more than happy to appear on the record at a carefully stage media event. with first responders, they were lined up behind him and president obama lashing out at republicans, warning their unwillingness to raise taxes will put jobs on the lane and the weekly standard s steve hayes joins us and even politico editorial today said that president obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating the media coverage of himself and the white house. where is the media. sure is, i don t necessarily blame president obama, he gets away with what the media let him get away with, they let him get away with it lot. the fundamental problem is you dent have the same kind of scrutiny on the president that you ve had on past presidents both republicans and democratic. so he gets away with not disclosing as much as he should on benghazi, for instance, gets away with, as you pointed out, calling for tax hikes right now. there s video of the president back in january of 2011 saying the tax hikes, d
morning. shale gas drilling is economic game changer for town and vil lanels in the rural pennsylvania that otherwise might have fallen on hard times. while the shale continues northward, underground the economic boom stops right here. new york state officials have been bringing their hands over whether to wringing their hands whether to lift moratorium over part of the southern tier to drilling. a lot of the land has leases already. county executive says it s a no-brainer. he is in elmira where unemployment is 9.3% a the economic indicators in the red. i will tell you, we will put people to work and lower unemployment rate an people will be happier than they are now. in nearby bingingham hit by hard times, matt ryan, former environmental lawyer wants no part of the fracking boom until it s proven environmentally sound. i don t think just because a few people make mup off of this go down a road we can t
transcanada says the oil sands concentrated in alberta represent only one-tenth of a percentage point of groanhouse gas initiatives. two republican senators lament the possible sale to china of a u.s. electric car make they re received american tax dollars. senators thune and grassley say $25 million loan to fisker automotesive another example of the president s ininvestment in a failed experiment. two chinese auto makers are said to be in the running to acquire the struggling company. still ahead, is the obama administration the most transparent in history? first, breakdown of the sequester numbers. step-by-step explanation with the former head of the congressional budget office. ford c-max hybrid. when you re carrying a lot of weight, c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that s not all you ll see,
more than happy to appear on the record at a carefully stage media event. with first responders, they were lined up behind him and president obama lashing out at republicans, warning their unwillingness to raise taxes will put jobs on the lane and the weekly standard s steve hayes joins us and even politico editorial today said that president obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating the media coverage of himself and the white house. where is the media. sure is, i don t necessarily blame president obama, he gets away with what the media let him get away with, they let him get away with it lot. the fundamental problem is you dent have the same kind of scrutiny on the president that you ve had on past presidents both republicans and democratic. so he gets away with not disclosing as much as he should on benghazi, for instance, gets away with, as you pointed out, calling for tax hikes right now. there s video of the president back in january of 2011 saying the tax hikes, d
bret: we are nine day aceway from the imple mation of the reduction of growth of federal spending. we re calling it the sequester. we are talking about at it lot. as we learn earlier, not everyone thinks it s a bad thing across the board. but let s get some thoughts tonight from a former director of the congressial budget office. thanks for being here. my pleasure. bret: how does it work? sequester is across-the-board cut. one for defense and up with for nondefense. weapon you get underneath the surface, the federal budget is divided to thousands of different accounts. each account is cut by the same amount. regardless of what is in it. some accounts are payroll. some accounts are conferences, travel, whatever it may be. they get the same cut regardless of what is in there. when we say this is a cut, overall, the government is still growing. year over year.