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0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced we'll implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u.s. troops who remain there by january 15th. on january 15th he announced there were 2500 troops le...

Terror which we did in many ways but you know who didn't lose? defense contractors. a new study at the progressive institute for studies calculated at least $7.2 trillion went to military contracts since 9/11 and as you mentioned the house just passed a $768 billion defense spending bill. apparently we can't afford money for child care or universal pre-k or expanding medicaid. >> when we think defense we should be thinking defending ourselves against the climate catastrophe that is creating an extinction event on this planet. that is what defense should mean. it should be defense against white...

A new study at the progressive institute for studies calculated at least $7.2 trillion went to military contracts since 9/11 and as you mentioned the house just passed a $768 billion defense spending bill. apparently we can't afford money for child care or universal pre-k or expanding medicaid. >> when we think defense we should be thinking defending ourselves against the climate catastrophe that is creating an extinction event on this planet. that is what defense should mean. it should be defense against white supremacists and people who would tear down and destroy our democracy. that would b...

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...