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The cabinet secretaries have authority to move money around. on furloughs, the government required to give most workers a 30-day notice if they're furloughed. if the sequester goes into effect march 1, no furloughs until april 1. >> a lot of people wonder, when you talk about automatic cuts, are we talking about cuts to the budget or talking about smaller increases in budget numbers? i think that matters to folks at home. also, what will it take to get a bipartisan resolution before march 1? >> that's a a great question. the answer is it's the latter. it's a cut in the increase of spending for...

Are not touched. these are selective cuts, and are triggered across the board and they have been offered for flexibility so we do not -- the president is running around predicting a situation that it will be fearmongerring situation. they are not interested in this. this is all about politics. the problem is, only one side is beingix] that is the president. >> but the governors are turning the corner if most of their states and you can hear their frustration. their economies are starting to stablize but with the stabilizing, when the sequestration cuts take place, it can spend them back into a...

He's won a success term and he can't run again as president of the united states. he has a chance to do something good for this country to find ways to get past this -- this impasse and to look as congressman sestak says, at ways to wisely cut the deficit where you look for ways to wisely cut spending and to see where this revenue actually works and to come to an agreement with republicans right now who may be standing in the way of an agreement so we can actually get this thing done. >> if he can get this done, whether he's popular or not it would be a great thing for the united states of ame...

I think the republican conference needs to use its majority to control spending and it seems like historically -- i've only been here about a month and a half -- but historically seems like everytime the president comes to the table we tax increases we as republicans vote for it, and i think it's important, given we know we have an exceptionally liberal and aggressive president, who is committed to tax increases at every turn. it's important for us to use our majority to prevent him from doing that. >> neil: you will use the sequestration cuts that automatically go in effect as the lesser of t...

That tomorrow, but unfortunately it looks like we're going to go to the brink once again, but we've passed legislation in the house to change the sequestration cuts. >> i don't think anybody would disagree with you on trying to shore up where waste is spent through our government. one thing i do want to get you on the report, is talking about governor rick scott and the fact he's done this turnaround on the affordable health care act and what that means to florida yanks, also what it means to how the press coverage of rick scott has been. saying this is just another this is everest wilkinson c...