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We borrowed an idea from a computer programmer named matthias shapiro. >> this is the federal budget, about $100 in pennies. >> reporter: so we bought $100 worth of pennies and started to stack them until we got this, the $3.7 trillion budget. each one of these stacks of five pennies represents $2 billion. these pennies over here represent security and defense spending. this section right here, interest payments that have to be paid on all that debt we've been racking up, and this entire section of the table are so-called entitlements, things like social security and medicare. so is the presid...

>> there you have it. jay leno having to follow the president. that is no easy task. especially the president had some very good writers. he is a funny guy as well. jay leno doing his deal. we're going to talk about that. mark preston is here. let's bring mark in. mark is our political editor. i have to tell you, it is a tough job to follow the president. but he had me cracking up, the president did. i thought he was funnier than jay leno. i'm just saying. >> i think you are right. the twitter followers agree. >> if you want to look at some of it. let's just take this here. leno is flatlining....

They are not being represented and the kinds of debt to follow-up on the president's announcement, the kind of debt that washington it is racking up, and inability of washington to take control of things washington is supposed to be in charge of, leads people to feel helpless, i think frustrated, out of the system and really wanting to do something, feeling like they are not recommended. bill: we are watching this cpac conference, the conservative conference in washington, d.c., and, as we watch that, we will wait for the ideas that come out of here and whether or not it is just speeches or mo...