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The US Department of Defenses (DoD) announced it has made three awards to strengthen supply chains for hypersonic and strategic systems. The companies receiving the awards are General Electric (GE), Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies (C-CAT), and Northrop Grumman, according to US department of defense.

So were going to continue to share a winning message across the airwaves and match that with meeting people on the ground. ive been already in about 20 different cities over the last week. i will hit about 20 more all over washington state. we have a bus that were taking all over this great state connecting with voters on the ground and sharing the message. the energy and enthusiasm is real. hundreds of people are coming to our events. theyre ready for change and common sense. i say we are more ...

Opposed to this policy of separating children from families but these facilities were run as well as they could be. i talked to my colleagues who visited mothers at the border and the mothers are crying and distraught and everybody is worried about whether there will be contact made by the families. >> congressman fitzpatrick. you represent bucks county, a district known for being a swing district. tell me what are your constituents thinking of this policyover separating children from their pare...

State level. >> is it possible, angela, this will put pressure on the two republican senators who i believe support abortion rights to a degree, senator susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska. is that where there is focus when it comes to the supreme court battles coming up? >> it is hard for me to even think about row v. wade and just given the fact that anthony kennedy sided with the conservative portion of the bench on the last four decisions just coming out. whether were talking...

Other. were already seeing, this is politically difficult. you had a similar outcry of a somewhat different thing that happened under obama and he stopped it -- >> because its difficult -- >> tha going to run into the base policy -- >> i dont think you have to go into extremes because its difficult. >> the president ran on enforcing the border. he ran into general against hillary clinton who had an opposite policy, he won. this is something he said he was going to do, which is enforce -- >> to b...

Oversight up. the president needs to keep on top of it to keep it moving but its clearly the right thing to do, it recognizes reality. you cant base policy -- i think it is -- >> harris: we see the president of the united states has stepped up, lets watch and listen. president thank you. when i came into office i promised to look at the worlds challenges with open eyes and a very fresh thinking. we cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed stra...

>> so a base policy that extended into a foreign policy where you have a piece of foreign policy that has no practical effect other than a symbolic reassurance to the base. thank you all very much. fascinating conversation. we will have to do it again soon. next on "gps" another big thing in washington this week. the senate passed a tax bill instead of simplifying things in many ways it complex mys the tax code. we will get global lessons on how to really simplify taxes. there is a lot for ameri...

Flying any kind of aircraft over there. they dont have aircraft to be able to fly. see you cant have a great deal of certainty on and this is not the first time that weve seen assad use chemical weapons. he is used chemical weapons year after year after year. theres a lot of focus on it for years ago when he was using chemical weapons but his continued use chlorine gas. because this not a defense of the a assad or jima or their attacks of war, merely an acknowledgment that ive heard many people ...

Really base policy numbers -- base policy on numbers, we need a lot of people to run a lot of numbers. no matter how many times academies try to tell politicians they shouldnt base policy action on any one study in any area of social sciences or natural sciences, politicians refuse to learn that lesson. republicans loved the 90% number because for once they had some science behind what they were saying. it wasnt hard science. it wasnt organic chemistry or biology. it was the soft science of econ...

Economists who have run the numbers on any important policy question, you will probably get a lot more respect than you deserve because in order to really base policy numbers -- base policy on numbers, we need a lot of people to run a lot of numbers. no matter how many times academies try to tell politicians they shouldnt base policy action on any one study in any area of social sciences or natural sciences, politicians refuse to learn that lesson. republicans loved the 90% number because for on...