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Charlotte, blaming staffing and weather saying staffing challenges led to ground delays and more spacing between flights around the country. its the first time that the public has felt the impact of across the board budget cuts from the sequester. >> and certain places, i believe cutbacks should not be happening. >> i think its horrible, theres enough problems dealing with delays and security and weather and other things when youre flying, i think they should furlough the president and congress....

A political statement, right? >> well, they claim that 70% of the faas costs are personnel that they had no choice but to furlough the controllers. basically, theyre treating the controller just like any other faa employee. not giving them any special preference because theyre on the front line. the airlines say its preposterous. there ought to be room in a budget like that defined other cuts. but i think the most telling thing is the administration did not go to congress and say, look, this nig...

Republicans who voted against background checks for criminals, terrorists, and the mentally ill. >> you would think. still ahead on "morning joe," google executive chairman eric schmidt will join us on the set. we hope he brings us some of those google glasses. joe, you should wear them. >> or money. >> ill wear the money. >> out with a new documentary "dirty wars," an exclusive first look at that trailer. and up next, chuck todd joins the conversation along with lisa myers live at reagan nation...

>> if i were a republican in the senate, i would be putting this bill on the floor and talking about it every day. i mean, you talk about -- i would love to see that says im not going to take care of air safety and air travel. i want my pet project taken care of first. you have a lot of people saying theyre not going to put a dime back into anything until we deal with the overall budget problem. they have made exceptions to the sequester, an exception for agricultural inspections, i think they m...

Theyre being used as political pawns. >> its the piece of sequestration that affects americans the most. and i dont think that its fair that air traffic control, particularly air traffic controllers are being used as a pawn. >> ray lahood has a message. >> tell them to fix sequester, and this will go away. >> the administration seems to be saying that any solution to put the air traffic controllers to work must include an overall roll back of the sequester. which does not look like something tha...

>> reporter: behind the scenes, president obama is calling republicans he thinks may be willing to raise taxes if he can get government to cut medicare and social security. >> im not going to raise taxes to fix sequester. >> reporter: some see this as childish. >> when my budget gets tight, i stop spending. >> reporter: new this morning, were getting word who heads the walmart foundation will be nominated by president obama to take over his office of management and budget. she would be taking ov...

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