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About jobs. the obama administration repeatedly asked defense contractor not to comply with t with it and warn they might be laid off in advance of cuts and of course recently boeing laid off 30% of its management force and other companies are expected to do the same. do you think the president played politics with these job cuts? >> i don't know if he played politics, but i know this. if you understand defense appropriations that that $600 billion in the sequestration, most of it is in research and development and procurement. only 15% of any procurement contract or research and development i...

Foreign companies who get the benefit of a u.s. procurement contract and a fee on certain visas for foreign workers for companies that have more than 50% of foreign workers so the combination of those two fees gets us the money we need and we lowered the amount. mostly because we had a recent settlement where some costs are being defrayed through the settlement so we felt we could lower the amount so we lowered it from 7.2 billion to 6.2 billion and we think that mattered to bring that last bit of republican support we'll need. >> senator, i wanted to share with all our viewers something jon s...