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we don't have duels these days or talk of duels except when senator zell miller talks to me. continue and it's going to get more deadly. there's a presidential nomination at stake and romney's cruising for more bruising. and liberals, believe it or not, are rooting for the newtster. and that's "hardball" for now. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now.

zell miller was one of georgia's governors and was a.s.ator and one of the things that he did and he received some criticism for it when he did it but in the end it worked he went through a process called redirection where he asked every agency to deliver the agency head was to deliver the 5% that they would cut. it wasn't up to any of the elected officials, the agency heads delivered the 5% that they would cut so your base commander could deliver the 5% that they would take out and then ty were allowed to present back to command where they would put 2 1/2% of that. the net result of that was a 2 1/2% reduction in spending and quite honestly a more efficient agency. and so as somebody who's come from a state appropriations committee d secretary panetta and general and controller i know you have more experience than i do with these issues but that's something that we did see that work eded. i'd also like to say, mr. secretary, there were 89 of us that are freshmen republicans. we very much enjoy a discussion with the president. that's somet