center for american progress and a senior advisor for the center of defense information and dr james carafano is a senior defense analyst with the heritage foundation gentlemen thank you so much for even trying to speak for me through with you dr karp on i'd like to start with you you know the cold war is over world war two is over the world's military situation has changed we have one of the most powerful military in the world and we spend quite a bit to ensure that it stays that way what's wrong with cutting the military budget in this time. well you said there's there wars going on the united states is the world's largest economy it's got global responsibilities not so sure why defense brings a problem and store glee the level of defense spending and its percentage economy so actually near historic post world war two los i'm not sure it's inappropriate certainly not because of our fiscal problems so we can take defense spending the cost but we may have contributed take defense spending to zero tomorrow and thirty years the country still goes broke because so security medicare and medicaid