Looming Sequester News Today

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>> sean: coming up rudy guiliani will weigh in on the looming sequester. >> ive given you plenty of time to rant, congressman and now. >> go ahead. >> sean: youre so nice to give you a word on my own program. >> all right, i changed my mind. >> sean: the incoherent rant set the blogosphere on fire, and why its left wing idea alec, for this mission i upgraded your smart phone. ♪ right. but the most important feature of all is... the capital one purchase eraser. i can redeem the double miles i e...

I dont know anybody on capitol hill who dont believe it is actually going to go forward and which means its going to be billions of dollars cut from our budget and were going to start feeling it probably by april and the easter season. and both sides spent a lot of time blaming each other. the president went out to newport news, virginia, in front of a military facility and said we cant build this ship because of republicans. republicans said, wait a second. it was your idea. its been a year and...

Not paying that close of attention. popular more american who is are not even paying attention to the sequester. the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling was the opposite. the number of people paying very close attention outnumbered those paying close attention by 2-1 margins. the white house will count on the sequester being unpopular and give them the leverage necessary to force republicans to choose between compromise or a government shut down by saying if you do not -- if you are here to balanc...

The understanding here this is a play where the sequester will happen and its a deadline where it takes a while for them to be phased in. you have the continuing resolution that funds the government. the calculation by the white house is its going to take that time and the continuing resolution to build pressure to make the deal the white house is looking for. is that your read on the situation? >> thats my read. the polls suggest that they are not alarmed or outraged to force machines to do som...

Asleep on the sequester and better hope they dont wake up. lets be honest. we mentioned at the table a lot of scary cuts will happen later. some will happen slowly. some are not going to happen at all and a lot of them will be given discretion as to how they deal with sequester that might make the cuts less painful and frankly entire regions that may not feel the pain at all. i am wonder figure you think obama may have miscalculated a little talking about his public popularity. miscalculated his...

Reducing military spending will make us safer in the long run. the guest spot is a 24 year veteran of the central intelligence agency and the author of the cost of american militarism. i hope you didnt out you there. >> its too late to avoid that. >> tough love. >> steve is too. i forgot i was supposed to say that. >> neither confirm or deny. to your argument, we can afford and we should be aiming to cut military spending. two questions about that. the approach that the sequester provides for, t...

Cuts, its possible that the sequester can prove unpopular, im skeptical that it will produce a ka taft rory that forces republicans to save. they released a bunch of immigrants and maybe tomorrow they will decommission the uss ronald reagan. we have one of these every day for a month. if two weeks from now, you will that happens is the lining of parks are really long, thats not the way they are forced to give up on the agenda. the shut down or threat of it, that i think could get republicans to ...

To push his plan to close tax loopholes. white house speaker john boehner rules out the possibility of any new taxes. >> i stand by those commitments to make the reforms for smart spending cuts. we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform speaker boehner championed just two months ago. >> the president says we have to have another tax increase in order to avoid the sequester. well, mr. president, you got your tax increase. its time to cut spending here in washington. instea...

Interests of the senate and of the country, if he thinks he has a partner. that certainly happened last time. >> yeah. lets remember the number one and number two republicans in the united states senate, mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, are both up for re-election in 2014. and compromise -- the sequester, these ideas of cuts are not unpopular with the part of the republican party that would be the first ones to recruit a challen challenger against mitch mcconnell or john cornyn. i cant picture -...