As the white house warns the sequester blame game has started. Live with us secretary of transportation ray lahood who sounded a pretty loud alarm bell on friday. Mr. Secretary, good morning. Good to have you here. Good morning. You talked friday about a calamity in our air Service System in america, a billion dollars in cuts that have to be made at the department of transportation, 600 million from the faa, 47,000 faa employees will need to be furloughed at least one day per pay period. Is it still going to be safe for the American Public to fly if this sequester goes forward. One thing we never compromise on is safety. We will never take a back seat to safety. Safety will not be compromised. But we will have work with the airlines in slowing planes down. But there will be enough controllers to make sure planes are guided in and out of airports safely. This is about aggravation, not about safety. Look, this is a huge cut. Its a billion dollars. 600 million at faa, which has the larges
Identifying other savings is not helpful. Todays exaggerations are not backed up by any real financial data. The agencies is well positioned to absorb spending reductions without compromising the safety or efficiency of the National Airspace system. They go on to point out faa has received significant funding increases over the last ten years the annual budget has increased 3 billion or 41 . Do you really think americans think government cant tighten up a bit, even if its a clumsy way of doing it with the sequester. Look, this is not your fathers faa. This is faa that has to meet certain contract obligations with our controllers. We know that air travel is back at a par prior to 91 11. We know a lot of people are flying. Were not making this up, david. Were not making this up in order to put pain on the American People. We are required to cut a billion dollars, and were going to do that unless Congress Gets together and works together and compromises on this issue. All right. So you ta
Across the board budget cuts if no deal can be made. Are republicans letting cuts to fall on our kids schools and Mental Health care to protect corporate loopholes. Are they willing to slash military health care and Border Patrol because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies. Are they seriously prepared to inflict more pain on the middle class because they refuse to ask anything more of those at the very top . Republicans are putting the blame squarely on president obama. This weeks republican address. Republicans in congress right now will provide the flexibility to make the necessary spending reductions and address our deficit and debt instead of going through the sequester. In fact, House Republicans have already passed two bills to replace the president s sequester. So the question is, why wont he work with us . The answer quite simply is because he wants higher taxes. Joining me now, White House Correspondent for the hill, amie parnes and ed okeefe. Good mornin
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Star, young, good looking, articulate. Reporter over the last year, the democratic congressman all but stopped working, disappearing from public view for weeks over the summer and checking into the mayo clinic for what doctors there said was bipolar disorder. Jackson says he also has a shopping addiction, and in court he admitted buying everything from toilet paper at costco to a 43,000 goldplated rolex watch, two elk heads from a nevada taxidermist, memorabilia from Martin Luther king and jimi hendrix, fur coats, Home Renovations and more. All of it paid with money for his campaign. He was reelected by 40 points in november but then quit Congress Later that month. Month. Now, sentencing is set for june, scott, and jackson could get four to five years in prison. Pelley dean, thank you very much. Well, a different kind of corruption is being investigated tonight by the securities and exchange commission. The agency is looking into possible Insider Trading before the 23 billion purchase