Defense Sect News Today

Welcome to The Beat, im ari melber. But we begin with Breaking News in politics. Former republican Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick cheney is backing Kamala Harris. That marks one of her most high Ranking Republican endorsements in this campaign probably the most iconic. Dick cheney is an Arch Conservative Hawk and a gop icon, a fixture running republican administrations as chief of Staff And War policy as Defense Sect and Vice President and during 9 11 and the wars in afghanistan and i...

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President trump today, that is not justice. >> now some of trumps former cabinet officials say the charges are serious. including former defense sect mark esper this morning here on cnn. he said trump cannot be trusted with the nations secrets. >> based on his actions, if proven true, no, it is just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, it places our nations security at risk. >> so lets discuss all of this and more with toluse olorunnipa, and leigh ann caldwell from the p...

President. he has a book to sell, obviously, he sfrm taking a different tone while he was serving as defense sect. history is about to be made at the white house, with the new press secretary. the first black woman, and the first lgbtq person, currently, the deputy press secretary. >> i cant wait to see her shine, bringing her own brilliance and grace to the podium. >> keeping an eye on the stock market right now. market right now. it is down 270 points or so.

Also from republican lawmakers. now the background on in just for those folks at home is that essentially the pentagon is able to delay or suspend over 100 military projects to get about 3.6 billion for the presidents border wall. and the only reason the defense sect, mark eppser can legally ask for that is because you remember the president declared the national emergency earlier this year along the southern board are border after he lost the fight with congress to get funding for the wall. now...

Clinton, bernie sanders and martin omalley if they all stay in. so its shrinking. >> you mean if martin omalley stays in. >> yeah. he would be the next. he is at four percent in that poll. he mentioned. bernie sanders has been running strong, especially in iowa and new hampshire. but clinton seems to be solidifying her lead now. >> good to see you, ed. learning more about the u.s. soldier who died of a shootout with isis militants during a rescue mission in iraq. that it and why the defense sect...

>> they can do some of those things without us but they wont necessarily be respected. so day will come tll be some kind of an incident between our ships or our planes. and what worries me about asia you dont really have the shock absorbers diplomatically. we dont have in place all the mechanisms we need to keep things stable. >> "new york times," president of the boy scouts of america says organizations ban on openly gay leaders is no longer sustainable. former defense sect and now boy scouts p...

Obama. would follow the outgoing pentagon chief chuck haig whole sources say resigned under pressure. ashton carter once they would the number two job at the pentagon. the shakeup comes as the united states faces all sorts of challenges around the world. the islamic state terrorists, russians.president putins aggression, north korea, iran, the list goes on. in fact the former defense secretary william cohen said on this program on wednesday, that never in his life has he seen such a complex geop...

Regard it as a provocation. egypt today saying that it would receive requests through the iranian embassy to the defense and foreign ministries t. but under maritime law, egypt will let any ship pass through, as lot as it is not at war with the country. >> fionnuala, thank you. next chris lawrence is live at the pentagon. i understand the defense sect threw a bit of a wet blankets on the plans today. >> if you believe the defense secretary, he says the chances of closing guantanamo bay prison ...

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