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Declassified information that was mistakenly un -- declassified, i mean, what's your reaction on, on this line getting out and being a read in the committee meetings? >> well, i think it's good for the american people to understand how tenuous this situation is. and how important it is for us to have a strong defense. our focus has been on the middle east, on iran, and then the president talks about shifting to a specific strategy. he cut $487 billion out of our defense on top of the $78 billion that was cut by secretary gates, and then the sequestration, another $500 billion. and the budget t...

Already cut out by the administration in terms of defense. >> he is reit. secretary gates took out $550 billion on hisnobody talk. f 22s, next generation bombers. combat search and rescue you helicopters. ships. the combat army fcs. so that has been done and then we were just levied another $487 billion and we all know today that harry reid on monday could pass a bill if he wanted to just like he did for obama care but you harry reid is saying the military is not important enough for me to pass a bill. he hasn't done it for over 400 days. i'm apolit cal on this issue but i know when a bill has...

Already cut out by the administration in terms of defense. >> he is reit. secretary gates took out $550 billion on his own. nobody talked about it. f 22s, next generation bombers. combat search and rescue you helicopters. ships. the combat army fcs. so that has been done and then we were just levied another $487 billion and we all know today that harry reid on monday could pass a bill if he wanted to just like he did for obama care but you harry reid is saying the military is not important enough for me to pass a bill. he hasn't done it for over 400 days. i'm apolit cal on this issue but i kno...

Scenario, would have required a two-thirds vote to override those decisions of the president. turns the constitution on its head, in my view, and i say that with respect to my republican colleagues. this is a dangerous world. you saw this morning, north korea, the tensions are there. the sent finals are spinning in tehran. one of these places could explode at any moment. we're going to have further cuts? we've already had $487 billion in cuts in defense taking place as we speak. >> steve: we're running out of time, but it looks to some like the republican party might actually have a winner on ...

Not adding up and you're starting to see a level of ridiculousness coming out of washington d.c. that really has caused the american people a lot of concern. >> well, the other day or the other week, it was announced that the trueman aircraft carrier would not be deployed to the persian gulf because of money, because of sequestration. do you buy that that was a legitimate reason, are they short of cash? are we short of cash in our defense? >> absolutely. because one of the things you have to understand, part of the budget control act was 487 billion dollars of cuts to the department of defense...