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Changes, and the war in iraq is over and the war in afghanistan will end next year, and we are moving off of war footing, and yes, our military will be leaner, and as a nation we face difficult budget choices going forward, but here is what i want you to know. i will keep fighting to get rid of those across the board budget cuts, the sequester, which are hurting our military and economy. we need a responsible approach that deals with the fiscal challenges and keeps our military and economy strong. i will make sure you stay the greatest military in the world bar none. that's what i am fighting ...

Them. >> christine romans shows us what is at stake, why all the uncertainty. it is a rather scary situation and people are responding to fear. especially this time of year. >> a month before this -- >> trick or treat. >> reporter: these children are brewing up a scary reality in washington. call it budget helloween. here's a guide to the horror unfolding in washington, the sequester, forced budget cuts have been squeezing agency budgets and sending home some federal workers all year. it's also been a drag on the economy. that is already happening. what could happen, a government shutdown. tha...

>> the sequester, the sky was supposed to fall on the sequester and most americans look around and say i don't see the pain, the blood in the streets that i expected. is this going to be one of those, a lot of sound and fury that ultimately signifies nothing? >> certainly down there on the border i had a lot of meetings were border patrol saying they were worried about furloughs, long lines at the bridges, worried about not being paid from the u.s. attorney's office, from the probation officers. this is why we ought to be talking about the budget. we're talking about discretionary funding of $...

Questions are really bad and are damaging. this is one of the handful being misused and misread. that number is not right. it was a bad question. >> i looked at three other polls yesterday and they said the opposite, as high as 8% said we don't want to shutdown the government. >> what john described and what doug described, this is a delusion. i'm living in a delusional world. any evidence i can that feed mid self-delusion, and you take yourself over the cliff. russian roulette with five bullets. >> you don't believe the poll. >> no. the confluence of events, the sequester, the government shut...

All the senate has to do is act on the legislation. they will receive anytime plenty of time. they can send it back to us with or without the defunding provision in it. then we have to respond. but the idea that somehow simply because we sent it over there means that they'll acquiesce, again we hope they will. we think some of our senators want a opportunity. they certainly have been talk about it. let's give them that opportunity and see what they do. at the end of the day the senate will send us back a product. we'll deal with that. i think we're at the beginning of really about a 75-day neg...