did with all the money that we spent on defense over the course of the last eight years, i will tell you this, maria n arriving at the $54 billion, there s a couple of things that got us to that number. it s the number that the president promised in the campaign. it s the number that would be for the military, $603 billion if there was no sequester. that s exactly what this does. we sat down with the defense department, with the pentagon to go over how much money they actually needed to start solving some of these problems. we are not going to undo the damage that s been done in just one year, this is the first step of several years of additional defense spending the president wants to see, but, again, we worked in close lock step with d oe to arrive dod to arrive at this number. it would be easy to take any number out of the air, but inevitable add to the deficit this year. what i don t want to get lost in all of this the president s