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We're seeing the sequester hit poor people particularly hard. some of the people affected will testify before congress next week in a hearing on the state of the american dream. joining me now from portland, oregon, is diedre, who will be testifying before the senate subcommittee on economic policy on wednesday. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> so you work for two on one which is a human services hotline, is that right? >> yes. >> tell me both from your own experiences and from what you've been hearing from your callers, what you're going to tell congress on wednesday. >> hmm, well, ...

Americans are being negatively affected by the cuts which is up from 25% in march. things are getting worse. and not too many in washington seem to care or even notice. i'm joined by someone who does care, congressman keith ellison, democrat from minnesota. good afternoon, sir. >> good to be here, martin. thank you for having me. >> it's a pleasure. 37% of americans are feeling negatively affected by sequester cuts with 18% feeling a major impact, and yet the only thing congress will act on are flight delays? will congress only act to remedy those things which effect wealthy, powerful individu...

The days following the deadly terror attack. a member of the house committee leading the investigation joins us live moments from now. and the federal government wants you, it wants to offer you a job, hundreds of them are available. what about the sequester cuts, all that mandatory belt-tightening? you have to hear this one to believe it. i'm in my work van, having lunch,

>> she found out in june 2011 and put a stop to it. but the letters didn't go out until march of 2012. we still had clients getting the letters may 26th asking for facebook into and social media and the list goes on. >> the a clj is planning to foil a lawsuit on behalf of the tea party clients next week. >> a lot of people learned they were not going to see pay. it was all furlough friday. >> the irs ammees were forced to take friday off without pay because of the federal sequester cuts. they got a federal holiday week woke. no word on if lois lerner was included and also lost a pay. >> but ag...

Days ago. i believe we need to get to the bottom of it. just don't throw apples at the top if you have no evidence to support it. and in the hearing today, there was no such evidence. we should have a nonpartisan hearing, not look for political points. >> okay. thank you very much. coming up, the scandal that wasn't benghazi. thomas pickering handles the investigation. this afternoon he learned he's been subpoenaed to testify in private next week about his investigation. he'd prefer to talk in public. tonight, we'll give him the chance. also, republican s are gleeful n their outrage over the...