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And send home a lot of fbi investigators at a time when we need them. >> not only am i having to lose 3,000 positions, but is there a very real prospect, unless something is done, that i'm going have to send home for two weeks without pay, the good men and women who work in this building behind me and who are charged with protecting the american people. that makes no sense at all to me. >> i bet it doesn't make sense to you either. the fbi's sequester plan is based on requirements from the arbitrary cuts demanded by republicans during the absurd debate that led us to the absurd automatic seque...

They want something to work. something fundamental to work. that's the difference between washington and the states. at the state level we may want as republican governors less government but want the government we have to work. >> sam? >> you mentioned sequestration as something that goes over the head of our people but from your perspective as a governor how that policy has impacted your state, your ability to do your job? >> well, it has an impact no matter what, whether the shutdown or sequester. i remember back in february all the governors get together every year with the president and w...

Sequester plan, it is literally in bold letters. a couple of days later i was talking with mike murphy who's a fairly moderate republican strategist on twitter and he too was saying obama needs to put chained cpi on the table and we said, well, he did. and he said well, that was a gimmick, he wanted revenues in return for it. this happens a lot. the lines of communication to folks who are not in the republican party leadership are much weaker than one would expect. part of that is on the white house for not having a great congressional outreach operation. part of it is of course on members of ...

We understand tomorrow the california congressman dana ro rorhbacer will be in front senate to encourage the state department to actually act finally and try to spring the doctor free. they have been making suggest he will attempts in the background but they really have got even nowhere in the many months that have passed since he was incarcerated in pakistan, jenna. jenna: a story we'll continue to watch and follow. thank you. jon: the white house and republicans as we've been telling you are fighting over who to blame if the sequester should kick in on friday. bob woodward of "the washington...

If you're looking for the white house sequester plan, it is the first, also the second and third, all from white house.gov. here is the plan, i hold it in my hand, 1.8 trillion in deficit reduction, including 1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and medicare cuts and chained cpi, which will cut medicare benefits. and that is a 2-1 ratio, you can read it right here in the president's budget for fiscal year 2013. pages 23 to 46, they're a little bit boring to read, i agree. there is a plan, multiple formats. i can look it up on the internet, i agree, i don't want to spend my weekend reading. that is w...