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Yes, sir. >>. >> you are going to at least ask the people in the defense department to take a look at their budget and say, hey, where can we at least cut or look and make sure that were spending the right amount of money? >> thats part of what secretary mattis and i have already talked. he is interesting in driving more efficiencies into the defense department. omb is also going to be involved with him on the precurement process. all of that will be incorporated in our larger budget in may. >> ...

These numbers will go out to the agencies today in a process that we describe as pass back. review from agencies due back to omb over the course of the next several days, and well spend the next week or so working on a final budget blueprint. we expect to have that number to congress by march 16th. that puts us on schedule for a full budget, including all the things i mentioned this one does not include, with all the larger policy issues in the first part of may. with that hell take a kwchl ques...

Pompeo. did you directly contact director pompeo and ask him to knock down the "new york times" story on the russia connection? >> thanks john. let me if i may walk through the entire time line. i think its important. amentioned i think a week ago the "new york times" published a story about what they call contacts between members of the trump campaign and russian officials testimony fbi deputy director was at a meeting here at the white house that morning. after the meeting concluded he asked t...

Process. that is not going to be easy, but i think through that were going to see increased economic growth. >> he wants an increased defense spending $54 billion. 10% hike. as you know, the united states already spends more on defense than the next seven or eight countries combined, including russia, china, iran, britain, france. all these other countries. at a time when the u.s. has so dramatically reduced foreign military involvement, going down from a couple of hundred thousand troops in ira...

They came back to us with other suggestions. thats what this process is. i think its fairly unusual for us to be coming to you this early in the process, but we want to let everybody know exactly where we were. snoo were not talking about a 2% or 3%. were talking about double digits. thats a lot. >> theres going to be a lot of programs. again, you can expect to see exactly what the president said he was going to do. foreign aid. the president said were going to spend less money overseas and more...

A speech the president gave or something the president has said previously. he simply will -- we are taking his words and turning them in to policies and dollars. we will be spending less overseas, and spending more back home. i forgot your second question. >> entitlements. >> entitlements. >> why not address entitlements, which is the biggest driver -- >> this is a budget blueprint, but some folks used to call it a skinny budget, and it would not be at all unusual for larger policy decisions, i...