congressman buck mckeon. >> shannon: the failure of the debt reduction committee could trigger huge cutdefense spending. joining us now from beaverton, oregon, to talk about that is the chairman of the house armed services committee buck mckeon. welcome. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, shannon. thank you for having me. >> shannon: all right. defense secretary leon panetta said this could result in something he termed as doomsday scenario. how worried are you about the cuts as they go in to effect? >> as he said, this is not like shooting ourselves in the foot. it's like shooting ourselves in the head. i think if people understand that we have already cut, what will be in next year's budget almost half a trillion dollars and then sequest tration of another half trillion means going forward i'd cut average of $100 billion a year out of the defense budget. which means in the outlying years we'd be cutting the defense budget in half. i think those who understand the importance of protecting our nation's defense, those who understand how important it is to protect the troops

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the military. >> reporter: so you can bet after the thanksgiving break senator mccain, congressman mckeonnd many others concerned about national security will get to work on trying to find a way around these automatic cuts which, again, don't kick in until january 2013. so there is time, but, of course, as we've seen here on capitol hill, it is difficult finding ways to cut. jon? jon: i guess congress could find some other way places, but if president is saying he isn't going to give congress an easy way out, that has to put the defense secretary in a tough position. >> reporter: it did. and leon panetta putting out a statement saying he joins the president in not allowing congress an easy way out. if congress fails to act over the next year, the department of defense will face devastating, automatic, across-the-board cuts that will tara seam in the nation's defense. panetta goes on to say the half trillion in additional cuts demanded by sequester would lead to a hollow force incapable of sustaining the missions it is assigned. so, clearly, concerned for those over at the pentagon as well

>> the only person i have heard say that is mckeon in charge of the spending for the military. i have sat down and talk with him on this. one of the few things the government does that affect women and in the constitution is the armed forces. we have to have an armed forces because the canadians are there and we have to keep an eye on them and we need a strong national defense to protect the country. i am very interested in working with him and others to make sure that as we reduce spending, we do not do it in a way that damages defense, but that does not mean the pentagon does not need to reduce spending. some of the structures of the retirement benefits they have got to be rethought for new hires. we do better off hiring young marines and army and navy guys and paying the more and giving them for 1 k -- 401k's rather than saying we will not pay much now but they will really like it when the our 75. people want to get paid more. we need to protect the amount of defense we need, but we should never announce it. calling it education does not mean education happens. you can spend

yesterday he would veto any efforts to water down those cuts i know that senator mccain and buck mckeon on the house armed services had said you know there are working to stave off the defense cuts but you know right now all the congress is looking towards a couple of things so besides those cuts that go into place in two thousand and thirteen there's the jobless benefits the extension of that there's the payroll tax cut this also has to be extended by the end of december so. i guess we're going to put the sequester cuts on hold for a minute and then look towards the next month and see if we can extend these tax cuts and i know the president have been calling on congress today to get a vote going on the payroll tax cut ok let's say these across the board cuts would happen as a result of these failed negotiations look kind of an impact of would the american people see as a result of these cuts well specifically for defense because about half would go to defense about six hundred billion dollars and the defense secretary leon panetta has already said it would be catastrophic and the other

from the house and from the senate again mostly from conservative hawks senator john kyl is one buck mckeon the chairman of the house armed services committee is another who are sort of courting to into the pacific rim pointing to china as a major threat you know the interesting thing i do want to mention is just last week british american security information council released another report that most of the u.s. nuclear powers china russia even france are kind of digging in their heels and slowing down their own disarmament efforts largely out of concerns about the u.s. nuclear weapons complex and what we're doing so if you're really concerned about china you might want to ask why are we kind of reconstituting these these abilities to build more moms now you know just like you said it's really hard to even go out and find the figures as to how much is being spent every single year so this is something that in my mind goes pretty much under the radar how do you think that americans would feel right now when they're being told that their cats are just going to have to come to the certain soc

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chairman mckeon, thanks for the opportunity to talk to you about 690,000 proud mn -- air men.is is a challenging time and the air force has been at war for two decades. we have fought alongside our joint team in afghanistan since 9/11 and we went to the gulf in the beginning of the 90s and didn't come cote your point. the nation comes back from a war we leave significant assets overwatch. remaining forces to provides support to those who would remain behind in the regions and that was witnessed as you know in northern fly watch and southern watch. therefore state and kept high tempo. the cuts we see in front, my remarks we will talk about a minute. they are challenging times and the tempo is exacerbated by the fact that our armed forces since the opening of the gulf war has 34% fewer aircraft and we started that war with and 26% fewer people. so the tempo that we face which we don't see a change in in the future puts a big stress on the force. that has led to a slow but steady decline in our unit readiness as we discussed with this committee before. we have tried to reset in t

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same goes for congressman buck mckeon, chairman of the armed services committee in the house.owever, it looks like he will have to get around house speaker john boehner. speaker boehner says he does feel bound by the automatic cuts because, quote, he says, it was part of the agreement. should also be noted that all of these guys are going to have to get around the president who had this to say about efforts to get out of this deficit deal, now that congress has decided they maybe don't like it. >> the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet. and if not, whether congress is willing to stick to the painful deal we made in august for the automatic cuts. already some in congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts, domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off ramps on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. the

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>> that's why buck mckeon, the armed services committee, says no, you can't just start an aircraft carrier put it in a building and wait for the next tranche of funding to come in on that, you can't do that with major weapons systems in this country, so buck mchune wants legislation next week. if the president was serious about protecting the american peeled he'd call the house back in on thanks giving day to pass it, instead what he's doing is threaten to veto any prospect of ameliorating the effects of these cuts, a trillion dollars from last year's budget to what they're going to have over the course of the decade. it's deaf staeugt. megyn: who is to blame for this, if you have an opinion on it? the president says there's no off ramps, i have to keep the pressure on. it's a deal that the democrats and republicans agreed to, not to mention the obama. the president can cry foul all they want now but both sides agreed to this. >> you know, i had the great blessing to work for a president who came to washington promising to build america was defense, ronald wilson reagan campaigned on the p

so buck mckeon says he will craft legislation in the coming days to try to avert those cuts, to try toround them. we've heard some others saying they'll look to try to modify the cuts to, you know, perhaps in a smart way cut spending as opposed to just across the board slashing the defense budget and then the domestic spending budget. and so that is the challenge ahead, bill. bill: all right. so they will fight on that front, but the white house, the president says, you know, if you want to try and avoid these cuts, forget about it, because i'll veto anything that comes to my december, -- desk, right? >> the president said he was not going to give congress an easy offramp from the cuts that are facing the country. his aides have made clear they are concerned about the cuts. look, they realize that cuts are going to cause pay. but, essentially, the president said, you know, unless you come to me with a balanced plan to deal with our deficit problem, i am not going to allow you to get around the cuts. there's no easy way out for congress. he's going to keep the pressure on congress to tr

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> already this evening, congressman buck mckeon, chairman of the armed services committee, has said he will introduce legislation to prevent further pentagon spending cuts after the joint deficit reduction committee announced today it failed to reach an agreement to across-the-board spending cuts, including as much as $600 billion in defense spending. but president obama said about one hour ago he will veto any effort to get rid of automatic spending cuts that would take effect in 2013. >> good afternoon. as you all know, last summer, i signed a law that will cut nearly one trillion dollars of spending over the next 10 years. part of that law required congress to reduce the deficit by an additional 1.2 -- $1.2 trillion by the end of this year. in september, i sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond that goal and reduce the deficit by three trillion dollars by cutting spending, slowing the growth of medicare and medicaid commack and asking the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share. there were a number