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Sequester into perspective, it's 85 billion dollars. we have spending problem in washington, we borrow more than a trillion. we roughly borrow 85 billion dollars every 28 days. so what we're looking to do is cut less than what we borrow in one month. not what we spend, but what we borrow. this is not time for a road show president. this is a time to look for someone who will lead and work with us, 'cause we're willing to work with them to solve america's problem. >> all right, now, congressman mccarthy is absolutely correct. there will be a slight economic impact, but it will not put this coun...

Child care, what about the children that are going to have to pay the money back? >> here is what we should say. number one, mr. president the sequester was your idea and number two, you're making those cuts. because we've offered other cuts. i told him yesterday, there's some gold fish that we've been spending 5 million on research on gold fish to see how they interact collectively and democratly. they spent a million and a half on important stuff. >> a million and a half on rollup beef jerky, 300,000 on dog kennels and 100,000 on comedians we sent to india. the list goes on and on and on and...

Vaccinations continued and granies weren't kicked out of their homes? >> i have to tell you that like the sequester, we had to cut each 9.4%. we were not allowed to do a lot of of-- to do a lot of picking and choosing, but we managed, and frankly sean, nobody noticed. >> that's the amazing thing, we're going to spend more this year, governor than we spent last year, but, the presideseem be purposely trying to scare the living day lights out of the american people. kids won't get the i am nun sayin-- immunizations and the military is decimated and the economy suffered. and why do you think he's...

That was taken care of, when the republicans control the house, the senate, and the presidency. >> and time to go with-- >> and sit at the table and take responsibility and george bush is out of office five years. and you've got to grow up, and-- >> going to say. >> he's given a trillion dollar deficits, not george bush. george bush never gave obama the deficit. >> and president obama, president obama-- amassed more debt in four years than the previous. you can't escape that. >> under president obama we created jobs every month, and-- >> fewer americans working. >> losing $800,000 jobs. and we...

♪ hotwire.com >> welcome back to "hannity." as we inch closer to the sequester deadline and president obama continues to employ the irresponsible scare tactics, there are reports that they would give the cabinet members the authority to target cuts in the respective agencies budgets, but is there any truth to the reports and can the sequester be avoided? joining me now in the studio to help answer the questions and more, kentucky senator rand paul. how have you been? >> welcome to new york. >> yeah, and the big apple tonight. i don't know about the city, i'm a smalltown guy from kentucky.