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Well find out. >> sure does. canadian authorities say they have prevented a deadly terror attack in the making. two men are akigsed of plotting to blow up tracks and derail a passenger train from new york to toronto. police say the suspects had trains under surveillance. they were allegedly aiming to kill hundreds of people. it appears they werent acting alone. >> the significance of this investigation was that it involved domestic attack planning being supported by al qaeda. >> now those al q...

Five years? but today, this very broadcast, has become the victim of the ludicrous sequester. because weve been in discussions with representative january schakowsky of illinois, who this week is promoting a bill that would put 50,000 public servants, such as police officers and firefighters, back to work. it is the exact opposite of the sequester and seemed like a particularly good idea given the outpouring of appreciation following the work of our first responders in boston last week. so after...

According to the court documents the hearing is set he for 10:00 a.m. read his miranda rights a lot of you may be feeling the seeskts of the sequester tonight. if you had to fly anywhere you know what im talking about. rich edson on making a point by making travelers suffer. >> thousands of flight days each day in the airline industry says its possible. its the first weekday the government is cutting the number of air traffic controllers, the federal aviation administration describes staff short...

Relation to legislation for universal background checks. >> well, absolutely. and much as they probably should, frankly, i mean, the sequester. i mean, you know, just last week you had james clapper of the intelligence, of dia essentially saying he was concerned about the degrading of our intelligence capabilities because of the sequester. you had the fbi saying that they were going to have to furlough every single employee for at least three weeks at some point during this period. we all unders...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the superv...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the superv...

A lot people will have trouble with that because some of the slowing is attributable to the increase in the payroll tax. taxes have an impact. to add more, that seems to be going in the wrong direction. >>chris: while the white house was blaming the sequester and republicans for pushing the sequester, a lost independent people, and you heard the concession from dan file -- pfiffer on this, and obamacare will kick in and a company with 50 employees you fall to the mandates but at 49 you dont so y...

Another 1.6 or however you want to count those dollars. a lot of people are going to have trouble with that particularly since some of the slowing in the employment sector certainly is attributable to the increase in the payroll tax. so taxes do have an impact and to add more, it seems to be going in the wrong direction. >> chris: i was going to say that while the white house was blaming the sequester and the republicans for pushes sequester. a lot of independent people and you heard concession ...

Employers from getting new people. are those more serious problems than the sequester? >> certainly the end of the payroll tax cut is hurting americans because it leaves less money in their pocket, less money to spend while they are shopping. that does have an effect on the economy, no question. it is important to look at the overall picture on the economy. we have made a lot of progress. 6.5 million private sector jobs traded in three years and the housing market is coming back, manufacturing i...

Answer as to why the approval rating of congressional republicans is at historic low it is because their view is my way or the highway, do what i want, tax breaks to the wealthy and ask the middle class to pay. that is not what the american people want. if the republican party wants to reach out to americans they should start by listening to americans. >> march job numbers came out on friday and they were grim at 88,000 jobs created and 496,000 americans left the job force. the labor force parti...