very wealthy nations want us to fight their battles for them. i want to deal with iran, but this notion that everybody in the world cuts their military spending, has no military budget at all and hide behind us is crazy. if you ask the american people what's unpopular in the budget, foreign aid always comes up high. the fact is is that foreign aid of the kind that helps poor children or fights aids in afriafter rick ka, that's not much money. the most expensive is the aid we give england, denmark and italy and japan by allowing them to have a military budget that's small because they hide behind us. the time has come -- let me put it this way. the most popular book in europe and wealthy parts of asia is "tom sawer." it's time to stop painting the fence. >> do you think congressman paul has given progressives nuch political cover that the president might include cuts or work this into his commission on spending? >> i'm not sure the president