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Story. i want to remind all of our viewers where the president wants to get the extra money. you have 3.6 million fraom military construction money. then you have 2.5 billion from the pentagon drug intradiction program and 600 million from the assets forfeiture fund. your horting is it is not all there. >> he wanted to use that counter drug pot as sort of a weigh station for money. he wanted to move money from elsewhere in the defense department in order to get to the 2.5 billion he wants for that. i learned there is practically nothing left in that pot, 85 million which is next to nothing. hi...

Significant or are not necessary in contrast to what he said last year when he presented the defense budget. that is point one. he will have to move at the 2.5 billion from other programs. >> i want to make sure our viewers don't miss that. only 85 million is left in that fund. that's like 2.4 billion short of what they say they need. this is why they were going all of these routes to find these pots of money because the president wanted to land on that big top dollar point that he was seeking. it seems like there is no -- so if the money is not all there, how does he get it? >> he is going to...

Over the last couple hours, and work on that sequester, the second round of the sequester's forced budget cuts kicked in january of 2014. a short-term resolution, while it would put the government basically on the precipice of another potential shutdown in a couple months, would also give them a chance to start working, negotiating back and forth between democrats and republicans on some kind of deal that might, to the satisfaction of both parties, soften the effects of the sequester. not only are democrats complaining about it and what it does to programs at the department of health and human...