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Started yet. >> reporter: the sequester was put in place to be a hammer, not a policy. that was the words used today by bob mcdonnel, he, of course, the republican governor of the state of virginia, a state hard hit because there's so many installations of military and defense workers. the pentagon noted more than 700,000 civilian military workers, department of defense workers, will effectively lose 20% of their pay. they will have to work one less day a week if this goes in effect. as one observer put it, it's like a low speed car crash heading our way. >> peter alexander from 1600. peter, t...

Economy. .6% of the overall economy and hits toward defense workers, tsa as chris just mentioned, you know, as an effect, it's hard to get as agitated as you do about the debt ceiling and the federal government stops funding itself, that's a major part of the -- >> you say agitated v. you seen an angry person in a tsa line? it is not a pretty look. >> i'll be joined tweets to local representative. i think the reason why it's not having the affect that the debt ceiling had, that the two years ago, the whole august of 2011 had, is that people, one, have stopped believing the rhetoric of governme...

Illinois down into texas as we head into tomorrow. jon: that is something to be watching for. maria molina thank you. >> thanks. jamie: there are massive defense cuts looming and the pentagon's warning hundreds of thousands of defense workers if sequestration is not solved in weeks there could be furrows and pay cuts that could take eeect in april. this is the on heels of defense contractor, general dynamics talking about $2 billion in losses that could lead to more job cuts in the defense industry. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joining me live from the pentagon. jennifer, t...

Tamron, saying this is like taking the economy hostage by threatening not to pay debts that we have already incured. >> tyler, as i mentioned, the dow up just a little bit today. how soon will we see perhaps start to see an impact on the arrows on the screen? >> i think beginning to see a little bit of sort of trepidation begin to creep in. and as the rhetoric continues to heat up and as we get closer to that point at which despite all of the work that the treasury department can do to move money around, where really start coming down to where the government says, we cannot continue to pay eit...

Does that mean for the romney campaign's message in virginia? >> well, i think the romney campaign is correct to focus on the economy. because if brian moran and the other representatives of the obama campaign think that there is a record of success here, that people are positive about the economy, they are mightily out of touch with the average american, and certainly the average virginian. people are concerned about the unemployment rate. they're concerned about their own jobs or their spouse's jobs or underemployment. people are really worried about that. and on top of this is up to 200,000...