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>> joining me from charlotte, north carolina, is south carolina republican congressman mick mullvaney. we appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> let's get to where you stand on things. you've said you are for the sequester and for letting these automatic spending cuts kick in. there are a lot of economists who say that could be disastrous to the recovery. do you see any downsides to these across-the-board cuts? >> and technically i support the sequester instead of doing no sequester. i'm more in favor of what the house passed twice last year which was this replace this type of acros...

President obama's policy on the iran nuclear program. >> i just been handed a note that i, i misspoke and said i supported the president's position on containment. if i said that, meant to say that i obviously, his position on containment we don't have a position on containment. >> we do have a position on containment that we do not favor containment. >> hagel appeared unfamiliar with the massive cut on the department of defense part of the august 2011 budget control act. >> you were after the sequestration bill has passed. >> not sequestration. budget control act. they were talking here about...

It. are you willing to take 33% of what you want? >> we're the minority party in washington, there's no doubt about it. we're willing to talk about whatever it is that actually gets us to a solution. the problem that we've had with the democrat-controlled senate in the last two years is they haven't produced a budget, so there's no way to even talk about a compromise, as you're working with the senate, because they don't even say what they believe, what they think we have to do to solve these challenges. so this is a big step forward to force the senate to do a budget. >> let me ask you about ...

Everything from old-fashioned camel trains to jeep moving weapons from egypt to israel. >> for years the only thing separating the israeli egypt border is the road we're depriving on right now. but the egyptian revolution changed things. there is a steal reinforced fence topped with barbed wire. driving on the road are heavily armed fighters ready for combat at a moment's notice. the groups coming here are an army, they explained. we are ready for them as if we were going to war. talking about the fight a training to combat fighters and jihadist taking over the sinai peninsula in egypt. august...

Israel. the organizations are coming are an army and we're ready to go to war explains the commander unit. a rapid reaction horse seen here training to keep the number of al-qaeda fighters and jihad and other militants from taking over the sinai peninsula from coming across this 120 mile long border. for years, the only thing separating the egyptian-israel border is the road we're riding on now. the egyptian revolution changed things and a steel reinforced fence topped with barbed wire and heavily armed fighters ready for combat at a moment's notice. when militants make it across there are dea...