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Dont see any key component where it gets broken. >> senator blumenthal, i want to play an exchange that you had with mr. clapper last week. lets listen to that. >> you spoke about the challenges of recruiting and keeping the best minds in america which all of us want to be available to the american intelligence community. is there anything that we can do to encourage or support that effort? >> well, sir, it would be nice if they would get a pay raise occasionally, and it would be nice not to be ...

Several other hubs impact on the entire system is a lot bigger. no matter how you slice this. >> on the issue of safety. >> can you again look the american people in the eye and say the sequester will have no affect on safety? >> yes. the impact will be on efficiency, but we will not do anything to compromise safety. >> reporter: across the capitol the senate majority leader claim the sequester cuts could hurt society in much bigger ways. >> it can hurt the country. aids, park kins disease or ca...

Nations airports, the sequester continuing to take its toll on the airline industry. harry reid says democrats will present a plan to replace the sequester cuts using money saved by ending the war in afghanistan. the white house says it would a renew new legislation bringing air traffic controllers back, but mitch mcconnell is blaming the obama administration for the cuts in the first place. >> i would argue political motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmacs over the last few days. the...

In effect, undermining what we can discover and cure for the future. >> it seems like nothing has gotten washingtons attention to these sequester cuts more than what were seeing in the air traffic story these days. >> well, before that, keep in mind there was the white house story which was a problem because it was in washington. the delta shuttle, the inconvenience in the delta shuttle line has also gotten washingtons attention. and the impacts of sequestration have been felt far beyond the nor...

>> in his remarks, lawrence, director clapper made remarks about intelligence agents that may be given shorter hours or even furloughs, and the same, conceivably, very probably is true of prosecutors and fbi agents, although we have no confirmation of it. obviously, these impacts are the least visible. the most visible are the impacts on air travel. 4700 delays and 273 cancellations today alone, and then the less visible impacts on health care and headstart, meals on wheels for seniors, other ki...

The sequester. >> what did "the new york times" say? an editorial for the "the new york times" takes republicans to task for criticizing cuts. the faa cuts but not the other sequester cuts that reads in part this. you dont see any republican hashtags for cutting housing vouchers to 140,000 low income families. >> oh, god! just stop! >> despite the cuts only amount to 4%. faa budget only 10% cut for the air traffic controllers. we said this yesterday, willie, this is unsustainable to make america...

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 ...

Or anything else. nobody said excuse me, i dont get paid for this. have you seen anyone get on-line and say sorry, todays my furlough day? >> he chucked it out on the table. >>brian: why didnt he propose something? >> any negative that comes down the pike over the past mont or so has been linked to sequester. two weeks ago we got bad jobs numbers. the left said its the sequester cuts. that was absolute nonsense. but they chucked it on the table. they had politicized it. they brought sequester in...

Politicized, but its so soon. >> yes, it is. this is the direct politicization on an outrage, an attack on america. i personally think its wrong to do that. maybe it is inevitable but i personally think that its wrong. now you have to ask the question: did the sequester cuts, did that in fact affect our intelligence-gathering capability, which impeded before the boston happening? is that what happened? did sequester affect our intelligence capability? obviously we dont know, but steny hoyer is i...