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Right back where we have been in the past. >> maria: yeah. >> that north korea will have nuclearized missiles and they're going to bet the united states will accept them. >> maria: incredible. great analysis there. let me switch gears for a moment before you go. general and get you to talk a bit about the readiness of our army, navy, air force, et cetera given the fact that we've been talking about budget issues all morning with the tax plan and the budget passed recently. do you believe that there is sufficient money budgeted to modernize our military? you think about these accidents that we'...

Into a special separate fund called the overseas contingency fund which means it isn't in the base budget so it doesn't necessari necessarily become part of next year's budget. on the discretionary spending side, all those programs he wanted to cut by $15 billion, he got exactly zero. the $540 billion in the obama request is still the $540 billion. he wanted, for example, to cut a billion and a half out of nah which actually increased by $2 billion. he wanted to sezero out public broadcasting. >> he wanted to cut 30%, 40% of the state department. you're basically saying all the non-defense dis...

Important. >> it's not a balanced budget. still a $488 billion deficit next year. we didn't add to that in order to spend more money on the president's priorities. regarding moving projects out of the base budget for the agencies and into the infrastructure, the infrastructure program is something that we just recently started. probably wouldn't come until summer or early fall. we have to do obamacare repeal and replace and then taxes next. i -- you're making an assumption i'm not willing to make. you're making a sum shun that it's going to go for the deficit. i'm not willing to do that. yes, ...

Operation and the base budget. it's 3%. $18 billion. >> has the president got the balance right here between defense spending and the diplomatic portion of the federal budget which he's planning on making cuts to? >> that's the challenge that he and his budget people are going to have to work through. at this point from her perspective, i think speak only for myself, from a national security perspective, this $18 billion is the right thing. if he has to go forward and pick and choose among a variety of programs within what we call a discretionary budget, that's going to be the hard decision th...

Year. you know, it's such a hypocrisy. it is one of the reasons everybody in america is so disgusted with us, that we can't be honest with the american people about the needs of our country and come together in a bipartisan way to meet them in a way that is responsible in terms of the way that we budget and spend money. tell me how you intend on addressing this important issue going forward. >> senator, the need for our country to maintain a safe and secure nuclear deterrent, a decisive conventional force, while maintaining an irregular capability, is completely understood. and i know it is by...