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Programs, long term things like scientific research, shut down the programs in sequesteration, and they'll continue to suffer this year. john: 3.5 trillion is not enough? >> it's got noing to the long term priorities. make decisions where we spend and invest. john: rarely seem to. >> i think that the spending caps work. first of all, they fill 2.5% of the spending. john: some sequester is left. >> very small. head start, the obama administration put out a study, despite billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars spent on it had no cognitive effect on the children. sounds good, but are we helping ...

Conditions. the goal of universal coverage raises the cost, critics say doesn't have to. >> the way to do it is through high risk pools and other insurance mechanisms at the state level, they chose not to do that in the obama care law. >> reporter: more than a quarter of the people that currently apply for private insurance plans either wind up playing higher rates or turn down all together, so the difference in cost won't be as great as it seems, but higher prices could discourage healthy young people the exchanges need to enroll to keep costs from going higher. young people would wind up pay...

Leaned over and put it down and took a picture, you'd be pretty innocuous. what's interesting is that particular picture, now they've sent to the f.b.i., that didn't come from that tv station. that came from somebody out in the viewing public. they sent it to the tv station and now it's gone to the f.b.i the f.b.i. saying, remember, folks, if you got anything, let us have it. >> brian: they were at logan airport asking people as they were getting on the airplane saying, if you have anything we can download it here. >> steve: yeah. before you leave. >> brian: let us make decisions. the f.b.i. r...

We saw it again today when he reached the end of the roll call. he didn't have enough votes to be speaker. he needed 218 votes to be speaker. when everybody had already voted. he was at 216. and then they had to drag in bachmann and get her vote and then he managed to eke out a two-vote viblctory in a house where he had 18 extra votes. that's how he is. he's a weak, weak man. a weak speaker. therefore, he can't negotiate with the president because the president can actually make commitments, make decisions. he can say when you send me a bill, i'll sign it. what can boehner say? nothing. >> so ...

It, you could feel it in the economy. no one was excited about this holiday season. everyone felt as though they had very little clarity on where the future was economically, so it really didn't surprise me. plus, i walked around malls, around new york. you saw a lot of people, you didn't see a lot of bags, so i was not shocked by this. gregg: is 2012 the year of indecisiveness? >> yeah, that's exactly the way i would put it. going all the way through, at the beginning was obamacare going to be overturned, because we might see hiring pickup. remember, obamacare's a drain on the finances of a l...