what some officials here admit is out of control. that is the crime issue. department of justice officials are hopeful and crossing their fingers the budget proposed by the president will go through after getting less than desired last yethe new budget for next fiscal year looks promising according to some officials i ve spoken to that run in law enforcement agency. for next year 37.6 billion proposed for d.o.j. an increase of more than 2 1/2 billion from last year s enacted budget. half of the 37 billion will go directly to law enforcement. notable, $34 million will go through january 6 prosecution to hire 131 new attorneys. we re going to continue to do those cases and hold those perpetrators accountable no matter where the facts lead us no matter what level. we ll do those cases.
a year and now just one sticking point remains. we re close to a deal but we ve been pretty close for some time and i think that tells you all you need to know about the difficulty of the issues that remain. iran is demanding the state department remove their military irgc from a list of terrorist organizations. top iran officials say without this the new deal is dead in the water. it is our national army and a national army cannot be listed as a terrorist group. certainly it is not acceptable. so far the biden administration has had little to no luck trying to align israel with saudi arabia as they had hoped to do. no major announcements coming out of blinken s meetings yesterday. trace: gillian turner live at the state department. dana: let s bring in michael allen serving as a senior
as for crime in other cities, while the justice department oversees it is the local police officers tasked with stopping violence before it happened. yesterday president biden said those police officers will be funded, not defunded. president biden: i said it before, the answer is not to defund our police departments. it is to fund our police. give them all tools they need. training and foundation and partners and protectors that our communities need. as with every budget it is not up to d.o.j. officials or the president. it is up to congress what they will leave in and what they ll take out. officials are optimistic the important items to fight crime will stay in and stay funded because those people here realize that crime is a problem in our cities large and small. trace. trace: took awhile but they realize it now. david spunt live at the d.o.j.
this. gillian, good morning. good morning. right now secretary blinken is continuing his reassurance tour of the middle east trying to round up america s top allies there ahead of signing a brand-new iran nuclear deal. right now he is meeting with the foreign minister for morocco. the big ticket item on his agenda is convening four arab nations and israel. a few years ago this gathering would have been impossible to imagine. uae, bahrain, morocco and israel. the former president trump signature foreign policy achievement the abraham accord. now the challenge is iran s nuclear weapons program. have a commitment to israel s security. president biden reaffirmed that recently with the provision of a billion dollars for iron dome. diplomats are negotiating back and forth on this deal for
u.k., the french, the germans and the italians. do we know what prompted that call? we don t know exactly yet. there are conflicting reports about the russians may or may not be doing. this is a time where every word even on a private call is very, very important. we re getting a rare look now at the way the president was pressed by staffers to explain yesterday exactly what he meant over seas. there is a photo, zoomed in photo from one of the agencies of a cheat sheet. at the top it says tough putin q and a talking points. and one of the lines under it says i was not articulating a change in policy. he then said. president biden: i want to make it clear i wasn t articulating a policy change. another line on that piece of paper that was i was expressing the moral outrage i felt toward the actions of this man. he then said. president biden: i was