jon: we are in the control room with brand-new stories coming your way over the next 15 minutes, including stories about the people not being able to visit the white house. automatic budget cuts have caused this according to the administration, but some republicans are calling it petty politics. there may be signs of a major winter storm dumping on the capital city. and this donut shop worker knows just how to get rid of a one of the robber. we have the details and all of that as happening now starts right now. jon: one of the first and most visible casualties of this
think, in o reilly s circumstance. no, he s a very busy man, you re absolutely right, but i wonder what he was doing in the summer of 2011 when the president first put out his plan to avert these ideas of automatic budget cuts through the sequester. the president and the white house has been sort of trying to pitch this plan and let people know what they wanted to do, and it s been out there, but you keep having republicans repeatedly say, they won t tell us what they want to do and they won t give us a plan. and in the same day, by the way, it s not just the president, you had john boehner insisting the senate won t act when, in fact, harry reid keeps trying to bring sequester replacement bills to the floor, and mitch mcconnell keeps filibustering them. even republican wons. so, you know, we have this situation where you can say whatever you want, i suppose, to your own base, and they can convince republicans that nothing s being done by democrats, but reality just keeps intruding a
word explain these things to you is very unlikely, i would think, in o reilly s circumstance. no, he s a very busy man, you re absolutely right, but i wonder what he was doing in the summer of 2011 when the president first put out his plan to avert these ideas of automatic budget cuts through the sequester. the president and the white house has been sort of trying to pitch this plan and let people know what they wanted to do, and it s been out there, but you keep having republicans repeatedly say, they won t tell us what they want to do and they won t give us a plan. and in the same day, by the way, it s not just the president, you had john boehner insisting the senate won t act when, in fact, harry reid keeps trying to bring sequester replacement bills to the floor, and mitch mcconnell keeps filibustering them. even republican wons. so, you know, we have this situation where you can say whatever you want, i suppose, to your own base, and they can convince republicans that nothing s
hardest and when next hour. well, new fallout in the budget showdown as president obama campaigns against his very own budget idea that the white house proposed and he signed into law. in interviews with local tv stations, the president railed against congress warning against the impact s automatic budget cuts will have on this country if congress does not head them off by this week. this is a problem that congress can solve. and the automatic cuts put back into place in 2011 were designed to get congress to actually avoid them by coming together with more sensible approaches to deficit reduction. megyn: you remember, this is a plan the president and his team came up with. and then back in 2011, actually the congress did submit to him, the republicans submitted a different plan to try to avoid the sequester and the president has a very different message in the wake of that. already some in congress are trying to undo these
hi, everyone, i m tamron hall the newsnation is following what it calls the choice for republicans with automatic budget cuts. joined by first responders, president obama, step one in sequester in game. once again using that bully pulpit and power of persuasion to call on congress to act. saying the jobs of emergency workers, military and even teachers are on the line. my door is open. i put tough cuts and reforms on the table. i m willing to work with anybody to get this job done. none of us will get 100% of what we want. but nobody should want these cuts to go through, because the last thing our families can afford right now is pain imposed unnecessarily by partisan