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Campaign-style rally. here is house speaker john boehner. >> the president says we need another tax increase in order to avoid this sequester. well, mr. president you got your tax increase. its time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, if the president was serious hed sit down with harry reid and begin to address our problems. martha: senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler joins us live from newport news, virgi...

Business, you wouldnt talk to any of these people. theyre playing a game. both sides are playing a game. you just heard the speaker of the house say, you know, the president of the united states insists on playing games with our military men and women, using them as campaign props. all right. so just take that one statement. a high school math teacher could go in and look at the defense department budget and cut it responsibly, but if you talk about the defense department budget you immediately ...

To push his plan to close tax loopholes. white house speaker john boehner rules out the possibility of any new taxes. >> i stand by those commitments to make the reforms for smart spending cuts. we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform speaker boehner championed just two months ago. >> the president says we have to have another tax increase in order to avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. its time to cut spending here in washington. instea...

Avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. its time to cut spending here in washington. instead of using our military men and women as campaign props, the president was serious, he would sit down with harry reid and begin to address our problems. >> the president will be in newport news today to discuss the local economy, particularly military spending. the president met at the white house. they are critical about how the president is handling the situation. >> now is a...

Personally approved the plan to propose the sequester. thats been cited by everyone from john mccain to bobby jindal. it all mere theatrics until we see the cuts take effect? here is the great speaker. >> -- than he is in urging his senate democrats to actually pass a plan. listen, we know there are smarter ways to cut spending and to continue to grow our economy. thats why republicans have acted twice, as kathy said, to replace the sequester with what we would argue are smarter cuts. listen, th...

Impact or effect on the election. we are asking that question on our web site at foxnews.com/americas newsroom. martha: well talk to monica crowley and chris hahn about the political ramifications. peter doocy joins us from washington. >> reporter: some members think it would level the playing field. tawpped aiken feels homosexuals are more protected than other members of the public. so he proposed an amendment to ban same-sex marriages on military bases and it passed 7-4. >> the president repea...

They literally handed them out. but the white house has explained previously, look, these are doctors themselves. they are comfortable wearing the white coats. republicans have said, look, these are essentially campaign props in the white house. and it is just yet another example of how they cant agree on anything. everything is back and forth nasty. >> both sides do it, the photo ops. that is what the president wants, ed. thanks. ed mentioned how the president going to try to get tax confusin...

Rose garden they passed them out and caught some flack from republics. so i didnt see, i wasnt in the east room today to see whether they literally handed them out but the white house explained previously, look, these are doctors themselves. they are comfortable wearing the white coats. republicans have said, look, these are essentially campaign props in the white house. and it is just yet another example of how they cant agree on everything. everything is back and forth nasty. >> both side does...

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