>host: randy forbes of virginia. guest: we go from the north carolina line and continue to virginia beach and norfolk up to the richmond area. a diverse area with military and great suburban areas and manufacturing and farm interests. host: c.t. on our independent line. caller: i am delighted to participate in this question and answer matter. one of your initial remarks was that we need to spend less. i fully agree with you. one of the members of congress for whom i have immense admiration and have so for many year and that is ron paul and he is recommended that many of the federal agencies and bureaus and departments, etc., be eliminated and that includes the department of education. he even mentioned the federal reserve. if you look at the constitution of the united states, there is no call for a lot of these elements of our government. i would say 90% of our federal government is completely unconstitutional and i think that these agencies should be systematically eliminated and i mean soon. guest: i think you are

hosts are randy forbes is our guest. >> caller: thank you for taking my call.for the last three years we've been hearing the mantra of austerity through prosperity, yet the congressman came on this morning articulating quite well how these cuts in the defense department are going to job losses. the second point since the congressman mentioned this earlier but citing the constitution of the legislation since you are arguing for posterity through prosperity, seems like you're going the opposite when it comes to defense department. so i just don't understand the roderick, the massive orwellian offers a peep. making the right to cast these things in simple language that they think people can digest. when it comes down to it, you're basically using pretty much an orwellian attempt. poster let's get a response. just go i've said we need to make cuts we need to make a proper analysis before doing it. it's vitally important that we do necessary priorities before you make these cuts. the number one priority for the united states of america federal government is what doe

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bill: randy forbes, republican from virginia. appreciate your time.for the debate and the vote. thank you. what do you think at home? the question of the day on "america's newsroom" opens home page. do you favor repealing healthcare, yes or no. file your vote right now. we'll give you results at the end of our program today. check it out online. martha: that's not all that is happening on capitol hill this mourn. they are looking at the threat against the united states from cyber attacks. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington covering this story. why is cyber becoming such a dominant threat right now. >> good morning. the statistics are staggering. the number of cyber attacks jumped 44% last year and the head of the national security agency and u.s. cyber command in a rare public talk says the theft of american ideas is now the greatest transfer of wealth in history. he says what comes next may be worth. general keith alec apbd der says he's concerned about this transition from disruptive to destructive attacks, sim

in about 45 minutes, congressman randy forbes will talk about why he opposes defense budget cuts scheduled to take effect under sequestration. we will talk with congressman jim himes about his support for the cuts to the pentagon budget.

here's virginia republican randy forbes. >> and because one more justice believed it was constitutionals not constitutional, our friends on the other side of the aisle believe that we should now step back and do nothing and just allow this health tax to be imposed on the american people. well, we reject that suggestion. and the reason we do is because today the number one issue in the american people's minds is the economy, and the number one concern they have about the economy is the loss of their jobs. jenna: well, everyone gets a turn though. jon: yep. jenna: you also have democrats. texas democrat al green also getting worked up, mocking the republican plan. take a listen. >> mr. speaker, i hold in my left hand a copy of the affordable care act. i hold in my right hand the replacement bill that my colleagues across the aisle have been talking about. this bill has passed the congress of the united states of america. it is more than 2,000 pages. it was condemned for being too long. which may explain the size of this bill. jon: we are going to be keeping an eye on the house as the deba

we'll talk with democratic representative and randy forbes of virginia discussing the campaign on bothying, some reports of al qaeda infiltrating the country, this as the assad regime continues to kill syrians every day while sitting on a stock pile of chemical weapons. we'll talk about the chemical weapons with a former syrian general. >>> also, how do you get kids to eat more vegetables? this young lady is an actress and one of stars from icarly, my kids obsessed. >> my daughter would die to be here. >> yes, she would. >> she is a veggie loving a.m. bo bass dor and using her show to teach kids to eat more vegetables. you can watch us live on your computer or mobile phone, cnn.com/tv. >> the ambassador of broccoli, love that. >> she could be very effective, kids love her. >> i would pay cash for that if it works. >> good luck with that, everybody. >> where can you find all of the biggest stars? forget hollywood because in the weeks ahead, this is going to be the hottest spot in the sworld, you're looking at the live picture of the stadium right now. we'll ahead there for an informativ

. >> thursday on "washington journal," randy forbes discusses possible defense budget cuts. the armed services committee member will talk about his opposition to sequestration. then we will hear from democrat tim hines of connecticut, member of the financial services committee. he will address the sequester and his views on the tax cuts expire. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend on american history tv -- >> let me begin to open up the discussion by asking this -- what was the nature of the clash between macarthur and truman? is this a clash over policy? is this a problem of personalities? >> truman and macarthur -- elliot cohen on the relationship that led a general to relieve a -- a president to relieve the general at the height of the korean war. sunday, more from our series of books that key political figures who ran for president and lost but changed history. this week, at least the vincent. he said he had a bad case of a hereditary politics -- his grandfather was vice-president under grover cleveland. his great-grandfather was fir

she's an assistant to republican virginia congressman randy forbes. >> all right.e is kristin calloway, she's a legislative assistant to republican congressman steve sunderland essentially saying look, no hands. republican congresswoman michelle bachmann and in all 22 republicans and 21 democrats, two independents made the list. go to washington to see the beautiful people. >> i wish everybody luck even if you didn't make the list, i guess use moisturizer. i think that's -- >> you think that's the key? >> if you're chafing, you have no choice. >> oh, gosh. >> 7:34 is the time now. now it your headlines on a wednesday morning. we begin with a fox news aletter. an hour ago, earthquake rattling southern california. a 3.8 magnitude quake striking two miles away from marina del ray. reports say it woke people up as far away as beverly hills. authorities say there's been no calls about major damage or injuries. >> and heated clashes in washington over the bush era tax cuts. president obama and democrats arguing that the cuts should only be extended for certain families a

randy. wow. >>> elsewhere taylor swift beat out justin bieber on forbes' ranking of highest paid selects underyears old. swift earned $57 million to bieber's $55 million. >>> and finally at the box office, "ice age: drift" is the only new wide release. it's expected to take the top spot with at least $50 million. knocking that "spider-man" off the list pretty quickly. it's not the heat wave like last week. >> we're looking for the next big one like "batman." >> that comes out soon. >> the 20th. >> pop quiz. >> if not, aisle look it up. >>> this comes to us from wnbc new york where wedding vows came with a few bow wows were included. two dogs became husband and wife last night at a ceremony fit for man or beast. the bride wore classic white designer gown. her groom had something a little more colorful in mind. and along with those "i do's" came an eye-popping bill. they set a new guinness world record for the most expensive pet wedding ever. $158,000, bill karins. that's right. you heard me correctly. $158,000 for that. luckily, though, for the newlyweds, all of the services were donated. hopef