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The sequester. >> what did "the new york times" say? an editorial for the "the new york times" takes republicans to task for criticizing cuts. the faa cuts but not the other sequester cuts that reads in part this. you don't see any republican hashtags for cutting housing vouchers to 140,000 low income families. >> oh, god! just stop! >> despite the cuts only amount to 4%. faa budget only 10% cut for the air traffic controllers. we said this yesterday, willie, this is unsustainable to make americans stand in the long lines at airports. >> or have their flight canceled

Republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep, immediate cuts, on top by the way. of cuts that we already made two years ago. very deep cuts, but cuts that are manageable. but our republican colleagues said we got to keep the sequester in place, their budget calls for a doubling of the sequester cuts in the areas of the budget we're talking about. the faa, the fbi, national institutes of health. the best way that mitch mcconnell and republicans can help us deal with this, is to support our legislation that would re...

At the airports. what can be done? >> well, it does, andrea, these sequester cuts, deep and immediate, across-the-board cuts were bound to have an impact. it was never going to be the fact that the sky was going to fall the day after the sequester took place. but what we're seeing now and will continue to see is the slow grind on the economy. disruption at places like airports and according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, 750,000 fewer american jobs at the end of the year. how do we deal with it? we should replace the sequester with a more targeted, smart way to reduce the defi...

Or anything else. nobody said excuse me, i don't get paid for this. have you seen anyone get on-line and say sorry, today's my furlough day? >> he chucked it out on the table. >>brian: why didn't he propose something? >> any negative that comes down the pike over the past mont or so has been linked to sequester. two weeks ago we got bad jobs numbers. the left said it's the sequester cuts. that was absolute nonsense. but they chucked it on the table. they had politicized it. they brought sequester in. they're going by president obama's play book. when the sequester cuts came in he said the sky ...

Politicized, but it's so soon. >> yes, it is. this is the direct politicization on an outrage, an attack on america. i personally think it's wrong to do that. maybe it is inevitable but i personally think that it's wrong. now you have to ask the question: did the sequester cuts, did that in fact affect our intelligence-gathering capability, which impeded before the boston happening? is that what happened? did sequester affect our intelligence capability? obviously we don't know, but steny hoyer is implying directly that. he chucked it out on the table. he politicized a national outrage. >>bria...