Calling Sequester News Today

Many more houses need to be evacuated. shepard. >> steve hair began i harrigan a newsroom. republicans and democrats today failed to reach a compromise to avoid the big government-created spending or crisis known as the sequester. with a midnight deadline about nine hours away, the president said he still believes the feds will be able to avoid financial apocalypse, but he also blames republicans for failing to stop the automatic spending cuts. >> what doesnt make sense and the only thing weve...

That we wont have to deal with a threat of a government shutdown while were dealing with the sequester at the same time. >> the president made clear he, too, wants to avoid that fight. he said hell accept the deal but continue spending at the sequester cut level. >> thanks. so what do the employees in washington have in store for us now? well look at this whole sequester dust up with the fox x news sunday" host chris wallace. a driver sends a bus full of people into oncoming traffic after he p...

Approach including, by the way, a majority of republicans. we just need runs in congress to catch up with their own party and the country on this. if they did so, we could make a lot of progress. >> reporter: he said its a caucus off common sense willing to use additional tax revenue to loather deficit. he hopes in a matter of weeks or months it gains the upper hand, shepard. >> what from republicans? >> reporter: republicans suggest when the president agreed not to make tax revenue a part of th...

Chicken that theyre calling sequester this time. in two or three months well have another crisis and it will have another time its calling sequester. make no mistake about it, political gam building on the future of our economy. plain and simple. will the earth crack open and swallow the country, no, but it does prove that capitol hill is as divided as ever. chris, i keep readin reading pee saying this is fine. they should do this. the pentagon says this budget is making them keep a program they...

T from-- message from one he had been giving. it will not happen overnight, but to be real. he seems to be trying to prepare folks for what, marc? >> the fact that the the sequester isnt quite what he made it out to be. reason hes changing his tone, what he was saying was not true. and like the boy who cried wolf, obama is calling sequester. they got caught and said that 40,000 teachers will lose their jobs and arne duncan said the layoff notices were going out as we speak and they couldnt find ...

Shouldnt be, and the president and democrats dont want the flexibility to make the choices. thats pretty dumb right there. >> shepard: they dont want to be blamed. nobody wants to be blamed. its all politics, isnt it? >> well, yeah, but the point is weve reached this point. no, no. weve reached this point, and the president you would think as the commander-in-chief, the person in charge of our national security, would want to decide what national security programs to cut and what not to, and he ...