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Be made. that that lies the middle ground and that is our task as representatives to get to that middle ground to work across the aisle and just imagine what we could do if we really worked together. it can happen and it will happen. >> shannon: it would be encouraging i know to americans regardless of party across the country. the president has taken some criticism for not getting more involved in this. do you think that there would be some benefit in him showing leadership and going to the hil...

Layoffs and these are good jobs. defense industry jobs tend to be really good ones. it is hard to get any job anywhere near as good and also that is more of the industrial base going away so it will be harder to recover from the sequester. >> how much would it diminish u.s. military power. >> again, secretary of defense panetta said it is unprecedented. it is unprecedented for a commander in chief to suggest sign and defend cuts in the defense budget that his own secretary of defense says are go...

You experience in virginia? >> i think it was a lot more local. nationalizing was about getting past some of the name calling in washington, more practical results. but you did see allen trying to nationalize the sequestration issue on defense cuts saying this was governor cain who had supported that and it was kang russ f dangerous for the state. >> we talked about ann romneys comments and they really struck you. you just interviewed both mitt romney and ann romney. you had come away with the s...

[ cheers and applause ] >> for the last couple of weeks, hes been aggressively going after president obama for the sequestration issue, the idea that the fiscal cliff hits come next year and instant massive defense cut also kick in automatically. romney says he doesnt think thats a good policy. he think the president should do something to stop it and he would. all very aggressive and in part, gregg, because the romney was in the tight water of virginia beach, heavy, heavy, populated with milita...

The country that are postponed are enormous. >> all right congressman, thank you very, very much. and for you folks back home. i dont mean to get preachy. i am all green on this stuff. and not red and blue. and you are told a load of stuff on the sequestration issue. neither party means what it said. it is led by the speaker of the house and is not following through on the commitment and if you blow the deal and you just let this money grow and you dont address it with a new deal of equal or m...

That. gov. romney really reiterated and used both of those words on his trip. and i think the important message to the iranian regime is that if it gets down to the point where its either accept a nuclear weapon or to use military force, they ought to do some serious thinking. because i think two presidents and now a presidential nominee have made it very clear that iran with a nuclear weapon is simply not on. >> last question on this before we move on to the sequestration issue. in your opinion...

we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romneys surrogates complaint that the president should "learn how to be an american." lets go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. weve been saying its getting ugly. >> report...

>> yeah. weve got to deal with the sequestration issue, absolutely. >> were not doing that now. >> just speaking for myself, we put forward a proposal in the house of representatives today that would prevent the sequestration from taking place, a balanced approach for 10 years and an immediate one if people want to do it for a year. it was a misks revenue and additional cuts that are wasteful. >> if you go across the hill to the united states cincinnati which is dominated by your party, senator ...

Reform. you lower the rates, you eliminate the loopholes which essentially the rich are paying. and you get tax reform, lower rates, higher revenues. >> shannon: lets talk about the sequestration issue if it happens. you feel confident they would go around it if it happens. buck republican congressman with the house armed services committee wrote a letter to the cochairs of the super committee saying if sequestions ration were to occur the impact on the national security, men and women in unifor...

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