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And pay for it somewhere. >> the budget goes hand in hand with that. so exhibit a, the following sound bite. take a listen to president trump yesterday. >> we have to win. we have winning wars again. when i was young in high school and college, everybody used to say, we never lost aer with a. we never lost a war. you remember. and now we never win a war. we never win. and we don't fight to win. we don't fight to win. so we have to win or don't fight it at all. >> so we're talking about specifically an increase of $54 billion for defense spending. we can throw up the basic numbers there. your t...

Care of veterans and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the topline defense discretionary number is $603 billion, that is a 50 for billion dollar increase, one of the largest increases in history. it is also a number that allows the president to keep his president to undo the military sequester, topline nondefense number will be $452 billion, as a $54 billion savings, the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan administration. the reductions in nondefense spending follow the same model as the president keeping...

Comes out and says i want less money for police departments but they're pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if you're trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and here's what it's going to go for, what's the answer? >> readiness. in one word that's the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. they're actually functional, ready to go out and hit the ground. following up on robert's points on the n...

This just in to cnn. sources telling cnn the president signed off on checking the phones of white house staffers in a crackdown on leaks. white house press secretary sean spicer checked phones for encrypted apps and other messages that may have been used to contact reporters. we will have jake tapper having more on that story in a moment. defense secretary james mattis has been meeting with key members of the national security council to discuss their proposed plan to accelerate the fight to defeat isis. president trump gave his generals 30 days to produce this ramped up plan. this as we are...

Rely on the secret service to make those determinations. they continue to do a phenomenal job make shurg that the first family and the president and vice president are protected. we have full confidence in the decisions they make. so, thank you, guys, very much. we'll have a briefing tomorrow -- later today on the state -- what's that? >>. time? >> i would look in the 6:00 hour. >> here? >> yes, here. i get to see you here. again. i would plan on around 6:00. we'll have further guidance. i don't anticipate it being long. off-camera we'll walk throughout themes of the speech, take any questions...