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Military. but what is worse for the military is a government shutdown. what is even worse for the military is a government shutdown followed by a sequester, which would happen if we dont pass a cr. we also passed what we call anomalies. we passed things in the crs that give the military the flexibility they need during the time of the cr to do what they need to do, but clearly less than ideal. i gave a speech this morning at csis about this. what we know for a fact, you can ask secretary mattis ...

For the military, but whats worse for the military is a government shutdown. whats even worse for the military is a government shutdown followed by a sequester, which is what would happen if we dont pass a cr. we also have passed what we call anomalies. we pass things in the crs that give the military the flexibility they need during the time of the cr to do what they need to do. it is clearly less than ideal. i gave a speech this morning about this. what we know for a fact, you can ask secretar...

An uphill climb, but speaker boehner warned his caucus. and it game clear what was going to happen. he did say we could lose the house over this. it doesnt come as a surprise to republicans, but it certainly is, when you put numbers to it, its a huge slapdown. >> you saw the poll numbers falling. ken rogoth, registers the sharpest drop. can this recovery right now withstand a government shutdown, a sequester, and then assuming you get over this debt ceiling drama and you go into a budgetary proc...

I will say, it was a pleasant conversation. although i have to say, i was disappointed that the president refuses to negotiate. >> that was speaker john boehner responding to the president just moments ago. and joining us now is michael eric dyson of georgetown university and with me-onset is co-host "the cycle," ari melber. ari, luke russert was talking about this idea that now the republicans way to back out of this mess they have gotten themselves into is to try to throw they have gotten them...

>> yeah. it was really like -- it was amazing to me the first time. because i used to have that short short form where they just call you up and see if you were breathing. >> right. >> and you were scraping things together. so the idea that i could finally -- you know, that they were taking money out and i was being left money and that i could actually share money, i mean, you know, i didnt help pay for the streets. i didnt help pay for the water bill. i didnt help pay for anything. so the idea ...

You know, you have to pay for stuff. its beyond my comprehension. and what you dont do if youre an adult is decide that youre going to budget things through a sequester, which doesnt even have to do -- what does that word have to do with budgeting? its like if you have a family budget and said you know, we dont know what to take out economically from the budget, so were going to whack out protein this week. >> i want to go back to something that i learned within this hour when you were acting as...

Families be ready to start schools faces a $406 million cut. which would kick 70,000 kids out of the program. and headlines across the country describe how local communities are already being hurt by these cuts to head start funding. democratic congresswoman kathy castor of florida, has met with head-start families hurt by fa sequester cuts and childrens programs to get the same attention that travel delays have gotten. ron herndon is head of the national head start association. tell me about wh...

Let people go just to make hay out of a sequester. >> well, its moving in the right direction. i dont know what youre complaining about on the sequester. look, the problem, the short-term problem -- >> sean: guns arent going anywhere. his budget dead on arrival three years in a row. global warming, dead on arrival. obamacare, plummeting and is a disaster train wreck for 2014. sequestration, apocolyptic fear, didnt work. what is he doing thats working? and the economy looks like crap. >> 100 days...

Republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep, immediate cuts, on top by the way. of cuts that we already made two years ago. very deep cuts, but cuts that are manageable. but our republican colleagues said we got to keep the sequester in place, their budget calls for a doubling of the sequester cuts in the areas of the budget were talking about. the faa, the fbi, national institutes of health. the best way that mitc...

At the airports. what can be done? >> well, it does, andrea, these sequester cuts, deep and immediate, across-the-board cuts were bound to have an impact. it was never going to be the fact that the sky was going to fall the day after the sequester took place. but what were seeing now and will continue to see is the slow grind on the economy. disruption at places like airports and according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, 750,000 fewer american jobs at the end of the year. how do ...