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He's, in fact, he's not saying that, he's just saying give me more now and then we'll talk next week about how much more you'll give me. you know, that just isn't that way to run a country. >> wasn't he like that in college? >> i am betting he was. >> does anybody remember the sequester? i remember the rhetoric of the sequester, it was the apocalypse. what happened? >> every kitten that was born since the sequester died. >> exactly. >> the sequester cut 1% to 2% of total federal spending over a certain number of years. it has gone basically without a hitch. i mean, it's one of the reasons obam...

Individual spending bill without a larger budget framework. republicans are trying to stop the sequester cut when is it comes to defense but want deeper cuts to education and energy. republican gabriel gomez in the final stretch is spending big on the massachusetts senate race. his campaign is putting another $400,000 into tv ads this week hoping he can defeat the democratic congressman. hillary clinton stole the show last night at the cfda fashion awards. she joked she's pitching executive andy cohen on a new show for bravo called "project pants suit." she presented a founders award to os...

Essentially what's happening is these doctors who see medicare patients, they get reimbursed for the price of a chemotherapy drug plus 6% to cover the overhead of ordering the drug and storing it. what they're saying is because of this 2% sequester cut, that all comes out of their 6% overhead. they can't change the price of the drug, so it's more like a 33% cut, and they're saying that just makes it too expensive to see some of the medicare patients they've been seeing in the past. >> boy, i don't know how these guys are having to turn away patients. it must be awful to go through that. how ma...

Not hitting their target, but the sequester, the man mandatory cuts are cutting into sales? >> point the finger at yourself. the sun is in your eyes, your shoes are untied, i'm certainly it's not your fault that you've lost money collectively since orville and wilber wright flew at kittyhawk. they're losing money left and right. our government is just as inept and-- >> they don't all lose money, contractors are scared, not flying as much. does it have much impact? >> the point about the airlines being a terrible industry, but partially to blame on the government and partially the payroll tax. ...

The medicare patients can get their chemotherapy. if they would just come back to town and do their jobs. >> we have seen a massive consolidation in the last four years before the sequester of 40 years ago we evolved this cancer delivery system so that you can get treated in your low he cal community. and now we are devolving it and consolidating cancer care back again. patients fall through treatment cracks and have to go to the hospital. unfortunately costs not only the patients more but costs medicare more none any. i agree something has to be done about this immediately before it becomes e...