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Care of veterans and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the topline defense discretionary number is $603 billion, that is a 50 for billion dollar increase, one of the largest increases in history. it is also a number that allows the president to keep his president to undo the military sequester, topline nondefense number will be $452 billion, as a $54 billion savings, the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan administration. the reductions in nondefense spending follow the same model as the president keeping...

Care of vets and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the top line defense discretionary number is $603 billion, that's a $54 billion increase, it's also the number that allows the president to keep his promise to undue the military sequester. the top line nondefense number will be $462 billion, that's a $54 billion savings. it's the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan administration. the reductions in nondefense spending follow the same model, the president keeping his promises and doing exactly what he sai...

I'm not going to respond. that would be a sexist sort of response to say, oh, my goodness she deserves to be treated as aggressively because she's only a woman. i don't say that about anybody. okay it's a woman versus man interview. i think she has tough questions, he will ask tough questions, i have to be prepared. >> that's good to hear. on those tough questions, let's talk about defense spending. when you first came to the senate you proposed decreasing defense spending by about $164 billion, and then in the past couple of weeks really you've proposed increasing by 190 billion. why the chan...

They say in their cell phone is none of the government's business. >> i agree with that too. so if you become the president of the united states how would rand paul balance the budget? >> we'd cut spending. absolutely you have to cut spending across the board. i'm a big fan of the penny plan. cut 1% across the board. your budget balances in about five years. >> all right. so you do that that means medicare, social security, defense, everything. >> yeah, the thing is you don't have to be 1% of anything if you're 2% something else. i introduced a budget that would balance in five years but spent...

Have to be 1% of anything if you're 2% something else. i introduced a budget that would balance in five years but spent above the military sequester. so you can say that, well defending the country is a priority, we'll cut 10% of something, or like in this case i would cut 100% of corporate welfare. every last bit of it. >> all right. let's talk about the top five things if you're elected president -- you guys want to elect him president? [ cheers and applause ] >> the top five agenda item -- >> president paul! president paul! president paul! >> all right. top five agenda items. >> i think in ...