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Charlotte, blaming staffing and weather saying staffing challenges led to ground delays and more spacing between flights around the country. it's the first time that the public has felt the impact of across the board budget cuts from the sequester. >> and certain places, i believe cutbacks should not be happening. >> i think it's horrible, there's enough problems dealing with delays and security and weather and other things when you're flying, i think they should furlough the president and congress. >> the faa claims it had no choice but to put 15,000 controllers on unpaid furloughs, which mea...

A political statement, right? >> well, they claim that 70% of the faa's costs are personnel that they had no choice but to furlough the controllers. basically, they're treating the controller just like any other faa employee. not giving them any special preference because they're on the front line. the airlines say it's preposterous. there ought to be room in a budget like that defined other cuts. but i think the most telling thing is the administration did not go to congress and say, look, this nightmare's going to happen, fix this problem at the faa. instead, they're saying seem to be saying...

Republicans who voted against background checks for criminals, terrorists, and the mentally ill. >> you would think. still ahead on "morning joe," google executive chairman eric schmidt will join us on the set. we hope he brings us some of those google glasses. joe, you should wear them. >> or money. >> i'll wear the money. >> out with a new documentary "dirty wars," an exclusive first look at that trailer. and up next, chuck todd joins the conversation along with lisa myers live at reagan national with the latest on how the sequester is causing big headaches at major airports. you're watching...

>> if i were a republican in the senate, i would be putting this bill on the floor and talking about it every day. i mean, you talk about -- i would love to see that says i'm not going to take care of air safety and air travel. i want my pet project taken care of first. you have a lot of people saying they're not going to put a dime back into anything until we deal with the overall budget problem. they have made exceptions to the sequester, an exception for agricultural inspections, i think they made a couple of others. as these delays mount and the pressure gets intense, i wouldn't rule out w...

They're being used as political pawns. >> it's the piece of sequestration that affects americans the most. and i don't think that it's fair that air traffic control, particularly air traffic controllers are being used as a pawn. >> ray lahood has a message. >> tell them to fix sequester, and this will go away. >> the administration seems to be saying that any solution to put the air traffic controllers to work must include an overall roll back of the sequester. which does not look like something that's going to happen any time soon. the next few months could be a nightmare for travelers. >> th...