well. this in my view is the highest responsibility of the president of the united states, which is to maintain the safety of the american people. and i will not cut our military budget by $1 trillion, which is the combination of the budget cuts that the president has as well as a sequestration cuts. that in my view is making our future less certain and less secure. i think governor romney maybe hasn t spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. because the nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have these ships that go under water, nuclear submarines. so the question is not a game of battleship where we re counting ships, it s what are our capabilities. so the question is what s really going on. what do the numbers actually show? cnn s chief national security corresp
security be compromised? all this may sound familiar. mitt romney made the same arguments during his presidential campaign slamming president obama s position on the trail and in debates as well. this in my view is the highest responsibility of the president of the united states, which is to maintain the safety of the american people. and i will not cut our military budget by $1 trillion, which is the combination of the budget cuts that the president has as well as a sequestration cuts. that in my view is making our future less certain and less secure. i think governor romney maybe hasn t spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. because the nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. ship that is go underwater, nuclear sub marines. so the question is not a game of battle s
draconian. i think the budget s terrible. they don t want to get entangled in another war which no one wants. but we don t get to predict what the the next battlefield will look like. what the president has tried to do, the budgets that they send up to us is lay this all on the backs of our military. officials maintain that it is needed, but could our country s security be compromised? all this may sound familiar. mitt romney made the same arguments during his presidential campaign slamming president obama s position on the trail and in debates as well. this in my view is the highest responsibility of the president of the united states, which is to maintain the safety of the american people. and i will not cut our military budget by $1 trillion, which is the combination of the budget cuts that the president has as well as a sequestration cuts. that in my view is making our future less certain and less secure. i think governor romney maybe hasn t spent enough time looking
the super storm relief package a few weeks later in january of 2013, then in february the violence against women act, and then at the end of test last year we saw a budget agreement that rolled back some of the sequestration cuts. and then most recently earlier this month with the clean debt ceiling, that obviously would have been catastrophic. so in five areas we ve seen the hashtag rule violated that gives us hope that as long as democrats remain unified perhaps we can tackle the big picture issues because they have been tackled in the past. i served two terms. when the fiscal crisis happened, when people couldn t get home loans or car loans, when it went in the tank wall street, it was george bush and hank polson that
his members that would extend the debt ceiling until march of 2015 and does not include major spending cuts. it seeks to restore pension cuts that were passed as part of december s budget deal. republicans want to offset the pensions by extending sequestration cuts to providers. a vote could come tomorrow and then the house is on recess. as hillary clinton eyes a possible 2016 run for president, echoes of the past refuse to stay there. today it s the private papers of diane blair that are shedding some new light on the clinton s life. notes reveal some of the lightest and darkest times. among them discussions about hair and makeup and there are references to recent books and movies. hilary was frustrated with the white house staff writing hc dumbfounded by people who look