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Meanwhile, afghan president hamid karzai is not favoring general petraeus plan to recruit villagers into local defense programs as part of the u.s. military strategy in afghanistan. karzai fears the plans could make the country more vulnerable to out of control militias. still no official confirmation of a second body pulled from the delaware river is that of a missing hungarian male tourist that surfaced while crews worked on removing a sunken duck boat in philadelphia. meanwhile, the first bod...

On with us tomorrow. well have a group of fishermen on with us and the attorney representing 500 of these fishermen to say whats going on down there with the money. >> coming up, small businesses say theyre being devastated. the small businesses in the gulf about this drilling moratorium. how bad theyre getting hurt and what their message is to the president coming up. >> in the meantime, we have the rest of your headlines and we start with the fox news alert. were awaiting video out of afghanis...

Nuclear summit. what he was really doing was making fun of our president saying that our defense programs are just a joke. jon: this is a president who was elected, though, on a promise to sit down with the iranians. >> right. and, you know, one of the undiscussed reasons of why iran really wants a bomb is if you want to sup rest internal dissent, be a nuclear power. the first reason ahmadinejad wants a bomb is they can crush all internal dissent forever, and they get a get out of jail free card...

Again, there was a pre-existing deficit that was there when the president stepped into office. we think that this is the best way forward and we hope that members of congress will step forward with ideas just like some of the ideas we have in our budget. >> bottom line, over the past year, what mistakes do you think you have learned in the budget-making process and how are you guys trying to do things differently now? >> well, we have tried some things that didnt work so well and other things th...

Exempt from the budget freeze, its not exempt from budget common sense. its not exempt from looking for savings. we save money by eliminating unnecessary defense programs that do nothing to keep us safe. one example is the $2.5 billion that were spending to build c-17 transport aircraft. four years ago, the defense department decided to cease production because it had acquired the number requested. 180. yet every year since, congress has provided unrequested money for more c-17s that the pentago...

I am asking members of congress to do the same. im asking republicans and democrats alike to take a fresh look at programs theyve supported in the past to see what is working and what is not and trim back accordingly. like any business, we are also looking for ways to get more bang for our buck by promoting innovation, and cutting red tape. for example we consolidate 38 separate education programs into 11. and, last fall, we launched... solicit ideas from federal employees about how to make gove...

Be made online made it into our budget. i also want to note even though the department of defense is exempt from the budget freeze, its not exempt from budget common sense. its not exempt from looking for savings. we save money by eliminating unnecessary defense programs that do nothing to keep us safe. one example is the $2.5 billion that were spend iing to build c-17 transport aircraft. four years ago the defense department decided to cease production because it had acquired the number request...

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The bulk of the spending and the federal budget which is growing most rapidly. its the reason well have trillion dollar deficits. its the reason why theres no money leftover for domestic and defense programs. >> how about infrastructure? lets talk about promises to cut taxes, are all of those things dead right now? president trump said he would spend close to a trillion dollars on an infrastructure package. he wants to slice for most all americans. can you do that? is that feasible while maintai...

>> mattis was asked about the president-elects twitter habits, especially when complaining about the cost of defense programs. >> senator, its not my role to comment on the president-elect statements other than to say i believe it shows he is serious about getting the best bang for the dollar when it comes to defense dollars. >> using twitter as a means, not the most efficacious way to do that. >> the senate on the house both voted to give mattis a waiver to serve as defense secretary, the first...