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Keep being asked to do more with less. >> if i were the president, i would withdraw my request for authorization at this particular point. i don't believe the support is there in congress. people view war as a last resort. i don't think people think that we're at that point. i would step back a little bit. we have other issues we have to deal with in congress. domestic and international. i think at this point if you asked for my advice, i would say withdraw authorization. >> the hesitancy has not served them well. >> real quickly. is there anything the president could say that would convince y...

Then speaker john boehner should not have walked away from the 4 trillion-dollar debt deal that he was negotiating with the president in weekend weeks. that had significant spending cuts as well as the tax increases, trace. >> trace: we talk a lot about the taxes, ed, but what about those spending cuts, ed? >> the ones in terms of entitlement reform that's off the table until later next year apparently. in terms of the short-term, those automatic cuts known as sequestration that would hit the pentagon hard, some other domestic programs as well. that's the biggest stumbling block tonight to a d...

Mentioned and most of deals it appears would not shut off the so called sequester that would hit the pentagon. on "fox news sunday" senator lindsey graham told chris wallace he got a call from the defense secretary suggesting these cuts are coming. lake a listen. >> i was called by leon panetta at 7:30 during dinner. >> secretary of defense. >> this is the failure of the supercommittee to find $1.2 trillion in cuts. half of the 1.2 falls on defense who already cut. he says if we do this we will shoot the defense department in the head and send out 800,000 layoff notices the beginning of the ye...

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