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It was community people. >> reporter: two weeks ago a major blow her kids like dozens of others in columbus would be staying home all because of the sequester. those deep across the board spending cuts that forced federal programs like head start to cutback. in columbus that meant holding a lottery to see which students would stay or go. her children's names didn't get picked. >> she's reading off the names and you're praying for her to read your name. she hasn't said my name yet. you get down to the end of the name and they tell you that's it. it's a shock. it's a shock. >> reporter: administ...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the supervision of a physician. so we have our cancer centers in our communities. they're going to be the ones...

The clinics blame the sequester cuts. now one republican congresswoman is trying to reverse the cuts. representative rene elmore joins us. nice to see you. >> to be with you, greta. >> greta: the sequester has basically cut off for some, from community centers, medicare patients who are getting chemotherapy. >> basically what it did is an unintended consequence of sequester, where medicare cuts, 2%, were put in place, but these drugs, chemotherapy agents, have to be administered under the supervision of a physician. so we have our cancer centers in our communities. they're going to be the ones...

Go back to fort bragg for a minute. aapparently it has to do with the overtime costs. they are saying that the overtime costs can run more than $120,000. they are not reimbursable. the federal rules prohibit donations from covering those costs. surely people would come to the table, because everyone likes to have a fourth of july celebration. >> steve: so we told you about the thunderbirds, the blue angels all canceled. a couple of nights, justin timberlake -- >> brian: it went on planned. >> steve: it did. but the white house tours have been so concluded because of the sequester. we'll show a...

They can't consider that, they can't nullify. that's the law. the jury is not allowed to do it. they did it any way. >> in that case they did it any way which is a good thing. >>gretchen: some people would say in recent cases they have seen, o.j. simpson, casey anthony, they felt the system was flawed in the reverse way. >> you know what is interesting, that was an unpopular verdict in both of those cases, the one thing true in both of those cases, the jurors were sequestered, they were not privy to what was going on in the media storm around them. they acquitsed those people because they were...