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Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. what's going to happen? >> well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. let's look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alternatives. they on their own authority could take two percent of their budget for consultants. they ...

Somewhat careful. they've got a lot of things to sift through. i'm sure, you know, there are thousands and thousandis of phone records that the fbi will have to deal with and you know, i think the other thing we have to recognize is the fbi had their budget cut significantly over the last couple years, $520 million, and that's before the sequestration cuts. we have to cut them slack because they are dealing with issues with reduced resources. >> congressman, as you point out, it is good and natural we good through the time line here. we look at how the fbi and potentially cia information they ...

Investing in infrastructure. that's where the job creation can lead to. and those sequestration cuts were haphazard. i would rather see them target in now. not just 20 years from now. target them now but do them in a much more sophisticated way. >> i want to turn to a different issue that has been in the news this week. that's the problem of sexual assault and rape in the military. and secretary hagel has come out and said he wants to change the ability of generals to be abe to overturn a conviction for rape and for other offenses which is an important institutional change. but when i'm lookin...

Time of economic distress and particularly when the president is talking about sequestration. and can i rant? you had footage of him up there earlier. he called it the reckless sequestration cuts. do we have to remind it was your idea? if you think it's so bad why did you come up with the idea in the first place and sign it in law if it was such a bad lie. why were you so reckless in proposing it? >> the media will never ask him. this is the next $8.2 trillion in new debt. that's a budget? that's what he proposed today. >> look, this was not a serious effort. you know, he had one -- there was ...

And head start programs due to federal funding cuts spurred by sequestration. for those folks, today bringing no effect in policy. places like food finders food bank are expecting a 5% drop thanks to cuts in the community development block grant program. nothing happened today to change that. there are local news stories like these across the can country and all because of sequestration. automatic austerity. it doesn't e there. because other sequestration cuts place a greater demand on the nonprofit. 4 million meals to seniors. 600,000 women, infant and children from wic program. those people ...