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Out of work. and there will be more suffering where there needs to be recovery. >> what do you see as the way out of this? in congress since the republicans won control of the house and were sworn in 2011, we've had these repeated trips to the brink, whether it's the debt ceiling fights or the government shutdown fights and now this sequester fight. all of them coming to the 11th hour that weren't imposed from the country without, but were designed crises. how do we get out of it? >> manufactured crises. well, we get out of it politically when people go to the polls in 2014, we need a democrat...

Cuts will be fake, phony and won't happen. the main appeal is it's already law and it will happen. that is why they do nothing. >> bret: next up, the politics of the sequester fight. stay with us. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire.

For a body in motion. ♪ i'm bret baier in washington. big story, what some republicans call scare tactics to add pressure over the sequester. to on "special report," we are days away from implementation in cuts in the rate of government spending increases. the white house is warning national security could be impacted. whenever the sequester fight is settled, another budget battle begins. funding for the government runs out in late march and there could be a shutdown. also the debt ceiling limit will be reached in mid-may. the government talks about increasing taxes, 14 states voted in the l...

Sequestration is really harming our states and our national economy. >> the sequester was put in place to be a hammer, not a policy. now here we are just a week away. find another way to do it and get it done now. >> arizona, choose. we've got raytheon there. we don't know exactly what that will do. we've got the federal government over there in my opinion not doing their job. >> i think there should be a limbed government but i done like random changes. if you look at my budget, i didn't do across-the-board cuts. a lot of times politicians say 10%. i didn't do that. another example of how t...

Caucus to support any of his own proposed bills. he is the guy who is bringing in members to work really hard only 126 days this year. he is the elected leader who doesn't care if republicans lose their job and americans lose their jobs. >> if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. we're broke. it's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money. >> so on one hand, they say that the president doesn't want the make cuts, but now that we're coming down to the wire, they're blaming him for the sequester when 174 republicans voted on it. does it sound like everythin...