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Lifts the year's most wasteful government projects. here's examples. 479 million bucks promoting the doomed obamacare web site. $297 million spent on an army mega blimp that was never used. 914,000 dollars was paste wasted on he goexploring popular roman novels and films. 190,000 spent on printers to create 3-d pizzas for astronauts in space. we can't forget the shrimp on the treadmill project from years ago. senator coburn was on the record every year keeps getting worse. >> image not amazed or shocked any more. i know the stupid incompetent things we do. what is even worse than that book is ...

A new poll shows president obama's approval rating is the lowest of any president at the end of their fifth year since richard nixon. jimmy carter said that's not fair. if he had a fifth year, he's sure he would be lower. that's not fair. >> maybe there is a reason he didn't get the fifth year. now it's time to see where our hard-earned taxpayer money is being wasted. it's the newly released 2013 waste book outlining the most useless ways our federal government is spending our money. >> it is put together by our next guest, oklahoma senator and doctor, tom coburn. good morning. >> good morning...

>> well, this book is half of the sequester. there's over $31 billion in this book, and i've got another 200 or 300 projects that i could put into a list that could easily give us $100 billion a year. so, the question the taxpayers ought to be asking is why isn't congress fixing that? >> but i don't understand, why isn't the media -- you asked why congress doesn't fix it, i don't know why the media doesn't jump on it. you say $400,000 to determine whether or not the tea party people are dummies in science or not, and the media will say, well, that's just $400,000, that's another, it's $400,000...

Newly released today, senator tom coburn's annual waste book, listing what he says is wasteful federal spending, topping $30 billion this year. >> i want to be a reindeer, and help pull ole santa's sleigh. i want to be a reindeer. >> we only wish we were kidding. mooseiltoe, a musical costing $10,000 of taxpayer money. also a project funding romance novels at the cost of $914,000. look at this, why are we paying for that. and a study on the inner workings of congress with a price tag of $3 million. joining me to discuss it, brook goldstein, mike gallagher, and julie rudinski.

$800 million. nice. and remember this video of the shrimp on the treadmill? it was part of a government study that was funded by you. in two hours from now, republican senator tom coburn will release the annual waste book. it documents the money wasted by washington this year, but we've got a sneak peek for you. $630,000 sent to increase the number of facebook likes. really? $914,000 to study romance on the internet. and 3 1/2 million dollars to fund airport solar panels with tarp to avoid reflecting the sun. those are your headlines. >> a million dollars to study romance on the internet? >>...