0 >>brian: opportunist for republicans. you track chuck schumer down there and a couple of democrats and say let's take a look and there is a woman scaling the fence. chuck schumer said you can read, study and talk about this. until you see things it doesn't become reality. i will explain this to my colleagues. many say why do we need to do anything more on the border? >>gretchen: i also read quotes from him that said he wasn't sure how he was going to handle this and it was probably drug-related and there were other kinds of reasoning. >>steve: he also said i learned today we have adequate manpower, schumer said but not adequate technology. john mccain has been saying that all along. also janet napolitano said the border is as secure today as it has ever been, which is extraordinary. here's the thing, though. so what, the woman was caught by i.c.e. she is going to get released any way. that happens all the time. >>brian: i don't know the individual situation, but i will say this. the president spoke to two spanish-language stations yesterday and he says he's optimistic as are the gang of eight that there will be a draft of a piece of legislation by april 8, and he could be signing something by the end of the summer. the sticking point is going to be how do you essentially say by the power vested in me the border is secure? the president is going to say and republicans like john mccain will say it clearly isn't. they certainly should come up with a recipe for declaring it secure. >>gretchen: especially when you factor in what sequester is going to be doing to border patrol. apparently going to be cutting 20% of the force because of the sequester and in april they are going to unveil this legislation. agents will be forced to leave the border unmanned and work within the shift time constraints. they will not work overtime because of sequester. charles payne last night said he's a little bit skeptical. >> i'm skeptical about the motive. if there isn't anywhere else on the budget of this huge department constructing headquarters for years and euros now, where i'm sure a lot of money ends up in the concrete, can you imagine how much ends up wasted in that huge department? don't tell me the money is unshiftable. the republicans offered to give the administration the power to move the money around. obama has said he not only won't do it, but he would veto a bill that allowed him to shift the money around. this is clearly a stunt to get people to hurt at the receiving end of services like the border patrol, like the white house tours and to blame it on republicans. it's not going to work. >>steve: what they're going to do is they're cutting 20%. what that means is no more ten-hour shifts. people go up to eight hours. and no overtime. for two hours our american border is going to not be protected. so we're not spending money on protecting our border and ultimately our national sovereignty, but instead we're spending millions and millions and millions of dollars on federal employees who simply do not show up for work or are paid to be on stand by. tom coburn, the senator from the great state of oklahoma, made this clear. >>brian: tom coburn said there's people getting paid just to so-called stand by. you're talking about a two-year cost of $13.1 million, people just hired to stand by in case something happens. you would think in times like this those people who have to stand by would stand down. here's what tom coburn put in writing. says it makes little sense to furlough air traffic controllers and border patrol agents while retaining employees who are awol or standing by, not performing duties or sitting idle awaiting security clearances. he goes out to list it and the numbers are flatout staggering. what everyone is doing, i think it's flatout laziness. i know the continuing resolutions allow people additional flexibility to help out with the pentagon cuts. but if someone said i've got a better idea. i'm not going to furlough my guys and my women. >>gretchen: it starts from the top. i think if any of us was given the duty of or the opportunity, i should say, of being able to lead and being able to have congress say to the president of the united states, you can have the power to look through everything you're in charge of in this nation and you can check off what you want to cut, that seems to me that -- i would love that opportunity to be able to finally put to rest some of this waste that has been pulling this country down for decades. and yet, i think the headlines here being lost in the shuffle is that president obama has basically said, no, i'll take a pass on that. i don't want that leadership opportunity. that, to me, is stunning. >>steve: because the republicans offered it to him, and he said if you give it to me, i'm going to veto it. meanwhile it looks as if the administration is backing away in part on part of the scare-quester. we told you about how because of the scare-quester military tuition assistance was being scaled back. now you can actually thank a couple of u.s. senators -- james inhofe, a republican from oklahoma and kay hagan, a democrat from north carolina -- because they were able to get the money back in there. it is now going forward. you don't have to worry about that. >>gretchen: a new york senator, a former military guy, was instrumental in trying to do that at least at the state level. that is great to know that is happening federally. furlough days being cut from 22 days to 14. that was a huge chunk of federal employees' paycheck suddenly gone. now that is 22 to 14 days. to say i'm enjoying your child so much. you have to lie. >>steve: that is a union boss laughing about lying to parents. we're going to tell you about that story. >>gretchen: a u.n. rule should keep guns away from terrorists but could it take away yours as well? 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