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>> yeah. i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephens point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, theres the social security cuts. the president undid a lot of the sequester cuts to defense. and hes interested in doing corporate tax reform, which is something the republicans want. yes, maybe it doesnt go...

Positivety of what he did put on the table. >> thats all fair, gloria. its no news both sides in the political spectrum know how to demagogue an issue. >> right. >> whether or not this particular budget is a real and sincere move toward deficit deduction seems to be undercut by $1.2 trillion in sequester cuts annie points out, president obama would like to repeal those cuts. his $1.8 trillion would be offset by him cutting back the sequester cuts. doesnt seem like anything sincere as a bargain f...

Start a tax reform refopolicy t will take years once they start it. i think there will be movings to replace the sequester cuts. some are bad. some prevents medicare patients with cancer from getting treatment. i think there might be movement there. but i dont think youll see a bigger repeal because its hard to find that much money. >> gloria, you know -- go ahead. >> all of this has to be seen in the context of everything else thats going on that we spoke about earlier. so, you have immigration...

Defend himself. >> neil: he is watching? >> ben comes out here all the time and tells him to raise taxes but its so much easier to raise taxes. if you start by raising taxes, will you never do any of the cuts. the only cuts that we had, if you think about it, is very marginal sequester cuts. >> neil: that is off the growth. we have never in this country had an experience where we have cut stuff first and then raise taxes. its always raise taxes and maybe we might if i had well the potential grow...

On the republican side that, hey, he hasnt taken a step forward, its not a huge step forward, i know, butt its a step forward. >> nancy, the last word on the budget. >> i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephens point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, theres the social security cuts. the president ...

It was community people. >> reporter: two weeks ago a major blow her kids like dozens of others in columbus would be staying home all because of the sequester. those deep across the board spending cuts that forced federal programs like head start to cutback. in columbus that meant holding a lottery to see which students would stay or go. her childrens names didnt get picked. >> shes reading off the names and youre praying for her to read your name. she hasnt said my name yet. you get down to the...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the superv...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the superv...

Go back to fort bragg for a minute. aapparently it has to do with the overtime costs. they are saying that the overtime costs can run more than $120,000. they are not reimbursable. the federal rules prohibit donations from covering those costs. surely people would come to the table, because everyone likes to have a fourth of july celebration. >> steve: so we told you about the thunderbirds, the blue angels all canceled. a couple of nights, justin timberlake -- >> brian: it went on planned. >> st...

They cant consider that, they cant nullify. thats the law. the jury is not allowed to do it. they did it any way. >> in that case they did it any way which is a good thing. >>gretchen: some people would say in recent cases they have seen, o.j. simpson, casey anthony, they felt the system was flawed in the reverse way. >> you know what is interesting, that was an unpopular verdict in both of those cases, the one thing true in both of those cases, the jurors were sequestered, they were not privy t...