meal. for a family of four, the cuts coming down the line work out to fewer meals each month. there will actually be a cutback, i reached the point i didn t know what to do. i don t know, maybe i may have to go somewhere else to see if i could get more food. or i really don t know. but it would really hit me hard. the cuts to food stamps also called snap benefits, are the first big hit in what activists have taken to calling the hunger cliff. the second hit may come soon. in washington, a committee met today, starting to reconcile the house and senate version of the farm bill, which has long been the vehicle for food stamp legislation. the senate version of the bill cuts more than 4 billi$4 billio food stamps over a decade. the house wants to cut a wh
mike: from the bungling of benghazi to the targeting of conservatives by the irs. the white house has been plalged by numerous scandals for months. if you hear the president telling it they are not real at all phoney he called some of them. angered the victims of those so-called phony scandals. might that line work with the rest of america? joining us now this to weigh in from congressman david sweitzer. welcome to fox & friends. this is always my idea of fun. really? this early in the morning? you know, on another network i heard a the love anchors actually use that line so-called scandals. are any of them phony to you? well, that s actually what we worry about is this the president s way of instructing his allies and big media to basically say, look the other way, don t deal with all these sins
i mean, they are not different rules, and i think that just the fact that the story is kind of out there, because it does create such bad optics for lawmakers on capitol hill if they are going to exempt themselves from it. what s at issue here is when you have a federal employer the size the employer the size of the federal government joining into these health exchanges, what s at issue here is how is the government going to pay for the health insurance for a lot of these staffers, for a lot of these lawmakers without the premiums being raised because if their premiums go up and costs go up you ll see what s being described in the piece at a brain drain, not necessarily a lot of lawmakers and staffers decide this is not a line work i can afford and they will leave capitol hill. i think the federal government is smartly going to realize they have to find a way to to find the money to cover these folks because i don t think that the optics of congressmen exempting from a law that t
it is muslim and the experience he had there would have absolutely drummed home for him the suffering of the chechen people as he would have received through family stories. we could put a face on it. there were terror attacks during the time he was there. whether he was glorying in those things or whether he he was making connections to actually islamist insurgence and learning skills, that we don t know but we know that psychologically these things were becoming normal for him. these things were becoming day-to-day occurrences because of where he was living. his brother dzhokhar is cl m claiming to the fbi that his brother coerced him into doing it. something you would expect him to say. but also they learned about this, their religious beliefs and how to make bombs from the internet and inspire bid videos. one of the videos there is a link to from tamerlan tsarnaev on-line work, if you like, a guy called doku, a chechen
from two and a half men fame. she knows how to make a line work, knows how to hold the audience in the palm of her hand, cracks that whip and the audience goes along with her. benjamin endsly klein, looks like a fascinating play. appreciate it. good luck to you. thank you. immigration reform, turning back to politics now, immigration reform very much on the white house agenda especially now that the administration s backup plan has been leaked to the press, leaked to the press last night. let s go to the brain trust. joining us from washington robert costa national editor at the national review, here with me in new york city angela rye, good to see you as well, former executive director of the black caucus and chris smith, contributing editor at new