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That start kicking in later this week, march 1st, friday. both republicans and democrats appear to be digging in for a long fight. the sequester, as its known, or sequestration, is being billed by some lawmakers as drastic and dangerous and white house officials and even president obama says theyre warning of possible layoffs and negative economic impacts as a result. however, many republicans in congress called the warnings overblown. either way it appears that barring a 11th hour deal the cuts...

Take effect march 1st, harris. >> and as some americans might say, deja vu all over again with this fight, steve. keep us apprised of whats happening, thank you very much. by the way, fox news sundays chris wallace will have the first post election interview with former republican presidential nominee mitt romney and his wife ann. chris says he will ask governor romney how he has dealt with novembers seat and what he thought about president obamas second term agenda. the interview will air one w...

Alternatives. >> reporter: the sequester takes effect march 1 unless congress takes action to stop it, eric. >> eric: all right, steve. how do we avoid the gut-wrenching, government, financial roller coasters and get our nation back to real economic health? one of the governors, a government official taking action on taxes happens to be a veteran of washington who served in washington in the senate, the republican governor of kansas, sam brownback. >> good to join you. >> eric: you are in washin...

Warning of disasterrous check impact if the white house and congress fail to reach a deal to stave off across-the-board cuts set to take effect this friday. steve centanni with the latest. >> there are wide ranging predictions of what could happen including fight delays and teacher playoffs. the secretary of transportation said he would be forced to cut air traffic controllers, delaying flights across the country and education secretary arnie don duncan predicts the nations school children would...

Out the arguments on both side this is morning. but there is no end in sight as this deadline is looming. steve centanni has the details. >> yeah, there could be impacts far and wide if the sequester goes through in just a few days. now the secretary of transportation, ray la hood saying he will make as many cuts as possible in contracts and other areas, but eventually, he would be forced to cut air traffic controllers, delaying flights across the country. >> in the end, there has to be some kin...

Sitting in the the chairs working and i dont want something to have been missed because of the hangup in washington. >> reporter: and the vote is expected sometime after congress returns to work on february 25th, harris. >> harris: steve centanni, thank you. florida senator marco rubio talking about the white house plan for immigration reform saying quote, its dead on arrival. as you may know, rubio was one of the republican and democrat senators who reached a break through bipartisan break thro...

Is a grave concern. >> between john brennan, cea director and chuck hagel as secretary of defense we want to make sure that we have those guys sitting in the chairs working because i dont want there to have been something missed because of this hangup here in washington. >> and congress now in recess for the presidents day holiday. shannon? >> shannon: steve, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> shannon: there is no sign of any deal to avoid the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as seq...

Coming from the white house. again, vice president biden made a number of phone calls and really touted the bills and pushed many lawmakers to vote in favor of them yesterday. shannon? >> shannon: there are always consequences to every decision we make. thanks for filling us in on this one. it has been more than five months since the u.s. consulate and annex in benghazi was attacked and four americans were killed. since then every day a new detail or revision or contradiction of what we heard ...

Again and sequestration has been known. this has been out there the last part. better part of nine months and in part because the super committee failed to come up with an alternative to this plan and unfortunately, the cuts would be delayed and over a decade and we wont feel the immediate cause of it, so, congress is going to probably do what they usually do, which is kick it down the can and unfortunately deal with the next crisis which is potentially shutting down the government the end of ma...

Admitted that these cuts were a really bad idea. the president failed to mention was that the sequester was his idea, proposed by his administration during the debt limit negotiations. >> president obama made no mention of sequester in his saturday address, pointing out instead that progress has already been made in deficit reduction. >> over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion, which puts us more than halfway towards the goal of...