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
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