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Recruitment, as you know the national guard or somebody wants to be there, i can understand why they would pay for it. but to call them patriotic events honoring the veterans, honoring the troops, homecomings and all that and advertising them as acts of patriotism, well, this is paid patriotism. i think the american people ought to know about it and i'm glad to say professional sports, the commissioner of football has said they are not going to do it anymore. we have in the defense authorization bill prevented them from doing that. it's kind of a little bit unsavory behavior on their part, to ...

So maybe we shouldn't do that again. >> in the meantime, the backdrop to this, not covered because of all the clinton coverage of the hearing was the president vetoing the national defense authorization act. and he did that yesterday. >> i'm going to be vetoing this authorization bill. i'm going to be sending it back to congress and my message to them is very simple. let's do this right. >> we're in the midst of budget discussions, let's have a budget that properly funds our national security as well as economic security. >> this set off john mccain and others on the hill. >> what the presiden...

Budgetary issue and nondefense spending than he is about defending this nation and the welfare and protection of the men and women who serve it in uniform. >> republicans claim president obama's veto the defense authorization bill is nothing more than playing politics at the expense of america's national security. the bill funds the pentagon and passed both houses with bipartisan support. we're going to hear from the republicans in a minute. first, to democratic congressman of the house armed services committee. we understand you voted for the bill originally. know you have some reservations. ...

So maybe we shouldn't do that again. >> in the meantime, the backdrop to this, not covered because of all the clinton coverage of the hearing was the president vetoing the national defense authorization act. and he did that yesterday. >> i'm going to be vetoing this authorization bill. i'm going to be sending it back to congress and my message to them is very simple. let's do this right. >> we're in the midst of budget discussions, let's have a budget that properly funds our national security as well as economic security. >> this set off john mccain and others on the hill. >> what the presiden...

And that's the option they felt would be the way that they could keep afghanistan stabilized and not lose everything that we have spent so much american blood and treasure on let. >> let me turn to the act. i have a problem with with defense bills i don't know how anybody comes up with the numbers. none the less it's a bipartisan bill the president says he intends to veto it. will he? >> he says that he will and very disappointing to me his secretary of defense said that he agrees with him had. look, this is the same amount of money the president requested. this is a budgetary situation. this ...