budget is a cost cutter from way back, he earned the nickname the blade and he is now the president at purdue university. he has frozen tuition costs during his tenure, he gives students a very unique way to pay off their debt after they leave, and he has even brought amazon to campus which has dramatically lowered exorbitant textbook costs by 30%. i spoke with him in the wall street journal causes him the most innovative university president in america today, the former governor of indiana mitch daniels and asked him about what he s doing. we decided a few years ago when i arrived i asked the question why don t we start trying to adjust our spending to our student families budgets and not expecting them to adjust their budgets to our spending. so far, so good we have just finished our sixth year of tuition increase, which promised at least two more and we have
cost-cutter and you are all cost-cutters but we have to take care of our military, we have to. $700 billion we spent and that was the first year and then the second year, $716 billion, now, i have no choice. i d like to spend much less, obama was spending much less but our military was being depleted, he was fighting an endless wars that never end and by the way as of probably today or tomorrow we will actually have 100% of the caliphate in syria, 100%. [cheers and applause] 100. we want to bring our people back home. we want to bring our people back home. it s time. we will be in syria for 4 months, we ended up 5 years just
what can you tell us about the new math of the top have it d.s. . again as i said have a decent man with a clear vision it s very clear here that he wants to talk about that that he wants to handle a lot of this in self he s taking on more task compared to his predecessor and so he is someone who is known as a cost cutter is known as someone who s not afraid to ruffle feathers in person here listening to him he sounds like a very you know cosmetic speaker he can explain his vision but he s known as a hard to go shade is a tough taskmaster and there are questions here there s a lot of skepticism about whether he s taking on too much after we move on from this period diesel scandal in which we saw so much power concentrated in the top leaders of this company in the past now to return so much power again to have at least he will contain he will continue controlling the brand itself his former task as well as taking on the chairmanship of the bourse that s a lot of power to invest in one p
a big story especially for the auto industry let s cross over to the city of vives floor where the company has its headquarters our correspondent stephen beardsley is standing by and has been following the board meeting for us thank you for joining us stephen now we do know that i have that d.s. is not a new name to fox wagner he has been in the company for a few years what can you tell us about fox arts new c.e.o. . the word around decent course is that he s a numbers man that he s a cost cutter and that comes with implications of course for unions especially here in germany who would fear job losses for any more strict cuttings from volkswagen. came from b.m.w. almost three years ago as you said hadiya and he came two months before the diesel scandal hit folks wagon and at the time that he arrived it was said that he had his eyes on the top position that he now it s been confirmed will take over but that of
markets now. that s what jim jordan of the freedom caucus is saying. jim jordan is calling this thing a monstrosity. he can t believe paul ryan can move forward with this. kennedy: he fancies himself as a cost cutter, someone who really understands budgets and numbers from the inside out. at this point, he only understands making them bigger. he doesn t want to make meaningful with everything you say, kennedy, with one exception. it is possible to have entitlement reform. there is tremendous waste. the president can do this by himself, the same way he did deregulation by himself. it is different from look, we have waste and fraud of $60 billion a year in medicare. waste and fraud of maybe $120 billion harris: that doesn t even approach what this lists in caps. if you can cut down on fraud