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theblaze.com. happy friday let's get to our "starting point." protests happening right now in afghanistan, protesting the decision of some nato trops to burn korans. hundreds of people to surround the embassy. five people have been hurt. nick paton walsh is live for news kabul. what's the latest? >> well, what we're hearing is that the west of the country, hurat, one of the main city there's. u.s. consulate in kabul, the u.s. consulate out there have a very angry crowd outside. hundreds of people, i had actually from an eyewitness could hear the sirens, the panic from that particular...

Works is strange. it can put up with irresponsible fiscal policies for a long time and then it wakes up and notices the arithmetic doesn't stack up and then you find yourself on the wrong end of rising rates. start having to enact austerity measures and down you go. that's a big problem we have, i think, which goes back to where we began. how will this economy do in the election year? which is while they'll fiddle in washington, they put themselves in a position where they're going to have to be crude spending cuts, not the carefully designed ones that simpson/bowles came up with. an automatic...

Request that senator mccain and i made in writing, the effect it would have on the military. please read that letter or parts of it to your listeners. it is the most chilling account, a 23% across the board cut in defense. we'd have the smallest navy since 1915, have the smallest army since 1940. the sequestration of 600 bill iodod would destroy our national defense. that is not me saying it that's leon panetta, and i'm certainly not going to let that happen. jon: please get that letter up on the web side. you and john mccain stand shoulder to shoulder. he had a testy exchange with defense sec...

And you know 40 or 50 percent of the budget is social security and medicaid. they have got to make reforms . i hope they come up with proposal to bring the tax holds down and get rid of the loop holes. there is a decent chance we might get something good out of the committee in that regard. if we want to bring the debt down we have to get the economy growing again. and the u.s. tax system is an tross. and what does it mean if there is not a break. >> the technical term is sequester . that means automatic across the board cut in domestic and defense spending to reach that trillion in savingin...

Washington. >> the shares have tripled in the past year, since steve jobs came back to set things right at his old home. is this a labor of love or is it just, you know, your mission statement now to get apple back on track? >> you know, i think apple started in my parents' garage, and steve wozniak and i put a lot of years into it, and i think apple has a lot to contribute still. >> instead of owning up tight, they ran ads accusing the democrats, which was false. >> they say they're not. >> well, they say they're not. they may not be, if they have ray big enough across the board cut, but unti...