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Because the president proposes more spending on things like education, clean energy, high speed rail, things that will keep us competitive with the rest of the world. part of his plan to win the future. >> and to make sure that we can afford these investments, were going to have to get serious about cutting back on those things that would be nice to have but we can do without. thats what families across the country do every day. they live within their means and they invest in their families futu...

Agencys budgets by 20% including the f.d.a., i.r.s., department of commerce, h.u.d., and so on. even cutting some money that president obama would send to the pentagon. >> half our budget is military spending. we have weapon systems we dont use. were spending $1 million a year in afghanistan. megyn: why cant we agree on any of this and tighten the belt instead of raising the limit on the credit card? >> the agreements should have happened a long time ago. at this point, its too late not to raise...

They fought for the tax breaks for the top 2%. they want to eliminate the estate tax. a trillion dollars in tax breaks over a ten-year period going to the top three-tenths of 1%. we are also spending too much on the military. a lot of weapon systems are geared towards fighting the soviet union and the cold war. soviet union doesnt exist anymore. we can make cuts there. we cannot balance the budget on lower income people who are hurting. the rich are getting much richer while the middle class is ...

Changer-type technology in terms of balance of power. >> one thing is certain, the israelis are not laughing about the nuclear react, or the new weapons or any of this. >>reporter: with the power plant coming online, delivering the nuclear fuel to the plant to get it up and running and now the new weapon systems "ambassador of death," israelis danger that as a direct threat. if they do not travel directly from iran to israel, if they were to give them to hezbollah, hamas, that would obviously ge...

Why, you know, we believe that if iran continues on the path that its on that i actually, you know, might find less secure because you have countries in the reasoning that have joined together to off set irans growing capabilities. >> but crowley acknowledged the new weapon systems that the iranians are arming themselves with are a cause of some heart burn there in the region, shep. >> shepard: not some new weapons system but attack bows today? what do we know about these. >> thats right. the on...

At industrial spying and getting plans and information on weapon systems and other technological advances the united states has over russia. but the nationalst security threat assessment over the last couple years has identified cyber hacking and cyber security as being a place where we are most vulnerable to spying. its russian hacksers and computer analysts who may be living in the united states that are probably where there is the most threat of them getting valuable information. rick: do you...

Waste. you have legacy costs with entitlement fringes within the pentagon that you have to address. then theres the weapon systems that were designed to fight the 20th century battles, the cold war battles that because theyre built in peoples congressional districts we keep building the things. we have to go after those things. they dont make sense. we have to make sure if were going to deploy troops, whether you want to or not, that were deploying them with what they need. they need the equipme...

And the weapons, we dont focus on the nature of the regime. the nature is more fragile than the weapon systems. the day that woman nada was shot, thats when they lost their legitimacy. >> david sanger, what are the big questions though about disarmament that came up in the course of the interview and what you talked to the president about recently? >> what i thought was interesting about what secretary gates said to you and what president obama said when we went in to interview him last week on ...

Too much on the nuclear regime and the weapons, we dont focus on the nature of the regime. the nature is more fragile than the weapon systems. the day that woman nada was shot, thats when they lost their legitimacy. >> david sanger, what are the big questions though about disarmament that came up in the course of the interview and what you talked to the president about recently? >> what i thought was interesting about what secretary gates said to you and what president obama said when we went in...

As kathleen said, thats a process, not an end. you can engage people, but if theyre stuck in their views, the way iranians are, the way hamas is, pakistanis, youre not going to get very far. you have to have a further view about what end state you want. i always thought the problem with the iran policy, we focus too much on the nuclear regime and the weapons, we dont focus on the nature of the regime. the nature is more fragile than the weapon systems. the day that woman nada was shot, thats whe...