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Insolvency as a nation. >> i would want to point out that our budget actually makes cuts in many of those areas. we reduce defense spending by $78 billion over the next five years. we do have savings in health programs to pay for the medicare program. in the area of social security, i want to point out, it is not contributing the the short-term deficit. it is a long-term issue. >> we're talking about the long-term debt challenge. we at least have been around here. our concern has been that there have been a lot of cuts in programs, 12%, 15% of the budget, the discretionary, nondefense spending...

Post, and there's a lot of dominos that now take place with general petraeus taking over. >> reporter: there are. and, look, there was a lot of folks wanting mcchrystal to get a second chance on the pentagon side, just as a pragmatic issue. >> exactly. >> reporter: but not out of any other reason other than having to -- they didn't want to struggle with finding a new commander. the fact that petraeus ended that debate and made it easy for everybody to get on board, so that's why there really was no debate. look, i think the most fascinating part of that was hearing admiral mullen. who is reall...

Mccain has tried to reform procurement. and on the pentagon side, it's also true that the top brass often want to do favors for the friends in the weapons companies because they want jobs after the military careers, advisors and the like. congress needs to do oversight and crack down on the pentagon, but also congress needs to let the pentagon cut the weapons they want to cut. >> glenn: can i tell you something? we'd be better off having the military do oversight over congress. i would like general petreus to do overnight on congress. we'll be right back in a second. f prayer is

Mccain has tried to reform procurement. and on the pentagon side, it's also true that the top brass often want to do favors for the friends in the weapons companies because they want jobs after the military careers, advisors and the like. congress needs to do oversight and crack down on the pentagon, but also congress needs to let the pentagon cut the weapons they want to cut. >> glenn: can i tell you something? we'd be better off having the military do oversight over congress. i would like general petreus to do overnight on congress. we'll be right back in a second. identity theft,