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Expected to feel the impact of those cuts. abcs pierre thomas spoke with the attorney general about his worries over national security. >> reporter: after a top secret fbi briefing on the nations terror threat, the attorney general issued a stark warning about those deep budget cuts. >> there are not going to be as many fbi agents, atf agents, dea agents, prosecutors are going to be able to do their jobs. theyre going to be furloughed. >> reporter: you have members of the republican party saying...

Both democrats and republicans is that republicans need the sequester to go through to show -- in order to prove the base that it is fighting obama. is that what youre hearing, as well? this is all about showing once again theyre willing to fight obama? >> thats a component of it. i think zacharys exactly right. you also didnt see the markets freak out over the fiscal cliff because weve sort of stopped believing the crying wolf of washington politicians and a sense of what -- if you look at the ...

Eric lewis. you guys watch washington from here. we are on our fifth budget crisis since republicans took control of the house. at what point does the public stop listening in washington? my sense says, boy, i just think it public is saying, you guys keep crying wolf, whatever reference, its over and over again. >> youre right. people have tuned out. i think those that have worked for the federal government -- >> theyre the pawns in this. >> theyre paying attention about which agencies, so if yo...

The f.a.a. is acknowledging that they are revisiting the amount of hours that new pilots may need before they can get hired, shem; pilots say this is overblown. >> sully as you will burger who the captain of the miracle on the hudson says he believes the airline industry is crying wolf as a way to get the f.a.a. to lower those requirements, but he believes if you start lowering the hours needed to get hired that would compromise safety and he believes experience saves lives. listen to him. >> wh...

Danie daniel,, is netanyahus coming out and sort of rebuffing secretary of state clinton, is that in response to sort of losing support amongst the political elite in israel? >> i think netanyahu has gotten to a position where he feels he has to double down, which is what i think were seeing in significant measure. he would have liked to have been able to claim, i think, that whatever next happens in terms of sanctioning going forward, in terms of language becoming more harsh, that this is down ...

They were hired to do private security detail. they have extensive experience in iraq and afghanistan. we are learning more about the film, if you want to call it that. u.s. officials were aware content was broadcast saturday on an arabic tv show. it didnt prompt strong warnings from the state department. one american official says you cant freak out on everything that is broadcast online. it would be like crying wolf. yesterday, secretary of state, hillary clinton, emphasized the u.s. governm...

Voting. nights and weekends. come on down. the republican secretary of state in ohio is personally intervening to ensure fewer voting hours in democratic than republican-leaning counties. yesterday that guy, the republican secretary of state said that he had a major announcement to make about the process of voting in ohio. oh, my god, i cant care about the boy crying wolf, i top the hear that announcement. this is an issue of national significance. anybody who cares has to care about how badly o...

and may have big-footed congress. kate bolduan is on the case. we heard it moments ago. the white house asserting executive privilege. >> reporter: it is the latest twist in this ongoing battle that is coming to his -- leading up to this showdown vote, this contempt vote, that the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, congressman darrell issa, has been threatening. he says he had a subpoena for documents relating you of the department of justice relating to this botched...

convention. the texas congressman will join us live this hour. well talk about his presidential hopes and the 2012 election. and if youre fuming about surprise credit card fees or lousy service, theres now a place where you can share your complaints with the entire world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." this is just coming in to the "the situation room" right now. take a look at this. wow. its a huge, huge crowd that has gathered at tahrir square in cairo. tens of t...

Found 350 cases in 50 states across 15 years. maybe two dozen cases a year in the entire country. so then we have this governor go and look across an entire year, they find zero cases. i mean, stop crying wolf and start governing. >> they constantly throw this voter fraud stuff up there when the facts arent there to support it. >> they are just trying to make people afraid so they get behind their push to suppress the vote. it needs to stop. they need to stop crying wolf. for those two dozens ca...