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And paul ryan has just wrapped up a defense industry roundtable. fayetteville, north carolina. home, of course, to ft. bragg. also a battleground state. that is where we find nbcs ron motte. ron, what is paul ryan talking about today? >> reporter: hey there, and degr rea. this was an anything but akin speech day. they were here to talk about defense spending in particular. one thing that paul ryan said to the audience here, it mostly looked like a business crowd here, is the current budget seque...

Send it back to you, andrea. at the very end of this discussion today, the moderator opened the floor up to questions from the assembled audience then said well hear from the media with questions after that. paul ryan quickly said, oh, no, no, no, we donwent do that. we didnt get a chance to get on the record with his position on the budget sequester. well try again next time. >> ron, i know you will. thank you very much. great having you out there zblunch. up next, tony perkins joins us from ...

trayvon martin was shot and killed, could be a key piece of evidence. he had a closed fracture of his nose, two black eyes, two cuts to the back of his head in a minor back injury. i want to go to martin savidge covering the story for us. with all these new details and developments does it help zimmermans argument he was in fact standing his ground they killed trayvon martin in self-defense? >> reporter: it depends on who you talk to. heres the way it breaks down. this information comi...

Up. >> that becomes a matter of time being. i think senator reid has made the judgment, quite correctly that there is very little chance that we will get the two sides together before the election. >> reporter: senator conrad the democratic chairman of the senate budget committee says he plans to introduce a pweufpblgt his own. he recommended the president accept the recommendations of his own deficit commission, the bowls simpson commission which will obama declined to follow. >> he asked me fo...

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"the washington post" confirmed what we already expected, president obamas anti-republican attacks are going to continue, that hes not really in a compromising mood on the budget sequester or pretty much anything else. according to the post, his aim is not to get along with the g.o.p., but to get them out. the goal is to flip the republican-held house back to democratic control, allowing obama it push forward with a progressive agenda, gun control, immigration, climate change and the economy dur...

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Pretty much hangs in the balance when you throw numbers like this around. congress imposed this budget sequester on the country, and now they have just been unable to deal with it. here is a taste of what will happen. here is where the conversation gets a little dicey. it means between 600,000 and maybe a little bit more than a million jobs could be lost, depending on how businesses react to this. weve had 35 months of private sector job growth. thats a good number, with no republican help. and ...