can understand this type of budget being put forward. if you look at greece which a lot of us are. some people would say it's apples and oranges but it took decades to get to the place where greece is. pentagon something forward is a statement of priority, did putting forward something is statement of priority. if you want to cut spending in certain places like defense, make the case for it but if it's an exercise in futility, if you know the congress isn't going to do anything with it. if the senate democrats aren't going to put forward the president's budget, you don't know what the president's priorities are. >> it seems the one area willing to cut is in defense. in addition to the $487 billion in defense cuts we're going see over the next ten years, we learned just this evening that the president is now in fact