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National security strategy. 100 billion, when you look at the waste, fraud, and abuse inherent in the pentagon budget that has not even passed an audit yet, when you look at the defense contractors misuse in tax dollars, scamming the system, you cannot tell me that 100 billion will pamper. we had military experts show us and make sure that we understood that that is not going to touch any effort that would harm our troops, it is not going to make a dent in our ability to share national security. but what it will do is begin to address the abuse of taxpayer dollars so that we can have the resou...

National security. but what it will do is begin to address the abuse of taxpayer dollars so that we can have the resources here in our own country for education, and housing, and health care, for the climate, for all of the issues that the american people so deserve. 100 billion out of 858 billion versus 64 billion for diplomacy, for preventing wars, come on. this is a modest measure. and i have been working on this not recently this has been for 25 years. and we are building support around the country for this, but it is not an issue around national security. it is an issue about misuse of ta...

>> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you. with the war now entering its second year at the u.s. continue to provide rockets, guns, and ammunition, there is a growing concern that the u.s. might not have enough military hardware to defend itself and its allies if needed. cbs's david martin is at the pentagon, what a recent war games showed the u.s. would run out of a key weapon while trying to stop a chinese invasion of taiwan. >> reporter: the production line at the lockheed martin plant in arkansas is gearing up to turn out one new rocket every 10 minutes. it's part of a $30 billion in weapons th...

Elections. when he was asked about why he did that just days after the election he said the idea sounded plausible and sounded pretty sophisticated. he wanted people to look into it. >> he didn't remember so many other things. caitlyn, we need you to run through it. the we appreciate the reporting. president biden has signed the $1.7 trillion spending bill into law while vacationing in saint croix. it has $858 billion in defense spending and roughly $45 billion in emergency assistance to ukraine and nato allies. still ahead, could the chinese president soon be headed to moscow. more on vla...

Say this, $858 billion this year all for protecting the citizenry of the country, but i ask the question, 20 years ago, it was only $320 becillion. i wonder how much this is going to go going forward. neil: good points all. have a merry christmas and appreciate your help. in the meantime, if you think the price of pork is going crazy, have you seen the price of real pork? and beef? and hot dogs and oreo cookies? wow, after this. cole hauser is an award winning actor. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers foundation. i was able to spend some time with col...