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The defense is 14.7% of the federal budget. that's obviously not fair, but it's also not smart. >> we are now as a share of the economy heading to 3% of gdp. we are up to 4.7% in 2010. do you think we have to go back to those levels? >> we just looked at dollars and cents for the next fiscal year. if you want to fix the planes, get the ships back in the water. add to the end strength of the army like the president proposed. it would take about $640 billion for fiscal year 18. that is obviously about $40 billion more than the white house floated. if you don't want to do all those things you nee...

Of individuals and businesses, they'll deal with those details. from a defense standpoint, we certainly need increased spending and both atd the senate and the house with senator mccain and chairman thornberry, they are proposing a 640 billion baseline, 50 more billion than what the president is recommending. >> you took part in the planning and execution of operations around the world, including iraq. you recently authored the review for the heritage foundation that recommended the increase in the size of the military. president trump has endorsed one of the suggestions to add more active dut...

Billion doesn't go far enough and won't allow the navy to build 82 new ships and submarines. president trump's defense budget is $603 billion but senator john mccain and congressman thornberry want $640 billion to rebuild the force. more than 100 retired admirals and generals signed a letter warning against slashing the state department budget and foreign aid to boost the defense budget. jim mattis cautioned four years ago if you don't fund the state department fully then i need to buy more ammunition. >> shannon: the pr also using the phrase radical islamic terrorism despite some pushback on ...

Correspondent hans nichol joins us live from the white house. boy, has this got people talking on both sides of the aisle. these remarks came after he said yesterday we have to start winning wars again and then there's this surprising pushback from more than 120 generals, right? >> the generals are talking about what reflects the reality that war fighters need diplomats and diplomats need war fighters. it's an acknowledgement across the military. you heard secretary mattis make that point. fewer diplomats means i need to buy more bullets. even with the 30 billion that president trump is talkin...

Syria. it's likely to include more troops on the grounds, heavy weapons systems and the include of safe zones for refugees in syria for set fly zone. all of the options will be weighed by the president. the pentagon is lowering expectations. >> shepard: the president raving expectations in the increase in the defense budget. >> that's right, shep. the white house says the president wants to spend an additional $54 billion open defense, which sounds like a lot, but the hill says the $54 billion sounds like a big increase but a 3% rise from what president obama wanted for 2018. the chairman of t...