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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...

>> thank you so much good i want to talk a few minutes about the budget blueprint that the president started to speak about this money with the governors, want to talk a little bit about what it is and what it is not and then talk about where we are in the budget process and what it looks like from here. first of all, what this is not for this is not a full-blown budget. that will not come until may, so you're not going to see anything in here that has to do with mandatory spending, entitlement reforms, tax policies, revenue projections or the infrastructure plan. this blueprint was never goin...

Numbers will go out to the agencies today in a process we describe as pass back, reports back will be due in the next few days and we will spend the next week or so it working on final budget blueprint and we expect to have that number to congress by march 16th. that puts us on schedule for a full budget including all of the things i mention which does not include with all the larger policy issues in the first part of may. with that, i will take a couple questions. >> reporter: in order to get to your topline on the rest of the discretionary budget, if you are not going to touch veterans benef...

I'm a democratic socialist. >> joining me now to talk about this year in politics rosie gray, reporter for buzzfeed and ryan grimm, reporter for huffington post. i've been thinking about the big takeaway trend, the kind of topline thing that happened and was new and most important in politics this year. rosie gray, what would you nominate? >> the obvious answer is the trump phenomenon. he's just completely turned the primary on its head and really the republican party on its head, and it's led to so many ripple effects throughout the party and throughout sort of our political atmosphere right ...

And so there you go. anything could happen, and we still have a lot of time, and what we do know is that while h on the other hand, any candidate who has done something like that to get the nomination nor republican party will then move to the center, and the question is how well he would move to center for the general campaign, alison. >> okay, joe, an interesting study of the morning consult study which says that trump is performing better than what we are seeing in the polls that we are showing you everyday, and he has been performing better on online polls versus the live telephone polling...