who have both of whom have been sitting there this need to -- listening to -- with her on about the Pope.

I'll put it was a big day -- -- it age is an important day we wanted to market before we get into the political debate and Tony go I mean we get this meeting tomorrow tomorrow.

Hope that anybody that I certainly have it could they know he's got a -- -- I don't play.

Actually get the president very busy -- there are some of the campaign between some golf being played but look ultimately.

I think that Republicans are trying to figure out right now if it's either April -- day or Christmas because the real whistle blower.

To the fact that the present has been.

Perpetuating.

-- rather big can -- but all this hysteria about -- has been Bob Woodward none other than the gold standard of modern mainstream journalism.

Who has detailed in account once in a book pop up price of politics now and an op Ed in the Washington Post.

His real intimate knowledge of the fact that the -- was president Obama's idea formulate and along with Jack -- now secretary of the treasury at the time.

But in advisor inside the White House and the whole idea really was never to be and then.

Article or rather a mechanism to raise taxes it was really -- that force Republicans to the table -- to want to avoid didn't.

As I mean thanks -- is that such a bad idea it's a great idea and I think that to be honest with you.

I think we're making a lot more about this -- we should first of all 85 billion dollars out of what was what what what's trillion dollars in spending each year if we can't find 85 billion dollars to cut.

In a way that makes sense into the across the board they can use in this question if we can't find that we have -- problems.

But this conversation I do believe that the president and the Republicans need to come together for bigger deal and we need things like -- requested to force our hand because other.

Why is that -- economy.

His position and I don't like -- well -- what I've been the problem off clearly is that if that was set there is this sort of doomsday scenario in this sort of damocles.

Hanging over everybody.

It's yeah he was still getting together and doing a deal well I don't know who's to blame more than any other side.

But for in my view that all to blame it all completely useless and they are all failing the American.

In a moment -- -- let me get Bryant some credit he's taking the position exactly opposite of President Obama I acted within.

Proclaiming this doomsday scenario in -- -- -- over to kick back and by the way it's not 85 billion anymore it's now 44.

Beltway -- everybody did this -- And a fire fire and you're actually right right.

Fine by that kind of modest spending cut most of which asleep at the come from the Department of Defense -- -- and from George McGovern probably always turn Democrats -- got to cut the -- that's right then.

I think we have a much more structural problem in government will look the one word on testimony Jonathan and the reporting that I think is damning.

Is that it does actually assign blame to the president and his failure of leadership -- up until the election it was fine for the president to be a salesman that's to be understood.

But at some point like Reagan did like Clinton did you have to come to the table and meet.

A deal as the leader of the country not the leader of the party and the president has yet failed to do it and the fact that he's meeting -- -- the last day.

That -- possibly could have been a deal so talent seriously was about achieving one.

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