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>> greta: more than a month after the sequester took effect some members of congress pledging to give back portions of their salaries like senator lindsey graham. he tweets we should lead by example. i'm cutting my pay for 20% to empathize with those furloughed due to the sequestration. >> greta: you voted against the sequester. >> i did vote against it was stupid then and it is stupid now the across the board cuts but you it is what we are living with. >> greta: you are making a cut, you andor you staff? >> the choices were really simple. we had an 11% cut in january already and then 8.2% cut...

Complicated economy. the jobless rate is a function of all sorts of things. in washington you have two big forces that are acting in opposite directions. you've got the federal reserve priming the pump and trying to keep interest rates as low as possible. at the same time you have got a pretty big austerity push in congress. even president obama's talking about cutting spending even more than we're already seeing in the sequester. so you've got these two things acting against each other and i think it will allow people to see what they want to see. if you're a republican you say it's because t...

Compromise plan. what if the republicans take it as a starting point for negotiations, not the final plan? that's a risk, but i think the white house has calculated that the only prospect for getting a kind of grand bargain that would include entitlement changes and some of the tax hikes they want is if they appeal to these more moderate republican senators. the president puts out his budget on wednesday. that night he meets with a dozen of these republican senators over dinner. if there's going to be a deal to be done, watch that dinner. >> i want you both to weigh in on this because we were ...

Economy. if the economy starts to really get bad, if we see the job numbers that were so disappointed yesterday, i think at the end of the day it's the president, whoever he is, that ends up paying the price. >> andy, your latest article is about the faa delaying the planned closure of the air-traffic control towers at the regional airports. this all stems, of course, from the sequester. what's the latest there? why the delay and how long do you think it will last? >> well, i think the faa was put in a really uncomfortable position. this is a perfect example of why the sequester is a terrible ...

Has in the post to suggest this was a routine visit or this was something that was not serious. but, again, word has been trickling out in recent days that his condition was improving. that he was released was not a big surprise. still, he's receiving a lot of medical care at his home. his home, there are doctors here, we believe. there's a lot of advanced care possible here for him. so, again, we're not saying that he is -- we don't know a lot about his medical condition is the bottom line. this is not a question where doctors give press conferences and release details. we know he is better t...