larger amount. it's 3.35% of our g.d.p. i think we need to be aware. the economic effect of that inevitablely slows employment and causes diversion of resources that would be beneficial to economy. it's not clear that it actually makes america safer. >> john: ambassador bolton that is big question. how much safer does this make us? >> i think you have to look at the divergent threats the united states faces around the world, continuing threat of terrorism the real threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear chemical and biological. increasingly assertiveness of china. >> john: those are real threats but i think back to the past when russia had all those missiles aimed at us, we spend more than at the height of the