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Benefits will be cut. wowndersed warriors will -- wounded warriors will see cuts in their benefits. it could cost $24,000 over a long 24-year period. bill: do civilian workers face the same cuts? >> reporter: no, they do not. some of the cuts under the sequester rule will be restored but the cuts to the military are still in place. they are saying you are doing this budget on the backs of the military. bill: do you expect this to pass? it appears that it will. it's a two-year deal on the budget. you can argue it's good for stability but it does nothing to go after that $20 trillion in debt. >>...

September. cammeron, real quick now, chaos at the airports. air traffic controllers being laid off or whatever. and then the senate had to step in and celine it up. who is the villain? >> bureaucrats and obama administration political appointees. got to remember though, bill. the automatic cuts were designed to be painful to so the implementers were told they this it across the board and couldn't lessen the pain. the obama administration warned people since february air traffic controllers one day two weeks. atlanta, chicago and there would be delays and they made sure it was going to happen t...

Weeks. atlanta, chicago and there would be delays and they made sure it was going to happen that way. >> bill: you believe they didn't have to do that. they wanted to do it because then people get teed off and be mad at the republicans. >> and the sequester rule, the automatic cuts said so. there were plenty of other options. they could have gone to the f.a.a. and had it shift some of the money within 800-million-dollar operating budget as some agencies in the government did in advance of it. there were at least three bills proposed in most cases bipartisan that would have given the f.a.a. and...

>> gene clyburn was on with chuck todd and he indicated there might be some give on the democratic side for a change with sequester rule if republicans were open to that. let's watch this. >> we ought to all sit down and find out a way to make sure we're going to raise taxes on middle income people, that working people can continue to be a part of this governmental process. and if it calls for redoing the sequester, that is something we might ought to look at. >> so, is that something the president would look at, redoing the sequester and somehow negotiating a deal on the payroll tax? there's ...