i'm joined by former comirl james loy and retired air force lieutenant general harry ratigee, they areoth members of the leadership coalition national security advisory council. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> welcome back in your case, admiral. >> thank you. >> the poll results found an overwhelming number in your survey, thought it was a great idea. there was difficulty in selling it to a democratically-controlled congress. doesn't your challenge, admiral, become harder with the republican congress? it's historically more skeptical and stronger on deficit control at this point? >> i don't know i would make the distinction between the republican and democratic congress though the return in the house is as evidence as you can possibly be. i think the challenge will be in the overall pressure downward on the budget to allow the numbers to be revealed that we would like to see revealed, for example, the foreign aid budget. the last numbers we saw coming out of both the senate and house, before the election were somewhere around $56 billion. would probably be the compromise in the f