Dreaded Sequester News Today

Robert gibbs. >> well, look. there obviously is a plan to replace the sequester. and its something that speaker boehner wont discuss because it includes revenue, as well as some entitlement cuts and spending cuts. sheer where y here is where you see the point that i made earlier. they wanted spending cuts to take home to constituents. they wouldnt sit at a table anywhere in the country. whether in the speakers office, oval office or a starbucks in between. and discuss anything that had to do wit...

Sinkholes are relatively common in florida. reported here more often than any other state. thats because the state sits on this layer of limestone that can face collapse because of shifts in underground wattern caverns. authorities plan to resume their investigation and search this morning. craig. >> gabe gutierrez in florida. thank you. well come back to you a little later. back to washington. and readier on not, the long dreaded sequester has arrived. the $85 million in spending cuts kicked ...

Be with the president, that he is quest traces will hurt the economy. 56% say in a new gallop poll, and 30% say it wont harm the economy. delays at airports could come with fewer screeners and air tower controllers, transportation secretary has predicted 90-minute delays at the nations busiest airports because of fewer controllers, and the sequester also apparently forced vice president joe bidens hand and says that air force two will be grounded for weekend trips now. but thats all right with t...

Contributor as well. good to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> president obama, spent much of the past month or so engaged in a very public campaign to essentially try and shame republicans into action, robert. why did it not work this time? >> well, in many ways, republicans after the fiscal cliff negotiations, where they felt like they had given too much on revenue reduction, which they hadnt, they felt like they needed these spending cuts. largely how we ended up where we did with ...

Cuts into readiness as we heard the service branch chiefs talk extensively about risk and readiness crisis. so were trying to let other members know weve already been to the table in reducing military budgets and taking 50% of the sequester cut and placing it in 18% of the budget, not a smart way to go about this. we want to make sure we reduce defic deficit. this is not the smart way to do it. and it cuts at this nations ability to defend itself. >> it sounds like have you reservations about th...

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Asked for but the pentagon was put in by bloated congress people who wanted to do stuff for people in their district. im a fairly hawkish on defense, but this is an enterprise that hasnt been touched for 30 years and this may be our only chance. >> thats interesting sort of where the two sides come together, which is to say members of the progressive left think this is the only time were going to get these defense cuts and deficit hawks, conservatives, tea partiers are putting moderate republica...

Was, their absolute refusal to agreeing to even a dollar of new tax revenue. they believe they can shift the blame this time to president obama. today, speaker boehners office was sending around "call obama sequesters bluff." republicans should continue to refuse to make any concessions or compromise with the white house, he says, even writing a script for them. we are quite prepared to cut elsewhere but we already raised taxes last month. if the presses wants to avoid the sequester as we do, he...

The next washington crisis. >> it is still the economy. >> doomsday machine. >> 85 billion in cuts. >> whats getting cut? the pentagon. >> were only a few weeks away from this. >> it doesnt make any political sense. >> it would be brutal for everybody. >> devastatiing effects on the economy. >> pushes us into a second recession, something so terri e terrible -- >> all right. settle down. >> they recognize that the sequester is a bad idea. >> i dont like the sequester. >> we see the republicans p...

Straight talk, we have our fingerprints as republicans on this proposal, on this sequestration idea. it was the presidents idea, according to bob woodwards book, but we as the republican party agreed to it. we got in this mess together and were going to have to get out together. >> joining me now are howard dean, former vermont governor and dnc chairman and chris hayes, host of msnbcs "up with chris hayes." gentlemen, thank you both for joining me. governor, youtube is an amazing thing, is it no...