investment in time and technology would be maintained and new bomber and missile subdevelopped, a jointighter would be delayed to reduce program risk and save money is the administration on the right track will they deliver real savingcapability as hoped and how will u.s. congress respond i am joined by rick mays congressional editor, lauren thompson of the lexington institute. todd harrison center for strategic and budgetary assessment and tom shanker new york times welcome to the program. >> tom i would like to start off with you the overall question is a lot of us expected deeper cuts there was a lot of discussion the navy would go from 11 carriers down to 10 or 9, talk large portions of the air bomber fleet would be retired, that the joint strike fighter program was in deep jeopardy, what were the surprises here, decisions made were they the right decisions and were they hard choices end of the day >> right, vago if there is one word to describe this budget proposal it is deliberate it will be up to your viewers to decide if that means wise or political. they did everything they had