into this hole. a story and a half was blown up and there was really only one metal pipe that broke off. otherwise, the entire structure stood. had the contractor said, what s going on? we said, we don t know. we re not sure why it didn t go down. it may still fall. so we ve got to be real careful. so why did the building tip but not topple? when the blast knocks out the lower floor, the remaining floors rush down and crush a foundation softened by years of standing water. once in the hole, the zip just sticks. this has been great because it says, i m not going down without a fight. there was a 15-foot deep basement under the structure that was actually blasted into granite, solid. it came down and sat in that
forward. but not far enough. and i think it s important for a lot of us to continue to press for instance, he said we ll be secure if we spend more than the next ten countries in the world combined. i m going to be radical. i d feel securer if we were spending more than the next seven combined. i d knock off the last three. i bet you that would save us 15 billion tds a year. the thing that i have always felt like was the structural issue about why the defense budget didn t get down didn t go down, was that defense dollars were seen as dollars that somehow magically didn t compete with other dollars for american priorities. do you think that erskine bowles and alan simpson and the sort of arguments that have been had about fiscal responsibility in washington the past couple years, has that changed without question. you and i were talking before, and you mentioned the trigger, the sequester. one of the good things that happened this year, and again, you and i have discussed thi
press for instance, he said we ll be secure if we spend more than the next ten countries in the world combined. i m going to be radical. i d feel securer if we were spending more than the next seven combined. i d knock off the last three. i bet you that would save us 15 billion tds a year. the thing that i have always felt like was the structural issue about why the defense budget didn t get down didn t go down, was that defense dollars were seen as dollars that somehow magically didn t compete with other dollars for american priorities. do you think that erskine bowles and alan simpson and the sort of arguments that have been had about fiscal responsibility in washington the past couple years, has that changed without question. you and i were talking before, and you mentioned the trigger, the sequester. one of the good things that happened this year, and again, you and i have discussed this, the right wing has had an advantage in the debates up till now because they were rea
i m going to be radical. i d feel securer if we were spending more than the next seven combined. i d knock off the last three. i bet you that would save us 15 billion tds a year. the thing that i have always felt like was the structural issue about why the defense budget didn t get down didn t go down, was that defense dollars were seen as dollars that somehow magically didn t compete with other dollars for american priorities. do you think that erskine bowles and alan simpson and the sort of arguments that have been had about fiscal responsibility in washington the past couple years, has that changed without question. you and i were talking before, and you mentioned the trigger, the sequester. one of the good things that happened this year, and again, you and i have discussed this, the right wing has had an advantage in the debates up till now because they were ready to let everything blow up. you know, in the story of king solomon and the baby, the woman who was not the mothe
the world combined. i m going to be radical. i d feel securer if we were spending more than the next seven combined. i d knock off the last three. i bet you that would save us 15 billion tds a year. the thing that i have always felt like was the structural issue about why the defense budget didn t get down didn t go down, was that defense dollars were seen as dollars that somehow magically didn t compete with other dollars for american priorities. do you think that erskine bowles and alan simpson and the sort of arguments that have been had about fiscal responsibility in washington the past couple years, has that changed without question. you and i were talking before, and you mentioned the trigger, the sequester. one of the good things that happened this year, and again, you and i have discussed this, the right wing has had an advantage in the debates up till now because they were ready to let everything blow up. you know, in the story of king solomon and the baby, the woman w