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Military defense spending budget was supposed to be around $733 billion by 2020, it could go down to $700 billion, so when people are writing the budget, what's the first thing that gets cut and how could this negatively impact the military? >> good morning, and one of the things that we saw just two years ago we were at a 1940 military and you had a case that planes were dropping out of the sky, troops were underpaid and undersupplied and even more so our ships couldn't sail, now, finally, we are back to a force that's showing the world that the u.s. is a force to be reckon with, i think cutt...

>> reporter: reported missing on january 29th, he set out for a fishing trip when the coast guard said the mast of the sailboat broke and the electronics gear was damaged in rough weather. on thursday with a broken shoulder two months at sea, the fortunes changed. a german flagged vessel rescued jordan 200 miles east of north carolina's cape hatteras. he was medevacked to a virginia hospital and walked inside on his own two feet. here is the first phone call with his father. >> how are you feeling? >> i'm doing great now. you know i couldn't fix it. i couldn't sail back with my boat. i'm so so...

Attitude. this president, going to your point, i don't think he shares the concerns at least of this panel and a large majority of americans. >> but -- >> we have been to this movie before, and that was in the after vietnam and it was in the carter administration. we cut our military systems, we sort of retracted our position in the world. and what happened? the end result of that was when our american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran, we could not mount a successful rescue mission. we had five helicopters mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward, when we went...

We had five helicopters that were mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward. when i was in the pentagon and reagan administration, we were horrified by what we found. we had ships that couldn't sail because they didn't have fuel. we had airplanes that couldn't fly because our pilots hadn't had enough training hours. for every tank that was operational, there was one sitting next to it that was cannibalized for spare parts. but the single worst thing is what we found with our young men and women, the junior enlisted personnel. they were on food stamps and it showed. i...

Attitude. this president, going to your point, i don't think he shares the concerns at least of this panel and a large majority of americans. >> but -- >> we have been to this movie before, and that was in the after vietnam and it was in the carter administration. we cut our military systems, we sort of retracted our position in the world. and what happened? the end result of that was when our american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran, we could not mount a successful rescue mission. we had five helicopters mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward, when we went...