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Good-bye." harper reveals that she has this rare, incurable form of brain cancerer and she has only three months to live but that is not getting her spirit down she talked to the syndicated show "the doctors." >> put out is three months to live. that could be because what i have is rare and my wonderful doctors delineate exactly what it is and how its working. its also incurable. so far. thats the word im looking at, so far, cause they are doing research as we speak. and so i just thought that w...

The president overhyped this thing electing like y 2 q, he couldnt back up his -- y2k and sometimes you have to call this presidents bluff. were not talking about a massive cut here in spending. were talking about a minor cut in the growth of spending. i think our country wants to see us get serious about spending and i think the party learned a good lesson to stand up to the president, being very clear offering solutions to problems. at the end of the day if the president isnt willing to lead a...

Presidents bluff. we are not talking about a massive cut here in spending at all. we are talking about a minor cut in the growth of spending. and i think our country wants to see us get serious about spending in this country. i think our party learned a good lesson about standing up to this president. >> but by the same token you cant underplay it, i think. priebus is saying we learned a lesson, sky is not falling. no big deal. three weeks from now march 26th the furloughs do begin. and that wil...

Fraud-ridden programs? why arent you doing that rather than cutting the muscle? jon: but clearly the white house gambling or believing that when all is said and done, the american people are going to blame congress for any ill effects that come from the sequester cuts. >> right. but its a big bet. and it could turn out badly. i think the republicans ought to take an affirmative step and call the presidents bluff. the house republicans ought to, in my opinion, pass legislation that makes clear th...

Not enough taxes on the wealthy or defense to cut. you can cut the defense department and half of one years annual deficit. you can reform the defense department and thats precisely what our organization thinks we should be doing. finding ways to cut and doing so you get away from stripping a lot of programs in the discretionary side of the budget that people like. and people believe government should be doing. we have to reform it. not cut it and why sequestration is so bad. >> im struggling to...

Of oklahoma in the new "new yorker" and a piece about eric cantor saying its a little like the dysfunctional family speaking about the gop where everybody knows that old joe is an alcoholic and somebody needs to say. we need to get joe some help. come on. hes ruined too many christmas parties and i think joe is the far right, the tea party group. s.e. said something similar to this. will you be critical of old uncle joe? >> i think theres plenty of obstruction and dysfunction to go around. the p...

State of the union address. advocated for raising the minimum wage, infrastructure, all things i think to help the middle class and working class. what sort of middle class proposals are you looking for from this president? >> well, i do think the problem with the sequester to bring it -- not just back to that, it cuts a lot of discretionary pieces of the fwhaugt are in good investments, provide equal opportunity and so cutting those and being unwilling, completely unwilling to reform entitlemen...

Do the sequester. now is the time for every federal agency, especially since they got 20% increases in the last four years, maybe to suck in their stomach and tighten their belts and find ways they can save on travel and other things. >> neil: im with you. a lot of people rip this whole sequestration thing. i dont have a problem if it guarantees in the end well have cuts. its not pretty. its not very organized. its haphazard but in the scheme of things not to do the cuts and favor an approach wo...

His notes and it was exactly his idea. what does your gut tell you? do we really not have enough money to get an extra aircraft carrier to the persian gulf? all flights will be delayed? is there a scare tactic there for americans? >> there is no doubt about it. thats why i said call the bluff, give them the authority to do it. we have to do this all the time. we have to make those tough choices and we find a better way than the scare tact ticks. for years, i heard not just in stayed, but local g...

They would embrace this. you stand to lose 36,000 jobs. do you agree? >> no. the question i have is certainly there will be some impact government. for a lot of our employers, weve got a handful of defense contractors. nothing like what you have in virginia or california. they already made adjustments. they already accounted for the fact that the sequester was coming. this isnt going to happen at the flip of a switch on march 1. for the government, again, i think most people would agree, but par...