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And send home a lot of fbi investigators at a time when we need them. >> not only am i having to lose 3,000 positions, but is there a very real prospect, unless something is done, that im going have to send home for two weeks without pay, the good men and women who work in this building behind me and who are charged with protecting the american people. that makes no sense at all to me. >> i bet it doesnt make sense to you either. the fbis sequester plan is based on requirements from the arbitrar...

They want something to work. something fundamental to work. thats the difference between washington and the states. at the state level we may want as republican governors less government but want the government we have to work. >> sam? >> you mentioned sequestration as something that goes over the head of our people but from your perspective as a governor how that policy has impacted your state, your ability to do your job? >> well, it has an impact no matter what, whether the shutdown or seques...

Sequester plan, it is literally in bold letters. a couple of days later i was talking with mike murphy whos a fairly moderate republican strategist on twitter and he too was saying obama needs to put chained cpi on the table and we said, well, he did. and he said well, that was a gimmick, he wanted revenues in return for it. this happens a lot. the lines of communication to folks who are not in the republican party leadership are much weaker than one would expect. part of that is on the white ho...

We understand tomorrow the california congressman dana ro rorhbacer will be in front senate to encourage the state department to actually act finally and try to spring the doctor free. they have been making suggest he will attempts in the background but they really have got even nowhere in the many months that have passed since he was incarcerated in pakistan, jenna. jenna: a story well continue to watch and follow. thank you. jon: the white house and republicans as weve been telling you are fig...

If youre looking for the white house sequester plan, it is the first, also the second and third, all from white house.gov. here is the plan, i hold it in my hand, 1.8 trillion in deficit reduction, including 1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and medicare cuts and chained cpi, which will cut medicare benefits. and that is a 2-1 ratio, you can read it right here in the presidents budget for fiscal year 2013. pages 23 to 46, theyre a little bit boring to read, i agree. there is a plan, multiple format...

Spending the budget achievements would never have happened. sessions without qualification, accuses lew of lying to congress when testifying about the presidents fiscal policy and plans. >> he is consistently and deliberately misrepresented the facts of the presidents plan. as the budget director for the president. >> reporter: in his book "the price of politics" bob woodward asserts that lew had a key role in putting together the sequester plan. temporarily delayed for a few weeks will unleash ...

>> sean: wrong again, not only as he refused to sit down with benjamin netanyahu on a number occasions. he never taken time to visit israel one time during his presidency. then the issue of sequester defense cuts that will gut the pentagon and our military in 2013 if, in fact the president has his way. >> first of all the sequester is not something i proposed. congress proposed. it will not happen. >> they call it the biggest gaffe or deliberate evasion of the evening because in reality the pres...

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>> sean: wrong again, not only as he refused to sit down with benjamin netanyahu on a number occasions. he never taken time to visit israel one time during his presidency. then the issue of sequester defense cuts that will gut the pentagon and our military in 2013 if, in fact the president has his way. >> first of all the sequester is not something i proposed. congress proposed. it will not happen. >> they call it the biggest gaffe or deliberate evasion of the evening because in reality the pres...