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>> martha, that's true. don't forget where we are. this is after many years of budget sequestration, their barges have been quite dumb at caught radically. >> martha: the defense budget has been cut radically, nothing else. >> no, it was all non-defense budgets were cut other than the entitlement programs. the programs have been cut really deeply already for many years. now, this is going to go below the bone and into real muscle. >> martha: how can that be? we have more tax dollars going into the u.s. government than ever before. you look at education, and many of the most difficult areas for...

>> martha, that's true. don't forget where we are. this is after many years of budget sequestration, their barges have been quite dumb at caught radically. >> martha: the defense budget has been cut radically, nothing else. >> no, it was all non-defense budgets were cut other than the entitlement programs. the programs have been cut really deeply already for many years. now, this is going to go below the bone and into real muscle. >> martha: how can that be? we have more tax dollars going into the u.s. government than ever before. you look at education, and many of the most difficult areas for...

Capability to get out what they kale the first island chain or the inner island chain along the eastern coast. japan has a very big coastguard as they call it and increasingly even larger sea going ships, as well. the stakes are high and japan looks at these sea linings of communication as its lifeline. if china can control them. japan is at china's mercy and i don't think they will let that happen. >> we learned from the talk lands, you can come to blows. would this result in that? >> we hope not but honestly it will take a more assertive american presence to show that we care about the outco...

Pentagon today announced off camera briefing it's begun preparing for sequest race, and the harm it would do to national security. >> the white house said the mood should not be read as change in commitment to reach an agreement. >> this is act in response. that were is in stark contrast to the defense contractors in october. midst of the presidential campaign to hold off on issuing a 60-day notice of potential layoffs to workers required by law. >> for to us have gone this long a period of time, without making any preparations for it, i think is a gross disservice to the american people. >> f...