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Was at that scene was is oscar pistorius. let's go to politics now. new today president obama is urging congress to compromise with just six days until the sequester triggers those massive budget cuts. republicans say it's the president who won't budge. >> they can cut spending in a smart way and close wasteful loopholes for the well off and well-connected. unfortunately it appears that republicans in congress have decided that instead of compromising, instead of asking anything of the wealthiest americans, they'd rather let these cuts fall squarely on the middle class. >> president obama, h...

Immigration reform. i'm not optimistic about almost any other issue that's going to come before the congress for the rest of this year, maybe into 2014. i just don't see the incentives on either side and trust and ability to get deals to get anything done. >> trust, ability, incentive. a lot of that is based on leverage. as i've mentioned today, tony, republicans in congress have an approval rating of oh, 25%. so with numbers like that what is their leverage beyond these self-created crises of the sequester? >> it's compartmentalized with republicans. looking at national numbers on republicans...

Including the transportation department which oversees air traffic control will be impacted. nbc's michelle franzen has more on what's in store if washington misses the sequester deadline. michelle. >> reporter: alex, like you said just about every federal agency could feel the brunt of the automatic cuts if washington can't reach a deal by friday. the defense department could take the biggest hit. they could see a cut of nearly $43 billion which will impact weapons purchases and base operations. under the sequester we could see nearly 1 million layoffs, including 800,000 civilian defense depa...

Working on things other than averting this sequester. i think it's ridiculous. i think that even to see the republican house leadership working hardest on blaming president obama for the sequester is foolish. what we have is speaker boehner making posters about president obama trying to call it the obama-quester, sort of the way they did with obama care, making all the blame the president's. well, here's the problem. when two sides agree to a deal, to a stopgap measure like the sequester, if they both agreed to it how is it the fault of one more than the other? what we have going on right now ...

Du jour, the sequester." how much of the sequester drama is manufactured? and even if some of it is, aren't regular americans going to feel it, anyway? >> yes. i think he's wrong about this. i mean, there are two things i would say. one, if you go look at the local newspapers in virginia, in wisconsin, the local news, i've done a little bit of this. you can see people on the front pages of the papers have the sequester on the news. i don't think it's being ignored in regular america, in part because so many people work for the federal government. the second thing is, it actually does affect re...