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Troop pay and benefits, enhancements to the military's retirement system, a reinforced mission to defeat isil, funding for our nation's military personnel and readiness, and the necessary resources for a strong national defense that even reflects the president's own budget requests. for the first time in our nation's history, a president is holding this bill for ransom in pursuit of more money for his political agenda. this includes transferring guantanamo bay detainees to the united states and potentially northeast kansas. representing ft. levinworth i know this is not in our nation's best in...

Announced the u.s.s. truman will not be deploying to the gulf because we cannot afford it. that would seem unwise cut. >> tucker, you and i both know that's theater. they don't have to cut that. they comes out of o and m funds and we have plenty of those and part of the problem with secretary of defense panetta, he's threatening to cut troop pay come on. and we have the off sets and limit building of defense bases and put that where else. and what we're looking at attempts to do-- i've been to the insides and budget games and give away the biggest things you don't want to give up and that's wh...

Spending bill. any hope of a passage there? >> well n a procedural vote, it passed 88-12, which these days is huge. it's a $662 billion package. it would fund troop pay raises, weapon systems, the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the controversial provision is about detainee matters in terms of it has language in it saying anybody who is a suspected terrorist should be held by the united states military. the white house doesn't like that because it says it eyes the president's hands in terms of fighting terrorism. the president has threatened to veto. we will see. >> shep: mike emmanuel, live on ...