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Moore. i just wanted to be clear. what we're talking about armageddon is not the way on friday leaving aside these cuts, it's fraction of a percent when you come to think of it $3.8 trillion budget, but half of those cuts are in outer years. then i wanted to think about the latitude that that has been given the president of united states to not enact the onerous cuts. he has much broader powers to make them a little less sensitive. don't go after the beef inspectors, maybe the department of agriculture, go in those installing picket fences on federal lands. you get my point. these are numbers....

We made a good case that this was a flawed candidate. he's my secretary and yours. i wish him well. as a matter of fact, the first thing i want to do under sequestration is give the secretary of defense and the president of the united states the flexibility under the overall cap to move money around and make the sequestration cuts as painless and less disruptive as possible. >> well, do you think that the confirmation battle weakened him and do you have any regrets about the way that confirmation battle was undertaken by his critics? >> i think we made an honorable case. i still believe his pr...

Angry and frustrated that they don't seem to articulate their pointed or win a national election. >> bill: and and you say mary katherine? >> i am not ashamed and i don't think it does any good to be ashamed. it's fair to be discouraged. the sequestration cuts is a pretty good reason to be if you are somebody concerned about spending and both sides of the aisle you've got people freaking out about this cut that amounts to less than 1 month's deficit from last year, think i when you look at that equation and coming up ahead and how many cuts need to be made and how much we actually have to do a...

And seeing social issues in particular. >> bill, the country is changing. you ask conservatives today in polls about gays and gay marriage and they say, it's just not as upsetting to them as generation ago. in california today, that amendment was defeated by conservatives who didn't like it. >> bill: conservatives and black americans but african-americans overwhelmingly. now their voted is going to be nullified. >> let me finish this point in response to mary katherine and to rush, i don't think it is the case that americans are uninformed or ill educated about sequestration cuts. i think they...

Would haven't if we had a republican president? we would haven't a sequest tration issue. we would have spending cuts and entitlement cuts. we wouldn't worry what happened two days from now whether or not it will be four hours or 14 hours. we wouldn't having this fight, bob. it would be done. >> bob: we no polls that republicans are taking heat for sequest tration. >> eric: stop it. >> bob: it's not up fair. >> eric: president obama came up with sequestration. >> bob: i understand that. but public perception the republicans take the hit. today they will let 200,000 go for immigration -- >> eri...