raising taxes. >> eric: the president quotes wreckless across the board budget cuts. reckless? we're $16 trillion in debt. >> the reckless in the nature for the military in that hey, we're cutting critical programs, maintenance and training. there is definitely a reckless nature when itless could to our fighting forces. but we could reform the way the pentagon spends money in targeted ways to save about the same amount of money, but also make sure we're cutting fat. >> eric: this is a great nation. this country is amazing. we spend a lot of money on a lot of things. talk to us about the v.a. backlog. there are 780,000 disabled vets waiting for benefits. 500,000 are back logged. what's the nature of that? >> this is the first time he's talked about it in years. our group, concerned vets for americas, other groups have you been pushing hard on this issue. the only thing mentioned is it's