the kos costs it s the same thing sequester. we need a strategy. it s tough to make these decisions sensibly without understanding the strategy and costs and benefits. that you need to do first before you start doing the meat cleaver approach. thank you bob hormats. a federal judge in maryland also ruled against the president s travel ban. hawaii s state attorney general joins me now. he filed the lawsuit that got the president s new travel ban blocked. sir, thank you for joining us.
this harmful sequester for the next 10 years is exactly the type of balanced agreement that the president has called for, has kept on the table, and that the speaker boehner was willing to consider just months ago. let me jump to this issue of impact on the economy to federal workers, to the military and other aspects of this. i m not going to play this particular sound bite. but a couple of weeks ago, the president was warning of the meat cleaver approach, it s going to jeopardize our military readiness, that this was really going to hurt people who would lose their jobs. and then on friday, he seemed to change his tone. this is what he said. this is not going to be an apocalypse, i think, as some people said. it s just dumb. and it s going to hurt. did the president exaggerate the case to try to win enough political pressure on republicans that he didn t get in the end? no, not at all. you know, independent economists
next 10 years is exactly the type of balanced agreement that the president has called for, has kept on the table, and that the speaker boehner was willing to consider just months ago. let me jump to this issue of impact on the economy to federal workers, to the military and other aspects of this. i m not going to play this particular sound bite. but a couple of weeks ago, the president was warning of the meat cleaver approach, it s going to jeopardize our military readiness, that this was really going to hurt people who would lose their jobs. and then on friday, he seemed to change his tone. this is what he said. this is not going to be an apocalypse, i think, as some people said. it s just dumb. and it s going to hurt. did the president exaggerate the case to try to win enough political pressure on republicans that he didn t get in the end? no, not at all. you know, independent economists
president was warning of the meat cleaver approach, it s going to jeopardize our military readiness, that this was really going to hurt people who would lose their jobs. and then on friday, he seemed to change his tone. this is what he said. this is not going to be an apocalypse, i think, as some people said. it s just dumb. and it s going to hurt. did the president exaggerate the case to try to win enough political pressure on republicans that he didn t get in the end? no, not at all. you know, independent economists from the president of the federal reserve and others have estimated this sequester is going to cost our economy 750,000 jobs. i talk to ceos every day who tell me they have job creating projects on hold because of the sequester and its uncertainty. i talked to a major ceo who says he has 20,000 suppliers, small businesses, that will be deeply hurt. and we could go on about all the impact.
sean: it s sad. what do you think, everything was thrown on the tackle this week. i ll go through the list. you ve heard it. meat cleaver approach, military readiness, early education, energy, medical, border patrol, f.b.i., criminals, president said this week you want to cut four kids or do you want to cut from poor kids or disabled kids? i think it s unfair that he is using this like a weapon and breaking the kids piggy banks open? it s almost laughable and i hope at some point in the mainstream media will stop going along willingly with it. that is why, he is emboldened to do these things because they know they won t call him on that. some of the recent revelations