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Benefits will be cut. wowndersed warriors will -- wounded warriors will see cuts in their benefits. it could cost $24,000 over a long 24-year period. bill: do civilian workers face the same cuts? >> reporter: no, they do not. some of the cuts under the sequester rule will be restored but the cuts to the military are still in place. they are saying you are doing this budget on the backs of the military. bill: do you expect this to pass? it appears that it will. its a two-year deal on the budget. ...

September. cammeron, real quick now, chaos at the airports. air traffic controllers being laid off or whatever. and then the senate had to step in and celine it up. who is the villain? >> bureaucrats and obama administration political appointees. got to remember though, bill. the automatic cuts were designed to be painful to so the implementers were told they this it across the board and couldnt lessen the pain. the obama administration warned people since february air traffic controllers one da...

Weeks. atlanta, chicago and there would be delays and they made sure it was going to happen that way. >> bill: you believe they didnt have to do that. they wanted to do it because then people get teed off and be mad at the republicans. >> and the sequester rule, the automatic cuts said so. there were plenty of other options. they could have gone to the f.a.a. and had it shift some of the money within 800-million-dollar operating budget as some agencies in the government did in advance of it. the...

>> gene clyburn was on with chuck todd and he indicated there might be some give on the democratic side for a change with sequester rule if republicans were open to that. lets watch this. >> we ought to all sit down and find out a way to make sure were going to raise taxes on middle income people, that working people can continue to be a part of this governmental process. and if it calls for redoing the sequester, that is something we might ought to look at. >> so, is that something the presiden...