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>> rick: bottom of the hour. the f.b.i. arrest ago new suspect in the ricin case. everett dutschke. hes now charged with possession of ricin and with attempting to use it as a weapon. the poisoned letters were sent to president obama, a u.s. senator and a mississippi judge. >> arthel: u.s. air travel expected to return to normal by tomorrow evening. this comes a day after congress passed legislation to allow the faa to suspend employee furloughs. they were caused by the automatic spending cuts k...

A mixed finish for stocks with the dow gaining 11 points. the s&p falling 2. the nasdaq shedding 10. the government says the economy grew at a 2.5% annual rate in the first quarter. economists were expecting 3% growth. consumer sentiment slipped a bit this month. americans worried about the jobs market. and chevron posted earnings that beat forecasts but revenue fell short. shares rose about 1% today. that is it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. have a great weekend. now its back over ...

Various ways the most vulnerable americans have been hurt by the automatic across the board spending cuts called the sequester. remember this "washington post" headline, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of medicare patients. blame the sequester. "huffington post" listed 100 places across the country where cuts are hurting sacramento schools which will see special education cuts and west virginia program to end poverty. stopped all new projects until september. but this week when frequen...

Not get any training is very difficult for me to believe. finally, the idea of people coming out in the media and these u.s. intelligence officials saying there is no foreign connection when the fact is is the fbi has just started their investigation into this. its very premature for them to be saying there is no foreign connection. we dont have all the evidence before us. >> megyn: do you have any reason to believe why? why would people like secretary napolitano be suggesting that? >> i dont kn...

Budget measure yesterday that keeps most of the automatic across the board budget cuts in place. >> this may be the first story people looked at when they got the paper this morning. big changes coming in late night. "new york times" reporting that nbc is set to have jimmy fallon replace jay leno as the host of "the tonight show." this may be the real shocker, though. the network plans to bring "the tonight show" back to new york. here is what fallon said in last nights monologue. >> i have to t...

Friday. the polls are are showing the president shares some of the blame for the crisis. his approval rating dipped from 51% to 49%. and even as senate minority leader mitch mcconnell downplayed the seriousness of the cuts calling them modest, a top white house aide said nobody wins with the automatic across-the-board budget slashing. >> this is not a win for republicans. republicans are supposed to be for strong iser national defense. this cuts our military preparedness dramatically. they are s...

Market. >> politics could get in the way of being able to eat the foods we like to eat. >> if this happens, the prices could go up a little bit at first but it is just the product that will not be available. >> with no agreement from congress the automatic spending cuts will kick in this friday. >> troops are being kicked out of a province in afghanistan that is strategic. karzai giving them two weeks to leave an area that has been the primary focus for counterinsurgency operations. the decision...

Short term solutions. this particular solution, this sequestration allows both sides to have the melt down that they have been jockeying for and it is less impactful than a government shut down and probably less than breaching the debt ceiling. it is a managed risk here. i dont know that i agree with senator coburn that it is an entirely made up problem but i do think that it is something that is less impactful than a lot of the other fiscal debates that we have had. >> as is frequently the case...

Infrastructure. those will be crowded out, because those, a big portion of the spending is committed to programs for older people. and if those grow on the -- at the rate that they have been growing it will squeeze out almost everything else. >> and one of the other dangers about that, too, aside from the automatic programs like medicare is that we can do reduction in a dumb way, instead of cutting tax expenditures and cutting in health care, we cut deep into things like education. and the seque...

Science as you mentioned and infrastructure. those will be crowded out, because those, a big portion of the spending is committed to programs for older people. and if those grow on the -- at the rate that they have been growing it will squeeze out almost everything else. >> and one of the other dangers about that, too, aside from the automatic programs like medicare is that we can do reduction in a dumb way, instead of cutting tax expenditures and cutting in health care, we cut deep into things ...