firefighters. there won t be any cops and not once, folks, we re now into the 7th or 8th episode of this in the last two years. the president s using his bully pulpit and he s scaring people and bringing out the voices and you unleashing his cabinet to do the whole dog and pony show around the country. the indiscriminate deep cuts will affect everyone, really, in america. travelers should expect delays. be it this, the questionster, be it the fiscal cliff argument. be it one of arguments over raising the debt limit. in each case, we ve been forced to refute a bunch of out and out ridiculous lies. the president is making stuff up. he puts law enforcement, he puts firemen and policemen, who 98% of them are paid for with your local taxes and say you re going to lose your local policemen because of this. it s not true. and while all of this is happening, while all of these allegations, austerity, what we re actually doing is ruining the country and spending more than we
firefighters. there won t be any cops and not once, folks, we re now into the 7th or 8th episode of this in the last two years. the president s using his bully pulpit and he s scaring people and bringing out the voices and you unleashing his cabinet to do the whole dog and pony show around the country. the indiscriminate deep cuts will affect everyone, really, in america. travelers should expect delays. be it this, the questionster, be it the fiscal cliff argument. be it one of arguments over raising the debt limit. in each case, we ve been forced to refute a bunch of out and out ridiculous lies. the president is making stuff up. he puts law enforcement, he puts firemen and policemen, who 98% of them are paid for with your local taxes and say you re going to lose your local policemen because of this. it s not true. and while all of this is happening, while all of these allegations, austerity, what we re actually doing is ruining the country and spending more than we
0 gps, superpac launched by karl rove launching a new video called obama s mess. you re in washington and sequestration are a bad idea. are you willing to see a bunch of first responders lose their jobs. teachers laid off. senior, airport security. scrambling to find child care, and vaccinations and cancer screenings, a bad idea, a booed idea. the sequester was the administration s idea. they were president obama s idea. the so-called sequester was the president s idea and signed it into law. the white house recommended it and back in august. and it seems like every three months around here, there s some manufacturing crisis. from our new york city mayor rudy guiliani joins us, good evening, mayor. good evening, greta. how are you. i m well. i assume this video was put out to poke a little fun at the president and bob woodward by the way, put online that the president and jack lew had it wrong that it was the president and administration s idea to come up with sequest
0 had on. this is been going on for, 20, 30 years, we re going to lose the statue of liberty and the buildings are going to fall down and no police on the street and i heard that when i was mayor of new york, i had to cut 2.3, 2.4 billion and they tried to make it sound like the city was going to disappear. we cut it, the city is better off than it s been before. and fiscal discipline is something that a president is going to have to bring to government. if he couldn t, it s hard for the legislator to do it. he s been fiscally the most undisciplined president in the united states. couple of things, the fact that he doesn t seem it remember it was his white house idea and he okayed it on the sequester and either means he has a bad memory, which is not a good sign or he s trying to be petty or trying now that he finds himself in hot water to blame somebody else that looks petty. the second thing for the life of me, i don t understand this and see if, if i m correct, but as i understand
welcome to today on this thursday morning, i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. i think you can see it s raining hard in the northeast here, but the midwest this morning is bracing for really, the first major snowstorm of the season. and here we are, two weeks into the year. this one has a little bit of everything. snow, high winds, matt, and also some bitter cold temperatures. it s going to have a big impact on some major cities in the region, chicago, milwaukee and green bay. we ll get al s forecast coming up straight ahead. and tom brokaw is here, he s going to weigh in on the gop presidential race. is the criticism of mitt romney s business practices by his opponents, actually hurting the republican party s chances of winning back the white house. tom s going to talk about that and some other things. and also coming up this morning, casey anthony s pretrial psychological evaluations have been made public for the first time. in them she reveals that her daughter ma