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Youre sitting this on a segueway. you have injuries from war. youre still recovering from this. how tough was it grabbing them and bringing them over there? >> i was already on my segueway. my buddy was carrying it and i told him we could put it on the segueway and balance it u. its long walk. it worked out just fine. it wasnt hard at all. >> sergeant, a lot of people are assuming that veterans are being used as political pawns. what do veterans want? whats really on their hearts right now? >> i...

Deploy to the persian gulf. >> its sad, john, to have the chief of this land scaring people when in fact if any of those things happen it will be because the president wants them to happen. >> the cuts are not smart, fair, it will hurt our economy. >> john: is this all a little over the top? >> look it, i dont think -- these are the facts, what people who report on the facts, how they decide to describe them is their decision, but i think the facts are the facts. certain cuts will be made, certa...

Nearly a trillion dollars. give it to him now. let him spend it on whatever he wants, no questions asked. >> we need to make that bill quickly and cleanly. >> if they didnt, paulson insisted america could be hit by a second great depression. >> to help the american people is the goal of this plan. >> john: with the stock market tanking paulson got his so-called tarp money. eventually tarp was used in all sorts of ways few had envisioned, including to bail out the auto companies. meantime, barack...

Going to pass that next week which gives us the flexibility to put these cuts in place in a better way. >> john: if the deal materializes or even if it doesnt, it may be that this sequester, which was supposed to signify a profound failure of government, was in fact a real, if untidy success. senator ron johnson has been saying this all along. >> if and when sequestration goes through, would that be a victory for the tea party? >> sure, absolutely. tea party taxed enough already. the federal gov...

A bold request, give him nearly a trillion dollars. give it to him now. let him spend it on whatever he wants, no questions asked. >> we need to make that bill quickly and cleanly. >> if they didnt, paulson insisted america could be hit by a second great depression. >> to help the american people is the goal of this plan. >> john: with the stock market tanking paulson got his so-called tarp money. eventually tarp was used in all sorts of ways few had envisioned, including to bail out the auto co...

Going to pass that next week which gives us the flexibility to put these cuts in place in a better way. >> john: if the deal materializes or even if it doesnt, it may be that this sequester, which was supposed to signify a profound failure of government, was in fact a real, if untidy success. senator ron johnson has been saying this all along. >> if and when sequestration goes through, would that be a victory for the tea party? >> sure, absolutely. tea party taxed enough already. the federal gov...

Deploy to the persian gulf. >> its sad, john, to have the chief of this land scaring people when in fact if any of those things happen it will be because the president wants them to happen. >> the cuts are not smart, fair, it will hurt our economy. >> john: is this all a little over the top? >> look it, i dont think -- these are the facts, what people who report on the facts, how they decide to describe them is their decision, but i think the facts are the facts. certain cuts will be made, certa...

Gas revenue. >> put people to work as soon as possible on most urgent repairs. >> make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. >> redesign americas high schools so they better equip graduates, training and equipping forces. >> and invest in capabilities, reduce waste in war time spending. >> invest in worldclass hacare including mental care for our warriors. >> and he throws out platitudes and the underlying economics behind that are illusional. >> i think that a lot o...

Reductions have to occur, 40 plus cents of every single dollar that we spend in this country. >> john: february 26th, newport news, virginia, president obama speaks to ship yard workers. >> what the sequester does, it uses a meat cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education and national security. >> john: but he again resists talk of an immediate catastrop catastrophe. >> the impact of this policy will not be felt overnight, but it will be real. >> john: its tuesday, con...

Hacksaw approach to spending reductions that was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate cut to nondefense programs and republicans wouldnt stand cuts to the military. the theory was the cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen, but after months of deliberations, the supercommittee couldnt come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. now, sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens, that was the s...