announcement today. america is now cutting the military, he is proposing the administration is, to help make us a super power since levels not seen before world war ii. joining me now, chairman of the house armed services committee. mr. chairman, good to see you. and so your reaction to the announcement. we re about 570,000 wartime troops we had at its peak. we were expected to take a cut down to about 490,000. and now chuck hagel announcing today it will be more like 440 to 450,000 in terms of the level. thank you for having me on, megyn, you know, this is not news. i ve been saying this for three years, the cuts that we establish and the budget agreement act we cut $487 billion out of defense. sequestration cut another $5 billion out. we knew it was coming. it was just a matter of time. this was the result of cutting a
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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
threat of violent extremism which is still there and needs to be dealt with, proliferation of lethal weapons andters, the destabilizing behavior of nations like iran and north korea. the rise of new power across asia. and the dramatic changes that we ve seen unfold in the middle east. all of this comes at a time when america confronts a serious decifit and debt problem here at home. a problem which is itself a national security risk that is squeezing both the defense and domestic budgets even as we face these considerable pressure, including the requirement of the budget control act to reduce defense spending by what we have now as a number $487 billion over ten years,