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It's a kick in the teeth -- he is an amazing and upsetting single story about life in the united states during our long, grinding an unnecessary austerity era, but there are thousands of other americans who do or will have similar stories. another story details 100 examples of current or impending cuts caused by the sequester. everything from housing assistance being slashed in texas to research jobs being cut in durham, north carolina. so the question is, why doesn't washington seem to care about any of them? joining me at the table, heather mcghee, the vice president at the public policy org...

Sequester. but many others apparently will. no meanwhile, the president is talking about spending more of the money supposedly in such short supply. here is chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> president obama announced today he wants to spend 100 million of your tax dollars as just a down payment on a massive project to map the human brain and find cures for dreaded brain disorders. saying the dividends will be far greater and declaring we could lose a generation of scientists if the sequester slashes government research too deeply. >> that's why it's so important that we think about ...

Tots a visit in the white house and opening the border and it turned out look they are spending $3.5 trillion a year and you can't have a tour of the white house and you have to end up laying off the border security people? it's absurd. so the blame was headed the administration's way and thus the pots of gold all of a sudden have been discovered in every agency in government. it's easter miracle. >> bret: today, steve, jay carney said other things can be done, changes. the furloughs can be changed. mean meanwhile, you know, just weeks ago there was no flexibility. none. >> this is the story. ...

Before. >> i think it's willed am nearby. the real story. ed henry is being cynical. the story first clip of the secretary saying we are going to have to cut the border patrol and today they discovered in the headquarters of dhs a pot of gold that had been there the whole time they didn't know where it was. it was discovered like last week. and they now are able to fund the border security: look, it's very obvious what happened here. in the experience in the past when there have been shutdowns or threats of shutdowns, republicans took the blame. that was in the 1990s with the government shutdo...

Exaggerating the sequester? let me know on twitter. follow me on bret baier. tomorrow we will select one of your twitter questions for the panel tomorrow night. taking your money to pay for a sex change for a convicted murderer? that's later in the grapevine. up next. north korea ups the ante in the nuclear weapons game. ♪