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What we saw with the world war ii vets, now the death benefits can't be paid though top administration officials knew about it. we are learning more facts that are raising eyebrows for some. >> it reminds you of what happened when the sequester hit. remember that? and the white house tours were shut down and how it backfired. one might have thought the president and his team would have recognized as this situation approached that with the public's habit of blaming republicans for a government shutdown -- republicans are the party that's less enthusiastic about government -- that they would han...

After the other. and every time you give them something, they don't stop. they come back and take another person. and now this time they brought the hostages into the middle of the village and threatening to blow the village up. you can't negotiate. it seems that the president's position is untenable, because he doesn't want to default. this is clear. but if you give in again, having as you pointed out, already given on the numbers, already given on the idea of debt and deficits. deficits are already following. what's to stop them from not taking yet another hostage again and again, and this j...

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, ...

Seniors are delivered meals on time. it is another example of how americans are doing what the government apparently cannot. joining me from tallahasee, florida is the president and c.e.o. good morning to you, sir. i know this issue has been near and dear to your heart, this issue of making sure seniors do not go hungry. tell me about how the sequester hit your program in florida. >> we anticipated at the end of the year that we were going to have a problem, so in january we prepared by taking a line of credit so that we had money in the bank when it happened. we had heard we were going to tak...

$50 million worth of new uniforms a week before sequester hit and parties at the white house usin use taxpar money. trying to do whatever to hurt the most people and it is not a fair approach to handle this. >> greta: a lot of people object to it because it doesn't allow us to use a scalpel and determine what is more important than other things. how come this group of people are exempted? i realize a hiring freeze but why aren't they getting a cut like everyone else is? >> that is a great question. what happened in the process, no furloughs but yet remember they cut and stopped the enrollment ...