conducting that is david graham, senior associate editor for "the atlantic." he is going to have a conversation on the state of the economy with chris van hollen, a ranking member of the house budget committee. a hand for david graham and chris van hollen. [applause] >> where you want me? >> i think right here. >> congressman, thanks for being here. let's jump right in. there seems to be this idea that maybe the budget wars are over. as ryan murray suggested, the dÉtente. is that what it looked like from where you are? what can we look forward to in the next few months? >> first of all, it's great to be here. i appreciate the opportunity. i think you have a temporary truce on the budget wars. the budget agreement that was reached in december carries us through fiscal year when 2014 and 2015. you have an agreement to increase spending on those by 2015 you are back to current law, and that is the sequester with the deeper across-the-board cuts. look at some point we are going to have to resolve those issues. there were concerns we would have another showdown abo

congressman, thank you very much, i think we're out of time. >> thank you, >> thanks for having me. >> david graham terrific job. the one question david wanted to ask but didn't get to is do you ever get so frustrated and wake up and say what would l.b.j. do today? >> let me take a second to answer that question, actually. so the answer is yes -- but in terms of the congress, look i think the president's been dealt a very tough hand with this congress. that's my personal view. and we went through a whole litany of issues where we're trying to get a vote in congress. if we get a vote, i think we'd be able to move forward on lots of those things the president pressed for. but he cannot make them, hold the vote in the house of representatives. >> thank you so much david. thank you very much congressman. errific. now, darrick thompson has the most fun job here today because he's going to moderate what i suspect is the feistiest panel of the day capped off by a one-on-one interrue with grofere norquist. i can't imagine any more fun than that. he'll be moderating the next session on the domestic economic

conducting that is david graham, senior associate editor for "the atlantic." he is going to have a conversation on the state of the economy with chris van hollen, a ranking member of the house budget committee. a hand for david graham and chris van hollen. [applause] >> where you want me? >> i think right here. >> congressman, thanks for being here. let's jump right in. there seems to be this idea that maybe the budget wars are over. as ryan murray suggested, the dÉtente. is that what it looked like from where you are? what can we look forward to in the next few months? >> first of all, it's great to be here. i appreciate the opportunity. i think you have a temporary truce on the budget wars. the budget agreement that was reached in december carries us through fiscal year when 2014 and 2015. you have an agreement to increase spending on those by 2015 you are back to current law, and that is the sequester with the deeper across-the-board cuts. look at some point we are going to have to resolve those issues. there were concerns we would have another showdown abo

david and graham terrific job. david wanted to ask and didn't get to. so frustrated and wake up in the morning and say what would l. b.j. do? the answer is yes. the congress.f look, i the president has been ealt a very tough hand with this congress. that's my personal view of we ent through a whole litany of issues where we were trying to get a vote in congress. f we got a vote i think we would be able to move forward. them. cannot make >> thank you all. david. you so much, >> all week on our c-span two book tv and primetime. onight technology and privacy concerns. age" he book "new digital later n author of peter w. singer, "cyber security and cyber war what everybody 8:00 a personal conversation about crisis reagan's health issues and the monica lewinsky's scandal. and at 9:30 abraham lincoln and kennedy all of whom had a child die while they served in white house and then presidents who fell ill while office.me in the that's at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. back to yesterday's atlantic conference. they talked about the republicans chances of taking c

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. >> michael, you know as david is saying, obviously you've got mccain and lindsey graham.'t just them. mitch mcconnell and john boehner jumped in. it's an overwhelming throwing stones. give you a chance to say, look, is anyone going to listen to robert gates. >> when it comes to the president's foreign policy, can you think of any place in the world, any place, where we're better of now than we were when he came to the office. >> with regard to ukraine, steps that have not been taken over the last three or four years frankly allowed putin to believe that he could do what he is doing without -- without thought -- without any reaction from us. >> what do you think, michael? do you want to listen to what david said to david ignatius. >> i wish they would listen to secretary gates and the post rather than listen to charges like fekleckless, weak or passi. a contradiction is a better way to describe it. the president is having sand kicked in his face by vladimir putin. he's a weakling. do they think criticizing our president is going to make us more safe? i'm almost wishing tha

. >> michael, as david is saying, obviously you have mccain and lindsey graham, but it wasn't just themnnell and john boehner also jumped in. we just play those and give you a chance to say, is anyone going to listen to robert gates? >> when it comes to the president's foreign policy, can you think of any place that we're better off now before he came into office? >> with regard to ukraine, with regard to steps that have not been taken over the last three or four years, allowed putin to believe that he could do what he's doing without any reaction from us. >> what do you think, michael? >> i wish that they would listen to secretary gates and what david wrote this morning in the charge instead of charges like feckless and weak coming from senate leaders. the charge here is that the president is having sand kicked in his face by vladamir putin. he's a weakling is what they're saying and has brought on these world events. do they believe by criticizing our president on a world stage at a time he's playing role as commander in chief is going to make us more safe. i'm almost wishing someone

david. he has made it and the keys are known for key lime pie. how much? >> we have enough to feed 1500 people. there's 55 gallons of sweetened condensed milk, 200 pounds of grahamte. >> they've got to come to key west for it. we do a key lime festival and we make this mammoth bigger every single year. >> i'm going to get into this. you guys get into yours too, robin. come down to the keys. >> okay. okay. every year. and sorry, we don't have any pie left. we already ate our pie. >> oh, you already ate it. >> yes, we did. so glad you're having a wonderful time. give our best to everyone. thank you there, ginger. >>> coming up one-on-0 one with stephen colbert. come on back. ♪ >>> "gma's" improve this!" is brought to you by lowe's. lowe's, never stop improving. >>> and so many kids are excited about the launch today of mr. pea bod and sherman. i have a date with my girls tomorrow. so excited is stephen colbert. he talked to josh about how this new project gave him the chance to indulge his childhood passion for cartoons. take a look. >> reporter: he's best known for his sharp wit and trademark brand of political humor on "the colbert report." >> the republicans ar