PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I am not a dictator; I'm the president. So, ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"

OBAMA: "In the meantime, just to make the final point about the sequester, we will get through this. This is not going to be [an] apocalypse, as some people have said. It is just dumb. And it's going to hurt. It will hurt individual purple and it's going to hurt the economy overall."

REPORTER: Just to be a 100-percent clear, would you sign a budget that continues to fund the government, even at lower levels than the sequester, even if you don't prefer to do that? PRESIDENT OBAMA: I never want to make myself 100-percent clear with you guys, but I think it is fair to say that I made a deal for a certain budget, certain numbers

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I am saying that everybody is going to have to do something, and the one key to this whole thing is trying to make sure we keep in mind who we are here for. We're not here for ourselves, we're not here for our parties. We're not here to advance our electoral prospects. We're here for American families who have been getting battere

President Obama: So, the deal I have put forward over the last two years, the deal that I put forward as recently as December is still on the table. I am prepared to do hard things and to push my Democratic friends to do hard things. But what I can ‘t do -- but what I can't do is ask middle-class families, ask seniors, ask students to bear the en

Stossel: Congressman, you voted against the Sequester because you didn’t think it cut enough? Paul:  Yeah, now everybody is squawking, it is really just a slowdown in the rate of increase in government. And when you look at that chart you put up, you really can’t even see a space between the lines. So it’s the least we can do to get start

David Alexrod questions Bob Woodward's story that he was "threatened" by a high-ranking member of the Obama Administration. 

The Obama administration engages in a war of words with legendary Washington Post word warrior Bob Woodward. Jon Stewart reports.

Rachel Maddow opines on Justice Scalia calling a part of the Voting Rights Act a "racial entitlement" on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." RACHEL MADDOW: It's a racial entitlement now, voting is a racial entitlement -- something that you are entitled to on the basis of your race. Wait a second, do you know how that

On Thursday, Chris Matthews, John Nichols, and Michael Scherer, talk about sequestration and how America's political leaders are dealing with the matter and the possibility of a government shutdown. Matthews, in his opening monologue, predicts that the American public will be outraged over the spending cuts. He suggests that Matthews: "H

On Thursday, Chris Hayes, Robert Reich, and Jared Bernstein talk about the day's action in the debate over sequestration. Reich and Bernstein both call for America's political leaders to focus on job creation instead of deficit reduction. Reich says "there is a long term budget deficit problem that has to do mostly with an aging baby boomer popu

Thursday, Bill O'Reilly talked about the current tension between the Obama Administration and Bob Woodward. He told his audience that Gene Sperling did not threaten to harm Woodward, but meant that Woodward would regret being wrong about the issue. O'Reilly then used the rest of his monologue to criticize President Obama's spending record.

The panel gives their take on the conflict between Bob Woodward and the Obama Administration on the issue of the sequester.