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>> since hugh jackman and anne hathaway went to washington, they gotten that whole "les mis" attitude. look at today. look what happened today. ♪ people are concerned about the deficit and the debt ♪ ♪ we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. ♪ why, why ♪ a message [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> gretchen: that's hysterical. >> steve: they're going to get together for a quartet tomorrow. >> brian: why would you get together on the day it happened, what phil gramm said. it makes no sense! >> gretchen: photo op. some said it'...

>> unless your business is directly related to the defense department, unless you live in a town that is directly impacted by military installation, unless you're a family that now is trying to figure out where to keep your kids during the day because you just lost a head start slot, a lot of people may not notice the full impact of the sequester. but this is going to be a big hit on the economy. >> brian: really? the "new york times" says we're going to lose 2.14 million jobs. we know that the education secretary says about 40,000 teachers will get pink slips. we know over 100,000 pentagon wo...

Process and the idea was to force congress and the president to make hard choices. in this case, those hard choices weren't made. we're going to have a sequester go into effect. exactly the same thing happened in 1986. the sequester was a little bit smaller, but there were all these dire predictions. it went into effect, the world did not come to an end. the washington monument was not shut down. and while reducing spending by $85 billion in spending authority and only $44 billion less in this fiscal year will have some effect, it's not going to have a huge macro economic effect and it is much...

Military installation, unless you're a family that now is trying to figure out where to keep your kids during the day because you just lost a head start slot, a lot of people may not notice the full impact of the sequester. but this is going to be a big hit on the economy. >>gretchen: the headline here, folks, is the president's strategy did not work. the strategy all along here was to push republicans back into the corner like he did at the end of the year with regard to the debt ceiling and having to raise taxes. he was going to try that approach again because every poll up until that point ...

See through this, this is fraud. but they are presenting to the american people this fraud. >> steve: because they're hyping it. in fact, yesterday the "new york times" wrote that barak obama could more than as the president -- emerge as the president who cried wolfment has all the cabinet members talking about the gloom and doom and if it doesn't, people are going to go issues wait a minute, that's not so bad. >> brian: they've let off 300 illegal immigrants from prison in anticipation of the sequester and now the administration says, that had nothing to do with us. >> gretchen: they blamed i...