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One option. 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 situ...

At the moment, the authorization bill makes no appropriations at all, as you well know, number one. number two, it attempts to evade the question of overall fiscal responsibility with the so-called oko gimmick, which is objectionable to me and to others in other agencies. and i think ought to be to the taxpayer and certainly to the war fighter. and then finally it contains other provisions also objectionable to me. and i'll give you some examples. we have proposed for several years now changes -- reforms that extend from health care to force structure to better spend the defense dollar in area...

Transition is only going to fuel the opposition and therefore the extremism and the violence. >> tony? >> let me ask you, get you on the record on the national defense authorization, you laid out the budget consequences of sequestration and cr. are you going to recommend to the president to veto the bill to go to the floor tomorrow? >> i and other advisers already have and he's indicated if it's presented to him in the form it appears it is going to be presented to him it is going to be vetoed. this is the national defense authorization act so yes. that is unchanged, tony. that's the same posi...

Money the day after that wastq=x not lost on anyone watching. let's take a listen to what speaker boehner had to say about the bunding this week. >> raw goal going to ask such a stupid question? listen they started this yesterday and it's all about funding. all about funding. obviously it's not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. no money has been cut from rail safety and the house passed a bill earlier this week to reauthorize amtrak and authorize a lot of these programs. >> where sdw the truth lie? >> i think he's probably a little embarrassed about what he said and he ...

>> there certainly is. my heart goes out to the families of those who were hurt and certainly those who died. look democrats are not -- we passed a authorization bill. we agreed we can authorize is the most x percent. it's what the appropriators give you. now, amtrak said it needed two billion just for state of good repair, who are just keeping the train going. i am very concerned that we're driving into a safety wreck, and i must say, it may be coincidence that the cut came today, but the cuts have been coming year after year, and the cuts have been coming this year in a year when what the re...