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The 20 necessary for retirement benefit. i asked if there was some transition for my tri care to blue cross blue shield and they said no. you are out of the service. your coverage is over. thanks for your 16 years. go blank yourself. navy released this statement saying we take seriously the safety and security of our people, as well as our responsibility to assist sailors making a transition to civilian life. without more information about this particular case it would be difficult to term the degree of the transition program succeeded. author of that article is on hannity tonight. the world's...

President obama knows this and set to expire is the bush era tax cuts . what impact will this have on the military? >> it will have an across the board impactit sequestration is so bad. we'll get across the board training to maintenance and to the next weapon system and on base things provided for families and tri-care. it hits everything. secretary panetta called it a meat axe. our readiness will be stunted by sequestration . it is bad policy. >> clayton: republicans agreed to it. you agree and say this is never going to happen. because we will get this thing done . now eight days done. is it...

The fiscal cliff happen. they might try to separate out any changes to entitlements such as medicare, which the president agreed to consider and many on the left vigorously opposed. >> the thing that is driving the horrendous deficit and debt problem are the federal healthcare programs. medicare, medicaid, tri care and related medical health programs. >> future deficits only make tax cuts even more contentious. any bill that permanently increases the deficit requires 60 votes in the senate. and these days, anything with the word "tax" in it, makes it hard to round up 60 votes. bret? >> bret: d...

Behind the table. >> thank you. >> any time. >> i thought the piece you wrote for the post was really spot on in terms of just looking at some of the impact these cuts would have on veterans that i think a lot of people don't realize. can you tell us about that? >> sure. obviously you mentioned the $11 billion. republicans have had a long history, even under george bush, where they underfunded the va and they had to crawl back to congress and ask for another billion dollars. they've always had a long history. when we were trying to pass the gi bill, six republicans even voted against the gi bi...

What's inside of you when this happened? >> thank you, lord. that says it all, when i saw that, moose was right here. now what it's like to set beside your boy, sorry, but to set beside of your boy going through that and to know him, and to know that his brothers and sisters he fought with are still fighting the same fight. my heart goes out in appreciate to governor romney. i hope if he makes it to be our presidential candidate that he makes this an issue, you know, we're still fighting the war over there. >> yeah. >> and this administration doesn't talk about it. when is the last time you he...