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Cruel it can be. my question, its a tough one pour the president if i were to get at him today, what exactly is your offer to the republicans that you think they might accept to get around the sequester? are you really going to push for higher taxes? are you going to push for these other programs they really dont believe in? what are you going to cut the deal? i think its on the presidents docket right now to come up with something. >> well, yeah, i think youve heard a lot of that being pushed o...

Businesses are reluctant to invest but consumers, one thing we saw out of this report from the commerce department today is the consumers although theyre spending up, the savings went way down and if you combine that with a bad jobs report for march and also a lot of worries about their taxes, their social security taxes going up, and the sequester, i am concerned that for the government to pull back right now is exactly the wrong time. >> you know what is interesting about this robert you and i...

Standards that have to be maintained, when you take controllers out of the picture, and you have to make do on a lower staffing level, there is going to be fewer flights that can be handled and thats what we saw with the delays. >> nancy, these delays are basically the most visible, the most widespread of the forced budget cuts up to now and washington approving a temporary solution for the fur lows, but does that make it less likely well see a complete fix for the sequester or do we have a cong...

Quarter, so time to break out the champagne? maybe not. were already seeing slower retail sales job growth and manufacturing output and when you factor in the effects that higher payroll taxes could have on consumer spending as well as the forced government spending cuts sequester, what that could do to the economic expansion, you might want to hold the champagne for another occasion. steven moore is on the wall street journal. robert robert reich worked under president clinton. should we be hap...

He is trying to bet leno again. im just looking for some jokes. >> judge jeanine: and what do you think the biggest joke is going to be tonight? i mean years of obama car and what are they going to joke about? >> the sequester. with everything going on the planes and white house tours and everything. i think it will be sequester all the way. >> judge jeanine: and brian? >> obviously probably going to be the congress that cant seem to get anything done. universal background checks for guns. nine ...

We almost never agree. >> i have a feeling you do not agree on how to fix it and i have a feeling you dont agree on how to fix it or how come. robert, i dont think that you think this is a good time to be pulling back on public sector spending, is it? >> no, because when you have the private sector still very, very reluctant to spend, not only businesses are reluctant to invest but consumers, one thing we saw out of this report from the commerce department today is the consumers although theyre ...

Likely well see an ultimate full fix of the sequester. what this has done is really encourages special interests and different groups to say, hey, if you lobby enough and you cause enough stink, you can certainly get your portion of the cuts undone. so i think what well see is a huge effort by i lobbying and special interest groups to go to congress and go to the white house and try to get their cuts undone and i think we may not see that, though, for programs that hit low income people, things ...

Good news to eliminate this problem. as ive said and, you know, he believes this is a band-aid covering a massive wound to the eken my. >> thats true. a massive wound. the sequester, lets be clear, is a horrible policy that never should have been implemented and should be repealed completely tomorrow, full stop. but literal lit only virtue of the sequester, the only virtue is that it yolks together cuts across the board such that middle class folks who want to visit public parks in the summer an...

Deadline that has passed and disgruntled constituents. across the country travelers were greeted with this, the forced budget cuts that washington also the sequester, the transportation department warning for months about the effects of cutting 6 00 million from the budget and last sunday the furloughs kicked in for 47,000 faa workers including 15,000 air traffic controllers. it meant every day 10% of the faas workforce had to take an unpaid day off. 5,800 flights delayed just the first three da...

Has branch ricky who made that decision in 1947 to thir first african-american ball player. it is an amazing portrait of jackie robinson. >> and it shows how he had to be not only an excellent athlete, which he was an amazing ball player burk he had to have all these other skills to deal with some of the griefs that he went through. breaking that barrier. >> thank you so much. susan page. that does it for us. to say a word about "42," tom brokaw said as a kid in south dakota, his kids said, jack...