we bring back marc lamont hill and will cain.ou say the budget cuts are designed to make the president look bad. the white house is trying to mitigate the effects of the forced cuts. americans don't seem to have reacted to the cuts overall. >> many americans aren't feeling it on the ground and secondly many americans are just tired, overwhelmed with the narratives of fiscal doom from debt ceilings to fiscal cliffs. we keep hearing the sky is falling. >> what it about trying to make the president look bad. you think republicans like this is hanging out there and they think if there's no apocalypse it will make the president look bad? >> i think they miscalculated, they thought the american people would respond a little more aggressively against the sequester than they actually had. i think that was part of the idea, they don't want to kick the can down the road they want to fight this. ultimately they'll come up with some issue that they can hold onto and say look we won, we forced the president to his knees but until that happens

i'm marc lamont hill. her career as a tv vj began more than a decade ago.tar carmelo anthony. i caught up with lala vasquez anthony. >>> i'm here with -- how should i refer to you? producer, host, broadway actress? >> the woman that does it all. >> i grew up listening to you on the radio. you were a great radio personality. >> thank you. >> a lot of people go from great radio personality to people we never hear from again. how did it happen for you? >> i'm never complacent. i want the next thing and the next thing. i'm always looking for that. acting is something i always knew i wanted to do. i thought i was pretty good at it. i'm trying to find these cool ways to really solidify my place in this other world because, like you said, i am known in radio and hosting and reality. i have all that stuff kind of covered, i'm really trying to put my foot into this other side. >> tell me about this movie "think like a man." >> the funniest movie. it was based on steve harvey's book "act like a lady, think like a man." you have great people. >> i'm not saying it like

i'm marc lamont hill. her career as a tv vj began more than a decade ago. she's married to nba superstar carmelo anthony. i caught up with lala vasquez anthony. >>> i'm here with -- how should i refer to you? producer, host broadway actress? >> the woman that does it all. >> i grew up listening to you on the radio. you were a great radio personality. >> thank you. >> a lot of people go from great radio personality to people we never hear from again. how did it happen for you? >> i'm never complacent. i want the next thing and the next thing. i'm always looking for that. acting is something i always knew i wanted to do. i thought i was pretty good at it. i'm trying to find these cool ways to really solidify my place in this other world because, like you said, i am known in radio and hosting and reality. i have all that stuff kind of covered, i'm really trying to put my foot into this other side. >> tell me about this movie "think like a man." >> the funniest movie. it was based on steve harvey's book "act like a lady think like a man." you have great people.

marc lamont hill who teaches at columbia university. do you think the program the caucus is putting forth will ever happen in this country? >> no. i think that's a template for a kind a progressive provision. like the tea party. it's not what's going to happen it represents a particular framework ideology happens somewhere in the middle. i wouldn't freak out about the cpc budget coming through. >> bill: did i sound like i was freaking out because i didn't want to sound like i was freaking out. >> you never sound like you are freaking out. i'm worried about the millions of people watching this who think that suddenly there is going to be tax seizures. >> let's both of us remind everybody not to freak out. you are sympathetic to these kooks. [ laughter ] >> bill: you are. i know you. and you are sympathetic to them and you would do what they want if you could. on what moral authority. what moral authority does anyone believe they have the right to take half of a person's legally earned income? what moral authority gives you the right to d