Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170227:14:04:00
Adviser and casey hunt is on capitol hill. casey, i'm going to get to you in a moment. ali, i want to start with you. can we afford increasing? >> depends on how you think about it. president obama made it $661 billion. we are talking somewhere between $40 billion and $90 billion increase in military spending. when you look at that and add the stuff to homeland security and the intelligence agencies, you are looking at cuts across the board to all other agencies of 6% to 7%, maybe 9%. there are going to be a lot of problems in congress. democrats certainly won't support those kind of cuts. a l...