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Friday. the polls are are showing the president shares some of the blame for the crisis. his approval rating dipped from 51% to 49%. and even as senate minority leader mitch mcconnell downplayed the seriousness of the cuts calling them modest, a top white house aide said nobody wins with the automatic across-the-board budget slashing. >> this is not a win for republicans. republicans are supposed to be for strong iser national defense. this cuts our military preparedness dramatically. they are supposed to be for border security. the sequester cuts will end up meaning enough reduction in hours ...

Market. >> politics could get in the way of being able to eat the foods we like to eat. >> if this happens, the prices could go up a little bit at first but it is just the product that will not be available. >> with no agreement from congress the automatic spending cuts will kick in this friday. >> troops are being kicked out of a province in afghanistan that is strategic. karzai giving them two weeks to leave an area that has been the primary focus for counterinsurgency operations. the decision comes following allegations that afghans working alongside the american troops have been killing an...

Short term solutions. this particular solution, this sequestration allows both sides to have the melt down that they have been jockeying for and it is less impactful than a government shut down and probably less than breaching the debt ceiling. it is a managed risk here. i don't know that i agree with senator coburn that it is an entirely made up problem but i do think that it is something that is less impactful than a lot of the other fiscal debates that we have had. >> as is frequently the case in washington, d.c. the blame game. bob woodward writing the automatic spending cuts were initiate...

Infrastructure. those will be crowded out, because those, a big portion of the spending is committed to programs for older people. and if those grow on the -- at the rate that they have been growing it will squeeze out almost everything else. >> and one of the other dangers about that, too, aside from the automatic programs like medicare is that we can do reduction in a dumb way, instead of cutting tax expenditures and cutting in health care, we cut deep into things like education. and the sequester, which seems more likely to go into effect than i think anybody thought months ago, the sequest...

Science as you mentioned and infrastructure. those will be crowded out, because those, a big portion of the spending is committed to programs for older people. and if those grow on the -- at the rate that they have been growing it will squeeze out almost everything else. >> and one of the other dangers about that, too, aside from the automatic programs like medicare is that we can do reduction in a dumb way, instead of cutting tax expenditures and cutting in health care, we cut deep into things like education. and the sequester, which seems more likely to go into effect than i think anybody th...