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Yes, sir. >>. >> you are going to at least ask the people in the defense department to take a look at their budget and say, hey, where can we at least cut or look and make sure that we're spending the right amount of money? >> that's part of what secretary mattis and i have already talked. he is interesting in driving more efficiencies into the defense department. omb is also going to be involved with him on the precurement process. all of that will be incorporated in our larger budget in may. >> so it's not just a blanket here. we're going to throw money at. >> no, sir. last one. >> does this...

These numbers will go out to the agencies today in a process that we describe as pass back. review from agencies due back to omb over the course of the next several days, and we'll spend the next week or so working on a final budget blueprint. we expect to have that number to congress by march 16th. that puts us on schedule for a full budget, including all the things i mentioned this one does not include, with all the larger policy issues in the first part of may. with that he'll take a kwchl questions. yes, sir. >> in order to get to your top line on the rest of the nondiscretion -- rest of t...

Pompeo. did you directly contact director pompeo and ask him to knock down the "new york times" story on the russia connection? >> thanks john. let me if i may walk through the entire time line. i think it's important. amentioned i think a week ago the "new york times" published a story about what they call contacts between members of the trump campaign and russian officials testimony fbi deputy director was at a meeting here at the white house that morning. after the meeting concluded he asked the chief of staff to stand back a second. he wanted to tell him that the report in the "new york ti...

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...

They came back to us with other suggestions. that's what this process is. i think it's fairly unusual for us to be coming to you this early in the process, but we want to let everybody know exactly where we were. snoo we're not talking about a 2% or 3%. we're talking about double digits. that's a lot. >> there's going to be a lot of programs. again, you can expect to see exactly what the president said he was going to do. foreign aid. the president said we're going to spend less money overseas and more of it here. that's going to be reflected in the number we send to the state department. >> t...