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Member that have caucus understands that working people are hurting right now. and finally we need a government that represents ordinary people, not just the wealthy campaign contributors and the 1%. >> the house problem solvers caucus is probably more aligned philosophically with sinema and manchin at least right now it seems that way, and that group is proposing $487 billion in new spending for their infrastructure bill, a bipartisan group of people who as their title would suggest think that ...

Hasnt seen these last few years anyway, but is this the new normal? >> im hoping that it is the new normal. if you look at the bill, there are great things in the bill. listen, theres a new way for president obama to report the congress dealing with sanctions. theres this policy regarding the irs. there are great things in there, but this is how the congress should work in a democracy. it should be bipartisan support. you shouldnt have republicans on this side and democrats on that side. so im h...

Capitol hill. where is this money going in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill? the big ticket item is defense. nearly half of the money, $487 billion goes to the pentagon with another $85 billion for operations overseas. among the other expenses, the education department will get about $160 billion to fund school programs and try to keep the job market humming along as well. also, $5.4 billion of the 6.2 billion the president asked for to fight ebola. thousands of protesters sweeping th...

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Cutting our climate change programs instead? senator james inhofe of oklahoma says yes. and he joins us right now to break down the numbers. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, steve. >> it is startling given all the things that are going on in the world right now that were talking about gutting our military to preworld war ii levels. >> yeah. let me put this in perspective cause i remember i was on your show five years ago. five years ago when obama first came out with his first budget, ...

Talking and negotiating with the very person who has been giving all of the resources to syria in the first place. i hope that some time people will pay attention to the real problem with intervention is that we have a degraded military now. no one understanding this or believes it and yet ive been saying for 4 1/2 years. in his first budget he did away with our only fifth generation fighter, future combat system, the ground base interceptor. that was just one budget. since then, hes taken on hi...

>> thank you, jessica. so the 2011 budget control act cut $487 billion from the defense departments protected budget, and the question is can the u.s. afford to act? and then a sequester will cut more, and chuck hagel says the united states is ready to go if the president orders a strike in syria, but this is what he said just one month ago. >> the only way to implement an additional abrupt 10% reduction in the defense department is to make nonstrategic cuts, and disrupt operations, and erode ...

Budget request. supplemental money to cover the cost of this operation. remember, each tomahawk missile fired alone is $1.5 million apiece. if you look back at the libyan conflict, there were 211 tomahawks fired, so you do the math, and you are talking about an operation that will cost at least several hundred million dollars. here is republican senator james inhofe who is the leading republican on the senate armed services committee. >> most of them, many of them are not aware of whats happened...

Any members of congress after this call? if there was any sort of concensus colling out from them? >> no. in fact i stayed on the call for an hour and 15 minutes. i missed the last 15 minutes. most of the responses were very similar to mind but they didnt take a position in opposition to it. i know that is not a very popular thing to do but moist of them, many of them, are not aware of what has happened to our military. right now taking the projected budget of the president obama, that would tak...

Known that by simply watching american television. most military staff have been ordered to stay home in syria for the next few days expecting a strike, jon. jon: and in this age of sequester at the pentagon, what about the cost of all this? >> reporter: well, thats a real issue that no one is really talking about. each tomahawk costs up to $1.5 million apiece to fire. during the libyan conflict, some 211 tomahawks were fired from the sea. at this point it looks like any action would be limited ...