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>> we want to get as many people in the office and look at republicans and democrats and look at our debt and how we address it. we started to try to do things like that with the simpson plan and the dementia plan, but we didn't want to go that. we had the tea party that held up our national debt and said, they were going to basically hold it hostage. >> neil: everyone had a hand in this. i guess what i'm asking you, and also as someone who served in the military in this country very on honorably, would you be open to paring defense? >> is somebody who has served in three combat tours as a mar...

Who i lived in tents with overseas and fought in three combat tours. and i just -- i can't -- i can't be a part of that. >> what was it like being one of the first women to get up there? you're a marin fighter pilot. you're in combat. what was that combat like? i've never been in combat. what was it like? >> well, you know, we train really hard before we go to combat. and so that when we go to combat, we're ready to execute. so a lot of it is -- it's that old adage of sort of 90% sheer boredom and 10% sheer terror, you know, when you're in that 10% time, you're on, you're executing, but you kn...

Entire country was involved in a variety of ways. now days, probably around 1% of the country, active guard reserve in uniform, so, the 60,000 killed and wounded in the war on terror have been narrowly concentrated, and they've been at it a long time. we've seen nothing like this since world war ii. some of these air force c-130 squadrons and navy deployments and special operations, have a dozen combat tours. so, it's been an unusual sense of dedication and sacrifice on the part of those who served. but i always tell, you know, remind people, the most trusted institution in american society is...

Women served in uniform, the entire country was involved in a variety of ways. now days, probably around 1% of the country, active guard reserve in uniform, so, the 60,000 killed and wounded in the war on terror have been narrowly concentrated, and they've been at it a long time. we've seen nothing like this since world war ii. some of these air force c-130 squadrons and navy deployments and special operations, have a dozen combat tours. so, it's been an unusual sense of dedication and sacrifice on the part of those who served. but i always tell, you know, remind people, the most trusted insti...

Now days, probably around 1% of the country, active guard reserve in uniform, so, the 60,000 killed and wounded in the war on terror have been narrowly concentrated, and they've been at it a long time. we've seen nothing like this since world war ii. some of these air force c-130 squadrons and navy deployments and special operations, have a dozen combat tours. so, it's been an unusual sense of dedication and sacrifice on the part of those who served. but i always tell, you know, remind people, the most trusted institution in american society is the u.s. armed forces. and there's a reason for i...