among them is acquisition eform. we regularly in congress pass some sort of reform measure. if you look at it as a whole, we're spending an incredible amount of money to have checkers to check of the checkers to check the checkers. the redundancy is amazing. one of the obama officials that left the pentagon has talked about the growth in the office of the secretary of defense. looking at the pentagon bureaucracy and the way that we buy goods and services is really essential so we get the most out of the money we spend. i am for finding more ways to get the money out here that has to be a partnership of the congress and the pentagon. it may take a couple of years but many of us on capitol hill are ready to embark on that. >> on cyber security, what are the top needs to protect this ountry from cyber threats? >> one is to facilitate information sharing. it increases your situation awareness on what is happening. this occurs at the speed of more ready. light. cyber command is setting up teams to help defend the country. one of the things we're watching carefully is how these te

we are happy to discuss tax reform get everybody wants tax eform. >> we want to simplify the tax codeat should be in the context of budget negotiations. tell me what the connection is between redoing deficits and debt and the republican version of tax reform. there is no connection that they made. and we actually haven't heard from them directly on this. >> greta: i think probably the reason why they connect if i this isk for them on this is that in washington things don't get done. we have seen even look like at sequester was an effort to try to do that but that didn't work out too well because that didn't prevent sequestration from happening the draconian effects. in the senate, senator baucus said he is willing to link the dem ceiling with overhauling the tax code. >> the place to do tax eform is in the context of the budget negotiations. the house pass the budget and the senate has a budget. the next step as you know is to have a budget negotiation and conference. >> greta: why hasn't that happened? who makes the decision to pull the trigger on having a reconciliation. >> the spea

we are happy to discuss tax reform get everybody wants tax eform. >> we want to simplify the tax coded be in the context of budget negotiations. tell me what the connection is between redoing deficits and debt and the republican version of tax reform. there is no connection that they made. and we actually haven't heard from them directly on this. >> greta: i think probably the reason why they connect if i this isk for them on this is that in washington things don't get done. we have seen even look like at sequester was an effort to try to do that but that didn't work out too well because that didn't prevent sequestration from happening the draconian effects. in the senate, senator baucus said he is willing to link the dem ceiling with overhauling the tax code. >> the place to do tax eform is in the context of the budget negotiations. the house pass the budget and the senate has a budget. the next step as you know is to have a budget negotiation and conference. >> greta: why hasn't that happened? who makes the decision to pull the trigger on having a reconciliation. >> the speaker of t

spending entitlements and social programs will be sucked out of the budget if comprehensive immigration eform is passed. your comment is that the u.s. economy will improve. >> i disagree. it shows only the downside, the worst-case downside scenario, with none of the upside for immigrants. think of everybody who ever came to this country that started a company or took a good job and built a family and became middle-class taxpayers and send kids to college. it is one side of the ledger. the worst-case scenario on one side of the ledger. i am for immigration reform because we need to be younger than our competitors. we are younger than japan and europe. ireland is the only country in europe where the median ages younger than america. it continues to give us diversity and contacts with the rest of the world. i am for it. there is some dispute about something bill knows a lot more about, which is whether -- i have always favored increasing these visas and getting more skilled workers. everybody in the high-tech field tells me we need more. now there is a little debate. people claim they only want