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Because everyone is making it so dramatic. jon: im im jon scott. four days until the cuts kick in. democrats holding a news conference now with the air travel association on how sequestration will affect air travelers, but they are not the only ones. the white house says the cuts will hurt education, plus spark furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers. some prominent republican blasting the president for these so-called scare tactics. >> my advice to the president is stop the ca...

We put together a balanced approach. small amount of cuts around defense that are connected with phasing out of afghanistan. its much more responsible. people should be supporting that. we could come together. that would give us time between now and the end of the year to do the rest of it, which is looking at how we reach together that $4 trillion number. >> senator stabbenow, thank you for joining us. >> right now at the white house at the briefing room janet napolitano, homeland security secr...

Lets fauk about whats happening there, first of all. you bring the promise of $20 million in aid. its only two years since the famine. yet, were talking about budget cuts here at home. what do you say to people about the cuts, the affects of the sequester on foreign aid, and on our relationship with these fledgling governments in place like somalia. >> well, thank you, andrea, for having me. you know, my main message is that this is critical to our national security. we were in somalia with -- o...

Crisis, and nowhere and never before has that not been more real to the average american. with the droughts m midwest, the fires in the west, the deracho in the southeast, hurricane sandy, americans are seeing the affects of the climate on steroids, and our polling shows that 65% of them say -- know that they need to take action on climate now. keystone locks us into a dirty energy future. we have to make mooufl aggressively to a clean energy future. since president obama took office, wind has d...

Up next. >> hey, thomas. it is officially sequester semester. president obama brings out real people who will affect the affects of billions of cuts that are set to take place next week, while others are out at recess. the daupting to do list with harold ford jr., ryan grim, heather mcgehee, and andrew ross sorkin, and elizabeth warren is the tip on youtube with her top of too big to jail. will wall street reform become reality? and actress kristen davis is here to discuss blood ivory and elepha...

Cardinals are arriving in rome to select the next pontiff. the new white house chief of staff said the president is worried about the affects of sequestitration that affect the middle class. they are set to go into place in two weeks. the white house will push for a rainfall amount of spending cuts and additional tax revenues. the republican senator marko rub rub said a draft immigration bill prepared by the white house would be dead on arrival in congress. the draft lace out an eight-year proce...

Interest. it comes through the state department, but he has a path to take. he can go down the clean energy pathway or dirty energy pathway. keystone is smack in the middle of dirty energy. he has to turn that down. >> in terms of the magazine editorial that suggested basically that he triaction newsing late. that he say, okay, have your keystone pipeline. it has no direct -- stopping it wont stop those tar sands from being produced, will not directly affect co2, and then give yourself corps for...

Perceive him as somewhat odd. >> little jerky. when i talked to him yesterday, he asked me about what i would do about seeing the affects. the team hes on doesnt seem to have any issues with it and think he can succeed out there. >> anything else on mr. street? maybe we can count him as one of our success stories for now. coming up -- >> make sure you know those receipts. you told me you was doing that last week? >> even as he tries to prove his case, nick compton cant escape the wrath of othe...

An area where there could be compromise. so youre finding even in how hes describing it, its different. for him, he calls it a path to a green card, not path to citizenship. wanting to remind people that citizenship takes many years to achieve. and so hes trying to take a little of the sting out of it by trying to take a more practical approach by just sort of arguing a case for why it matters to business as well as families and sort of the history of the country to be more open to the idea of, ...

Affects, literally, millions of people. this is not a marginal issue at all. when you look at the fact that -- look at families. 12 million families with children rely primarily on womens earnings. 6.3 million families are headed by working single mothers. i was raised by single mothers. so when they only get three quarters, a little over three quarters of a dollar and theyre the only earner, it is not only unfair and it impacts them, it impacts families. >> without a doubt. and reverend, if you...