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Jobs on the line. we should just get rid of the sequester. but i understand that case and think youre right that in some cases republicans have overlo overlooked this massive aspect. >> chris hayes, thank you for joining us. lot of found. what do obama care and charlie sheen have in common? the answer is aztec. and why you dont want to be hacked by the chinese government. dont worry, ill explain it. le. in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announ...

It gives people, gays and lesbians, the right to make decisions on their own if they want to get married and let them choose who they want to be with. >> thats kenneth on the couch with his two moms. saying something very simple. he supports marriage equality. a majority of americans agree with him. so one more voice in a chorus of support that may not seem like much, until you think about what kenneth does for a living and suddenly a simple statement becomes a courageous act. do you remember ho...

To, and ill keep it very short. that is how the ezra klein challenge was born, can i tell you really important things in under two minutes? im excited to try. today i have a good one for you. i want to tell you how a sequester actually works. if youre the literal person in charge of making those cuts, how do you do it? it all comes down to three little words, but before we get there, can i get my clock? okay, there is my clock. all right, go, the sequester is set to go into effect on friday, a w...

You cant decide farm subsidies are not as important, so they get less cuts, you have to spread everything between the cuts that are totally protected that i named. big cuts, no real choosing between them. the law says, and im quoting here, that the same percentage sequestration shall apply to all programs and activities within a budget account. but how do you define programs and budgets and activities? it is not defined anywhere. you see how it gets complicated. take medical research. you could ...

Gets in a huge amount of cuts, somehow the republicans convinced themselves this is a really good idea for them. but why is it something that they say funding the government, 600 billion, that is something the liberals may be able to get taxes on, they could never get the defense cuts if not for sequestration -- >> there is a liberal case to be made that the bad things about the sequester are worth the cost. because it is a one-time opportunity of actually shifting the baseline of defense spendi...

The part that the american people, they dont like the fear mongering, they dont like that its doom and gloom from this president if he doesnt get his way and thats what hes saying, if you dont give me what i want, then im going to purposely do things in your life that youre going to hate because you better give me my idea lets not forget john boehner and mcdonnell signed on, and on a ratio 2-1 and a 50% approval rating and congress 15%. in terms of where the american people are, it doesnt seem l...

Cut off the 1.5 million that was studied rollup beef jerky last year in the pentagons budget. so, yes, i would give him more authority if hes willing to use it to cut off some of this nonsense, but i dont really trust a lot of whats going on when i see him putting local firemen and policemen behind them and saying, republicans are going to make them lose their job. the sequester was his idea, he signed it into law and he needs to take responsibility and he needs to act responsibly and weve given...

Airport security will see cutbacks. >> it just makes me ashamed to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way its being. it just makes me ashamed. >> what we know with unfortunate certainty is that the impact of sequester would be negative on the economy. >> we just keep spending more money, would he create more dependency. we get more and more irresponsible, one crisis to the next, all of them manufactured, except for the real crisis, which nobody ever addresses and that is we cant...

Id give him the authority to cut off the 1.5 million that was studied rollup beef jerky last year in the pentagons budget. so, yes, i would give him more authority if hes willing to use it to cut off some of this nonsense, but i dont really trust a lot of whats going on when i see him putting local firemen and policemen behind them and saying, republicans are going to make them lose their job. the sequester was his idea, he signed it into law and he needs to take responsibility and he needs to a...

To work on fixing the senate than working on the selection of the president of the united states. people need to understand, you serve at the pleasure of the president. so all of this uproar about chuck hagel and what he said and what he hasnt said does not matter. he works for president barack obama who is very clear on his policy as it relates to israel. >> chip, senator richard shelby joined ted cochran and mike johans in supporting hagels nomination. we already new about susan collins and li...