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Watched jobs report was discouraging, you called it the spring swoon. why were the numbers so low in was it the payroll tax? was it the sequester? was a combination of these things? what was it? >> doesn't seem like the sequester yet had much of an effect if you look at the changes in government pay rolls we don't know. the hope is that it's just a blip urge the numbers are going to get revised away. but it's very possible that this will be yet another spring in which some momentum that we had seen at the beginning of the year seems to dissipate. >> what's with the spring? >> i don't know, to ...

So all we need is one more justice and this prevails. so there's another reason it crashes and that's financial. >> greta: can an insurance company make a decision whether to get in the exchange or not? it's a business decision for the insurance company. they have to pay a participation fee and that's what, 3 1/2%. >> that's right. >> about 3 1/2% so that comes off their margin of profit. >> correct. >> greta: so that's the discouraging and i mean, that's a consideration for these insurance companies. >> absolutely. and-- >> and the government. >> and that's right. but it's only revenue if som...

Haven't stepped in and said anything on it. so all we need is one more justice and this prevails. so there's another reason it crashes and that's financial. >> greta: can an insurance company make a decision whether to get in the exchange or not? it's a business decision for the insurance company. they have to pay a participation fee and that's what, 3 1/2%. >> that's right. >> about 3 1/2% so that comes off their margin of profit. >> correct. >> greta: so that's the discouraging and i mean, that's a consideration for these insurance companies. >> absolutely. and-- >> and the government. >> an...

Discouraging versus encouraging terrorism. these are people hardened by battle, and so part of that is a belief that if you can do it through these mechanized planes dropping targeted bombs then you protect the soldier's life and having to go into pakistan and do it yourself. maybe the only time where chuck hagel was asked about the system, and he is in favor of it. >> let's talk about the aclu and the administration's drone program. we know that the human -- human rights council is investigating our use of drones many civilian

Reflection on congress right now what we're seeing. >> let's say we get the small deal to prevent taxes from going up. i think a lot of people would have some relief at that. i can't even believe this is going to come out of my mouth. i probably know what you're going to say. do you have any confidence, is what i was going to say, that maybe in the first two, three weeks of the year next year, first couple of months even of the year that they'll get back to -- once we get past this cliff issue, that we'll get back to having those big conversations about taking on deficits and debts? >> okay. s...