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Arent we really headed right down this way when it comes to government spending? >> well, we certainly are with this sequester, which will lead to a lot of loss of jobs. it will have a very negative effect on the economy. if youre running a business and you have to fly salespeople or engineers around the country, youre going to discover with 4,000 fewer air traffic controllers, that plane may not get there. all across the economy, this is going to be a terrible problem because this is government...

Massive cover-up, then why would mccain allow the hagel vote to move forward after a week and a half? well, times up. clock hit right at the number 12, lets move. mccain is interested in making wild accusations, but hes got nothing to back it up. here is president obama in this google town hall he had last week. the president was talking about benghazi last thursday. now, do you think there is a cover-up after you listen to this? here it is. >> weve had more testimony and more paper provided to ...

12, lets move. mccain is interested in making wild accusations, but hes got nothing to back it up. here is president obama in this google town hall he had last week. the president was talking about benghazi last thursday. now, do you think there is a cover-up after you listen to this? here it is. >> weve had more testimony and more paper provided to congress than ever before. and congress is sort of running out of things to ask. >> like 10,000 pages. lets turn to colonel lawrence wilkerson, form...

These banks are too big to fail and too big to jail, that was it. >> what impact in dollars could actual regulation have on the banks? i mean, theyre going to make a profit. they have always made a profit. but this is the greedy fast lane. what impact could it have? >> the important issue, ed, we have artificially depressed interest rates to prop up these banks. the bankers today were telling politico and the "new york times" deal book, oh, were perfectly robust and healthy there is nothing wron...

It became sort of an echo chamber between the administration and a lot of voices in the media, many of whom who have still not apologized and still have their very well compensated perches in our media political culture. so this stuff cant happen -- or let me put it another way, ed. its much more difficult to pull off a hoax like this if you have skeptical or just good reporters out there putting this stuff to hard questions. >> all right. >> and that didnt happen at the time. that made it a lot...

Detected. mostly optically at night, using a telescope surveying the sky. the meteor, though, the small asteroid came out of the daytime sky. so its against a bright sky lit by the sun. so that makes it very, very difficult to see. and also, the small size, that didnt help us either. >> hakeem, what are the chances of us seeing something like that, i mean in a lifetime? how rare is this? >> its really small. if this were to happen in the daytime in the bright daylight in an over the ocean, which...

Too fast. we should not be doing any cut at this point because cuts will cost us jobs. and the real problem we is a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis. >> one word from all of you. odo you think she could walk us back into a recession if this were to happen? >> without a doubt. >> no question. >> house speaker boehner does not sound like he is willing to compromise. here is what he said yesterday. >> on the sequester will be in effect until there are cuts in reforms that put us on a path to balan...

Accorded a fair degree of respect. they havent been laughed out of town or tar and feathered and chased away because of what they have done. there hasnt been a full accounting or full consequences applied. and so that means, as rachel points out in the film itself, that this could happen again under another set of circumstances in the not too distant future. >> let me tell you, when i was in high school, the vietnam war was raging. and when the war ended, we all thought, well, gosh, as a country...

We had to go, it turns out that it was, as david puts it, a hoax. the case about why we had to go turned out not to be true. it was maintained to us as if it were true. and that has to be seen as an original sin for why that war ended up being a bad idea. we all respect the people who serve. we all thank and frankly love the troops who went there, because their country asked them to. but the grounds on which they were asked to go were false. and that has to be the way that we tell this story for...

Cheerleaders, dick cheney and others, when they come out today and say something, theyre still accorded a fair degree of respect. they havent been laughed out of town or tar and feathered and chased away because of what they have done. there hasnt been a full accounting or full consequences applied. and so that means, as rachel points out in the film itself, that this could happen again under another set of circumstances in the not too distant future. >> let me tell you, when i was in high schoo...