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Sufficient is the absolute key to this. we can have words and sanctions and will be done but thats the key is opening up its interest in to bringing about the stoppage of this nuclear program in north korea. theres no other option. >> right. admiral to switch gears a final time to the sequester and the potential cuts that the defense department could see as part of that if no deal is struck, you know, in your opinion, how impacted would the defense department and our capabilities be by the seque...

For some closing tax loopholes and for the president to be taken seriously by the country there should be acknowledgment of a spending problem going on throughout the united states coming to the long-term future entitlement programs. lastly, president obama well served to make the point on numbers. 11 million undocumented folks in the country. what would it take to get them in line and have a negative birthrate like that in europe without this workforce here in the united states and many big bus...

Opportunities, will drive us forward in the 21st century. >> lets get to our guest, democratic strategist bob shrum, and karen finney. the president is expected to use the speech as a way to frame the debate over the so-called sequester which would mean $85 billion in cuts that republicans claim are entirely his fault. take a listen to this. >> you know, the president, hes the one who proposed the sequester in the first place. >> its what president obama proposed in 2011. >> it is inevitable qui...

Some headlines making news on the west coast. first from "the daily camera" in bould boulder, colorado, the national parks service bracing for sequester cuts. from the "rapid city journal" in south dakota, land next to the legendary wounded knee burial site is up for sale. officials want to buy what they regard as sacred land, but they want the owner to come down from his $3.9 million. the owner says the price is fair. from "the denver post," missy franklin ends her high school swimming care...

Theres been a lot of talk about defense cuts, which certainly are half of the sequester. there are other programs being cut. 9.4% to unemployment benefits, 600,000 children and women lose food aid, 10,000 teachers fired. theyre trying to emerge from the rock of being unsympathetic to the working poor, the middle class. you have these sequester cuts take place that undermines any argument. >> i depart from democratic orthodoxy in this one. i so bad want to cut all the fat out of the pentagon that...

Defense cuts, which certainly are half of the sequester. there are other programs being cut. 9.4% to unemployment benefits, 600,000 children and women lose food aid, 10,000 teachers fired. theyre trying to emerge from the rock of being unsympathetic to the working poor, the middle class. you have these sequester cuts take place that undermines any argument. >> i depart from democratic orthodoxy in this one. i so bad want to cut all the fat out of the pentagon that im willing to do this. its terr...

Of these sequester cuts. its tens of millions of dollars that will hit dod. rather than making them automatic meat cleaver cuts as so many worry about they would give the pentagon some discretion and latitude to target the spending cuts themselves. whether they will reduce the number of spending cuts that hit the pentagon and the dod that remains to be seen. what we do understand is in a few hours the republicans in both the house and senate will say lets give the pentagon some jurisdiction over...

Since new years he hasnt talked to the republican leadership on meaningful cuts. yesterday he gave a speech and talks again about increasing revenue. where are the meaningful cuts, and i think the impression the american people are getting is that this president is really not serious about cutting spending and about cutting the debt, so to many republicans, yeah, its sounding to be attractive sadly that we may have to go that route. >> margie, ive seen a lot of public opinion that says, you know...

How suspected kidnapper jimmy lee dykes died. >> the presidents plan. more taxes to avoid sequester cuts. well get reaction from the fox all-stars when we return. nt drr operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations, or confusion. in depressed pat...

Of those at the very bottom. that is upside down when you think about what the people in the economy need. >> congresswoman, it brings me to a wall street journal article i want to ask you about along those lines. it says how republicans view the sequester cuts, the cuts i talked about at the opening as leverage. as leverage to attack social security and medicare. im quoting from the article. republican willingness to support the sequester, mr. boehner says, is as much leverage as were going to ...