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>> good morning. >> you talked friday about a calamity in our air service system in america, a billion dollars in cuts that have to be made at the department of transportation, $600 million from the faa, 47,000 faa employees will need to be furloughed at least one day per pay period. is it still going to be safe for the american public to fly if this sequester goes forward. >> one thing we never compromise on is safety. we will never take a back seat to safety. safety will not be compromised. but we will have twork with the airlines in slowing planes down. but there will be enough controllers ...

Time as we live from cliff to cliff, we do need leadership in terms of bringing the two sides together. i think that's what the public wants. from economic standpoint $85 billion is not much for impacts. i think wall street is seeing this as scare tactics. if the market really believed the economy was going to be paralyzed on march 21st, we would not be trading near record highs. that's exactly where we are right now. nobody likes a sequester. to me it's more of a national security issue. they are so blunt, cuts in defense, as well as discretion, nobody knows what missions are going to be impa...

Responsible for growing our massachusetts faster than growth rate, coming out of recession faster than other states. it's a winning formula for the nation. we can't slow that down. >> one thing for the record, i think the white house stipulates it was the president's idea sequester, 174 agreeing to it. let me move on to a couple of other areas. big issues states are debating, of course, washington is debating. i want to start on the issue of obama care. governor jindal, you seem to be bucking the trend among republicans. a lot of republican governors are saying we're going to go with what the ...

Department of defense and non-department of defense in your state alone, job losses because of sequestration. >> this is about growth, always about growth from the president's perspective and ought to be about growth from the american people's perspective and all of our point of view. government has a role to play in that. the president understands that. i've listened to my good friend here, governor jindal, who has talked about these issues as if they are budget issues alone. they have actually seen some $2.5 trillion in budget cuts from this president. and the only plan on the table right no...

Is real disruption because they have to cut a billion dollars. >> the president, you heard right, compared the president to lincoln. we need real leadership here. the president has to stand up to the plight. if he really thinks this will devastate the military, air traffic control, really devastate meat inspection, they rolled out great political theater, cutting 3% of the budget can cause all these consequences, here is a chance to say here is how we can do it better. the reality is the federal budget even after the cuts will be larger than last year's budget. bob woodward has a great piece w...