make the case to more conservative colleagues in the house, president float as parallel bill that frankly stops short of amnesty, if not is total amnesty does not help the effort to really pass bipartisan reform. it undermines it. it makes it difficult for senate democrats will have more liberal members saying wait a minute, the president s plan is much more appealing to us than yours, why should we compromise? i don t know why the president saw fit to really kind of confuse the situation when there is really bipartisan concensus. bill: let me bring in kirsten. i will get details why rubio will oppose it. tony says you re snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. did you say it was like amnesty, the president s plan? the president s plan follows kennedy, mccain plan of 2007 which was amnesty. i thought i misheard you because it is not, saying it will take eight years to become a citizen is the about the fartherest thing i can think from amnesty.
jamie: very, very. bill: there will be no going back for seconds. several school district now backing out of the federal free school lunch program saying that the rules, which require more fruits and fewer calories are costing them money and the kids don t like the food anyway. what are the biggest complaints about these guidelines. reporter: opponents say the portions are too small. one slice of deli meat on a sandwich, half a slice of pizza. they are forced to serve food to kids that they don t like or eat. students are bringing their own or buying elsewhere. fooled is wasted and budgets blown. the federal guidelines requiring larger portions of fruits and vegetables and less junk is part of an act aimed at reducing childhood obesity. breesville new york was the first state to opt out. we don t have a child obesity problem. our kid are very active.
going to make the change, speaking of facebook they got 20,000 lives and comments were thanks nor listening to the customer for a change. good move, steve? definitely. this is one of our major exports, actually lick or, bourbon and whiskey are two of our greatest products that we produce in the south so i think this is going to increase their markets. i think it was a good marketing ploy. we ve been spending the last five or six minutes talking about this. it is free advertising for the company. jamie: you re right, enough. thanks for coming, bye. see you guys. have a great week. bill: jon scott standing by hospitals rolls your way. happy president s day to you, jon. jon: happy president s day to you as well. bill: who is your favorite least consequential president, least recognized president. jon: i d have to go with karl rove, grant. bill: grant has two in his column.
joint chiefs worked this throughout the night. jamie: mcdonough said the white house had a quote, robust reaction which h he@attributed to the president s direction the night of that attack, bill? bill: he spent the last 15 years of solitary confinement. the convicted faster mind of the 1993 world trade center bombing is now suing, demand he be allowed to live a regular prison life. ramzi yousef is serving a life sentence and serving four years at the supermax prison in colorado. the attorney claimed the lack of human contact is taking a psychological toll. officials disagree saying he is still a threat. jamie: a major development to tell you about in a nearly two-year civil war as the european union agrees to extend sanctions on oil, money and arms to the syrian government. all this as a troubling u.n. report suggests that both sides in the syrian revolution are guilty of war crimes, including murder and
you can t move things from less important things in order to make certain essential tasks are taken care of. there are others, this is just a drop in the bucket. sure it is. yeah, now, remember the sequester affects $85 billion worth of spending. we have a federal budget this year will be $3.5 trillion. that is over 3500 billions of dollars. now the problem is this falls in the discretionary side of the budget which is, you know, a very small fraction of the budget. most of the budget is on mandatory, autofy lot. congress didn t revisit every year. there are set formulas that dictate how much will be spent. we have a overall spending problem and a flexibility problem. this is a small amount compared to the total budget because it comes out of the discretionary part of the budget it will hurt that flexibility and hurt badly. bill: is there a point of comparison for this story