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Funding reduction of almost 29%. isnt that going to mak t zwrob of secretary tillerson a lot harder and possibly lead to more conflicts involving our armed forces? >> secretary tillerson talks about efficiencies. if you are talking about a 5% cut, maybe at a 10% cut, youre talking about efficiency. when you are talking about something approaching 30%, youre not cutting fat. youre cutting muscle. the real issue is what is the state department currently doing that its not going to do in the future...

Institutes for health. why? thank you. why? because we think theres been mission creep we think they do things outside their fund. theres tremendous opportunity for savings, a couple of facilities we recommend be combined and this comes back to the presidents business view. if you look at this on a spreadsheet and say why do we have seven when we can do the same job with three and the answer is yes, so part is focussing on efficiency and doing what we do better and with regard to climate change,...

>> martha, thats true. dont forget where we are. this is after many years of budget sequestration, their barges have been quite dumb at caught radically. >> martha: the defense budget has been cut radically, nothing else. >> no, it was all non-defense budgets were cut other than the entitlement programs. the programs have been cut really deeply already for many years. now, this is going to go below the bone and into real muscle. >> martha: how can that be? we have more tax dollars going into the...

>> martha, thats true. dont forget where we are. this is after many years of budget sequestration, their barges have been quite dumb at caught radically. >> martha: the defense budget has been cut radically, nothing else. >> no, it was all non-defense budgets were cut other than the entitlement programs. the programs have been cut really deeply already for many years. now, this is going to go below the bone and into real muscle. >> martha: how can that be? we have more tax dollars going into the...

Which was the efforts to deal with carbon pollution and there also going to be an effort to roll back the second round of gains that the administration had achieved in agreement with the auto industry on improving fuel economy and mileage efficiency from cars. this is going to be one of the biggest domestic fights and international fights because whether or not the administration formally with draws from the paris agreement which was again an extraordinary coming together of the world around thi...

They have a lot on their mind. a lot. so the white house press secretarys office might have taken a little bit of a shortcut in crafting a statement on exxonmobils expansion into the gulf coast. thats a big company that they have a press office, too. >> in fact, tillersons company. >> rex came from exxon. they apparently used identical wording from energy giants news release. check out similarities in these highlighted sections on new project and investment with the exception of some minor chang...

Short trip, but another planet. do they speak a different language here or something? >> judith: yes, its a different dialect. >> anthony: its not an accent. the actual words are different. >> judith: yes. >> heinz: the words are different, the spelling is different, and also the meaning of some words. >> anthony: and the beer. most importantly the beer is different. >> heinz: and the beer. yes. in cologne we have a pale beer, a light beer, and here we have really dark beer. >> anthony: right. >...

Mission go in the same manner again. we need to look and see what happened, the president seems to say he didnt authorize the mission but yet he did. we need to take a look and see whats going on there. >> let me ask you this. this is part of a posture towards counterterrorism, the use of targeted kill teams, sometimes through drones, sometimes through air power, sometimes through deployment of ground troops in raids such as this. that was vastly expanded during the obama administration. what do...

Trillion since the crisis. bank loans have been growing 70% or 80% since the bottom. we have too much debt in this economy. i agree, dodd-frank should go. its a disaster. we dont need it. it will only help bank profits. it will not create more loans to a small business guy who is going to start a company. we have all the venture capital you could need in the world with this boom that is going on in the stock market. nothing is wanting for capital. thats a myth. so, deregulation is important but ...

A time we most need it. this spending will be paid for by finding greater savings and efficiency across the government. were going to do more with less. >> do the numbers add up. the committee told andrea mitchell she doesnt see how. watch this. >> if youre in a hole, stop digging. but the place he looking to pay for things are the smallest areas of the budget. so you cannot finance big increase in defense spending or whats on the books if youre going to look at tiny sli they are of the budget. ...