don't see why we should favor our kids over russian kids or kids well according to the institute for human services in the united states one reason why americans turn to international adoption is because they're looking for children with specific characteristics they usually prefer children who are young children who are in good physical and psychological health and children of preferred gender and race and the supply of those children i'm sorry for putting it crudely in the united states is limited can i just respond to that that you're completely outdated factual picture of international adoption almost all the kids that americans are now adopting from abroad or older kids who have suffered significant damage who have very significant emotional and physical disabilities that constitutes almost the entire population so no into days world americans are not going abroad to get healthy infants because actually infants are not being placed anymore kids are almost always over a year and they've almost always suffered very severe damage. yet if you look at the most frequent complaints by the american ad

and the human dimension of this -- for example, inside a structure of about 420 thousand, about one third of it is consumed by support to other services, the institutional support to itself, whether it is schoolhouses or medical programs, you know, all the things that make a service a service. it really begins to limit in some significant ways that which is available to deploy into combat. i'm telling you 420,000 is too low. >> [inaudible] >> those are all details that will come out as we discussed this budget, i think. >> thanks, everybody. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> in the past there have been disagreements about ending some programs. do you think we will see the same conference with this new round of cuts? rex absolutely. we are seeing suggested cuts here that congress has objected to. it would expect to see the same sort of battles appear. benefits, military even some equipment they suggested cutting. congress has made it clear that they are not fond of it so dod has their work cut out to convince them that is what we need. >> he mentioned cutting

thishe human dimension of -- for example, inside a structure of about 420 thousand, about one third of it is consumed by support to other services, the institutional support to itself, whether it is schoolhouses or medical programs , you know, all the things that make a service a service. it really begins to limit in some significant ways that which is available to deploy into combat. i'm telling you 420,000 is too low. >> [inaudible] >> those are all details that will come out as we discussed this budget, i think. >> thanks, everybody. but thank you. -- >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> is this briefing comes to a close, if you missed any of it, you can go to the c-span video library and check www.c-span.org to watch it again anytime. congressmanserving ever, john dingell, announced he is retiring. the 87-year-old michigan democrat was first elected to congress in 1955. today, he told the detroit news "i'm not going to be carried out feet first. i don't want to have people say that i have been here too long." you can join the conversation on facebook.

human dimension to this so that for example, inside of a force structure of 420,000 about 1/3 of it is the institutional support to itself, school, houses, medical programs, all the things that make a service a service, it really begins to limit in some significant ways that which is available to deploy and r into combat. i'm telling you 420 is too low. >> >> that's all details that will come out as we discuss this budget, i think. >> thanks, everybody. >> thank you. >> the department of defense announced budget cuts and we're joined by leo shane who reports on congress for the military times group. there have been disagreements about ending some of the programs. do you think we'll see the same conflicts with the new round of cuts? >> absolutely. we're seeing a lot of cuts that congress has rejected in the past or voiced strong opposition to. i expect to see the same battles here, pay raise, military benefits. congress has made it clear they are not fond of it so the d.o.d. has their work cut out to convince them that this is absolutely needed. >> chuck hagel mentioned cutting specific programs like to a-10 aircraft. the u2 spy plane. do you see congress wanting to keep either of those? >>