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Intelligence official in the country. just one more point i would make about this. courts may weigh in on this at some point down the road. what is immediate is the loss of experience and counsel from a decision like this. i said to you earlier, brooke, we're looking at more than 100 years experience. i was just doing some back of the envelope math. i way underestimated. just two of the folks on this list, clapper and haden, between them have 90 years of experience intelligence. >> wow. >> that's just two of them. so you add in the others. john brennan, 25 years. james comey, a couple of decad...

Billion for the fiscal year of 2018. what trump is doing if you do the back of the envelope math is 330 billion. so he's still short of what congressional republicans want to spend and it in the indication that there is going to be a fight not just between this president and members of the opposition party but this president and members of his own party when it comes to how much the defense department needs to maintain readiness and to be able to fight wars on multiple front. chris? >> and what that means for other programs if he's going to try to balance the budget. hans, thank you for that. ...

Agencies to get into gear and have the money flowing. i haven't had a chance to study the cbo estimates but it's not surprising most of the savings come a little bit farther out. i think the important thing about the agreement is that it cuts 7.5 billion dollars in spending compared to the president's budget that was submitted a little over a year ago. that's all real and it's going to be a reduction in spending. the fact is, we need to worry about whether the outlay effects of this year or next year. we need to reduce outlays and reduce the deficit in both years. it is a reduction in spending...

Back-handed compliments followed by some members of the democratic party attacking the republicans? oh, no. remember they're democrats. so they attack the democratic president. >> a deal with congressional republicans. >> giving tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires does very little to actually grow our economy. >> the white house all but agrees to do what republicans want. >> let's outline the deal. >> giving republicans tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires. >> republicans have a different view. they believe that we should also make permanent the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of ameri...