i told you about meeting the tojo's granddaughter.she remembers hearing a method to see the core, but she thinks this is part of a larger allied scheme to remove okawa before he can discuss imperialism in a negative light. now, these probably sound like conspiracy theories to some of you and you wouldn't be wrong. they certainly sound like that to me. what of that to suggest is there's a little more to it than that and i'll explain what i mean reading this passage from just after may meeting tojo's granddaughter. when you stop to think about it, considers the near east history to make sense of the confusing world. maintaining a sound mind often requires us for better or worse to reject inconvenient information. if we accepted every conflicting piece of data we encountered in the chaotic fury at the site would break our no time. starting as it is to see someone deny a fact we can that are undeniable or embrace what we consider a versatile, most of us could do that after a certain point reality is indistinguishable from that rather than

>> we can come back to you. >> interested in tojo, to what extent was he trying to ride herd on these factions and move japan toward being a more centralized less sectional system? >> at what point are you talking about? >> what little i've read indicated that he was trying to be more -- japan was very fractionalized without chain of command so to what extent was he trying to change that? >> he was into efficiency because he was -- >> and able bureaucrat. >> very able bureaucrat with individual notes about people he dealt with every day of his life and held a grudge against people and punished them and so forth but he did try to centralized and also his primary motive was to help the emperor because he was a very devoted servant of the imperial institutions so when he was appointed prime minister in october of 1941 the first thing he tried to do was to avert war, goes against the idea of tojo being an openly bellicose and uncompromising about going to war which is not true, so a bit more complex, simple-minded, his position was more complex. >> ian mentioned the china quagmire at the

hagel has evidently forgotten the hard lessons we learned from fighting tojo and your son. hey, hey, folks. ( cheers and applause ) and, hey, i'm all in favor of a lower budget, but isn't there something else we can cut? >> this our readiness and national security is all being sacrificed if you will on the altar of entitlement. >> these are the kind of cuts you have to make when you're not willing to reign in entitlements. >> when you look at the amount of money we spend on confidence it's an eye opener. as you can see, back in 1990-- just for point of reference, about 25 years ago, $300 billion was spent on defense. and about 568 billion was spent on entitlements. fast forward to 2010. about $700 billion on the defense of this nation. while close to tril-- 2-- hundred-- rather, one-- that's a hard number to read right there. >> stephen: okay, okay, i think i know what's wrong here. jim, put the chart back up. the first year should read, "1990, not 2008. defense spending should be blue and entitleiments should be red. and steve doocy should not be on television. ( laughter