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griff: that's a good one. he's definitely going to make the cut, because as you pointed out -- and i really hadn't thought hard, deep thoughts about the antlers, but we've got to get milk and cookies up there. oh, perfect, excellent. santa's going to like that. you were talking about the antlers. the antler didn't have one in the middle of its head. carley: one of the reindeer was very top-heavy with the one big antler. griff: i can't wait to touch one. we are moments away. carley: is there a difference between reindeer and caribou? griff: yes. one can fly around the globe and delive...

Administration and democrat-run congress has already spent over the last two years. and to make it even worse, we're not even talking about medicare, medicaid, social security and the interest on the department which is almost as large -- on the debt. that just passes automatically. we don't even get to touch that. so this is just a massive spending mess, and it's gotta stop. griff: these pet projects are really astonishing. your colleague, congressman dan bishop, he read apparently the whole bill. 3 million for bee-friendly highways. what in the world is that? meanwhile, alexandria ocasio-cor...

Thank the troops. what do you think are the big things he's done for veterans? >> well, several jump out at me. record low unemployment among veterans, it's at 3 percent. veteran unemployment has dropped 37%. we also now have the forever g.i. bill which means it doesn't expire. if you go on now and pursue a master's degree, because your g.i. bill expired at 15 years. we also have 86.5 billion that went into the v.a., 8.6 billion of that went to mental health care and suicide prevention. we now have 172 v.a. facilities that can allow veterans to walk in for mental health care, and we have a 24-...

This -- i'm almost speechless. a hearing today before congressman issa's committee. oversight committee. tell me, how much did the gao testify that we made in the 2010 fiscal year in improper payments? >> this is a subcategory, 125 billion dollars in improper payments according to the gao. 3% of our total budget. >> greta: last year 125 billion improper payments. the deal they struck the other night was 38 billion. if they went out and the improper payments we would be ahead by 86.5 billion. >> correct. >> greta: 38 billion and no one is looking for the 86 billion. >> everybody is looking for ...

Reduction of purchase of military equipment at research and development alone would reduce gdp by $86.5 billion and result in loss of 1 1,600,000 00 across all sector of the economy impacting every state and representing decline of personal income. but those numbers represent a small fraction of proposed defense cuts. d.o.d. would absorb $55 billion in cuts every year through 2021. long-held doctrine of maintaining force capable of fighting two wars would be strained. with the obama administration, shift to asia, as a new focus on the u.s. operations. >> it would require us temporarily to thro...