and economy r they right? hi, everybody, i m david asman, let s focus with mr. steve forbes, elizabeth, sabrina and bruce jackson, steve, spend more? dave, unfortunately we will have to spend more and a lot more under barack obama the budget declined, a couple of hundred billion dollars, trump is increasing it but not nearly enough, we need more ships, we need more equipment and we need to maintain what we have which we haven t done in recent years, we also need radical reform of procurement system which wastes $25 billion a year. a lot has to be done. john, look at the percent of gdp that we spend in military hardware, it has come way down. we had the peace dividend during the clinton years after the end of the soviet union, that s when the big dip happened and we built up after 9/11 and it s come down again. coming down from a very high level. even now we spend more on the military annually than the next
seven largest spending countries combined. david: they re not spending
joining us as hillary clinton s former spokesman, suggesting we worked for vladimir putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. it s a serious question because defense guarantees or serious promises. why would the united states promise to defend montenegro? speak out the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war . i don t want your son to fight and montenegro. i don t want him to fight in germany or any of other of the9 nato countries but you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato is in fact what has avoided war. while the soviet union has fallen, the russians are incredible tucker: the reason i thought of montenegro and suggested there was some putin reason why you did, there was a much more prosaic reason because it just joined nato.
are you suggesting we owe them a defense guarantee? i m not looking at montenegro i m looking at the full 29 countries. tucker: that s how bad decisions get made, one people to look at the statistics.