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Recent scandal. one of npr's top managers caught on videotape calling republicans anti-intellectual and two-party members racist. the chief executive resigned amid the scandal of that. he is the world's largest man again. mexican businessman carlos slim. according to forbes, he added $20 billion more to his fortune in just the past year. this guy's moving along. he brings his total fortune here to a whopping $74 billion. and then bill gates and warren buffett, they round out the top three. six of the founders and investors behind facebook, they made the anl yule list, including mark zuckerbe...

Moscow. 79 billionaires there. new york, second, with 58 billionaires. that's according to the richest list from forbes magazine. the richest guy? that is mexican tycoon who retained the crown for the second year in a row and made more money than any of the other 1,209 billionaires. last year, this guy, this guy made $20.5 billion. and his take, his fortune now is $74 billion. that means in his fortune used to be just $53 billion or $54 billion and with just that little money he could not do anything but now he has $20 billion more so now it is easier for him. china doubled the number of billi...

Get my glasses out. >> that's a bad sign there, chip! >> [laughter] >> little fine print in the budget, mr. president. you said that this budget is not going to add to the credit card as of about the middle of the decade. and as robert gibbs might say, i'm not a budget expert and i'm not an economist, but if you could just explain to me how you can say that when if you look on page 171, which i'm sure you've read, it is the central page in this, the decifits go from $1.1 trillion, down to $768 billion, and they go down again, all the way to $607 billion, in 2015, then they start to creep up ag...

Actually i'm going to have to see get my glasses out to read. >> that's a bad sign there, chip. >> a little fine print on the budget, mr. president. you said that this budget is not going to add to the credit card as of about the middle of the decade, and as robert gibbs might say, i'm not a budget expert and i'm not an economist, but if you could just explain to me how you can say that when if you look on page 171, which i'm sure you've read, it is the central page in this, the deficits go from $1.1 trillion down to $768 billion, and they go down again all the way to $607 billion in 2015. the...

Military spending, does the pentagon's budget need to be cut? if so, by how much? >> i don't think there's any question that reductions can be made in the pentagon's budget. while still keeping us safe. there are plenty of places to find efficiencies within the department odefense budget, no question about that. secretary gates has stepped up and started that process. he put $174 billion in cuts over five years on the table a couple weeks ago as a starting point. i think we need to look for efficiencies everywhere in the budget, and the pentagon certainly can't be excluded. it's about 19% of t...