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Uniforms. sequester cuts created long lines they were making a multi-million dollar deal with image wear. the uniforms will partly be made in mexico not the united states because thats where the company has some manufacturing facilities. thats your 5@5:00. >> it is 9 minutes after the top of the hour time to look at who is talkingment sequestration sparking a lot of debate about the nations spending problem. that was the topic of a heated discussion last night on "hannity"." >> the former chairm...

Fund, dispense nuclear waste disposal. maybe we should be spending the money here before we spend it over there. >> we have a foreign aid budget and that is going to be hit by sequester, so its going to be reduced. i think foreign aid in principle is good. the timing of the thing is awful. thats for sure. and certainly i think it has a lot to do with the fact that we have a new secretary of state. this is his first visit into the region, into one of the most influential countries in the region. ...

And when you have the house speaker saying over and over and over again, you know, revenue increases are not on the table, period, ive heard you say otherwise. ive heard you say and i think in a bloomberg interview maybe down the road. how do you peel about t you fee speakers position, do you agree or disagree? >> i certainly think its a problem right now. what i mentioned on bloomberg was the concern i had is the economy is gist slowly starting to recover, the last thing we need to do is take m...

Agencies are hiring anyway. monday the u.s. forest service posted a job add looking for summer recreation aids. the irs wants penal in maryland. the us mint wanted people to press coins. the agriculture department needs inspect protectors in phoeni protect proceed tucks workers. jenna: all right, doug thank you. jon: for more on the sequester cuts and the upcoming drama surrounding the continuing resolution lets bring in amy stoddard, columnist for the hill. in ordinary businesses if you were re...

Introduced a bill not only keep the government open but pull back on some of the sequester cuts specifically effecting border patrol agents. one sign that there are at least some areas where republicans think there will be impact from sequester and they are trying to stop it, shep. >> shepard: ed henry at the white house. ed, thank you. a cure for the virus that causes aids. doctors at the ole miss medical school have eliminated h.i.v. in a patient. coming up, this really accidental discovery an...

And provide it as an alternative. and i think both house republicans as well as maybes of the senate would go along with that if they were a viable alternative to sequester cuts. but just saying well change things and suddenly ask for higher taxes as well as maybe cuts in the future, i dont think its must have to get past the sequester deal. and remember, eaits not just wt happened last friday. its another part that happens on the 27th. wed like to on get past that on a reasonable basis. >> john...

Predictions, put out by the president and his cabinet dont turn out to be true, its going to look like they are hyping it up and obviously the republicans are going to try to seize on that. the president today had a cabinet meeting, his first one, obviously since the sequester cuts start the kicking in the last couple of days. if you look at them closely he is trying to manage these expectations a little bit better now. after that is speaker john boehner saying lets stop kicking the can. take a ...

Far as percentage points, five points between the president and the congressional republicans on this. and when you look at the number of saying theyre going to be affected, nearly half, 53%, mark, say that the sequester cuts will affect them directly. we have talked about people saying, you know, their neighbor might be affected or someone they know. this question is will sequester affect you, 53% said, yes. >> and tamron, our poll last week, our nbc/"wall street journal" poll showed that 52% s...

People that are panicked about the cuts to discretionary spending included in the sequester, if you look down the road 20 years well not be able to fund agencies out of the revenues that our federal government brings in because all of those revenues will go towards funding our entitlement programs. so the people who are most hurt by these sequester cuts are going to be hurt even more down the road to say nothing of the fact that were, i think doing something immoral as it relates to our children...

Sequester cuts which included estimates of hundreds of thousands of joblessess and lower economic growth. why the juxtaposition? why are we seeing a market rally despite the dire economic warnings. mike san tony is a columnist. what goes on with this market? >> it seems like there is a bit of a divergence between the two news items. the dow has been rising for four years now. we were at a generational low four years ago and business profits have actually kept pace with the dow. the dow essential...