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>> hope springs eternal. the president can sit down tonight and work with the democrats to move a bill. its time for them to act. yet we see nothing. >> do you have a sense of how many jobs will be lost as a ot.ult of the sequester? but i can tell you this. if we dont solve of spending problem here in washington, there will be tens of millions of jobs in the future that wont happen because of the debt load laid on the backs of our kids and grandkids. i came here to save the american dream for my...

Alan colmes, author of thank the liberals for saving america. he says to them while you are in town visit your members of congress and tell them theyve got to stop the sequester. the question is, whose idea was it? >> according to bob woodward and nobody at the time argued the point it was jack lew about to be our new treasury secretary which was president obamas chief of staff. this sequester argument needs rethinking and reframing here. if i tell you that im going to cut the department of tran...

Their jobs and so on is craziness. the idea planes will fall out of the sky and you will have to wait 90 minutes at the airports. my goodness, we should be cutting the fat out of the budget, not of vital services. i think there is game being played here by this administration trying to cut things that americans really care about rather than the waste. >> when you think about it we talked before three cents on every dollar is roughly the amount eaten up by the sequester. >> thats right. >> $85 bi...

In place in terms of sequestration are off base as well. we need cuts less than civilian workers and more in defense contracts. hopefully we can be more strategic and smart about it after we go through the histrionics of another clip deal or coming right to the type of kind of deal in american government. >> revenue from the right doesnt seem to be a part of the equation to move this conversation forward. bobby jindal was on "meet the press" this weekend being asked about his presidential aspira...

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Of compromise. >> reporter: tomorrow the president will begin showcasing the impact of sequester cuts on individual states when he travel s have virginia where 90,000 civilian defense workers would be furloughed one day a week, jenna. jenna: a big story in the state of virginia and many states, wendell. we know the president just made these comments in the last hour or so, but whats the republicans take on all this? >> reporter: they say the president got the tax hike hed been demanding at the e...

There is no meeting, theres no summit, theres no get together. the presidents not calling lawmakers to get together and iron this out, theres no real negotiation going on over some piece of legislation. while the senate democrats did pass an alternative to replace the sequester, it never made it to the senate floor for a vote. theres question about whether that could even pass the democratic-controlled senate. the house republicans passed two versions of a replacement to replace the sequester, b...

We understand tomorrow the california congressman dana ro rorhbacer will be in front senate to encourage the state department to actually act finally and try to spring the doctor free. they have been making suggest he will attempts in the background but they really have got even nowhere in the many months that have passed since he was incarcerated in pakistan, jenna. jenna: a story well continue to watch and follow. thank you. jon: the white house and republicans as weve been telling you are fig...

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...