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You know, governing from a perspective of creating a strong alliance with the 75%, because the 75%, i think, hold the future and promise of what we will be tomorrow. and i think back to that day i m in the washington region. it was such a crisp , blue sky. i remember. and that plume of black smoke from the pentagon. and you can never really get that out of your mind. i lived in a neighborhood with service members and government workers and pentagon workers, and the feeling that we were all together. and i don t know what gets us back to that place. ben, it feels like this president governing for the 75% is also i don t know what the ....
Time, but will get paid. putting pentagon workers back. that s half the problem. half the federal employees in that area. it takes some pressure off republicans. and congress in general to get this settled by doing this piece. you re talking about rolling that into one thing that would address both of those issues. what realistically is it that republicans could ask for that we have the whole thing, let s delay obama care by not going to happen. what realistically do you think republicans could ask for and would be acceptable to the republican party based on what boehner could get away with? they were never going to delay obama care. this is more symbolic than anything else. i think they re taking what they wanted all along is to get into entitlement spending and see if we can do chain cpi or something like that, and they would like some of them would like to get the sequester off. some kind of a deal where they get together and can move forward over the next year. what is ....
Desk. shepard, you could hear the gunshots on that recording. shepard: casey, worth noting that the feds have labeled the fort hood shooting an act of work place violence, not terrorism. even though nidal hasan exchanged emails with the radical cleric anwar al awlaki. they say they avoided calling it terrorism because it could have damaged the prosecution s case. the defense secretary chuck hagel says he has found a way to ease the pain of automatic spending cuts known as the saysster. originally a second hagel said 600,000 pentagon workers would have to take 11 unpaid days off this year. 600,000. now he says he has managed to move some money around to get that down to six unpaid days. the spending cuts took effect earlier this year after the white house and congress failed to cut a deal to prevention them. former president george w. bush had surgery today after doctors found a blockage in an artery in his heart. that s according to the former president s spokesman, he says doctors ....
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 workers will be furloughed and an hour and a half line at least to get on a plane, more like four hours because they have to be furloughed. wait a second! i thought we were all going to all be affected. gretchen: that was monday, tuesday, wednesday. steve: right. it looks like the white house and cabinet minute secretaries ....