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White house is not, they're not totally out of their minds. they say, if we do this, it will throw the republicans off. we have put something out there. and this is something that we would have agreed to any way in the larger context. understand, this president really wants a grand bargain. he is going to give away the store in august 2011. >> yeah. >> he was absolutely going to give away the store. he wants that grand bargain. and this is -- they view this as the best negotiating strategy. a lot of people disagree with them, but that's their view. they really want this. he genuinely wants thi...

And the choices were either lay off people, you impose a furlough or all of us just take an across-the-board cut. >> greta: what are we going to do about the sequester? >> well, it is the law. i mean with the continuing resolution as it passed these cuts are going to remain in place. i just think, you know, when you do budgeting if you were in your home budget people like to compare our budget to our home budget and your kids have to go to college you don't cut college in the same way that you cut going to the movies but in fact that is exactly what we have done with the sequester. >> greta: i...

And the choices were either lay off people, you impose a furlough or all of us just take an across-the-board cut. >> greta: what are we going to do about the sequester? >> well, it is the law. i mean with the continuing resolution as it passed these cuts are going to remain in place. i just think, you know, when you do budgeting if you were in your home budget people like to compare our budget to our home budget and your kids have to go to college you don't cut college in the same way that you cut going to the movies but in fact that is exactly what we have done with the sequester. >> greta: i...

Kind. massacres in prison. so he was a horrendous, horrible, brutal dictator. >> anyone who spoke out against him at all would be arrested immediately, sometimes tortured, sometimes killed. >> tracy shelton is a 34-year-old freelance journalist from australia who heads to libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was...

From australia who heads to libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we're not talking now mubarak's security forces. we're talking about mercenaries. we're talking about jets. we're talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution the idea of non-violence had to be laid...