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American strength, security, and resolve. >> bret: kevin corke in the white house briefing room. thank you. let's get some insight on the budget blueprint for joining us is the white house budget chief mick mulvaney. >> thanks for having me. >> bret: if you are to explain to somebody in an elevator with this was and you have 30 seconds, what would you tell them? >> topline number, your family sits down and says here's what we're going to spend this year on three or four large line items. that's what this was today. we broke out the numbers for the defense discretionary budget and the nondefens...

I think the director -- part of the process was to start that process where we're going to the various departments, whether hud or dot and giving them that top line number and then hearing back. i don't want to get into a specific number with you before we get too far down the process. i think that's a conversation that we're going to have with the agency and then we will have subsequently with congress when they start drafting their resolution. >> he talked about health care. he talked about education. he talked about, continues to talk about chicago and law enforcement. so you don't have any...

Inner cities? >> i think it is a good try. the director was very clear. part of process was to start the pass back process where we are going to the various departments, hud or d.o.t. and giving them a top line number and then hearing back. i don't want to get into a specific number with you before we get too far down the process. i think that's a conversation that we are going to have with the agencies. and then we will have, subsequently, with congress, when they start drafting their resolution. >> i have a follow up on this but i do have another question. he talked about health care, he tal...

I think the director was very -- part of the process today was to start that pass-back process he talked about where we're going to the various departments, whether it's hud or d.o.t., giving them that top line number and getting back. i don't want to get into a specific number with you before we get too far down the process. i think that's a conversation we're going to have with the agencies and then we will have subsequently with congress when they start travel drafting their resolution. >> i do have questions. he talked about health care. he talked about education and he talked about cri an...

This last government gave us that information. no one is alleging that some american was in on it behalf before happened. >> do you support the budget numbers that came out today. >> we heard the budget numbers this afternoon. the new omb committee members gave us the numbers. we vice president even processed them yet. with a new president, you get top lines and get to the line items later on. we are excited they are giving us the numbers this early so we can move forward with processing our buj budgets. >> time to go. >> i talked about the need for entitlement reform in the past. the presiden...