of the full faith and credit of the united states. we have plenty of money coming in to payoff the interest and the debt, take it off the table. and takeoff the military pay issue off the table. if you have a spouse at home and their husband or wife are serving our military in the tile of war, you take that issue off the take. the military shouldn t be pawns. and the full fate and credit of the united states shouldn t be pawns. take it off the table and haggle about the rest. greta: one of the other issues this afternoon, moody s say they may downgrade our credit rating. if that happens it is going to cost us more money to borrow and we know we need more money because we can t pay our bills dependent upon not paying the interest on the debt. that s a very small amount of money relatively speaking. we can easy do that. i had a press conference today with representative steve king and gomer we don t get
of the full faith and credit of the united states. we have plenty of money coming in to payoff the interest and the debt, take it off the table. and takeoff the military pay issue off the table. if you have a spouse at home and their husband or wife are serving our military in the tile of war, you take that issue off the take. the military shouldn t be pawns. and the full fate and credit of the united states shouldn t be pawns. take it off the table and haggle about the rest. greta: one of the other issues this afternoon, moody s say they may downgrade our credit rating. if that happens it is going to cost us more money to borrow and we know we need more money because we can t pay our bills dependent upon not paying the interest on the debt. that s a very small amount of money relatively speaking. we can easy do that. i had a press conference today with representative steve king and gomer we don t get
wounded troops still lying in their hospital beds trying to recover. it would be the last thing i would want to worry about on the battlefield, is whether my family had to pay late fees or not go grocery shopping for that week. those are things that the military shouldn t be worrying about. so that s really a concern to many americans. barbara starr, live in the pentagon. the great smoky mountains national park is the most visited. an easy trip for many americans. we will tell you what a government shutdown could do. today at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we turn the microphone over to the voters all across the country for their comments on the potential shutdown of our government. watch countdown to shutdown , a special that begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern. now, let s head to libya where at least three people were killed and ten wounded near the
let s just freeze spending where we are and then we can save money without addressing the revenue side. does that mean that you think when you look at the domestic agenda, education, something you re very involved in, there are going to be some things that you re going to have to invest in and some things that you re going to have to cut. where would you with specificity say, look, we don t need a bigger military and we cut there. yeah. i think we have to look at everything, both domestic and our international accounts. as we draw down from iraq and over the next several years as we draw down from afghanistan, i see no reason why the military shouldn t be looked at. when the cold war ended 20 years ago, when i was chairman and mr. cheney was secretary of defense, we cut the defense budget by 25%, and we reduced the force by 500,000 active duty soldiers, so it can be done. now, how fast you can do it and what you have to cut out remains to be seen, but i don t think the defense budget
does that mean that you think when you look at the domestic agenda, education, something you re very involved in, there are going to be some things that you re going to have to invest in and some things that you re going to have to cut. where would you with specificity say, look, we don t need a bigger military and we cut there. yeah. i think we have to look at everything, both domestic and our international accounts. as we draw down from iraq and over the next several years as we draw down from afghanistan, i see no reason why the military shouldn t be looked at. when the cold war ended 20 years ago, when i was chairman and mr. cheney was secretary of defense, we cut the defense budget by 25%, and we reduced the force by 500,000 active duty soldiers, so it can be done. now, how fast you can do it and what you have to cut out remains to be seen, but i don t think the defense budget can be made, you know, sacrosanct and it can t be touched. the real money in the entitlements, social s