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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:10:04:00

Hughes. this plan is responsible, realistic and supports the president s defense strategies. one governor described the president s tone as aggressive. don t start coming in and complaining these cuts are affecting you, because you said you wanted it. now, you are going to get it. military families are concerned that shrinking the force could make it harder to recruit. they may not want me as a pilot. that scarce me. reporter: if congress renews the sequester, expect deeper cuts. another 20,000 soldiers on top of the 20,000 or on top of the soldiers they are already recommending. that would put the country at risk. the hunt is on for ukrainian president, victor yanukovych. this as a new government takes ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:05:17:00

Even more. so, yes, he s talking about more than we need to spend, can afford to spend, should wisely spend, but having the secretary of defense on the we can do less than we ve been doing side is a good idea. and the sequester we know is a little unrealistic. it was put in there to threaten i think it s a good thing that even though i voted against it because i didn t think it was a wise way to make cuts. and i i think the key point, though, is this. he s done us a favor by raising this. everybody in america who wants to see the deficit reduced without cutting environmental protection, or local police, or aid to education, or food stamps, or housing for the elderly, or social security, literally everybody who believes any of this ought to jump in here and say, you know, mr. secretary, you re moving somewhat in the right direction ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:02:13:00

Just during the time of george w. bush was president, we more than doubled what we spend on the military. but today, pentagon proposed cutting that budget. sort of. by law, the size of the military and the military budget are both scheduled to shrink over the next few years and by a lot. congress already voted the army should shrink from 522,000 soldiers to 420,000. congress already voted that the marine corps should shrink from 190,000 marines to 175,000. that s already law. congress voted for that. scheduled to go into effect if nothing else happens. that s the sequester they voted for. what the military proposed today is reinstating some troops, holding on to 20,000, 30,000 more than congress voted to give them. money wise, it s the same deal. the military wants less of a cut. day want to add another $26 billion to their budget for next year. want to add over $100 billion to the year after that. over and above what congress ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:14:32:00

Automatically. john mccain and jeff flank have come out against it. the super bowl may be what put this is over the top. she wanted to see if she could change the law to run again. that s unlikely to happen. now without the force of a primary, she may feel more comfortable vetoing the bill. up next, 13. as in a percentage point there. that s how much secretary hagel wants to pair back the military, to focus more on special operations and cyber security. we ll see where this goes. continue to see lawmakers are set up to fight these cutbacks big time. sequester is the reason why they re all having to operate under an interesting number. by the way, no actual cuts, just slowdowns in the increase in spending on the defense department. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:09:14:00

Voted for the sequester. now, this got headlined today at the pentagon proposing huge new cuts to the military. what actually happened today is the pentagon fighting congress so they don t get cut so much. when congress voted for the sequester, they were voting for something that no one thought they would ever go through with. it was supposed to impossible for the u.s. to cut defense spending alongside cuts of food stamps and education and all the other things congress is usually much happier to cut. it has become unimaginable to us that defense spending would really be cut significantly. and so now, today specifically, now, we are in this upsidedown world where a proposed drawdown after the longest wars in u.s. history is being greeted today both as a surprise and as kind of the end of the world. even after the end of the longest wars in u.s. history. the idea of a drawdown is somehow totally alien to us. and the fight by the military to reinstate their budget after it was cut by a co ....

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