We will discuss this with key members of Congress Later this morning. That is our topic for the first 35 minutes and our phone lines are now open. The numbers are you can also reach out to us online. \ attwitter youc a can find us cspanwj. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. Chuck hagel and Martin Dempsey are expected to brief the press at 1 p. M. Eastern on the details on this budget. A number of articles have leaked out. The pentagon Budget Proposal proposes it will also cut subsidies for military commissaries. And it will eliminate the air a10 attack aircraft. On facebook you can reach out to us on facebook. Com cspan. First call comes from gainesville, virginia. Caller good morning. I have a comment. The u. S. Economy is coming out of a deep recession. Whens 1. 2 trillion president obama took over, it is now town to 200 billion. It is way past due be cut paramilitary to a comfortable level. They will continue to fight and we will be wasting money cutting wasting money doing their wars for them. The time we focus on Infrastructure Program with the same money and hope that the republicans can come on board and support president obamas programs. Thank you so much. Host more details of the pageant on of the pentagon budget request. Officials acknowledged that budget cuts will pose greater risks on the armed forces if they are some again, ordered to carry around carry out largescale military action. There would be a larger number of casualties. Our next call comes from new orleans. Allen is on our line for independents. Good morning. One of the things i would like as adress is the entire retired military person, i retired from the active military in 1984. I did not realize how much they had taken away as for the we are not getting everything we promised. Wife has been a military wife for all that time. Recently we discovered that she was thrown out of she had a in they threw me out because i had not registered for medicare. I had no idea, they didnt tell me that. When i went to the doctor and even though i had my insurance from my second job, i discovered i was no longer covered by military. When i saw them looking into it they said i have not signed up. Or medicare be i dont think that is right because i served in combat zones for two straight years. I dont think they are being fair to the military. Most of these guys do not make enough money to do anything anyway. I would like to hear comments from other people. One other thing before i leave, i have had some young men who lived in michigan. I have been seeing these kids in my sleep at night. I dont think that parents know what happened to them. Sergeants. Ied as it was in the 129 assault helicopter company. Sleep. Ep appearing in my their parents dont know what happened to them. More details coming for us on the pentagon proposal a fiveyear plan will boost Pentagon Spending why a total of chuck hagelillion. On monday will preview the plan along with other key items, billion 215 Budget Proposal. Next call comes in from texas, james is on our line for does on our line for independents. Caller i cannot believe how far down this country has sunk. I am a 100 disabled veteran. I put myself on the line for my country. I came out severely disabled. They are talking about cutting the benefits for military. Why dont we cut the benefits for those people that are on welfare . There are five percent of our population that is disabled. So many of them are young and on welfare. I cannot understand why we are hurting our veterans that put their life on the line to preserve our freedom . This country is sinking so low. One day we are not going to have the country. If we ask youind a quick question. A lot of militaries have said the department is having a long having a hard time balancing that. The weapon systems are outdated. We have a lot of people. A lot of our active duty military. They do not get enough pay. They now have to pay for the benefits for the retired military. A lot of our soldiers are on food stamps. We need to cut the food stamps for drug addicts and alcoholics on welfare. If you cut off all the drug ,ddicts and all the alcoholics they put their savings onto the military and take another 50 of the remainder and put it on the national debt, this country would not be in the problem we are in. That is all i have to say. I thank you very much for taking my call. Are on twitter. Lets go to a cut of comments there. That to a couple of comments there to a couple of comments there next caller from louisville, ohio. Rick is on the line for independents. Caller what is amazing is that last caller, a lot of times you get racist bigots from the south on the air. I am an author, i am a labor activist. If you go back to the state of texas, the last five wars that have been started by texas these are the facts. The Largest Military base in the free world is in texas. In other half a dozen small military bases are in texas. Never a texan get elected it started with texans in the white house. War, we sell about more arms to everybody in the world combined. Now you have brainwashing about the military. Our troops in iraq and afghanistan are fighting for our freedom. That is a lie. Maliciousver there as breed before the war in iraq, there,the war got us halliburton was five dollars per share. It was going bankrupt. Now you cannot separate oil from more. Taxes and oil, texas and more. All texas and war. All of a sudden you have cuts. On budget there are rogue states, religious extremists. Of they put our religious extremism they put our religious extremism against the extremism in the middle east. Basis to talk about the pentagon. The pentagon is about religious extremists in the south. Host a couple of comments from facebook this morning. Next up is paul in clearfield, pennsylvania. He is a retired servicemember. Caller the morning, maam. Good morning, maam. I am a threeyear marine veteran three year veteran in the United States air force. Yes, we get paid better than we used to, i agree. The we still did not get paid enough to compensate for the things we have to pay. These young kids are living off base. It is all it is outrageous. They do not have a lot to go on, talk about cutting the commissary. Thats hard to believe. There are many, many Weapons Systems. I can go to the pentagon and tell them to cut much much more pentagon budget than what they are presently looking at. There is such a waste in systems. We destroyed munitions by the tons that we couldve possibly used in other things. Day10 and the the a10 aircraft is a nicehagel gentleman but he has no idea what is going on in the United States. Host one of the proposals that has leaked is the secretary is in favor of getting rid of the a10. You think we should keep its . Caller by all means. We dont have anything to eliminate to fill the void we are limiting. The f16 is not going to be able to do that. I dont know where the f35 is at. It is suffering some way difficulties that i dont know how practical it will be to get it. We have proven that the a10 i sths the only way to go. Or replace it with another airplane that is capable. There are all kinds of ways we cnan cut the military without troops. The i suffer from agent orange and theres not enough money in the world to get me back to my health. Take care. Storyand other defense making headlines this morning in the Washington Post next call is on the line for democrats. He is a retired servicemember as well. Myler thank you for taking call. Of country is falling apart. We have tens of thousands of bridges in dire need of repair and rebuilding. We can put millions of people to work rebuilding electric grids and new schools all over our country. Health care for everyone, universal health care. All this if we would quit spending trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars in the middle east. According to a may 18 article in the valley times by david the u. S. Spent 6 trillion on the iraq war. Since iraq we have spent money on libya and now we are in syria undermining that country. Being these countries are undermined and the stabilized, including the ukraine. Host our next call is from mary. For getting the truth out and a wonderful job about the truth. Off. Sorry that you cut him my son is in the air force. He makes good money. Hes got good vacation. My suggestion would be for the be a part of medicare and blended together instead of having separate medicare for the troops. That concerns me. He was talking about agent orange, it needs to be all one. Universal health care for everybody. Thank you for your time. Att a gallup poll looking the reception of americans the reception of americans at president obamas world standing. Chart is back from 2009 22014. The most recent poll this year, 41 of those surveyed say they respect president obama and 53 say they do not. Tracks from 2009 all the way to present day. Kevin in is from belmont, north carolina. Hes a republican and a retired servicemember. Caller thank you. I want to straight out straighten out the crazy guy from ohio who blamed texas. The vietnam war was started by kennedy, who was from massachusetts. It is sad that these kids join the military for all this time and get paid hardly nothing. Their benefits are nothing. I retired it makes that statement higher and make 50,000 on the pension for the rest of their life. We are never going to straighten this country up. They retired and make 50,000 on pension for the rest the life. We are never going to straighten this country up. Host we have a guest joining us. Thank you. Implications for the power of the Environmental Protection agency. Walk us through it. Guest this case is a challenge to one of the aspects of the regulations. Way gnificant in the they indicated that they are not theking about overturning Climate Change case. Said it could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It is a bit smaller than that. It focuses on whether the administration stretched the Clean Air Act a bit too much in trying to regulate certain types. Host this case is the consolidation of a challenge of the epa rule. Explain how they got meshed together and what we are likely to see. Were when the rules issued, obviously there was a industryposition from groups and from republican leaning states, such as texas. It in muchallenged across the board. Court in washington, who heard it first, pretty much rejected all those claims. Actually alsourt did not take up much is did not take up most of their claims. That is the only issue that will be at stake in this case today. Host what are you expecting to hear from this mornings argument seattle walk us through some of the details that are likely to be brought up. Guest it will be a highly technical argument about the complex laid about the complex language of the Clean Air Act. We guy we might get some indication of how far the justices are looking to push this, whether it is going to be extremely narrow or might be a bit further, which could have a impact on the ability of the Environmental Protection agency to use certain parks of the act. Certain parts of the act. They suggest congress isnt likely to update that law anytime soon. Would you agree or disagree . Guest that is one of the problems generally. If you are looking at it from the Obama Administrations , they are stuck with the Clean Air Act as was written. It wasnt written to deal with Greenhouse Gas emissions. Haveway the legal issues arisen because they are trying to use an old law to combat a new problem. Host when is the court expected to make a ruling on this particular issue . Guest we will expect a ruling by the end of june. Say Lawrence Hurley is Supreme Court correspondent for thomson reuters. Our topic is the budget cuts proposed by the pentagon. If you like to join our conversation, the number is back to her calls in magnolia springs, alabama. Caller i am a yankee. Racist. A to that other person, i am also not against the Jewish Community or any other ethnic or religious group. I am tired of the slurs. Stereotyping people because of the region they come from. I am grateful for the military. Where would we be without them . They are the first sacrificial lambs when it comes to budget cuts. I lost a very good friend to agent orange. The governor turned his back on them while he was the government turned its back on him. We cannot afford so much junk in this country. First of all we need our heroes in the military. Ohiopeople think that an we dont have to be afraid of being invaded. Look at what happened after pearl harbor. Military,navy, no nothing to train our troops with. Host next up, barry is on our line for democrats. He is a retired servicemember. Caller my main concern is that ever since we instituted a high pay we got a small professional military caste. We dont have the average citizens involved in the wars anymore. Personnel we spent on is so high that it is handicapping the military from by yang the equipment it needs. I have talked to career military officers since i have retired. I really love the draft really love the under the draft is that the you pay less of the citizenry is. Nvolved you cannot maintain a military when you are paying private soldiers thousands of dollars in the year. Back in the 60s and 70s, the average draft he had no family. They stayed in for one hitch and then they got out. Theres just way too much on personnel. I am glad to see chuck hagel is in there. Proud i am really proud to see he has made it. The perks for the general officers are getting almost obscene. We are way too gray way too high on officers. Host president obama is set to host governors at the white house. All signs are pointing to democrats and republicans talking past each other. Bobby jindal, a republican, set the tone for the meeting during an interview with a Washington Post reporter sunday afternoon. Our topic this morning is the budget cuts, announce formally later today. Our next caller comes from new york. Frank is on the line for republicans. Can you turn your tv down so we can hear you . Caller [indiscernible] inyou know and love soldiers america were killed in afghanistan. We need to have people in our country i see a lot of people who did not have enough money for their children. The government should expand this money in our country. After a while we can improve our economy situation. The point i want to tell about that is i was an employee. We did not have enough money for the children. [indiscernible] it just isnt fair. Because of that i think we should cut our budget for war. We should spend money in our country for other problems. Up is our line for independents. Caller [indiscernible] host are you with us seattle youre going to take another call from jacksonville, mississippi on our line for democrats. Caller the biggest peacetime military cut we ever had was in 1955. Then they opened up the louisiana. If you went to louisiana, your next stop was vietnam. The actual start of the vietnam 1954 when thee of french was defeated. By the time kennedy was elected president , there were about 8000 troops in there. That was the beginning of the vietnam war. Host vivian in tennessee is on the line for democrats. Caller good morning. No is and states has is sending troops in these Different Countries let the people mind their own business. From agentdied orange bit he suffered all those years. When they finally gave him that , my brother had cancer and he died. They want to go everywhere, spending money over there. If you want to do something, do some fighting. Why cant they control dope in these gangs and send the money back here to help the people you go they are doing everything they can to control other people. It is time to wake up, america. Host from twitter this morning bonus calls from a retired servicemember. Our next call is from a retired servicemember. Theyr i dont believe should do anything to hurt personnel of the United States army. But they should probably look getting some of these contractors. This military is becoming a corporate military. Some people believe i believe t corporations are making they really enjoy war because their profits go up. I think this thing about tricare. The bulls and the commissary it is just a smokescreen. It cost a lot to be a retiree. That is pretty much all i have to say. Host next up for azeri, robert is on the line. From missouri, robert is on the line. What do you think about the budget cut proposal . Caller i am a retired military, retired navy. I was in 20 years. Host what do you think . Caller i would like to say that these people in the war are volunteers. I was drafted and i went on. Something,e to say the waste that is going on in the military these people have given their lives for our country. The government is not paying for get out whento they get out. What im trying to say is they get hurt and they come back with legs off, arms off, and they are theyre inital there to recuperate. All of a sudden the money dries up in the v. A. And they have to make a decision. The decision is sending these out there giving their lives for our country they put them out to pasture. They wonder why they are alcoholics, drug addicts, and things like that. There is so much waste in the military. Too many high up officers in the military and not enough eve five cent e sixes. E6s. Andnough families, and their they need food stamps to live. In orange caller is city, florida. Washington journal. Caller if they cut spending, why dont they cut it from their own checks first . They want to take it from the military, from Social Security, from host are you still there . Caller yes, maam. They want to take it from food stamps. Why dont they take it out of their own pockets . Host a couple more comments from twitter our topic this morning, pentagons budget cuts. Toms on the line for republicans up next. Caller good morning. Number ofabout the personnel on defense. It is about using the technology. Deploying ourk at forces in areas where we get the most the lady that called and had a good point. Why dont we deploy our forces in south america and mexico, places where we can fight this drug war . At would give us a much better return on our investment. Focused technologies on boots on the ground but eyes on the sky as well. Thank you. Line fores is on our independents. Host it really takes away from the military. It tak