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You often hear in these polarized times republicans and democrats are dead locked on almost everything. but the real scandal is what both sides agree on, the best example of this is the defense budget. last week the democratic house filled with radicals, according to the republicans, voted to appropriate $733 billion for 2020 defense spending. the republicans are outraged because they, along with president trump, want that number to be $750 billion. in other words, on the largest item of discret...

On. the best example of this is the defense budget. last week, the democratic house filled with radicals according to the republicans voted to appropriate $733 billion for 2020 defense spending. the republicans outrage because they along with president trump want that number to be $750 billion. in other words, on the largest item of discretionary spending in the federal budget, accounting for more than half the total, democrats and republicans are divided by 2.3%. that is a cancerous consensus t...

>> chris: the house has approved a $733 billion defense policy bill. no republicans voted for it. some liberal democrats also opposed it because they want to cut in spending. president trump has threatened to veto over a clampdown on funding for his planned border wall and the requirement he get congressional authorization before taking military action against iran. the house has also approved money to keep health care coming for men and women who worked amid the wreckage of the world trade cent...

Treading water if they got the $733 billion to advance and make the progress that this calls for, they need to get that number. >> patrick shanahan makes his first appearance at the pentagon when he arrives for work tomorrow morning. heather? >> big day for him. lucas, thank you. investigators are looking into two separate new years eve attacks in europe. in western germany, police say the driver injured four people when he rammed his car into a group of migrants in a small western city that hap...

$733 billion to advance what the strategy calls for, and they need to get that number. >> in his annual new years annual new years day aggress, north korean leader kim john said his resolve for complete denuclearization remains unchanged, and welcome the opportunity to meet president trump a second time. he urged the u.s. and south korea to continue spending on joint military exercise, something patrick shanahan will have to decide in the coming months. while he starts the day as acting defense ...

In his first message to the forces shanahan said as acting secretary of defense i look forward to working with president trump to carry out his vision alongside strong leaders, including the service secretaries, joint chiefs of staff, the combatant commanders and senior personnel in the office of the secretary of defense. one of the biggest threats he faces is china who celebrated 2019 with a flag raising in beijing. china continued to test missiles last year including the launch of a new type o...

>> the president met defense secretary mattis and armed services chairmen for lunch last week and reports leaked out the white house was seeking $750 billion for the 2020 pentagon budget. a shocking figure when just last week the president said $700 billion was his top line. weeks before the president demanded a 5% cut from all government agencies. its been to rebuild the military after years of budget cuts and caps. this years defense budget is $716 billion. the pentagon was hoping for $733 bil...

$75,016,000,000,000. and above that $733 billion. they had been pushing for. the budget has not yet been finalized. democrats did not get a whole lot of ammo with the testimony last week. they did not provide much evidence of collusion at all. what impact well have on all of the talk of russian collusion which we had been hearing for so long now. ladies, good morning to you. hallie, what did you make of james comey testimony. there was just not much there to help the democrats out with their eff...

Military defense spending budget was supposed to be around $733 billion by 2020, it could go down to $700 billion, so when people are writing the budget, whats the first thing that gets cut and how could this negatively impact the military? >> good morning, and one of the things that we saw just two years ago we were at a 1940 military and you had a case that planes were dropping out of the sky, troops were underpaid and undersupplied and even more so our ships couldnt sail, now, finally, we are...

With senator john barrasso and liz cheney part of the team. trace? >> trace: thanks, mike. the u.s. military has eroded to a dangerous degree according to a new bipartisan report out tied and warns the u.s. might struggle to win or perhaps lose a war against china or russia. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reporting live in the pentagon. hi, jen. >> the 98 page report by this bipartisan commission outlines how china and russia are seeking to build up their military while the u.s...