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Countdown to avoid looming sequestration

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    Will government find a solution to cuts?

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Tonight Mike thank you another story now about -- -- tax dollars two weeks from today the Pentagon.

And much of Washington could be a very different place march 1 is.

The attorney general and FBI director are both warning of impact in every city in town in the country.

And there's major concern tonight about the US military national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports tonight from the Pentagon.

Congress has left town and when they come back in ten days they'll only have five days to act.

If they want to stop the huge budget cuts noticed sequestration.

Here's one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree it.

-- about sequestration.

I think we've used every adjective known to -- to say this is done.

Can we just all agree this is a dumb thing.

Yes we.

Okay and yet the finger pointing continues mr.

speaker we are on the brink of achieving the Republican policy of sequester the speaker of the house has taken to calling it the president sequester the Defense Secretary put it even more bluntly.

We need to find solutions.

We can't just sit here and -- we can't just sit here and complain we can't just sit here and blame others we can't just sit here and point fingers at each other.

Army chief general Ray Odierno warns the cuts may force him to extend deployments of troops in Afghanistan next year.

Like the army did in 2007.

Extending tours to fifteen months -- no decisions have yet been made.

Budget cuts would delay training for those soldiers set to deploy in 2014.

Another example of how the sequester would hurt the nation's national security.

And it's not just defense in a letter to congress secretary of state John Kerry warned the US could have to halt humanitarian aid to millions of people.

Cut foreign assistance to Israel.

And delay efforts to improve embassy security in the wake of the big Ghazi attack no more tax cuts for the wealthy say -- Republicans.

Take it -- from meals on wheels.

Food safety.

Education headstart the safety of our neighborhoods and the education of their children's safety of our food the defense.

Of that country and national security.

It's just not right more than two years ago in in November 14 2011.

Letter to senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Leon Panetta warned about the quote.

Devastating impact of the sequester.

Few in the Pentagon thought that congress and the White House would again take the nation to the brink -- Jennifer Griffin of pentagon Jennifer thank you.

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