to live out his days there, the question is now how can he get there? questions remain. thank you very much for the update. tough times for some republican employees facing the consequences of automatic budget cuts that kick in next week. more than 6 fest,000 people 650,000 people holding jobs and the defense department will get an extra day off next week, but it comes with a price. no pay. they will be furloughed one day each week for the next three months and pentagon officials worry it will be worse in the next year if the sequestration cuts continue to be enforced. now to the latest in the high-profile trial of george zimmerman with juries having a lot to mull over this weekend as the prosecution rested its case. as court ended yesterday, there was lots of conflicting testimony from the mothers of both zimmerman and trayvon martin. jurors were able to hear from both mothers testifying about what each of them heard on that infamous 9-1-1 call where
tucker: budget cuts and sequestration may be affecting our nation sp wounded military members. employees from walter reed medical center will be forced into furloughs and booted from their medical duties, this to save money. what does this mean for our veterans and does this call for a checkup on the white house s use of our tax dollars. joining us now to respond is form area navy seal and massachusetts republican for canada gabriel gomez. mr. gomez, thanks a lot for joining us. there s certainly waste at the pentagon and throughout the federal government, but cutting staff at walter reed, wouldn t that be the last thing you would do? it would be absolutely the last thing i would do. the sequestration cuts are a perfect example of unnecessary cuts that have real world effects. the american people deserve leaders that go there and actually work across the aisle and get rid of the partisan politics. of course, there s room to cut in all parts of the government.
booming auto industry, shrinking deficit, slowing health care costs and stronger housing market. what are the chances of congress taking on anything before the break for summer? not showing signs on taking action on further measures that might boost the economy. for instance, looking at sequestration cuts that are still going into effect and really that could slow that economic recovery and dampen the tepid growth that we re seeing getting into the second half and near the end of the year. congress right now, they re debating issues on internet sales taxes, talking about immigration reform. but the economy is sort of plugging along on its own. but we re not hearing much discussion about what ways can congress further boost the economy. that just seem to be an issue right now. let s turn to the irs controversy, susan. we re seeing a new dance video of sorts released by a house committee investigating accusations of lavish spending
will go in and they ll they want it on the record but if you say, let me go off the record and they ll say, okay, and they honor that. so you re on the record, off the record. neil: you have to keep prefacing it. he wanted off the record and they saw they were being used. i got to call the press in here and off the record basis. i don t want them to let them ask menage. these are all my friend so they ll come to the tea party. and neil: right. they all have eek goes. the one thing that the press, media, whether it s conservative or liberal or whatever, they don t like to feel they re being used, and i think in this particular case they felt were being used. neil: the republican party seems to have found its sea legs, maybe because of the scandals and also surviving the sequestration cuts and we have
anybody else. we certainly are americans who we don t want the take the shirt off our back anywhere. that s part of a different culture. that s what americans used to be, not now. federal disaster aid is usually passed as emergency funding but coburn wants offsets. folk, that s political speak is what it is. what it really means is there are strings attach. it s not a budget. it depend on what happens. he wants to cut something in the budget for oklahoma to get the money. that money could come from programs which serve veterans, the elderly, disabled americans, poor americans who already are hurting because of the sequestration cuts. joining me now our rapid response panel tonight, michael die son, james peterson an karen held man. dr. die son, what s the difference between disasters? well, the difference is it happened in their back yard and the other one happened in new york s back yard.