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Valerie nasser worked for richard holbrooke when holbrooke was at the state department under clinton. nasser writes that holbrooke and clinton had a good relationship but holbrooke and sometimes clinton were frozen out at the white house. quote, both clinton and holbrooke, two incredibly dedicated people, had to fight to have their voices count on major foreign policy initiatives. holbrooke never succeeded. nasser believes it was mostly due to political bitterness. people closest to president obama, nasr writes, wanted to settle scores for holbrooke's tenacious campaign support of clinton who ...

Hyped? because might that undercut your message? >> here's the thing, if you disagree with the cbo and with outside economic analysts who say that up to three quarters of a million jobs will be lost, well, you should make that case. there's no way to do what the sequester calls for and not create these negative effects. >> reporter: americans may not be feeling the punch but there are plenty of spending cut punch lines. over the weekend, the "s" in "snl" stood for "sequester." >> we no longer have full body scanners so we're asking everyone to take a picture down their pants and text it to us....

Believe, quote, there is any chance they can increase pressure enough to raise taxes again. translation, these cuts may be here for a while. >> even as the cuts are here, the president met with his cabinet today. he made it clear, you know, as important as the whole issue of these forced budget cuts issues, he wants to move on, talk about comprehensive immigration reform. he's got a whole agenda out there. >> reporter: that's right. that top gop aide i talked to said were the president to try to replace this forced spending cut measure, this so-called sequester, he would have to spend all of h...

>> clearly some personal grudges, some concerns that richard holbrooke was in the minds of the obama white house, too big for his britches. played out in the making of policy toward afghanistan and pakistan and that's the tragedy. >> reporter: nasr depicts a president who did not have time to listen to holbrooke. even though holbrooke was tapped with being a key point man when afghan president hamid karzai, quote, holbrooke was not included in obama's teleconferences with karzai and was cut out when obama went to afghanistan. >> look, in the end, he's a big boy, he knew what he was getting int...