base would be to give the defense department and actually other agencies more latitude in how they do the cuts and so why the president wadnd do that i don't know. >> chris: well, we know with us supposedly they say we want to show how painful they are. we don't want it to be -- >> that is disturbing. i find that very disturbing actually. this is -- the cbo projected we could lose 700,000 jobs and so for them to play the games over politics trying to make the republicans look bad i don't think is acceptable. i'm not saying the republicans don't have -- play a role in this but the white house and i also don't know how this benefits obama in the long run because the cbo also is basically saying it will affect the unemmoiment rate and be a drive on the economy. is obama playing with the economy and playing with people's jobs to make the republicans look bad? this is not how you are supposed to lead. >> chris: senator brown i want you to weigh in on all of this but you have a special perspective because you are a colonel in the army national