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power. it will allow the pentagon to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget. rick santorum heads to new hampshire primary with a million dollar boost from iowa. source close to the campaign says that santorum raised more than $1 million after finishing second in the iowa caucuses. santorum, he is attending a faith, family and freedom town hall meeting in northfield, new hampshire. that is happening this hour. he's trying to position himself as the main conservative challenger to mitt romney. let's go to the white house. i understand the president is there at the po...

Announcement today. america is now cutting the military, he is proposing the administration is, to help make us a super power since levels not seen before world war ii. joining me now, chairman of the house armed services committee. mr. chairman, good to see you. and so your reaction to the announcement. we're about 570,000 wartime troops we had at its peak. we were expected to take a cut down to about 490,000. and now chuck hagel announcing today it will be more like 440 to 450,000 in terms of the level. >> thank you for having me on, megyn, you know, this is not news. i've been saying this f...

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Can understand this type of budget being put forward. if you look at greece which a lot of us are. some people would say it's apples and oranges but it took decades to get to the place where greece is. pentagon something forward is a statement of priority, did putting forward something is statement of priority. if you want to cut spending in certain places like defense, make the case for it but if it's an exercise in futility, if you know the congress isn't going to do anything with it. if the senate democrats aren't going to put forward the president's budget, you don't know what the presiden...