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You'll get some kind of deal on that i think to avert it. >> you think for sure coming in august? >> yes. >> right, but i think it's -- it's not going to be the grand bargain. it's not going to be -- >> i agree with you. >> -- the let's sit down and really plan this out. >> okay. can we take a look at the latest jobs report because it was pretty weak, and i'd like us to take a listen to what one of my colleagues at cnbc said. >> if we have another bad year and if unemployment doesn't come down, it's going to be demagogue. it's going to be sequester and it's going to be that the republicans won...

The dow did close at a lower point, and wall street wasn't the only one scrambling. a lot of economists were scrambling to make these other revisions to the economy. they had anticipated growth being at about 3% for the year. they've revised it down to 2.2%. >> so what are the sectors that have lost or gained jobs? >> well, there are two sectors. it was retail and manufacturing. now, retail, they didn't add jobs. they added -- they actually declined jobs about 24,000 of them, and also manufacturing, they decreased jobs about 3,000. and really analysts are saying that might have something to do...

Been a slow improvement. i'll have that report at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. we'll see if the sequester, the timing of easter, the cold weather, all these things that economists and market watchers look at closely to see how they play in the numbers. >> this is like live sports coverage of financial breaking news. this is my own ncaa tournament. no good film is too long, no bad movie is short enough. words of incredible wisdom from legendary film critic roger ebert who died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. ebert became a household name after reviews films on television. last night ric...

Being affected the most? >> almost every sect juror showed slower growth or job losses last month. professional and businesses services rose by 51,000 jobs, education and health jumped by 44,000. but manufacturing dropped by 3,000. retail jobs fell by 24,000. maybe because of that -- in part because of the 2% increase in payroll taxes on january 1st. that might have trimmed some consumer spending. construction added 18,000 jobs, but that was much less than the 50,000 jobs that it had added in february. economists say the report will keep the federal reserve pedal to the metal to push interest ...

Implemented for medicare and no one thought it would cut the fixed drug costs in terms of that. practices are are deciding what do they do now and it as real dilemma. >> greta: all of these medicare patients paid taxes for decades. they have been good citizens and expected their medicare and congress said when they passed all these laws that they weren't going to lay a glove on o the medicare. in the sequester they weren't going to lay a glove on the medicare but they were so stupid the way they wrote that how to they are hurting the medicare patients. there is a solution if they would exempt ...