chicago with more on this story. reporter: jenna, the latest push from chicago leaders is interesting because it deals strictly illegal weapons. what chicago leaders want is minimum mandatory sentence for illegal possession. those are the guns used on chicago s mean streets where violence is a part of almost every night. city leaders want 3 1/2 years for possession of an illegal gun. also truth in sentencing laws which would guaranty a convict won t get back on the street after doing just a fraction of his time. when you commit a serious gun offense you should serve the time. the victims deserve it, the public demands it, and the criminal justice system should deliver it. reporter: here is where it gets difficult. convicts stay in state prisons which are overcrowded. they re so overcrowded six illinois prisons have prisoners bunking in the gym. guards are complaining now that they are at risk because they are so understaffed, and
i m jon scott. president obama said the sequester cuts would never happen, but obviously they did. now the white house says there is no need to talk of a government shut down. but there won t be any money for the government to spend unless house republicans and senate democrats can workout a deal by the 27th of march. bret baier is the anchor of special report. he joins us now. everything i m hearing, bret, is that they feel they will get this one solved in time, are they? well, jon, that is what the president signaled on friday at his news conference, that s what republicans are saying now, but there is still a long way to go until we get to march 27th, which is the deadline for the continuing resolution, that s the funding for the government. there are talks ongoing, and it i seems like the talks are going well. you re right, there is no bulging on the republican side when it comes to increasing taxes. you ve heard house speaker john boehner saying the president got his tax increas
business. as you and i are speaking, vice president biden is speaking to the aim aipac convention you spoke to. he said, make no mistake, we will not allow iran to get a nuclear weapon. how could he be so sure? talk is cheap and secretary hagel, recently con as secretary of defense you recall during the confirmation hearing had a little problem saying what the policy of the u.s. government was. finally the third try said our policy was not to try to contain a nuclear weapon but to prevent them. i think all of this ambiguity receipts perhaps, emboldens our perhaps if they keep pushing the line they can get away with it, and that is very dangerous for us and our allies. jon: all of this touches on the sequester battle. there was a nuclear aircraft carrier that the administration now says it doesn t have the money to send to that part of the world. let s take a look at a graphic of the sequester spending, the red line
and the net increase is more than the sequester cut, and i can do this with a lot of boards and chalkboard better than i can talking about it, but if you have an increase in the money, minus the 85 billion tkpwhrar dollars that was supposedly cut from the across the board sequester there will be a lot of republicans, especially in the house who are very upset. jon: thinking about it, i mean the sequester numbers $85 billion that is less than one tenth of the stimulus program passed four years ago earlier in the president s term. it s about 2.2.3% of the budget, and in the big picture not a huge number. and when you even look at the continuing resolution it s not a huge number, what they are talking about for fund being the government for the rest of the year. jon: i know you have the afternoon
napolitano making it clear it wasn t thousands of illegals as first reported. several hundred were related to sequester but it wasn t thousands. and it will continue? for the foreseeable future, yes. jenna: that was this morning. meantime secretary napolitano says furlough notices are going out to the tsa she said we should expect airport lines two names longer than normal moving forward. as politics of the cuts continue it play out here is the president s top economic advisor, gene sperling. this is not a win for republicans. republicans are supposed to be for stronger national defense. this cuts our military preparedness dramatically. they re supposed to be for border security. these sequester cuts will mean enough reductions in hours that will be the equivalent of 5,000 border patrol agents being cut. jenna: all this as we mark ten years since the creation of the department of homeland security. michael chertoff, former department of homeland security secretary, one of three