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Bipartisan agreement. i think this will go ahead and happen. republicans are giving every indication they're ready to go ahead with this. there may not be a lot that happens march 1st and they'll have time to argue with it and change it. >> are they still on vacation? >> they are. you know a lot of people have said if the world's going to end, if we have a huge crisis, how come the president played -- took a few days to play golf in florida and congress has been off for an entire week? they'll come back on monday. >> thank you so much, byron. weep keep an eye on this. >> thank you. >> new deve...

Thing the cuts will be painful and voters will blame republicans. republicans don't think it will be bad, 2.5% on a $3 trillion budget and voters may decide we can cut more. >> it sounds like a lot of pot ticks. >> but it has a real world impact. i mean you're cutting $85 billion. people are going to be furloughed. if you're furloughed, you -- only work four days a week instead of five. a 20% pay cut. programs will be cut. republicans think democrats are scaring voters and exaggerating the effect. people thrown off head start and delays at airports. until we see the real impact on real lives, ...

I hope everybody's all right. >> seeing his car afterward, it's amazing how he walked out of there. nascar has done a lot to make the cars safe and now they'll have to decide if there's more to do to make sure the spectators are safe as well at these events. >> we'll be following it later today. thank you. the clock is truly ticking down in washington. lawmakers are looking to avoid $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that will happen. the white house says the loss of this domestic and defense spending could have a dire impact on our country. confrontation republicans saying the white house...

Automatic cut? >> there's no doubt the white house is putting out a lot of worst says scenarios, churning out interviews and fact sheets and press releases, each day outlining town official things. the president will go down to virginia on tuesday to a naval installation to try to dramatic advertise the cuts there. -- dramatize the cuts there. they said people would be waiting 90 additional minutes to get on planes, delays at airports. the park service putting out warnings, things will be closed, beaches will be closed. the redwoods might be damaged in the national parks in california. all sor...

Highest symbol of government and threaten to shut it down. you say we're going to close the washington monument. >> more important than that, i would imagine, let me just jump in, for all americans, when you here they're going to close air traffic towers, you get concerned because people fly for business or personal reasons. that's part of the automatic cut. have republicans offered an alternative? >> republicans -- first of all they've offered alternatives to the sequester, which is to cut more entitlement spending. democrats absolutely did not accept that just as republicans don't accept the...