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Often of -- >> of an increase. it's not a real cut. the washington cut. >> absolutely. so, you know, many people say we need to go to a zero base budget. you know, i think that, you know, we need to start looking at why can't we go back to a spending level, i don't know, 2006, 2007 so that we can start getting things under control and furthermore, we're not really seeing a slowdown of the growth of the federal government. i mean you still have a huge bureaucracy with federal government employees and we'll talk about the v.a. later on. >> but do you get the sense of what the american people, i ...

We have a graph that shows this. this is the options on the table. the green line is mitt romney's idea. this is base spending. it doesn't include wars or security. if you talk about security spending, you get a larger amount of money. barack obama's proposed leveling and the see quest ration. larry, you worked on this issue for a long time. what has changed? >> what has changed, i think the late senator mcgovern pointed out. we don't have a threat, yes, we have a threat with terrorism. you are not going to win it with a lot of nuclear weapons or huge armies and navies. when you tell people, e...

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and president clinton taking on a special role at the democratic national convention. and we'll talk about the quirky rule, the unfair rule that cost the americans their medal. this man caused one of our best olympians a shot at gold in london. >> we're going to chat a lot about that. see how you feel as well. right now mitt romney is on a plane to poend la, the last stop on his international tour. romney left israel this morning, where he gave a tough talking speech on iran. >> we must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option. we must lead the effort to p...

i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." we're live here at constitution hall, here in the nation's capitol, where in just a little bit more than 24 hours, the republican presidential hopeful will face off for the first time in a major debate on national security, foreign affairs and the economy. he will be mod rating the event co-sponsored by the her kaj foundation and american enterprise institute. on the eve of this critical contest an eye-popping shift? the republican con taft. a new cnn poll just released minutes ago, shows newt gingrich on top of the republican pack fo...