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Robert gibbs. >> well, look. there obviously is a plan to replace the sequester. and it's something that speaker boehner won't discuss because it includes revenue, as well as some entitlement cuts and spending cuts. sheer where y here is where you see the point that i made earlier. they wanted spending cuts to take home to constituents. they wouldn't sit at a table anywhere in the country. whether in the speaker's office, oval office or a starbucks in between. and discuss anything that had to do with revenue or more loophole closures that they saw as tax increases, and, you know, again, that's...

Sinkholes are relatively common in florida. reported here more often than any other state. that's because the state sits on this layer of limestone that can face collapse because of shifts in underground wattern caverns. authorities plan to resume their investigation and search this morning. craig. >> gabe gutierrez in florida. thank you. we'll come back to you a little later. back to washington. and readier on not, the long dreaded sequester has arrived. the $85 million in spending cuts kicked in after president obama signed the order last night. half cuts from domestic programs, the rest f...

Be with the president, that he is quest traces will hurt the economy. 56% say in a new gallop poll, and 30% say it won't harm the economy. delays at airports could come with fewer screeners and air tower controllers, transportation secretary has predicted 90-minute delays at the nation's busiest airports because of fewer controllers, and the sequester also apparently forced vice president joe biden's hand and says that air force two will be grounded for weekend trips now. but that's all right with the vice president. mr. biden says he always wanted to take the train back to delaware, but the s...

Contributor as well. good to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> president obama, spent much of the past month or so engaged in a very public campaign to essentially try and shame republicans into action, robert. why did it not work this time? >> well, in many ways, republicans after the fiscal cliff negotiations, where they felt like they had given too much on revenue reduction, which they hadn't, they felt like they needed these spending cuts. largely how we ended up where we did with the cuts going into affect. >> do you think the gop was ever serious about trying to avoid the sequ...

Cuts into readiness as we heard the service branch chiefs talk extensively about risk and readiness crisis. so we're trying to let other members know we've already been to the table in reducing military budgets and taking 50% of the sequester cut and placing it in 18% of the budget, not a smart way to go about this. we want to make sure we reduce defic deficit. this is not the smart way to do it. and it cuts at this nation's ability to defend itself. >> it sounds like have you reservations about the sequester now. but you did vote for the budget control act of 2011, which included sequestratio...