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Iranian nuclear program? we've got a remarkable thing here. if it can be verified. well, look you know, i was listening to mark regev before saying that we didn't know about the underground nuclear plant, we didn't know about this. we didn't have any inspectors in there. the last time we had inspectors on the ground somewhere was iraq in 2003. and they were right about the absence of weapons of mass destruction. >> let me ask you a question dan. answer the question that everybody asks me what's the alternative? what do you do? >> go back to what the administration felt so strongly about that w...

Congress over there just went and said i'm going to find 15 to $30 million of wasteful spending in programs what would happen for this federal government? what would happen far our economy? my big fear is that we don't really have a functioning economy. we have a artificial economy. we stop printing money what's going to happen? if we don't turn around this out-of-control spending up here in washington, d.c., what's going to happen? if anything should come out of these negotiations and eventually they need to be negotiations, we really need to have. we need to have monetary policy reform. >> d...

I know that there's -- i'm seeing what it's doing to an awful lot of not just federal employees but other businesses and others who rely upon a functioning economy. it's hard for me to look them in the eye and say any of us are doing our job at this point. >> and speaking of not doing your job, and i'm not speaking of you personally, the sequester. that's the kind of blunt instrument which was devised specifically because it was too horrible to -- >> sequestration was supposed to be so stupid that no rational people would let it happen. you know, i think about this person who could make a lot ...

What they thought. but even more fundamental than housing to the global economy is the idea that the u.s. government is a safe asset that when you buy our debt, the things when we do this things we do, that you can count on us to do rational things to pay you back your money. if the world has to reevaluate what it knows about the u.s. as a functioning economy, that would be a financial storm higher than the one we had in 2008. >> here's what's perverse about that. two different things. when they talk about the rez lugo, there's a buff and that's going. you blow that deadline, you get a governm...

Or otherwise, it will never let go, as mohamed morsi was busy demonstrating in his year as president. opposing the brotherhood are egypt's military and a collection of citizens who refuse to live under an authoritarian theocracy. coptic christians, pro-democracy intellectuals, a middle class that desires for a functioning economy, and women who dot yearn for the burka. without the military's support, however, the group would be hopelessly outmatched. today's struggle is ultimately between the brotherhood and the army. like it or not, it is time for the u.s. to choose sides. for those who know ...