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Administration already saying one element of his new proposed budget will be a $54 billion increase in defense and law enforcement, national security spending. listen to how the president said he would pay for that when he met with the nation's governors. >> we're going to do more with less. i get involved in an airplane contract. i got involved in some other contracts, and we cut the hell out of the prices. i mean, we saved a lot much money. >> it's about a 10% increase in defense related spending. no cuts in social security, medicare, medicaid. president wants to have massive tax cuts, signi...

Department. some foreign aid. does that add up to $54 billion? >> it's very hard to accomplish these types of numbers, wolf. look at the e.p.a. and foreign aid, if we zeroed out those things, that would give you your $54 billion. >> then there would be no e.p.a. or -- >> yes. the fact of the matter is he says we're going to do more with less. we've been doing that for a number of years. that part of the budget, which we call discretionary that congress appropriateates every year, exclusd defense, is on current trends. current law headed for the lowest since the eisenhower era. it is already be...

Process. that is not going to be easy, but i think through that we're going to see increased economic growth. >> he wants an increased defense spending $54 billion. 10% hike. as you know, the united states already spends more on defense than the next seven or eight countries combined, including russia, china, iran, britain, france. all these other countries. at a time when the u.s. has so dramatically reduced foreign military involvement, going down from a couple of hundred thousand troops in iraq and afghanistan to 5,000 right now, why does the u.s. need to dramatically increase defense spend...

Say they are still investigating the significance of these communications, so to say that this is just a sort of normal back and forth with reporters doesn't really gel with what we know about how this was a white house very concerned about reporting of contacts between trump advisors and russians during the campaign and made an effort to push back, and we know that it was a significant enough effort that the fbi said, no, it's not going to do it. >> all right, jim, stand by. barbara star, sarah murray, we're going to get back to you. the president clearing laying out some budget priorities to...

Trump, promising major increases in u.s. military spending, and questions about his own push to find the source of white house leaks. we're going to go there live as soon as the press secretary shows up. that should be later this hour. the white house, meanwhile, says the magic number in the upcoming budget is $54 billion. that's the amount for the proposed defense and security spending increase as well as proposed budget cuts. listen to this. >> my first budget will be submitted to the congress next month. this budget will be a public safety and national security budget. very much based on th...