james capretta, senior fellow bookings institution, codirector on senior families and james capretta come for ethics and public policy center and visiting scholar at aei. let me begin with you. are these potential cuts under sequestration devastating are manageable? >> somewhere in between. they are not a good idea. they would be very deep cuts. in a percent cut across the board is a very significant one-time cut for any program to sustain in an immediate year. here they are not a good idea. to be the end of the world? no. >> host: what you mean by that? >> guest: downsizing in terms of the domestic accounts. so fewer services provided. reduced federal employees, grant programs would take a haircut of 5%, 10%. david downsizing of services by the federal government. but the economy would go on and the government would go on in the public would still continue to get by in large served. >> host: can agencies manage this? castaways managed in the past. none of this size. this would be the biggest to my knowledge we have had other one-time cut across the board but this. so don't get me wr

. >> host: unfortunately it is time to go, but thank you so much james capretta for joining us. >> since 1901, the joint congressional committee congressional committee on a macro ceremonies has been responsible for the planning execution of the inauguration of the president of the u.s. capitol. >> we are glad you are all here, this is the platform were the inauguration will take place. it is on schedule, it is on budget. our job, senator alexander and myself were in charge of this part of the inauguration. it is the presidential inaugural committee. it is also known as pic. let me review some numbers and specifics. the first inaugural on the west front was ronald reagan's ceremony in 1981. the person in charge of building the platform is steve ayers, the architect of the capital. the platform will be about 10,000 square feet. the same size as the platform in 2005, which was the largest platform ever built. as you know, on this there will be 1600 people were comes to this platform. it has to be very strong. the former president, joins you, governors, and the diplomatic corps. one of whic

james capretta, ethics and public policy center fell and visiting scholar at aei.re these potential domestic cuts under sequestration devastating or manageable? guest: somewhere in between. not a good idea. they would be very deep cuts. an 8% cut across the board is a very significant one time cut for any program to sustain in the immediate year. so they're not a good idea. would it be the end of the world? no. there would be a downsizing of a lot of services across the government in terms of the domestic accounts. there would be fewer services being provided. there would be reduced federal employees. some grant programs that would take carand hair cut of 5% or 1. the economy would go on and the government would go on. the public would still continue to get serviced by and large. host: can agencies manage this? guest: we have managed sequesters in the past, but not of this size. this would be the biggest one of my knowledge we have had, a onetime cut across the board like this. i am against allowing the sequestered to occur. we should be trying to make cuts in prog

james capretta ethics and public policy center and visiting scholar at aei. let me begin with you. are these potential domestic cuts under sequestration devastating or manageable? >> guest: somewhere in between. not a good idea. they would be very deep cuts, you know, an 8% cut across the board is a very significant one-time cut for any program to sustain in immediate year period. so they're not a good idea. would it be the end of the world, no? >> host: what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, i mean there would be downsizing of a lot of services across the government in terms of the domestic accounts. so it would be fewer services being provided. there would be reduced federal employees. some grant programs would take a haircut of five, 10%. so there would be downsizing of the services provided by the federal government. but the economy would go on and the government would go on and the public would still continue to get by and large served. >> host: can agencies manage this? have they in the past? >> guest: we have managed sequesters in the past, not of this size. this would be

can host: isabel sawhim and james capretta. mr. capretta, let me begin with you. are these sequester cuts devastating? guest: they would be deep cuts. 80% cut across the board is a very significant one-time cut for any program to sustain in the immediate year period. so they're not a good idea. would it be the end of the world? no. host: what do you mean by that? guest: there would be a downsizing of a lot of services across the government in terms of domestic accounts. so there would be fewer services being provided. there would be reduce in federal employees. some grant programs would take a haircut of 5%, 10%. so there would be some downsizing of the services that are provided by the federal government. but the economy would go on and the government would go on and the public would still continue to get by and large serviced. host: can agencies manage this? have they in the past? guest: we've managed squesters in the past. not of this size. this would be a pretty big -- this would be the biggest one to my knowledge across the board cut. i am against just allowi