it didn't take long for the information to leak. >> it's a bad idea for speaker boehner to meet alone with president obama... >> tea party nation calling for john boehner to step down... >> the screw-up is the leadership in the house of representatives... >> narrator: many of the new republicans were outraged. >> the speaker has had a tendency to shut the door and get on the phone, or go behind closed doors, with his staff usually. that's a bad way to make a decision. and i don't think it helps anybody. i don't think the best decisions are made by washington elites behind closed doors. >> boehner is a complete fraud. the tin man always... >> i had members, more conservative members, who just thought that sitting down with the president was a big mistake. >> congressional leaders return to the white house today, back at the table... >> fourth meeting in as many days... >> narrator: from now on there would be no more secret one-on-one meetings with the president. eric cantor would also come to the white house. >> so cantor starts turning up to these meetings. and what the administration

luke, i didn't hear speaker boehner or eric cantor mention once the fact that two months ago speaker ner offered $800 billion in the form of revenues via tax loopholes. what happened to that? >> reporter: they would tell you that was part of a larger possible grand bargain deal on the table then. this is now. that's off the table, and really what you heard right there -- >> how is it off the table, luke? how is it off the table? >> because they concede that after the fiscal cliff deal of january 1st, the year started anew and all the negotiations begin anew and it was the new 113th congress. that's the mindset you're seeing. you're seeing a lot of same attacks against the president we have heard before. you remember during 2012 and the latter part of 2011, what did the gop say? obama is in campaign mode. he's in campaign mode. he's checked out. he's not trying to work with us. they're trying to drum this up again. and it remains to be seen how it works. it didn't work very effectively after the president got re-elected with an overwhelming majority. but you also saw this idea that the

i am sizing up from speaker boehner and nancy pelosi. the language and the tone and how do you assess where things were 23 days out? >> right. you would be hard pressed to find a member who wants the sequester to go through. in the defense industry with representative rooney and that's a big industry in florida. no one wants this to happen, but when you look at the alternatives, house republicans are not very optimistic that they can feel comfortable voting for given the president only wants to have a package that includes spending increases or tax hikes. >> let me play what was said regarding the tax revenue idea. let's take a listen, please. >> his first answer to everything is new taxes. when you think about it, what happened in january? he got $600 billion in new revenue with the spending cuts and now again he wants to raise taxes. it's time for us to cut spending. >> combine that with what boehner said. the tax question has been resolved or answered. how do you reply to the republican who is said the democrats are trying to get more

can your guest name another speaker that seemed to be as weak as speaker boehner in historical terms?uest: most of the speakers in the 19th century were weaker. they did not attempt to drive the legislative agenda. john boehner has the tools to drive the legislative agenda. he has control of the rules committee and other things. it is difficult to corral his rank and file to drive through legislation he might want. host: willie is joining us from homestead, florida, with professor john haskell of georgetown university. caller: is the scenario consistent with george washington's warnings of political parties? if so, why are we not hearing much about it? we were warned of these certain situations. thank you. guest: that is a great question. from the beginning, we organized around people who were end-of -- anti-federalist versus federalist. there was a party called the democratic republicans. it was more under the leadership of thomas jefferson. washington was talking more about people looking to undermine the country as opposed to principled opposition to different ideas about the direc

he won on, it is also the kind of bill that speaker boehner has explicitly rejected. the senate democrats will accept whatever the white house signs off on. and if senate republicans will agree to any deal that boehner blesses, the house separately passes bills the other doesn't like, bills that go nowhere, well, get us nowhere. but speaker boehner refuses to negotiate, this is literally his announced policy right now. he wouldn't talk to the white house. the way he sees it to jump start negotiations with obama, he would be slammed for engaging in out of sight secret talks with the president who the party doesn't trust. he will endanger his very speakership, both are simply nonstarters. this is a nonstarter to negotiate and a nonstarter to compromise. so what is left? well, the sequester is left. joining me is howard fineman, and my colleague. thank you for joining us tonight. >> great to be here. >> howard, if you're not going to talk, if you're not going to negotiate with the white house, what do we do? how do you get out of it? >> what you do is talk to the rest of

future generations but we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform that speaker boehnerhampioned just two months ago. >> we'll soon hear from house speaker john boehner. we just heard from homeland security secretary janet napolitano talking about layoffs of border patrol agents and warned, quote, i don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country. the senate is back in session. it will gavel to order after a weeklong recess. the house returns at 5:00. joining me now, queen moore of wisconsin, member of the house budget and financial services committee. thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. our first read team says both sides are laying the groundwork to see who bleeds the most after march 1st. after the spending cuts, who holds the negotiates upper hand? bottom line, both sides here, they don't know how it plays out but you're banking on the other guy or gal losing the most here. >> well, i can tell you one of the things i feel very concerned about, tamron, is that people seem to be oblivious to the a

and that's what speaker boehner was talking about not that long ago when he was willing to put a trillionollars of revenue on the table. so we're just trying to work together to get compromise. >> i feel like we've been talking about this revenue that could come from closed loopholes for a long time. how come it hasn't been done yet? >> well, there's a lot of things in our country that need to get done. and the question is making progress. we have done $2.5 trillion in deficit. it's brought the deficit down, but not enough. we're not under 3% as a percentage of our economy and our -- >> gene, we still have $16.5 trillion in debt. let's talk about the here and now. the $16.5 trillion in debt. it's getting higher, not lower. our audience knows this. >> marimaria, obviously your audience what they care about is as a country to have a stable debt as a percentage of their economy. is their deficit below 3% so that your debt as a percentage of your economy is coming down and stabilized. that's what gives people confidence to invest. and that's been the goal i think of both parties. now, we have

speaker john boehner said he could come up with $800 billion through a tax reform plan. we're simply saying to the house republicans that we want to do with speaker john boehner said he could do. use some of their revenue from closing loopholes to close the deposit. you are right. republicans so far have said they're not willing to close one tax loophole, not for a corporate jet for big tax -- big oil companies for the purpose of reducing the deficit. when it is that trade-off, are they more interested in protecting the economy and defense spending? then i think he will begin to see a little bit of a change in attitude. >> what is there is not a change in attitude and calculations? this deadline is different than previous ones. we were facing the prospect of a default. it was a stone wall. we could not afford to hit it. where were facing taxes immediately going up. it was a pretty hard stonewall we could not afford to hit. this time, they're saying we really do not want this to happen, but if it does it is the other guy's fault. is that kind of what we are seeing here? >>

the president then says recently he'll willing to still keep on the table his offer to speaker boehner. that has $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, including interest savings, $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and just $580 billion in remaining revenues. so the president has been very committed to doing very tough spending cuts, including entitlement reform, including getting medicare savings, but you can't have bipartisan compromise right now if the republicans say they're not willing to find one penny, not one penny in corporate loopholes or tax expenditures. you can't ask the most well off from this point forward to put forward one penny but you ask for all the burden to be on education, on children getting health services. on national defense. that's what the public supports. >> i want to ask you two things. first, when you say he laid it out, this is the one-pager, right? i'm trying to understand that this is one page, the entire offer. because when i was looking at this, there are a lot of things in here that are very general, including the fact that you want health savings of $400 bi

arthel: we heard bret baier report and he was at the breakfast and speaker boehner gave the remarks publicreaction and speaker pretext, basically if the president doesn't say this, that and the other thing. kind of don't want to hear anything else he has to say. republicans want to hear specifics from the president. perhaps if he doesn't touch on the key topics, spending cuts, entitlement cutbacks, et cetera, they will hear, blah, blah, blah. >> i think it will sound a lot like charlie brown's teacher in peanuts. wa, aw, wa. republicans think they have already raised taxes the way barack obama wanted them to. they agreed to a major tax hike. there are tax hikes in obamacare which the white house keeps denying. they think the tax hike part of all this has been done. arthel: okay. >> and so when barack obama says we can't do anything until we basically close loopholes which he means, raise more taxes, that's a dead letter to the republicans. and so --. arthel: let's hear, you know, some of the by all indications coming out of the white house the president is going to obviously come out very

he is saying we can get the rest of the revenue just the way speaker boehner has talked about before through tax reform that closes loopholes, reduces tax expenditures, this should be an area we can come together and agree on and avoid the harmful sequester from taking place. >> jean sperling, thank you very much. hundreds of hollywood stars upstaged by none other than the first lady. should michelle obama make a mistake presenting at the oscars? tomorrow marks the one year anniversary trayvon martin's death and george zimmerman receives hundreds of letter from the approximate you be and later in the show, yahoo!'s controversial new employment rule, taking unfair aim at working moms but is she? oh, hi thehey!ill. are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. vo: business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! vo: earn a ton of extra points with the double your hhonors promotion and feel the hamptonality. if youthen this willbrids arbe a nice surprise. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ri

speaker boehner is not strong. lou: i hate to leave it there, but we are out of time. thank you all on the "a-team." we thank you for being with us. we are going to be talking about sequester and this administration tomorrow. it you may rest assured. we thank you for being with us tonight speak ill because of you, mr. president, i think the republicans just called your bluff. welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. before the president tries to scare us on these cuts, he might take a good look at republicans to give him the power to avoid these cuts. not with more cuts, but different cuts. not because he says republicans are forcing him to make these cuts. they are not. they are offering to give him broader authority to cut what he sees appropriate within given department. not what the president says has been rammed down his throat through sequestration. i cannot stress enough how big of a deal this is, my friends. he already has this option, but he is just not using it. within the department of agriculture, you do not have to do a beeline for the beef inspectors. it is

>> i don't believe speaker boehner is thinking about doing that. we have a continued resolution that comes up at the end of march, march 27-28. bob, remember, while the president talks like he's real concernedded about the deficit spending, we haven't had a budget in three years in the united states. now, how serious you can be about our fiscal issues when there hasn't even been a budget passed in three years. and i think boehner and the republicans and i think democrats who are concerned about this need to realize we didn't take any action on the debt ceiling because we didn't want to hurt the credit of the country, but sequester, and then the continuing resolutions at the end of march, these are the two times when the american people need to understand is there anybody in washington serious about getting control of spending? remember when the president proposed the sequester nearly two years ago, it was all about spending restraint. it didn't have a thing to do with raising taxes. >> schieffer: all right, well, governor, mr. mayor, thanks to both

god bless you, speaker boehner. >> narrator: speaker john boehner had 87 new republican lawmakers, manyf them deeply conservative. >> these were not people who spent 25 years in politics. in fact, that was a big strike against you. they were elected not to sell out the way so many politicians had done, that they were elected to speak truth to power. >> they'd spent the last two years running around, particularly a lot of these new congressmen in their districts, saying absolutely horrible things about the president-- his ability to lead, his ideology, his integrity, his birth certificate. these are not easy people to deal with. this is a very difficult, ideological ucus, with a ver strong sense of self-righteousness and great vitriol and animosity for the president. >> narrator: for the president, it was a whole new game. >> i think he understood that the glory days were over, that the moment of celebration of barack obama was passed and he was heading into a much tougher, more trenchant period of his presidency when everything was going to be difficult, when everything was going to be

>> question is speaker boehner right to worry that a thing wage would depress hiring?ntial literature on the minimum wage, there have been natural experiments where one state has raised it and the other hasn't, and for the most part, not totally, but for the most part the literature says that a modest hike does not lead to a loss of jobs. >> what about in a depressed labor market? >> well, i don't know that there's been any studies on raising the minimum wage in a labor market like we have today. ours is kind of unique. but, look, if you're a small businessman and you built your business around the minimum wage, and you're a pizza parlor, the pizza parlor next- door has built its business on paying slightly higher wages, and your workers are used to being paid more, less turnover, better skilled, then the business that has the low wage, they're going to good out of business, and the business with the high wage is going to take over. so it's going to be a net. >> productivity is better if you pay people a little more, and 17 states already have a higher minimum wage tha

cbs news anchor scott pelley talked to house speaker john boehner yesterday. you know this place better than anyone. it can't be done before friday. this is going to happen, isn't it? >> the house has done its work. it's time for the president and democrats to do their work. they've known for 16 months that this date was coming. that's why the house acted twice last year. but yet senate democrats and the president have never passed anything. it's time for them to do their work. >> boehner told pelley it certainly looks like the budget cuts will take effect on friday. susan mcginnis is in washington well more. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie good morning. some of the cuts have already taken place. immigration officials say they're starting to release hundreds and hundreds of illegal aliens from detention from around the country saying they're not going to be able to pay for them. critics on capitol hill say this is a political move and a scare tactic. the government is releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants from detention centers across the country. offici

this is the institution that is led by speaker boehner so we can talk about who is to blame or who's -- has the initiative or who should be doing what but the fact is we're not in session this week. we've got a week to go before these cuts come into play. speaker boehner is the only one who can craft some kind of action in the house that would avoid that. so we shouldn't be out of session now. we should be here. we should be in washington working on this and speaker boehner has to work with his majority to work with us to figure out how to get out of this very, very serious crisis. >> we talked about seven days but really only four business days for all of you back in washington, d.c. >> right. >> kentucky congressman january yarmuth, thanks for your time today. i appreciate it. >>> moving on to our other big story today from south africa the temporary reprieve for olympian track athlete oscar pistorius who is now free on bail as he awaits his murder trial in which he is accused of killing his girlfriend. listen as the chief magistrate elab rates on one of the key factors in his deci

. >> the president did reach across the aisle this week most recently dialing up house speaker john boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday. we don't know what was said in those calls, but we do know they didn't result in new meetings between the president and congressional leaders. both sides instead focusing on dominating this debate. >> democrats don't seem to understand that taxing americans dampens the economy. republicans don't seem to understand that massive unfocused cuts right now are going to slow down the economy. >> you seriously have to wonder whether anyone in washington, in the house and the senate, in the white house and the administration, republican, democrat, do they ever go outdoors? >> so the economic hammer falling at the end of the month. $85 billion in cuts. what will that mean to your wallet or your family? $619 million in cuts to the federal aviation administration which could result in major flight delays for travelers. $406 million in cuts to head start programs meaning 70,000 children losing access and potential layoffs of 14,000 teachers an

but speaker boehner can't speak for his own caucus and has said there's no compromise.s the bigger mega phone and who has the larger presence? take it to him. >> that's why you see the president out there surrounding himself with military which gets him criticized by the president. >> you're a leader. you've led your entire life. you've done business deals your entire life. can we not just admit here at the table that the president hasn't shown the type of leadership he should on all of these budget issues? >> i think there are things, of course, the president should have done differently. we talked about them sitting around this table. the president's defense, the other side. particular particularly dividable. cpac and all the rest of the stuff and asking them now to come forward. they have to have compromise. >> i can separate the talk radio types by john boehner. >> i'm not sure. >> and i can separate. again, let's look, again, at the big picture. let's look at this from 30,000 feet. we've always said the grand bargain, we've said this for years, going to be when rep

i think repubublicans particularly speaker boehner, don't want a. >> colby, how did it come to this? >> they kicked it down the r road. they put it off, thought it would never happen. they put it up so that it frightened everybody but they cannot get themselves together. tax cuts, entitlement reform -- they can not get it done. we are not going to have sequestration. we are going to have castration of the military, castration of domestic programs and a they see it coming. and the president coming up with the proposal to do a bit on both sides, the first word out of speaker boehner's off is thawe will not had any type of tax increase. >> we alreready had one. nina. >> it will be awful, and it is not just the contractors, notot just the military. it is sending out sociaial security checks on time, can you reach anybody at the irs when you have a question, major crimes being investigated, national security issuesboth domestically and abrd. the question is, how many weeks before common sen prevails? this will triggeger was set up by people who said, oh, we will never do this. it is so aw

it's time to cut spending in washington. >> i don't believe that the speaker boehner would be speakerpens. i think he would lose his speakership. that would be my own personal opinion. >> reporter: and behind me, that is the reason why they believe there is no progress on the budget talks. conservatives like johnson pushing boehner and others not to roam compromise. >> but it's eliminating the loopholes on corporations if we want to be accurate. >> reporter: it's about deductions, but if you and them, somebody's taxes are going up. >> shep: thank you. >>> fears of political gridlock in italy. here is what happened. they have been having all these austerity measures all over europe and you may have noticed they are not working at all. italians rejected that today. analysts say traders are worried the elections that wrapped up could lead up to a divided government and make the debt crisis even worse. dow was down more than 250 points. at the end of the session it was off right at 216. the nasdaq was off and s&p 500 was off 27. >> quarter of the country has more credit card than emergenc

speaker boehner can't get the support of his party. want to make it very clear, we did pass, bipartisan, democrat and republican, the budget control act, that would cut $1.5 trillion in both cuts and caps on future spending and discretionary spending is the lowest as the percentage of the economy in 45 years. speaker boehner must understand that a sequester is deadly for the economy. businesses can't make decisions. it would mean furloughs of air traffic controllers, cuts in funding from the nih for breast cancer, for autism, for alzheimer's. it would mean food and safety inspectors would be furloughed. so, this position of speaker boehner doesn't make any sense. we should sit down at the table, pass some more tough decisions. we're adults. we were elected to make tough decisions. and not just walk away and throw your hands up. and i hope that the president of the united states makes this point. we have got to look to the future. we've got to create jobs. growing the economy is the most important challenge for all of us. and if we make

in the summer of 2011, president obama and speaker boehner were this close to a grand bargain that includedh cuts and revenues. but then boehner walked away. now we know why. in an explosive new article by new yorkers ryan lizza, eric cantor told me that it was a fair assessment that he talked boehner out of accepting the obama deal. cantor said he told boehner that it would be better instead to take the issues of taxes and spending to the voters and have it out with democrats in the election. okay. i get it. so republicans wanted the 2012 election to decide the debate over cuts and revenue. well, guess what, it did. president obama won. they lost. americans want fairness. but republicans like eric cantor are now ignoring the lessons of the election. they're talking like it never happened. just check out what bill o'reilly said on his show last night. >> the country's changing quickly into an entitlement society. it's not so much that apathetic americans are embracing the the tenats of themselves. americans are selfish. they want money for nothing. >> this is straight out of mitt romney's 4

how about speaker boehner?e says getting involved in early childhood education is, "a good way to screw it up". wow. if they're against 4-year-olds, you can imagine what they think about president obama's call to raise the minimum wage. >> minimum wage laws have never worked. >> i've never been a fan of that idea. i think it's inflationary. it is actually counter productive in many ways. >> at a time when american people are skgs where are the job, why would we want to make it harder for smaller jobs to hire people? >> in the greatest nation on earth, we shouldn't be fighting about helping kids in america. this is basic. and the republican response is pathetic. joining me now, salon's john walsh, joan walsh's writing about the president's education plan. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. i want to start with this minimum wage. they have a problem with raising it. it's madness to me. >> it's madness. it's an anti-poverty program that doesn kostz the government anything. it doesn't do enough, but it'

i think republicans, particularly speaker boehner, don't want eight. >> colby, how did it come to this? >> they kicked it down the road on this problem, they put it off, thought it would never happen. they put it up to frighten everybody, but they cannot get themselves together on the question of tax cuts, cutting spending, entitlement reform. they cannot get it done. we are not going to have sequestration. we are going to have castration of the military, castration of domestic programs. they see it coming. and the president comes up with a proposal to do a little bit on both sides, the first word out of speaker boehner's amount is we are not going to have any type of tax increase. >> they just had one. that is what the republicans are arguing, nina. >> i think is going to happen. the question is for how long, because it will be awful. it is not just the contractors, not just the military. a is sending out social security checks on time, can you reach anybody at the irs when you have a question, major crimes being investigated, national security issues both domestically and abroad. the

a short while ago, we spoke to the republican speaker of the house, john boehner. you know this place better than anyone. it can't be done before friday. this is going to happen, isn't it? >> the house has done its work. it's time for the president and senate democrats to do their work. they've known for 16 months that this date was coming. that's why the house acted twice last year. but yet senate democrats and the president have never passed anything. it's time for them to do their work. >> pelley: but the reality is that this is going to happen on friday. the president and the senate are not going to get a bill passed and to you and have your chamber approve that bill before friday. i mean the sequester is going to happen. >> at this point i would agree. it looks that way. but hope springs eternal. >> pelley: but they weren't counting on hope at u.s. immigration and customs enforcement today. with more on that release of illegal immigrants, we turn now to elaine quijano. elaine? >> reporter: scott, the jail behind me is one of the facilities were a number of det

we've already done $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction of a $4 trillion grand bargain that speaker boehner walked away from. there are significant spending cuts and revenue in that plan. you know, what i'd like to know is name -- why hasn't john boehner or any of the republicans in the congress named one tax loophole that they're willing to close for a wealthy person so that we can reduce this deficit in a balanced and responsible way? where is their plan? it's nonexistent. >> where are you going to get new revenue when the republicans have drawn a line in the sand? how are you going to do this? >> look, during the entire campaign last year, mitt romney and all the republican leadership that i heard said they were in favor of closing tax loopholes. that was one of the few things we agreed on. so why can't we close the loophole that allows for a tax break on having a corporate jet? how about ending wasteful oil company subsidies when they are making hundreds of billions of dollars? >> profit. >> yes. it's just stunning. >> there is a lot of fat out there that you could go get in the tax cod