you would say show us your evidence. what evidence of a crime do you have? abuse of power is not a crime. that s fundamentally boil it down, the constitution is very clear that there has to be some pretty egregious behavior and they cannot tell the american people what this case is even about. laura: i m reading this bill taylor opening statement in my first reaction is anything that is 15 pages single-spaced, like someone who has to put the resume on two pages you don t want to hire them. most of it is third and fourth hand accounting of he told him and then he told him and on the president told him but i disagree with that. that s how it goes. we have the transcript of the phone call, we have the primary evidence which is all the prosecutor would need to put in front of a jury. you don t need witnesses that know of the evidence when you have thefr evidence.
you would say show us your evidence. what evidence of a crime do you have? abuse of power is not a crime. that s fundamentally boil it down, the constitution is very clear that there has to be some pretty egregious behavior and they cannot tell the american people what this case is even about. laura: i m reading this bill taylor opening statement in my first reaction is everythin g that is 15 pages single-spaced, like someone who has to put the resume on two pages you don t want to hire them. most of it is third and fourth hand accounting of he told him and then he told him and on the president told him but i disagree with that. that s how it goes. we have the transcript of the phone call, we have the primary evidence which is all the prosecutor would need to put in front of a jury. you don t need witnesses that know of the evidence when you have the evidence.
says, domestic discretionary spending, what the administration proposes to cut to pay for increase in defense only accounts for 15% of spending and less than 5% of spending growth. it s really social security and health spending on the other hand accounting for half of total spending and almost two-thirds of spending growth over the next decade. this is not different than what you ve been saying that we need to take an ax to the entitlement programs. any opportunity to do that in this budget? sure, i have a lot of respect for that organization. this is a budget blueprint not a full budget. the full budget won t be here until may, that s where we deal with things like policy changes, revenue streams, that s what most people think is the larger budget but we will be introducing on march 16th the discretionary spending budget. we are not balancing the budget on the backs of the state department. it s fiscally impossible to do. what we have done is move foreign aid to defense so we can