of onear we only know for sure, senator brian schatz, no relation, added $16.7 million west mentors in hawaii, which is the entire of the federal budget. the east-west center, and only because of one member of congress, that this went in there. air --ome people defend earmarks. tom davis was on this program on monday and offered his defense, here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> they are project designations, this is an article one responsibility of the house of representatives. if you look at the history almost every project that went through had earmarks, there was an earmark when congressmen decided on roads and bridges and how they built it. it's a constitutional responsibility of the house of representative's. house of representative's. and they allow members to personalize their districts, to show their constituents that there is a reason to keep them around because they can bring back certain projects, they may not get funding because they have to go through the bureaucratic model otherwise. default vote to yes on the appropriation bill a set of now. bridge, and it's easier

brian schatz added it to the appropriations bill. h he just added it in on his own in the senate. of course, the house agreed to that, which isn't helpful. it is our view without any question we can find an earmark. >> phil from florida on the independent line. >> caller: a few observations for mr. schatz regarding the overall spending versus military spending. i wanted to know, my understanding is 50% of our tax dollars go to the military. and the ndaa bill at the end of the year that's for national defense authorization act, when these bills come about you can pretty much throw anything in it and if anyone questions it, they come back with the old, you're not supporting our troops. then there was the cost plus spending i learned of from the film "iraq for sale" about 15 years ago. i wanted mr. schatz to address these things that i just brought up. >> much longer conversation talking about military spending, but we do care about it. in the congressional pig book we identify wasteful spending on defense. going back to the grace commission, $424 billion of wasteful spending. 25 of

there is more torium, we are finding earmarks and for example, senator brian schatz, no relation, addedast/west center in hawaii, budget for the agency. they had north/south center in 2001, they stopped giving it federal money. this is what goes on here, unfortunately on both sides. >> harris: wow, tom schatz, we have breaking news to get to. the book has a pig on the front, we know, it is burgeoning now. the president now is looking to decide, he said he would and promised we're going to have the world's greatest fighter jet, most advanced plane fly-over while the president of poland and his wife, the kornhauser dudas are here with the first lady and president. we will have two f-35s and a second flyback and go straight up, going to put on a small show for us and there it is. viewing it because poland ordered brand-new f-35s at the highest level, that means the president has looked at the president of poland earlier and he said, that means you have good taste. american fighter pilot are on display as we watch this live together. i just -- what is -- let's hear it. >> harris: now rememb

they spend money on that problem but for ten years and there's $16.7 million by brian schatz, no relation's called the east-west center in hawaii and that's their entire budget. it was something called the north-south center in 2001 taking lots of federal dough in the east-west center should be taken off the taxpayers bill as well. ashley: wildhorse and borough management i'm sure that's important to some folks, aquatic plant control program, round three snake eradication program and i know that's a big issue in one but you have the latest numbers from the u.s. budget is now widened to $738 billion in just the first eight months of the fiscal year. this is a classic example of where some of the money is just disappearing. >> absolutely. the deficit is approaching 1 trillion for the next three years spending is up, democrats like certain projects and publicans like certain projects but when they get together they say we agree to spend more money on each other's priorities rather than saying toe the line, responding and senator rand paul try to get the senate to agree to consider his budget

of onear we only know for sure, senator brian schatz, no relation, added $16.7 million west mentors ini, which is the entire of the federal budget. the east-west center, and only because of one member of congress, that this went in there. air --ome people defend earmarks. tom davis was on this program on monday and offered his defense, here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> they are project designations, this is an article one responsibility of the house of representatives. if you look at the history almost every project that went through had earmarks, there was an earmark when congressmen decided on roads and bridges and how they built it. it's a constitutional responsibility of the house of representative's. and they allow members to personalize their districts, to show their constituents that there is a reason to keep them around because they can bring back certain projects, they may not get funding because they have to go through the bureaucratic model otherwise. default vote to yes on the appropriation bill a set of now. bridge, and it's easier to pass, it's the glue that held