and lateris christie a look ahead at the 2014 midterm elections. >> joining us this week on "newsmakers," senator chuck grassley from iowa, member of the budget finance committee and ranking member on the senate judiciary committee. >> thank you for being with me. >> thank you for inviting me. >> joining us with questioning is the chief washington correspondent for the examiner. we are about one month away from the self-imposed deadline for congress to come forth with the budget plan spending bill. what will it look like and will you reach the deadline? >> i don't believe it will be very easy for us to make an agreement between the republicans and the democrats because the democrats want to increase taxes, they want to forgo sequestration. if there is going to be an agreement, it seems to me it has to be a willingness of republicans to give something up on sequestration but only that would happen if there is a long- term solution that we can arrive that between social security and medicare and including tax reform. can that happen? i am very pessimistic it can happen but i know that rep

and lateris christie a look ahead at the 2014 midterm elections. >> joining us this week on "newsmakers" senator chuck grassley from iowa, member of the budget finance committee and ranking member on the senate judiciary committee. >> thank you for being with me. >> thank you for inviting me. >> joining us with questioning is the chief washington correspondent for the examiner. we are about one month away from the self-imposed deadline for congress to come forth with the budget plan spending bill. what will it look like and will you reach the deadline? >> i don't believe it will be very easy for us to make an agreement between the republicans and the democrats because the democrats want to increase taxes, they want to forgo sequestration.