todd harrison center for strategic and budgetary assessment and tom shanker new york times welcome tohe program. >> tom i would like to start off with you the overall question is a lot of us expected deeper cuts there was a lot of discussion the navy would go from 11 carriers down to 10 or 9, talk large portions of the air bomber fleet would be retired, that the joint strike fighter program was in deep jeopardy, what were the surprises here, decisions made were they the right decisions and were they hard choices end of the day >> right, vago if there is one word to describe this budget proposal it is deliberate it will be up to your viewers to decide if that means wise or political. they did everything they had to do but in a very careful way. one third of the budget that is growing is personnel costs they are going to slow the rate of pay raises but not cut back. they are going to increase fees for health insurance for retirees but not make it even more than in the private sector. as you mentioned the joint strike fighter is getting slid right but not being cancelled so they did a li