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The actions of our government. believe me. first im signing an executive action to begin a great rebuilding of the armed services of the united states. developing a plan for new planes, new ships, new resources and new tools for our men and women in uniform. im very proud to be doing that. [applause] as we prepare our budget request for congress, and i think congress is going to be very happy to see it, our military strength will be questioned by no one but neither will our dedication to peace. ...

Convictions have fallen sharply under president obama by more than 15% since 2010, by nearly 35% since 2005. >> agree to the stark plunge. they reflect decision made by career prosecutors. >> and as for the $500 million the president says some of this is going to cost, well, that will be in his next budget request. megyn? >> james, thank you. joining me now with more marc thiessen, former speech writer to president george w. bush. marc, good to see you. as a former communications guy inside the ...

Convictions have fallen sharply under president obama by more than 15% since 2010, by nearly 35% since 2005. >> agree to the stark plunge. they reflect decision made by career prosecutors. >> and as for the $500 million the president says some of this is going to cost, well, that will be in his next budget request. megyn? >> james, thank you. joining me now with more marc thiessen, former speech writer to president george w. bush. marc, good to see you. as a former communications guy inside the ...

Slipped through now is a tiny fraction of the many thousands of earmarks which used to be routine. the dollars spent now is a fraction of the tens of billions of dollars that was wasted every year through this insidious practice. >> number of lawmakers today said they plan to continue looking at those appropriations bills to follow the flow of the money. >> mike emanuel thank you. an item has to meet one of seven different criteria to land in the pig book nap includes, if its requested by only o...

About it. people are outraged. people are talking about defunding at least parts of the budget request and so on. heres what charles krauthammer said on special report yesterday. >> i understand the pent-up anger and the rage over the presidents constitutional action, but the cure for that is to go see a psychiatrist, not to vote in the congress and shut down the government. the republicans are ahead, they shouldnt blow it. >> what do you think? >> you know, charles is a fellow physician and a p...

Powers as well. the constitution gives this power to congress, yet the president just says, ill do it. but when the president ran for aus, he said adamantly he didnt have the power to do war also without congressional authority. so hes changed his mind on a host of issues. >> with respect to immigration, theres now a discussion within the gop as to how to handle what the president has done. forget his reversal, his clear reversal on what he said two dozen times. the fact is hes now done it. what...

I plan to support the presidents budget request, we must make sure we do not short circuit justice for the children. i think all of us agree that is a top priority. >> los angeles would be taking some of the migrant children in. >> your city is pretty compassionate. would you take some of those kids while theyre -- >> weve already talked to hhs. many of their parents are here. before you get partisan, tell me where you are on immigration, these are children. lets get them some place safe and sec...

Further introducing a bill next week that would completely undo certain protections from unaccompanied minors from central america. a rising chorus of democrats is raising concerns over the due process rights of these children who are, after all, fleeing some of the worst violence in the world outside of war zones. which means they may be able to apply for asylum. >> they get their day in court as the law mandates. i plan to support the presidents budget request, but we must make sure we do not ...

The presidents advisers to play defense today. >> reporter: homeland security secretary jeh johnson was near the southern border in new mexico today with a message for illegal immigrants. >> we intend to send you back consistent with our laws and were building additional capability to do that quicker and safely. >> reporter: while president obama decided against getting an up close look at the crisis. johnson visited an ad hoc detention fast for women and children fleeing central america and war...

Uncomfortable with giving this administration new legal authorizations to expedite the deportations of these kids. we did hear earlier this morning on cnn that we just cant trust the president when it comes to this appropriations request, they have to look at it, look through it. really that argument is being made much more strenuously on the republican side. theyre basically slamming the door on the presidents face at this point when it comes to this budget request. my sense of it right now is ...