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They know how important it is. last week president trump a thoupbss his top line budget for the pen pentagon was $700,000. cutting defense by 5% from the current $716 billion. now he wants $750 billion. the turn around came after lunch with defense secretary and the arms services chair men last week. >> the president of the united states comes in at a low number its guaranteed the congress wont increase the number. particularly if you have people in the congress expressing doubt whether or not t...

Here today that america can afford survival. rob: iraq veteran who says cutting defense would be disservice to troops and americans they serve, we will talk about that coming up next not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. hello! im an idaho potato farmer. did you ever notice that the very first bite of every great meal is always the potato? thats why it should a...

Economic growth? theyre not talking about cutting defense. theyre talking about cutting programs and government spending in areas that are just not programs. they deal with people. if those folks lose their jobs that just happen to be in the government, which means they then cant spend their paychecks in communities which has a ripple effect, but i leave it to the economist. >> theres two di mentions to what jonathan was just saying. first of all, youre right, when you start cutting too deeply, ...

Storm, you may still be only creating 150,000 new jobs a month. thats terrible. thats a very bad number. thats a number which suggests a very weak underlying economy. now, you fast forward to january 1, were raising taxes january 1. do you want to do that? >> brian: cutting defense. >> were probably going to cut defense. were definitely raising taxes, payroll tax holiday is gone. were raising taxes on everybody. do you want to do that at a time when the economy is fundamentally weak? raise taxes...

Street before they cobble together something akin to kicking it down the road again. they gave themselves a ticking time bomb and now they look like inspector clouseau trying to take it apart. >> neil: ben stein? >> other than raising taxes, it doesnt terrify me to see the taxes going up on the screen, what terrifies me cutting defense. id much rather see the taxes go up than cutting defense. and president obama gave a speech, my way or the highway. >> he said exactly the opposite, i mean, im li...

the massacre inside that colorado movie theater now appears to be only part of the horror that was planned. a law enforcement official who seen video of the suspect, james holmes booby trapped apartment tells cnn it was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline. the source says that would have created a fireball knocking out walls engulfing the entire building in flames undoubtedly killing many more people. cnns ed lavandera is joining us now once again fro...

Cutting defense and kprech tax reform that raises more revenues. >> im saving $123 billion often years. tell me why thats not true? >> because basically the congressional budget office is required by law to assume that whatever congress says they will do they will do. for example, if they say that they are going to cut spending in medicare, if they say that they are going to end up cutting physician payments, if they say they will not allow the subsidies that the federal government is giving to ...

Proactive case for this government as what we need. we need $3.8 trillion every year as a minimum threshhold. we need to go to historically unprecedented levels of gdp -- were going to spend 25% of gdp of government forever because were getting twice as much government ten years ago thats important to do but hes not making that case. hes making a 99% case, fair share case, its an emotional appeal in an election year, hes not making a proactive case for the government right now -- >> i want to ta...