construction, the women, infants and children nutrition program would lose almost $500 million and payment to united nations would drop by almost $400 million. the pentagon and veterans affairs would see almost increases $6 billion in total. big, as all this is, it's a prelude to the budget fight that president obama entered yesterday in a huge way. cnn's senior political analyst gloria borger joins me to talk about that. talking fiscal 2012 and beyond, now we're into the trillions not the billions. >> yeah. we are into the trillions. you know the president really did enter the fight into a big -- in a big way. i was surprised, though, i have to tell you, randi, because he was a lot more partisan than we've heard him lately. clearly under a lot of pressure from his left flank. the republicans gave him an easy target in house budget chairman ryan's proposal, which calls for medicare vouchers without tax