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For the muslim brotherhood in the middle east and is not concerned about have your -- >> i think with mccain he likes this impulsiveness, he likes his ego being stroked. but the sequester cuts, half of them come out of the defense budget. idea when the sequester was conceived was that it was supposed to be so terrible for both the right and the left that it could never be allowed to become law. then the compromise was struck, was no, nobody can come up with anything they like better so we'll let it become law and that's acceptable to a lot of people on the hill but it is really unacceptable to...

Veterans of america joins us from minneapolis. pete, we already knew sequester funding would be hitting the military hardest. what's the latest with the pharmacies? >> you're going to see reduced hours, reduced access and maybe less days of the week they're going to have access to. also you've got these furloughs. a lot of d.o.d. civilian employees aren't working on fridays now going forward. this is the type of thing you're going to see when you eindiscriminate across-the-board sequester cuts. it rolls downhill to the soldiers, the d.o.d. civilian on that post training every day or working ev...

Following the sequester cuts. >> there are civilians back here day in, day out sent the servicemembers off to combat, taken care of families while they're deployed and reintegrating into installations. to ask them to sacrifice again is personally very painful for me to do that. >> and tough for these employees. that amounts to 20% pay cut for 11 weeks, bill. bill: i heard that harley. the defense department is not acting broke, dan. still buying land around that base, is it not? >> well, that's the amazing thing. the dod and other federal agencies are spending right now $12 million to buy land...

Job. >> did you take special precautions? >> absolutely. >> you knew the verdict would be coming down. you moved people in place to keep a lid on things. >> absolutely. we have great sheriffs and -- >> any suggestion the lid would blow? i hate to put it like that. >> we're a state -- it's challenging but we have had challenges in our state, and we -- law enforcement did a good job, the pastors did a good job, the communities did a good job. >> okay. let me turn to the issue of the national guard. i believe they're going to be followed because of sequester cuts in your state just as hurricane s...

Jobs. i mean, this is crazy. you know as well as i do that proper fiscal consolidation done in the appropriate way can have a very positive impact on the income -- on the economy. >> the other side of the coin is that the sequester cuts were meant to shrink the deficit and they have played a role in shrinking the deficit. not going to be a trillion dollar this year. it will be $600 billion and change. the sequester cuts were part of the narrowing down of the deficit. so you could say that sequester cuts had a good effect on the deficit and maybe you could say that if we cut some more we would ...