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The pentagon is saying basically what's the big deal? we do b2 flyovers a lot of events like this. on the other side we have admirals and nbc contributor former cocommander he says parades like this remind mef of that old texas saying about braggart, he was all hat and no cattle. we are the best military in the world and we don't need a north korean-style parade to prove it. starkly different views. >> that is for sure. hans, we heard senator lankford before your story talk about concerns over cost, dirk durbin expressed those same concerns saying this would be a fantastic waste of money. do y...

Your insurance plan and your doctor, well, the insurance plans and the doctors are bailing out at a rate that we can't even judge right now. so who is going to be left to take care of us? >> well, you know what, that's a great question, david. to you, dr. ratcliff, we're bringing in all of these additional people, and there is no effort to increase the number of doctors and, in fact, this could be a disincentive to go to medical school to cover all the additional people. does that mean you spend less time on each patient? >> possibly. they didn't get their ducks lined up. they are selling a pr...

Your insurance plan and your doctor, well, the insurance plans and the doctors are bailing out at a rate that we can't even judge right now. so who is going to be left to take care of us? >> well, you know what, that's a great question, david. to you, dr. ratcliff, we're bringing in all of these additional people, and there is no effort to increase the number of doctors and, in fact, this could be a disincentive to go to medical school to cover all the additional people. does that mean you spend less time on each patient? >> possibly. they didn't get their ducks lined up. they are selling a pr...

More congressional hearings on the irs are expected at the beginning of june but the agency in the meantime is responding to a matter horn mountain size with congress. with staff in washington and the cincinnati field office. none of that work happened today because the irs had a furlough day today. wait they are going to fix it and make sure it never happens again is likely to be something having to do with increased training, right? increased training particularly for the kind of low level irs employees who we know carried out the policy that upset everyone in washington so much. especially ...

>> that's right. that's why it's so important to have a budget. that's why it is so bad that we have gone four years without passing a budget. the last time we passed a budget in the senate, there was no such thing as the ipad. no one had heard of it, it wasn't on the market. >> i mean, i don't know if the viewers know about the profound waste. in the president's stimulus bill, we spent $20 million on signs. $20 million on signs. couldn't we figure it out -- there was construction. do we need to spend $20 million on signs? >> probably not. we probably don't need to spend $1.5 billion every yea...