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The cost of furloughs brought on by the sequester. that was after tens of thousands of flights experienced light to heavy delays, on-time arrivals dropped by nearly 10% across the country. according to an airline industry group, airlines lost about $6 million a day from the cost of the delays. the faa expects all systems to be completely back to normal by sunday evening. president obama had planned to sign the relief into law immediately. a spelling error has delayed it until today. you have to get those copies correct. new polling out that points to a major drop in support for a number of sen...

Frankly aren't as critical as some of the other issues that are being hurt by the sequester. >> david, the president really addressed what he feels the gop lawmakers are really worried about in these budget cuts. because one has to say, how can they have a blind eye to how this impacts regular, ordinary people and those that are depending on some of these things? here's what the president said is what they're really worried about. >> they're worried about their politics. it's tough. their base thinks that compromise with me is somehow a betrayal. they're worried about primaries. and i understa...

But to get out of the sequester they would have to agree to some degree of tax revenue increases and give up some of their tax cuts for the wealthy. >> right. >> and as you know, as we've seen now, when it comes to this calculation, the republicans are generally saying, you know, pentagon cuts, you know, taxes for the rich, we'll go with pentagon cuts. because we don't care about head start, meals on wheels, public defenders. you know, federal parks and all that. we never cared to -- cared about that in the beginning. so this is where the president thought he was trying to hit them with a hamm...

Surprise that congress is held in such contempt when members won't bat an eyelid if the elderly, as you say, lose 4 million meals won wheels, or 100,000 children lose their places under head-start. but if you delay house majority leader eric cantor at the airport, then he will pass legislation quicker than he pockets money from the nra. >> well, martin, there's no doubt about it. look, all these members of congress were leaving the capitol for a week to go home when we should be here working on fixing the entire sequester. and, in fact, four times this year i've offered an alternative to the s...

I'm an optimistic person, and i'm hopeful. but i think it's going to take a lot more of what he did today. frankly, the republican position on the sequester has been dizzying. at first they hated it. it was a sledge ma'hammer. it was going to be devastate ing. then they decided they liked it. now they decided these parts of it they don't like and they're going to blame the president for that piece. i think he really has to keep highlighting what the sequester means not just to air travel, but to a whole gamut of really important as much ass. as you pointed out in the lead, i think this is so i...