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You're sitting this on a segueway. you have injuries from war. you're still recovering from this. how tough was it grabbing them and bringing them over there? >> i was already on my segueway. my buddy was carrying it and i told him we could put it on the segueway and balance it u. it's long walk. it worked out just fine. it wasn't hard at all. >> sergeant, a lot of people are assuming that veterans are being used as political pawns. what do veterans want? what's really on their hearts right now? >> i do think that we're being used as pawns because whenever our government disagrees on something...

Deploy to the persian gulf. >> it's sad, john, to have the chief of this land scaring people when in fact if any of those things happen it will be because the president wants them to happen. >> the cuts are not smart, fair, it will hurt our economy. >> john: is this all a little over the top? >> look it, i don't think -- these are the facts, what people who report on the facts, how they decide to describe them is their decision, but i think the facts are the facts. certain cuts will be made, certain programs will be affected. >> but is it over the top to say that all of the these horrible thin...

Nearly a trillion dollars. give it to him now. let him spend it on whatever he wants, no questions asked. >> we need to make that bill quickly and cleanly. >> if they didn't, paulson insisted america could be hit by a second great depression. >> to help the american people is the goal of this plan. >> john: with the stock market tanking paulson got his so-called tarp money. eventually tarp was used in all sorts of ways few had envisioned, including to bail out the auto companies. meantime, barack obama had defeated john mccain in the race to succeed george bush. during the transition, incoming...

Going to pass that next week which gives us the flexibility to put these cuts in place in a better way. >> john: if the deal materializes or even if it doesn't, it may be that this sequester, which was supposed to signify a profound failure of government, was in fact a real, if untidy success. senator ron johnson has been saying this all along. >> if and when sequestration goes through, would that be a victory for the tea party? >> sure, absolutely. tea party taxed enough already. the federal government gets enough revenue, it's about time to lower the rate of spending, lower the size of gover...

A bold request, give him nearly a trillion dollars. give it to him now. let him spend it on whatever he wants, no questions asked. >> we need to make that bill quickly and cleanly. >> if they didn't, paulson insisted america could be hit by a second great depression. >> to help the american people is the goal of this plan. >> john: with the stock market tanking paulson got his so-called tarp money. eventually tarp was used in all sorts of ways few had envisioned, including to bail out the auto companies. meantime, barack obama had defeated john mccain in the race to succeed george bush. during...