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Conversation. always, always worried about that dark cloud called mueller and just how close its coming. >> yeah. do you think april that democrats are you know counting chickens too quickly here theyre excited about virginia, excited about alabama, and it seems to be on a roll at least with those two and maybe a couple more? do you think its too fast. >> i think its too fast democrats cant take it for granted because there is always the unknown variable. but at the same time they do have moment...

Indeed. the white house, meanwhile, wants to take a budget axe to foreign aid, peacekeeping and development programs. lets go to our global affairs correspondent elise labott. this would be done, what, through a major decrease of state department funding? >> thats right. a major decrease, wolf. humanitarian workers say the results could be devastating. president trump is making good on his pledge to put america first, but his deep cuts to foreign aid target the worlds most vulnerable. the memb...

Preview. >> reporter: dave and christine, the president appears to be ready to strike a positive tone to the joint session of congress. renew of american spirit is the theme of the speech. the white house is signaling that president trump is sharpening the budget axe to make cuts to non defense spending in washington. only the pentagon is spared in the budget plans. white house officials say the president is expected to propose a $54 billion in defense spending. that increase is larger than what...

Outlets in advance of the speech. the e-mail provided to cnn. it lays out the ideas we reported, but also notes the president will address safer communities and better schools for the forgotten men and women. apparently a reference to poor and my majority communities. he will work with congress to include better workplaces for parents and better education for kids. >> this speech comes at a critical time for the young administration. the country waiting on the presidents health plan. budget outl...

If you look at the numbers from the national science foundation. since big entitlements like social security are mandatory spending programs it is discretionary spending like science, that often bears the brunt of the budget axe. this comes at a time when others around the world are moving fast. the united states has dominated the world of basic science for years, even decades. recently, its share of global research and development has been falling from 37% of the total in 2001 to now 30%, accor...

And phoenix hits 88. and now we turn to a lesson in sacrifice from a houston third grader trying to stop the budget axe from coming down on her school. >> take a look there. little trouper, the 8-year-old was so worried her favorite classes would be cut, she donated part of her allowance to the school. $20 to help save the art and music program. >> she knows her gift is not enough, though, to save her teachers jobs but a simple act that is tugging on heartstrings and, of course, sending a mess...

Running well discuss the key issues with two congressional leaders, the number 2 man in the necessity for the democrats, dick durbin and jim hensarling and the 2012 gop field takes shape. well ask our sunday panel about newt gingrichs semi announcement. and where she stands in the republican contest. and, our power player of the week runs one of the first programs to face the budget axe. all, right now, on fox news sunday. and, hello again, from fox news in washington. the supreme court ruled th...

Bill: the republican rising star, chris christie, the governor in new jersey, breaking out the budget axe in his stays, new jersey trying to find a way to close the multibillion-dollar debt. and he proposing a $540 million bite out of medicaid funds, he said the time of business as usual is over. >> too many years our government operated under the belief that the baseline, the place where you begin, is to continue to fund every program in the budget. regardless of the fiscal climate, regardless ...

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