a and, secretary hagel, although you ve estimated that this will cost tens of millions of dollars, in april of this year, you testified, let s start with the question of how do you pay pour military acts in syria if we do something. yet, i do believe it s clear that a supplemental will be required. history tells us there will likely be second or third military effects that demand military action. therefore it gives me great pause that we have not addressed our devastating consults due to the military sequestration. even as we commit the military to another new mission, we ve surged troops to afghanistan and cut the military s budget. we ve flown missions over libya and cut the military s budget. we re pivoting to the asia pacific and cutting the military s budget. all told, these cuts total an outstanding $1.2 trillion. and now we re considering strikes on syria, while the military s budget continues to
direction to go. reporter: what do you think could be your greatest challenge here? the greatest challenge is to continue to forecast, you know, the products we need and be able to deliver on time to our retailers. you know, with this uncertainty, it is going to be hard, you know, to really forecast out. reporter: do you feel kind of permanenty that maybe the folks in washington need to really dig deep and better understand what businessmen just like you across this country are actually facing when you look at cuts, the health care, the military sequestration context in your case? yes. i think they really need to look at the american manufacturer, which is few and far between any more t. really affects us and anybody trying to make goodings in america. we are trying to bring the economy back, yet, they are making it for it more
lower than it was year before. we re making progress. hopefully that momentum will allow us to do something really meaningful. jon: chris, like simon, some democrats said going over the fiscal cliff wouldn t be such a bad thing maybe for the short run. what do you think? i think woe be a huge mistake for the country. nothing else what happens with military sequestration. we have challenges with national security. we live in uncertain world where you can t allow that to occur. one thing i have to point out you can t raise taxes enough to prevent what is about to happen here and stop the deficits from moving forward. i think that is the one thing that has to be understood by democrats, you can t do this through increasing taxes. there has to be serious spending cuts put on the table. when you take those off the table before we get started it puts the process in jeopardy. jon: good discussion, chris wilson, simon rosenberg, thank you both. sure. jenna: for a fox extreme weather alert,
and it is no matter who you talk to, that some were wild, come were not. some said he was taken off the attention meter by clint eastwood. what do you think? i don t think so. i think, neil, if you listen to what your previous guest said that she voted for obama last time and i m sure that some republicans voted for obama last time, but i want to know who they were and why they did it, number one, number two, i would simply say that every republican will be voting for obama now, but the bottom line, we re looking at the independent voters and i believe the case was made by mitt romney and paul ryan, why the independent voters would want a new direction for america. think about the impact are not extending bush tax cuts for all americans, and 700,000 more jobs lost in this country. and think about the impact of the military sequestration that could lead to the loss of another million jobs in the civilian world and 200,000 men