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Will go in and theyll -- they want it on the record but if you say, let me go off the record and theyll say, okay, and they honor that. so youre on the record, off the record. >> neil: you have to keep prefacing it. >> he wanted off the record and they saw they were being used. i got to call the press in here and off the record basis. i dont want them to -- let them ask menage. these are all my friend so theyll come to the tea party. and -- >> neil: right. they all have eek goes. >> the one thin...

Well, even more people than usual are angry with the irs today, saying -- some saying the entire irs should be shut down. whats new? what would that be like? 11 days until the irs will be shut down, seriously. may 24th, the friday before memorial day weekend, is the first of five scheduled irs furlough days due to the sequestration cuts. on that day, every irs office will be closed, nearly 100,000 workers will get an unpaid vacation, calls wont be answered, returns wont be processed, you will no...

Irs, and hearings as soon as possible. erin? well, even more people than usual are angry with the irs today, saying -- some saying the entire irs should be shut down. whats new? what would that be like? 11 days until the irs will be shut down, seriously. may 24th, the friday before memorial day weekend, is the first of five scheduled irs furlough days due to the sequestration cuts. on that day, every irs office will be closed, nearly 100,000 workers will get an unpaid vacation, calls wont be a...

That think that, you know, our values should include providing services to victims of domestic violence. many shelters will close now. many people wont access domestic domestic violence services because of these cuts. i mean, it goes to every single program in the federal government. >> and the cuts, the sequestration cuts are taking a toll on programs from sexual assault victims in the civilian world, too, to murphy of "mother jones" magazines of cuts around this program m for example, in louis...

But again, youre going to have $20 million in cuts. youll see a lot of these programs having closed their doors and well have to see over these next weeks as they try to restore some of these cuts, whether or not these programs are included. >> congresswoman spier, what is the likelihood that something is done about sequestration, im thinking of housing, dow at 15,000, im thinking of a number of indicators that the whole economy is finally getting back on track and the debt and deficit are being...

Congress. >> yes, they can. >> thank you, kasie hunt. good reporting. coming up, opposing immigration reform. jim demints heritage foundation claims immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion. well, thats a lot. heritages fuzzy math, you might call it, is being challenged. its being used by the hard right to kill reform which a lot of republicans think is needed to save their party. so theyd like to get it off their back, but yet theyre trying to kill it. you figure. also, tomorrows election...

Republicans -- they can stop legislation, they can celebrate what they did. they cant -- i dont know that they can win a general election this way. >> no, but they can control congress. >> yes, they can. >> thank you, kasie hunt. good reporting. coming up, a posing immigration reform. jim demints heritage foundation claims immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion. well, thats a lot. heritages fuzzy math, you might call it, is being challenged. its being used by the hard right to kill reform ...

They dont want to lose their jobs. if they dont have child care, theyre going to wind up losing their jobs. thats what head start, the role it plays in addition to educating our children before they get to kindergarten, also a way parents can go to work. >> john mccain said this weekend that congress after being part of the unanimous consent that came from the senate for the faa deal. no one in the senate was willing to be courageous enough to actually vote on the record for it. it was a unanimo...

Jobs. if they dont have child care, theyre going to wind up losing their jobs. thats what head start, the role it plays in addition to educating our children before they get to kindergarten, also a way parents can go to work. >> john mccain said this weekend that congress after being part of the unanimous consent that came from the senate for the faa deal. no one in the senate was willing to be courageous enough to actually vote on the record for it. it was a unanimous consent. senator john mcca...

Well, if they dont have child care theyre going to wind up losing their jobs, and thats what head start, thats the role that it plays in addition to educating our children before they get to kindergarten, also a way parents can go to work. >> john mccain said this weekend that congress after being part of the unanimous consent that came from the senate for the faa deal, i cant say he voted for it because no one in the senate was courageous to vote on the record for it. senator john mccain had th...