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Its a kick in the teeth -- he is an amazing and upsetting single story about life in the united states during our long, grinding an unnecessary austerity era, but there are thousands of other americans who do or will have similar stories. another story details 100 examples of current or impending cuts caused by the sequester. everything from housing assistance being slashed in texas to research jobs being cut in durham, north carolina. so the question is, why doesnt washington seem to care about...

Sequester. but many others apparently will. no meanwhile, the president is talking about spending more of the money supposedly in such short supply. here is chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> president obama announced today he wants to spend 100 million of your tax dollars as just a down payment on a massive project to map the human brain and find cures for dreaded brain disorders. saying the dividends will be far greater and declaring we could lose a generation of scientists if the se...

Tots a visit in the white house and opening the border and it turned out look they are spending $3.5 trillion a year and you cant have a tour of the white house and you have to end up laying off the border security people? its absurd. so the blame was headed the administrations way and thus the pots of gold all of a sudden have been discovered in every agency in government. its easter miracle. >> bret: today, steve, jay carney said other things can be done, changes. the furloughs can be changed....

Before. >> i think its willed am nearby. the real story. ed henry is being cynical. the story first clip of the secretary saying we are going to have to cut the border patrol and today they discovered in the headquarters of dhs a pot of gold that had been there the whole time they didnt know where it was. it was discovered like last week. and they now are able to fund the border security: look, its very obvious what happened here. in the experience in the past when there have been shutdowns or t...

Exaggerating the sequester? let me know on twitter. follow me on bret baier. tomorrow we will select one of your twitter questions for the panel tomorrow night. taking your money to pay for a sex change for a convicted murderer? thats later in the grapevine. up next. north korea ups the ante in the nuclear weapons game. ♪

Fine. back with the panel. kirsten, its interesting to listen to the agencies that now are flexible with these budgets. >> yeah. i mean this is something that i think everybody figured out pretty early that the administration was coming out and making these claims to try to scare people and try to pin it on the republicans and look, it didnt really work at awesome of the polls reflect that i do think what jay carney said with right in the long term the sequester is going to effect people. its no...

The unpleasantness of the experience theyve created. so if theres an easy way to do it, blitz ace a google meetup for skype call, is as good? no. but does is on viate a whole bunch of brain damage? its to, and the substitution happens. >> do you think delta is trying to buddy up to the obama administration and saying, that sequester is terrible thing. >> that may be. in addition to buddying up to him by his -- emphasizing the sequester, theyre using the presidents playbook. the guy who last summ...

Sequester as without sequester. >> the secretary came in here and said we were going to be less safe. we people going to be crossing the border because there were less border patrol agents and yesterday they said we are not doing that im not saying its important. arent you misleading the public. >> absolutely not. there are reductions. >> go ahead and report that ed you said 5,000. yesterday not doing that. >> talk to the -- talk to those who have been laid off at defense industries. talk to tho...

Outflows and inflows thats why. you know, there are constant adjustments being made at each agency as they deal with their budget in terms of what the impacts of sequester are. >> except back in february cabinet chiefs like arne duncan were insisting they had no such flexibility. >> if i had the flexibility i could shift one way or another there is no wind there. >> the vast civilian employees will be subject to furlough. though they are back pedaling a bit how it will be. >> we have changed our...

Decision, the last 20% of the agents, due to guess what, the sequester. and later, sean sits down with the author of "killing jesus" in anticipation of the easter holiday. dont go anywhere, stay with us, a lot more "hannity" to come. this is so sick! i cant believe your mom let you take her car out. this is awesome! whoooo! youre crazy.