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Thank you. why? because we think there's been emission creep, we think there are things outside their core function. we think there's room for savings. a couple facilities be combined and cost savings from that. this comes back to the president's business person view of government. if you take over as a ceo and look at this on a spreadsheet and say, why do we have -- why do we have seven when we can do the same with three, won't that save money? yes. part of your answer is focusing on efficiencies and focusing on what we do better regarding the question as to climate change, the president was ...

The soft power. there's a deliberate attempt here to send a message to our allies and our friends like india and adversaries with other countries, shall we say. this is a hard power budget. this administration tends to change course from a soft power budget to a hard power budget. that's a message that our adversaries and allies will take. i'll take more. yes, ma'am. >> explain more about what message the trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change research. just to follow up later. >> sure. a couple different messages. we talk about science and climate change...

First candidate. we now have an america first president, and we have an america first budget. the president believes in diploma diplomacy, we believe this budget protects that core function of the state department. >> when the president's credibility is down, should the united states be retracting from its role abroad? i'm joined by the round table. former state department spokes american, mark jacob sell, senior fellow with the pell center. and normer secretary of defense. i don't really like the word america first, it has remnants and is receipt sent of the 1940s situation, people saying we'...

Attempt to send a message to our allies and friends, such as india, our adversaries, this is a hard power budget. this administration tends to change course from a soft power budget to a hard power budget. that's a message our adversaries and our allies would like. i'll take one more. yes, ma'am. >> can you explain a little more about what message the president is trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change? >> a couple different messages. when we talk about science and climate change -- let's deal with them separately. on science, we're going to function -- t...

>> what does it mean as -- the national security council is in some ways for people inside the government so central and so important. to people outside the government it seems obscure. what does it mean for american security and preparedness to have this level of turnover, dysfunction in that core function of the white house? >> since world war ii, the national security council has become the central place where presidential decision making with regard to foreign and security policy takes place. it's that simple. and its staff, sometimes as many as 300 or so, are the people who actually direc...