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You know, you have to pay for stuff. it's beyond my comprehension. and what you don't do if you're an adult is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester, which doesn't even have to do -- what does that word have to do with budgeting? it's like if you have a family budget and said you know, we don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein this week. >> i want to go back to something that i learned within this hour when you were acting as my co-host, and you just kind of slipped in there. that you were actually at martin luther ...

Families be ready to start schools faces a $406 million cut. which would kick 70,000 kids out of the program. and headlines across the country describe how local communities are already being hurt by these cuts to head start funding. democratic congresswoman kathy castor of florida, has met with head-start families hurt by fa sequester cuts and childrens programs to get the same attention that travel delays have gotten. ron herndon is head of the national head start association. tell me about what you discovered with constituents and what these sequester cuts have done to those kids in the pre...

Let people go just to make hay out of a sequester. >> well, it's moving in the right direction. i don't know what you're complaining about on the sequester. look, the problem, the short-term problem -- >> sean: guns aren't going anywhere. his budget dead on arrival three years in a row. global warming, dead on arrival. obamacare, plummeting and is a disaster train wreck for 2014. sequestration, apocolyptic fear, didn't work. what is he doing that's working? and the economy looks like crap. >> 100 days into the second term, come on, guys. you know, this -- >> sean: well, that's five years. >> w...

Republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep, immediate cuts, on top by the way. of cuts that we already made two years ago. very deep cuts, but cuts that are manageable. but our republican colleagues said we got to keep the sequester in place, their budget calls for a doubling of the sequester cuts in the areas of the budget we're talking about. the faa, the fbi, national institutes of health. the best way that mitch mcconnell and republicans can help us deal with this, is to support our legislation that would re...

At the airports. what can be done? >> well, it does, andrea, these sequester cuts, deep and immediate, across-the-board cuts were bound to have an impact. it was never going to be the fact that the sky was going to fall the day after the sequester took place. but what we're seeing now and will continue to see is the slow grind on the economy. disruption at places like airports and according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, 750,000 fewer american jobs at the end of the year. how do we deal with it? we should replace the sequester with a more targeted, smart way to reduce the defi...