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Resources and reform. do you agree with that? >> actually i do. again, i point out the resources here actually have grown much faster than almost any other area of government. theyve done it under a republican and democrat president alike. theyve done it in republican and democratic congresses alike. so i think getting a handle on this thing in an executive sense is really critical. i think congress is prepared to do its part in oversight and we clearly, again, the tools that secretary shinseki ...

The last five years. >> claim veterans among funding has been boosted to record levels. true, the v.a.s budget request for this year is $164 billion, way up from a few years back when it was $113 billion. what is missing? the white house facing overall budget issues may not yet be asking for enough to provide promise services to all the vets from iraq and afghanistan, according to some veterans advocates. >> as they say in the army, failing to plan is planning to fail. and it is clear the v.a. h...

His approval at 62%. and coming up, we will get an update from the police in overland park after the murder of three people by what is described a hate crime. a man is in custody after gunning down a grandfather and his grandson and another person. >> and people are asking why i am speaking and why people are asking to interview me, but i have a sense of peace about me that they are in heaven. >> meantime, the attorney general wants to use the shooting as proof that local police need more fundin...

The american people, but also to countries like the baltic states and poland and ukraine who are beginning to bend under putins pressure. the united states is disarming and putin is moving against eastern ukraine. that is not a good narrative, jenna. jenna: these are really serious topics. general scale, i appreciate when i ask you questions you sort of laugh and smile bit because it makes it easier to take in and think about. more of a friendly way to talk about it. general scales, thank you. s...

About how russia views all of this discussion about budget cuts right now? >> absolutely. in fact -- but, jon, it is important to remember that these budget hearings have been scheduled for some time. the cuts are not new. there has been talk of sequestration and deep budget cuts for several yearings, but -- years, but there is bipartisan concern about message being sent to russia right now and about the proposed defense cuts. >> the white house fact sheet on the key budget issues makes it clear...

Vladimer putin is sending forces in days after chuck hagel announced planned cuts to our nations military. jennifer griffin is life. isnt it risky to talk about defense budget cuts with regard to russia and ukraine? >> reporter: absolutely. but these budget hearings have been scheduled for a time and the cuts are not new. there has been talk of sequestration for years. >> the whitehouse is making it clear defense isnt a priority in the budget. and no one will argue the hard choices have to be ma...

Meantime, theres all this talk about where we have been and where were going on the budget. heres how the "washington post" wrote it, quote, with the 2015 budget request, obama will call for an end to the era of austerity. that has dogged much of his presidency. and to his efforts to find common ground with republicans. for more of this, lets bring in the panel. steve hayes, kirsten powers, and charles krauthammer. steve, i think a lot of people might say, really, age of austerity? >> yeah, this...

Drug addict and would support his daughters execution if she is found guilty. federal investigators releasing new documents revealing the pilot of a u.p.s. cargo yet told a co-worker his work schedule was, quote, killing him, a day before he and his co-pilot were killed in a crash in alabama last august. fox news alert now. the president set to drop social security reforms from his latest budget request. the white house saying his proposal wont include his past offer to accept lowered cost o...

Approach to meeting our fy 2014 budgetary responsibilities for funding the government, thats not a solution for veterans or for our nation. the budget request submitted by president obama nearly six months ago as a result of an extensive synchronized effort across agencies that produce a budget request that balanced priorities and risks. picking and choosing parts of government to fund would ignore two key drum beats that ive tried to deliver over the past four and a half years. the first is tha...

Budget request. supplemental money to cover the cost of this operation. remember, each tomahawk missile fired alone is $1.5 million apiece. if you look back at the libyan conflict, there were 211 tomahawks fired, so you do the math, and you are talking about an operation that will cost at least several hundred million dollars. here is republican senator james inhofe who is the leading republican on the senate armed services committee. >> most of them, many of them are not aware of whats happened...