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Tiger woods rehabilitation, being seen or playing golf with the president than it is about obama. >> but ann compton also said that this is a trend, this is getting worse with every administration. >> next on news watch, media takes sides in the sequestration showdown. >> this is the not an abstraction. there are people whose livelihoods are at stake. >> the president forecast dire consequences if congress doesnt act on spending cuts. and the media coverage parrott the theme. is the press protec...

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Its not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> you know you have a good marriage when you say have a guys weekend with tiger woods. >> were in the white house kitchen. >> the president talking about saving big bird. >> did he replace his divot? >> hes given 591 interviews. >> if we live long enough were going to fail at something. >> even ever hear of a pocket tweet. >> its your butt. >> it will be in some ways a yawn. is anybody not going to stand up and call his bluff. >> you sound li...

Forward is senior citizens are going to have medicare cuts and have less good health care because of this. so, i think were going from the abstraction of cuts and now to the reality and one of the reasons this is hard to cut the budget is not because democrats want to spend, spend, spend, but because this is going to involve real pain for americans every time you cut the budget and something that makes this difficult and for the republicans and also, i think, theyre going forward in the fiscal n...

Ill let you finish your thought. but here, let me just clarify the question i was trying it pose to you. theres no question that both parties are to blame for the sequester if you consider is blame worthy, but when the president comes out here and says these people are going to get laid off look at the poor first responders, theyre going to go. blah, blah, it was his idea. he signed it into law and to hear it now, those evil republicans they did all of it, it was his brainchild. >> i think circu...

He made the strongest case yet about the damage these sequester cuts will do to the countrys economy. >> these cuts are not smart. they are not fair. they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment roles. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> people standing with the president today are among those who will directly impacted by congress if they refuse to act. >> emergency responders, like the ones who are here today, their ab...

The least popular senator is desperately attacking ashley judd. and david corn, the co-author of "hubris" and co-author of the msnbc documentary tells me what was left out. >> im sure the administration cooked the books. >> good to have you with us, folks. thanks for watching. keep in mind when you hear the word sequester, the sequester cuts were designed to be so bad, so terrible, that lawmakers would be forced to come up with an alternative plan. well, that didnt work. with these cuts are on t...

>> totally agree. >> big pharma. we should be increasing "robin hood" financial speculation taxes on the corporations. we should be closing loopholes and deducts for the very rich. the frame of our debate in this country is not a reality-based discussion. as michael grunwald said, you look across the ocean, the bleeding, the generational loss as spain suffers 26% unemployment. and in our country is similar. >> this is exactly what boehner is going for right now. they dont want -- theyve said tax...

Republicans. >> yeah, i think so too. >> that will move from an abstraction to this is what these crazy -- >> pay the price politically? >> they better, to make sure that the american public understands. this is the republicans fault when these cuts come through. >> the president needs to use his bully pulpit to take on these bullies, and to really speak to what the priorities of these republicans are. >> yeah. >> because you see it so clearly. and no investment in health care or education. lets...

Expire. were not going down a tax path that weve never been before. >> the obama white house does have a list of prudent cuts that could be made. >> elizabeth warren has prudent cuts. but the kind of cuts, we should be cutting subsidies to big oil. >> totally agree. >> big pharma. we should be increasing "robin hood" financial speculation taxes on the corporations. we should be closing loopholes and deducts for the very rich. the frame of our debate in this country is not a reality-based discuss...