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0 >> okay. how about article 2? >> neither is article 2. >> you want to be a federal judge and you dont know what article 5 and article 2 which creates executive. you dont know what they are. you want to be a federal judge? you dont know what its articles say? we will be back tomorrow. have a great night. welcome to hannity. we begin this busy newsnight with a fox news alert. the state of tennessee is on edge. five former memphis police officers now have been arrested and they have been charge...

Veto of this defense bill. what are the next couple of months looking like? >> it is going to be terrible here in washington. i have to say, the way that we govern now is exactly the opposite of what it should be. congress basically governed from one crisis to the next. sometimes getting policies in place at the last minute, almost always not the ideal policy. here is what were facing. we have to fund a government for the coming fiscal year, which started october 1st. they put in place a tempora...

Testimony last week and some of them had lost their jobs because of the very deep across the board sequester cuts. they had a stack two feet high of applications they had submitted for jobs and hadnt gotten a job yet and so for rand paul to say, you know, were going to really do you a favor. were going to cut off the little compensation that youve got for your family and thats going to do you good is absurd and demeaning. in addition, in addition to helping these families cope, youre also helpin...

Across the board spending cuts that have got congress so flummoxed and offset the costs, money that would be saved from turning off the sequester with cuts to entitlements. medicare means testing. the motion the elderly who are richer should pay more for medicare. maybe changing the inflation rate on social security. to hold down social security cost of living increases. that would save enough money to allow it to be spent on regular government operations instead of across the board sequester cu...

>> thats more or less right. these guys do not want to put anything on the table that has the whiff of revenue on it. and whats so -- boehners got a tough job. the tea party wing of his party is the majority. they have actually backed away from what has been a decades-long commitment to a strong military with across the board sequester cuts which theyre willing to take if thats what it takes to shrink government. so hes in a bind, but his unwillingness to actually even engage the president, when...

Winning the majority congressional republicans are holding the government sort of hostage. tonight we are nine days away from another self-imposed man made crisis in washington. this one they call the sequester, which is a word i have diligently avoided until now because it makes me liss. we are nine days away from slashing the budget across the board was republicans and democrats both agreed that that should happen, there should be that threat if they couldnt agree on how to lower the deficit b...

Done that we otherwise wouldnt do, or should we make a case based on american history that we can legislate threw normal means and still have real debates? >> no, i think this is really important point to make. this is not a -- none of this is a lesson that brinksmanship works. it is a lesson that not compromising doesnt work if you want to get things done under a divided government there is nothing stopping the u.s. government, congress, and the president from coming to a compromise. all that r...

Worry, they would go on to possibly shutting down the government next month, or, or they could wait a couple of months and breach the debt ceiling, both which would probably be significantly worse than using the sequester. they could of course choose to do none of them. they could choose to not destroy the economy for no particular reason. they could decide not to have terrible cuts that dont have a purpose behind them that honestly achieve nobodys goals, including those of deficit hawks. they h...

Reason. at the moment theyre not doing that, because in the weird calculus of the sequester, they created a thing so terrible that we would never let it happen, and thus we would come to some bigger deal they would like better. we didnt come to that bigger deal, and so we now need to let the thing that we would never let happen now happen. it doesnt make a lot of sense, but it appears to make a kind of twisted sense that is appealing to house republicans. >> lets say they did not do the thing th...

Legal caps in the law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money. and if they breach that amount, across-the-board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you cant turn that off without a super majority vote. we got that in law. >> we got that in law. weve been fighting for that. fast forward to now and paul ryan is thinking the opposite. now he is saying he doesnt like the idea. and its the presidents problem, the presidents own making. >> its the president who fi...