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The last five years. >> claim veterans among funding has been boosted to record levels. true, the v.a.'s budget request for this year is $164 billion, way up from a few years back when it was $113 billion. what is missing? the white house facing overall budget issues may not yet be asking for enough to provide promise services to all the vets from iraq and afghanistan, according to some veterans advocates. >> as they say in the army, failing to plan is planning to fail. and it is clear the v.a. has failed to plan for the numbers of troops and vets that it was going to be services for years now...

Matter, strategic interest matters zero sum game, i win you lose. >> let's take a look at the numbers. the 2015 budget $495 billion. that is a redirection of 113 billion of what we planned last year. 450,000 fewer troops and the smallest army since 1940. this is not the military that i want or the congress wants for america's future but it is the path we are on unless congress does something to change the law. it is also a complicated effort to expand the fear of military influence into asia. thank you. doug. >> oo remember when the president warned a growing

President, the president takes a day or two off and plays golf. it doesn't matter whether it's president obama -- >> would you have advised him to do it? >> the first president bush going fishing. i think you've got to give these guys a little time off. mostly they're working 20 hours a day. >> would you have advised him to do it this weekend, sir? >> i was never in the position to advise presidents on what they did on weekends. >> a very diplomatic answer. >> final lirks defense secretary hagel announced the pentagon budget for 2015 this week. i'm going to lay out some of it. it is $495 billi...

Meanwhile, entitlement numbers up and up and up. fair? >> a huge mistake. the administration is asking for $113 billion in cuts to the defense budget over the next five years compared to what they proposed the defense spending be last year. if you look at it in terms of the gross domestic product, this is the way a lot of economists look at it and a lot of defense experts, we're cutting essentially from the high in 2011, 40% of the purchasing power in the military. >> that's the only thing this president wants to cut, ever. >> yeah, look, i think this is -- the bad news is he wants to do it. t...

19 million americans smoked pot last year alone. they estimate the marijuana market at $113 billion. that is expected to keep growing as more and more states look to capture pot dollars through legalizing the use recreationagely, colorado and washington state, along with the 20 states making it legally used for medical purposes. the obama administration just announcing the feds will basically look the other way in states which decriminalize pot usage. in other words, you can be high as a kite in the mile high city and they're cool with that. additionally, the pro-pot lobby points out that savi...