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Strategy, they are hitting the president for what they call a long campaign to scare americans. here's the speaker of the house, john boehner. >> the administration's trying to play games, play games with the american people, scare the american people. this is not, this is not leadership. >> you just accused the white house of fear mongering. >> listen, they're out there making a lot of noise. what they really ought to be doing is coming up to the hill and working with the senate democrats to pass a bill that can replace the sequester and begin to deal with our long-term spending problem. jon:...

>> hasn't happened yet, it really has to do with union notification. so most of that stuff will start to happen in, over the course of march and april. um, there are a couple of -- one i know of in west virginia that has actually already issued notices just because they have an earlier notification date. >> reporter: but "the washington post" is reporting this morning that, in fact, that school district in west virginia is sending transfer notices to about a hundred teachers in response to that change in -- a change in federal spending that is unrelated to the sequester. arne duncan adding yes...

The same talking points that the president presented a precise, specific, detailed plan to solve the sequester problem in a balanced fashion. but the president has never laid out such a measure. so we really don't know. i think the president has been content to this point in raising these concerns about the impact of the sequester. he was happy to have secretary of transportation ray lahood go out and say 5,000 air traffic controllers are going to have to be furloughed. the interior secretary salazar says i'm going to have to close all the national park campgrounds. the homeland security secre...

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