lou: arnie duncan said the teachers were already getting pink slips. when you have an administration lying to the public and they don't have the guts to call him on it, we have a problem in this country. national media only beginning to hold this administration responsible for what it says. "the new york times" finally, the "washington post" finally saying there has to be some accountability before discussing reality here. >> thanks to programs like yours, we are getting the word out and the fact of the matter is a lot of us here aren't blinking. i'm proud of the work we have done not backing down to these scare tactics. next week we will take the remaining excuses off the table, we will say if you need flexibility, a lot of us don't think you do, you can manage this anyway, we are at least in terms of the defense department giving the generals the flexibility to leave tw lead. we will offer some of that flexibility so our national defense can be taken care of and we're going to keep removing these excuses off the table and make this president lead and

for example, yesterday the white house education secretary arnie duncan said that the first pink slipsout for teachers. but it turns out it's not true. jay carney having the worst week in washington pressed about it today. >> the department of education. superintendent of schools in the district that you mentioned. for specifics about. they'm certainly not familiar with it. >> i am familiar with the example. refer you to the superintendent of the school district for more information about it. let me rewind the tape where i say i would refer you to department of education, in washington, d.c., not a local school district for more information. obviously the school district is a good place to go for information about the school district. >> you said it was false, it was wrong. >> i don't have more for you. fond memory of the days. 'canes do you think the staff they're gave secretary duncan the information about the pink slips was getting his rear end chewed today? >> absolutely. that could haven't gone worse. not a good situation. it makes everybody look bad. white house look bad. carney

melissa: education secretary arnie duncan made some comments.isten to those. >> there are teachers now who are getting pink slips and notices that they cannot come back. >> i don't know about that one. people have looked at that one and we have yet to have any names to go along with that. >> and he is eating his words today. he is taking that back today. he was at a public event. he said that language is important. he apologized for his comments. he said, when i said bank slips, that was the wrong word. should have used the job eliminations. should have been clear, and so now he has taken that back. we have an institution down here , melissa, i mean, the "washington post" has a fact check column. from zero to four, arnie duncan. for pinocchios. for pinocchio's. the maximum. the president got upgraded from least 2-4 for his comments about the senator's. melissa: the people they're even talking about it? melissa: to they even know there is supposed to be a business? >> i went around asking passengers what they thought. and barry and scientifically

arnie duncan, teachers will get laid off. head start premiums -- people won't get fed.s ago, yesterday afternoon or so, he started to walk it back. with the fear mongering we're doing isn't working. they are not buying it. mostly because we stayed on it saying it won't be different. he started to walk it back. today he walked it back completely. don't worry, it won't happen overnight. it may take time. all sequestration does is bring us backward two years in the budget. gregg you are still spending more. >> dana: the plans are deficit neutral. i want to ask you about the republicans. in the past chain mails we have had to deal with, it was perceived that the republicans caved. but not so this time. do you think it will cig call a turning point -- signal a turning point for the shattered pieces of the republican party and help it move on? >> andrea: it better. republicans were punished after they caved on the fiscal cliff. now we won't fold this time around. they are standing firm. i wish they would fight harder for more cuts and they have an opportunity, dana, especiall

i find itto interesting that president obama had his peoplees out there in force, arnie duncan, janet napolitano telling us how people were going to come over the border, arnie duncan, teachers are going to get laid offment people won't get fed. and then two days ago, yesterday afternoon or so, he started to walk it back. he started to see that, wow, all this fear mongering isn't really work. they're not buyingg it. mostly because we stayed on it saying it's not going to be that much different. today he walked it back completely. don't worry. it's not going to happen overnight. it h may take some time bottom line, all sequestration does is bring you two years backwards in the budget. that's all it's done. we were getting along just fine. >> we're still spending more. >> and any of the plans are actually deficit neutral. they don't really. reduce it much. andrea, i want to ask you about the republicans because in the past couple of chain mails thata we've had to deal with, it was perceived that the republicans have w caved. but not so this time. do you think that that will signal a tur

. >>> education secretary arnie duncan says he misspoke last week when he suggested the sequester was already costing teachers their jobs. in fact, it will be several more months before school districts feel the effects of the cuts. a new cbs news poll shows 38% of americans blame congressional republicans for failing to reach an agreement to avert those cuts. 33% hold the president accountable along with democrats. 19% say pocks on both parties home. a majority believe sequester cuts will effect them directly. the markets ignoring this. the dow gained another 38 points yesterday, closing at its highest level of the year. it's 37 points away from an all-time high. >>> today both chambers of congress will discuss proposals to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. senate democrats will meet to address their plan, while the rules committee in the house will take up a new $982 billion bill introduced by republicans yesterday to keep washington running through the end of the fiscal year. the bill would also soften the blow of last week's cuts to several federal agencies. the

so over the last year to two, the obama administration through secretary arnie duncan has been trying to push states. >> right. >> to adopt new teacher evaluation systems that are more rigorous, that really differentiate who are your best performers, who are your not so good performers and to make staffing decisions based on those evaluations. >> and california hasn't bought in? >> not only has california not bought in, 38 states across the nation have promised the federal government we're going to move in this direction. >> uh-huh. >> last year, california introduce legislation in its legislature that said that we are going to make it illegal to count student achievement growth in a teacher's evaluation. >> which is powered by the unions, you think? >> exactly. it's exactly the opposite of what the obama administration was pushing and exactly the opposite of what 38 other states are doing. it's not just staying still and maintaining the status quo, it's trying to move the state backwards and that's something that should frustrate every taxpayer, every mother, every gra grandparent to

as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. as i said, our moderator is not always our lieutenant governor, of course he needs to introduction -- no, i get to say something. i get to say something. as everyone in this room knows, youngest mayor in 100 years, right? youngest mayor in 100 years

as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can

. >> last week the education secretary arnie duncan said teachers were going to be fired.ey had to walk us back and say that today, language is important. no kidding, because if you don't make it right, it won't work. here is another part of the president's cabinet who is being tested for veracity. >> we have shown over the past decade of the department of education hasn't done much to increase test scores. not to mention future funding. it's a local problem, and teachers aren't getting this happening the way that they said it would. i would like to point out quickly -- i was at lax and it went a lot faster than usual. so i think the tsa really had thousands standing around. gerri: going to foreign aid in egypt, we are now gving more money to egypt. the latest request, $250 million undoubtably we had $16 trillion in debt. would he make of this? >> it's unbelievable and mind blowing to think that we would be handing out $250 million when we had dickstein trillion dollars. we are not even sure that these guys are friends. gerri: everyone thinks that their priority is not our

we have arnie duncan, the secretary of education telling falsehoods to the american people.dn't know that criminals were being released under the sequester. how is it possible that she did not know? the president took an oath to support and defend us. not to bring harm upon the american people and tell them that you will have to pay a price. they are making life difficult. this is not what leaders do. saying that to make the least amount of discomfort, that is quite the contrary what they are doing. >> getting back to groupon, i

as you know, the education secretary arnie duncan has a statement that he made about the thing that it turned out not to be true. lou: thank you. ed henry for fox news, the chief white house correspondent. our guest tonight says the president has been trying to make the sequester look like it is apocalyptic and weimar economic problems on the rection in government spending. joining us is the former mayor of new york city, rudy giuliani, it is great to have your. >> nice to be here. lou: let's start with the sequester. his administration has racked up more pinocchio is than i can ever recall. >> it makes no sense. a 2.5% reduction, a cut in the increase of spending. i don't know why anyone ever believes this in the first leg, but it shows that this white house is doing this for political gain. that we have serious and long-term economic problems. instead we have a president running around, crying wolf no effect. lou: so you're not persuaded that it would be necessary to cut down the white house to earning? >> well, i guess they had to sacrifice something. it's totally crazy. the rating

speaker that came as arnie duncan declared "language is important" apologizing for his comments drawing four pinnocios from the "washington post." >> you could have heard repeatedly, i should have been clear there. >> also dealin doing with the president's own comments that drew two pinnocios. speak of the janitors, security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they have to figure out a way to manage it. that is real. >> not so real according to the architect of the capitol. updating it as four pinnocios. >> i think the real issue is that this isn't the president at a slow grind. >> janet napolitano claimed sequester cuts at the tsa are having an immediate impact. >> we're already seeing the big airports for example, some of them have very long lines this weekend. chicago o'hare, want to say lax, i want to say atlanta, but i would have to check. >> fox business to check for airlines for america, industry association which says their members are not seeing unusual delays only u.s. customs and border protection officials say cuts have led to international arrivals. the president nominated

. >> kathleen sebelius and arnie duncan were careful not to get any of the blame. >> didn't this come? >> actually, the idea was designed in such a way and really inserted in the bill by congress because they thought it was such a bad way to run government that it would never happen. >> worried about how the cuts will affect programs for at-risk children, the head of the pta has a message for the politicians. >> i think they need to grow up. act like our children would. talk to one another. maybe they need to come to the playground. >> perhaps they might need fifth grader eric perez. >> you're worried that it might hurt your school? >> it might hurt my school, my education, the teachers. >> it's not just cuts at schools. across washington, reality is setting in for federal workers. >> i know i will get furloughed. i've accepted that. >> the furloughs, as explained in this letter to justice department employees, you will be in a non-pay, non-duty status. back at the school, arnie duncan tried to clarify his own comments about job cuts this week. >> these are teachers getting pink slips

. >> that came as the education secretary arnie duncan declared "language is important "as he apologized his comments that drew four pinocchios from the "washington post." >> i said pink slips, that was probably the wrong word. it should have used job eliminations, position eliminated. you heard repeatedly that, i should have been clear there. >> the white house is also dealing with the president's own comments that initially drew two pinocchios. after the news conference on friday that mentioned custodians workin working in the capital. >> janitors, security guards. they just got a pay cut. they got to figure out how to manage that. that is real. >> not so real according to the architect of the capital. and the "washington post" is updated it as four pinocchios. >> first of all, you know, the capitol janitors will not get as much overtime. i'm sure they think less pay they are taking home does hurt. i think the real issue is that this is as the president said a slow grind. >> hype continueed as the homeland security secretary janet napolitano today claims sequester cut at the tsa are ha

better than what the education secretary arnie duncan got a few days ago which was four pinocchios claimingchers were already getting pink slips. >> bret: thank you. during his interview with chris wallace, romney said the president is wrong on the squiers. the former republican presidential candidate and his wife will be on fox news sunday this weekend. >> during the last presidential debate, you brought up the effect of the sequester would have on the military. the president said -- >> the sequester is not something i proposed. it's something congress proposed an it will not happen. >> wrong on two fronts. this is an opportunity. i look at the sequester and also the expiration of the bush tax cuts as an almost once in generational opportunity for america to solve its fiscal problems. if we do that we could become more competitive globally and america could lead the world for the coming century. this is a huge opportunity. it's being squandered by politics. by people who are more interested in a political victory than they are in doing what's right for the country. it's frustrating. i have

neil: but, you know, all of the administrations -- you've been following this, and, i mean, arnie duncanreds of thousands of mentally ill patients would not get their medications, walking the streets unmedicated, and times square new york, there's no way to distinguish it. i have no idea if that's the case. they scare the you know what out of us, you call them on it, they more or less say it's true, the cuts are coming, it's bad, doing all i can to avoid it, but in the process, they still push that same scene, and it's wrong; right? >> well, this is a same agency that spent $48 billion in stimulus funds in 2009 within two years, starting in 2009, so, -- neil: thanks were hunky dory. >> now it's the opposite. i expected him, neil, to continue with the whole, you know, we don't want to do this. this is the bad thing. we have to do it. he didn't go into that. he said, look, it's a comprehensive apropose, cut everywhere, and, neil, i want to see those cuts. that's the issue here. we've only heard about two. the air traffic control towers, furloughing employees, the republicans in the house,

among them we're talking about education secretary arnie duncan who said teachers were already been firedwest virginia. >> language is really, really important. i want to apologize for not being as clear last week. because i wasn't clear the spotlight was put on me. my goal here is to have the spotlight be on children and families. when i said pink slips, that was probably the wrong word. >> it's amazing how semantics can really get you into hot water, isn't it? that school district tells cnn duncan was mistaken. it had yet to send out any official layoff notices. here's our question. could a lower approval rating and a reversal on some of these spending cut claims hurt president obama's ability to make a deal, amy? >> i have to say here the republicans are blamed for everything all the time. their approval ratings can't go much lower. so if there's any blame to go around, i think it is going to go on president obama. but, you know, it wasn't just his staff and his administration and cabinet officials that were making these false claims. i mean, he stood up at the podium at the white hous

to step back from -- >> it is not going to be the apocalypse, he said, and some people, he had arnie duncanaying it will be an apocalypse... >> if you look at how it played out, they have gotten a little surprised at the fact that there was push-back in the media and effective push-back from republicans, don't overdo how bad it will be, number one and, number, you are president and maybe you can do something to mitigate it. and there are lots of surprises left to go in terms of now sequestration goes off and people treat it as a one-off event, sequestration happens and then we know the results, not so fast. there are six months of process ahead of us, all kinds of little details and all kinds of little things that are going to happen. and, furthermore, as sequestration goes forward to the extent it dominates the news it will detract from other things he had in mind like gun control and immigration. so, the politics on this are, i think, turning out to be a lot more blurry than the president may have hoped. >> chris: let's talk about that. bill, in his news conference, on friday, the preside

they went after him for a briefing with arnie duncan, the education secretary, where they talked about a pink slips going out to teachers and it was found to be not entirely accurate. there is fact checking going out on both sides. the question the media had, we know the president's strategy. it was unchanged. it was a little more confusing for people to try to understand the republicans' opposition. it seems to be no tax revenues under any circumstances. it's both sides talk about compromise, if that is the position, there will be no compromise. i do not believe that. i believe most american people see it that way. they support a combination of cuts and tax reform. it looks like they have to reach a long-term scheme. >> john quotes the president from a while ago. i will veto any opportunities to get rid of spending cuts. he says sequestration will not happen. >> that turned out not to be the case. even in washington we can lose sight of how inefficient our congress can be. it did come to pass. this is the question of who is responsible for i have gathered it is not really a question a

. >> education secretary arnie duncan, and kathleen sebelius discuss the importance of investing in early childhood education. they warn about the effects of automatic spending cuts on early childhood education and public health. this is about 30 minutes. [applause]>> to the board chair, the superintendent, the school -- this school represents so much of what we want the country to be like, and i get to visit great schools, struggling schools, but this school has a high poverty rate, 35 different languages spoken, but children are doing well.they have great adults that take care of them, they're excited. we asked them, do they like coming to school, and they say yes. challenges of poverty, assimilating children, and they come to an environment where they can be successful. board members, superintendents, teachers, staff -- it is fun to see.thank you for the hard work you are doing. this is a topic that we love to talk about, and government at all levels, federal, state, and local, investing in the education of our nation's teachers, our children. this is one of the best investments we can