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Expected to feel the impact of those cuts. abc's pierre thomas spoke with the attorney general about his worries over national security. >> reporter: after a top secret fbi briefing on the nation's terror threat, the attorney general issued a stark warning about those deep budget cuts. >> there are not going to be as many fbi agents, atf agents, dea agents, prosecutors are going to be able to do their jobs. they're going to be furloughed. >> reporter: you have members of the republican party saying it's smoke and mirrors, that the administration is crying wolf, that it's fearmongering. >> this...

Both democrats and republicans is that republicans need the sequester to go through to show -- in order to prove the base that it is fighting obama. is that what you're hearing, as well? this is all about showing once again they're willing to fight obama? >> that's a component of it. i think zachary's exactly right. you also didn't see the markets freak out over the fiscal cliff because we've sort of stopped believing the crying wolf of washington politicians and a sense of what -- if you look at the fiscal cliff eastbound if there were some deal being worked out which there isn't that boehner...

Eric lewis. you guys watch washington from here. we are on our fifth budget crisis since republicans took control of the house. at what point does the public stop listening in washington? my sense says, boy, i just think it public is saying, you guys keep crying wolf, whatever reference, it's over and over again. >> you're right. people have tuned out. i think those that have worked for the federal government -- >> they're the pawns in this. >> they're paying attention about which agencies, so if you're middle management and up in the federal government, this is on your radar screen, but as yo...

The f.a.a. is acknowledging that they are revisiting the amount of hours that new pilots may need before they can get hired, shem; pilots say this is overblown. >> sully as you will burger who the captain of the miracle on the hudson says he believes the airline industry is crying wolf as a way to get the f.a.a. to lower those requirements, but he believes if you start lowering the hours needed to get hired that would compromise safety and he believes experience saves lives. listen to him. >> when they go into the right seat, the regional jet as a new hire pilot they are still getting on-the-j...

Danie daniel,, is netanyahu's coming out and sort of rebuffing secretary of state clinton, is that in response to sort of losing support amongst the political elite in israel? >> i think netanyahu has gotten to a position where he feels he has to double down, which is what i think we're seeing in significant measure. he would have liked to have been able to claim, i think, that whatever next happens in terms of sanctioning going forward, in terms of language becoming more harsh, that this is down to him continuing to make credible and real the possibility of an israeli strike. and he will then...