you weren t going to save anyway instead of cutting real programs? chris, i don t agree with that. i think that the policy to get out of iraq, to reduce and eliminate our military presence there was very real. i think that if we don t lower the caps that permit that spending there will be a natural process of seeing military spending grow. we have $487 billion of savings in the defense department over in the security area over the ten year period. closing down this backdoor is part of making sure we get those savings. it is very real. i guarantee you that if we don t take the action that has been proposed there will be leakage and that money will end up he getting spent. if there is going to be discipline in the budget you to lower the amount spent in that area. chris: in 2009 president obama one month after he took office made a promise. let s take a look. today i m pledging to cut
you weren t going to save anyway instead of cutting real programs? chris, i don t agree with that. i think that the policy to get out of iraq, to reduce and eliminate our military presence there was very real. i think that if we don t lower the caps that permit that spending there will be a natural process of seeing military spending grow. we have $487 billion of savings in the defense department over in the security area over the ten year period. closing down this backdoor is part of making sure we get those savings. it is very real. i guarantee you that if we don t take the action that has been proposed there will be leakage and that money will end up he getting spent. if there is going to be discipline in the budget you to lower the amount spent in that area. chris: in 2009 president obama one month after he took office made a promise. let s take a look. today i m pledging to cut
claim savings from money that you weren t going to save anyway instead of cutting real programs? chris, i don t agree with that. i think that the policy to get out of iraq, to reduce and eliminate our military presence there was very real. i think that if we don t lower the caps that permit that spending there will be a natural process of seeing military spending grow. we have $487 billion of savings in the defense department over in the security area over the ten year period. closing down this backdoor is part of making sure we get those savings. it is very real. i guarantee you that if we don t take the action that has been proposed there will be leakage and that money will end up he getting spent. if there is going to be discipline in the budget you to lower the amount spent in that area. chris: in 2009 president obama one month after he took office made a promise. let s take a look. today i m pledging to cut
we haven t seen that in the case of sheriff joe arpaio or desouza. some speculate that he is signaling to former associates caught up in the russia investigation, but this is not without precedent. there s history for this. nothing in the constitution that prevents him from doing this. and of course, president bill clinton bypassed the justice department over 40 times when he was president. you cover the justice department for us. when the president issues a pardon, suggests that the convicted felon, convicted person was treated unfairly, do prosecutors over at the justice department feel like their authority, their credibility, their reputations are being undermined? i think any time a pardon happens, presidential executive clemency happens, it is sort of a slap in the face to prosecutors that worked on it, but at least in the typical case, they would get to weigh in and say whether this is somebody that has shown remorse. in these cases they re not able