I think they definitely need to do a better job there. I think this is true not just for president obama but everyone of us. Things are complicated. They are more complex than they look on paper. You bring up the payroll tax cut. I thought it was a terrible idea in the context where we are supposed to collect this money to help pay for the retirement of current retirees. You cannot have it both ways. Claim we have Social Security selffunded and then say we are not going to collect that program. Unds that is extremely important. Do itdmitting the way you is by borrowing more money. There are a lot of things lost in the debate. Some are born and complicated. Specific tonk it is president obama. Guest was a payroll tax cut as part of the stimulus. It happened through the payroll taxes. It did not mean money going to Social Security was reduced. Guest exactly. But that was lost in the debate. Been i do think there has in messaging problem with obama. He did not do the things he could have
Billion. The actual cost of the plan itself was ejected originally in the 60 billion, now it is about 161 billion give or take. Host are there problems with the plane . Guest by the way, 161 million per plane. While they have had to level off some problem, based on software problems. Millions of dollars that they need to do, and whole bunch of flight testing they need to be doing. They are still making changes to tooling, some of the things were going to buy something 289 planes before this Flight Test Program is done, so over the next 10 years, we could be spending upwards of 2 billion just a reoutfitting be plain that are sitting on the flight line right now. Host Frank Oliveri joins us until 9 15 to talk about the f 35 fighter. We have questions about it not only from your viewpoint and interest in it but also maybe you are in active or retired military and want to give your thoughts on as well. Here is the line, how we have divided them this morning if you want to participate. For
Should it for information given to wikileaks. He was given 35 years. What do you think about the sentence . 31 people commenting so far. We want to ask you about the sentence. Was it too lenient or appropriate . We want to hear from you this morning. Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Twitter is available to you. You can also send as emails. The new yorkrom times. Bradley manning escorted into Court Wednesday for the maryland retreat in maryland. It shows a picture of him with the headline. Manning giving sentence 35 years for lookeaking. Then gives youe a little bit of perspective. There have been a series of opinions in the sentence that was handed down yesterday. You may have opinions of your own. Here is how you can share them with us. If you live outside the United States, if you could also give us opinion on that. He made a statement and thoughts known on the release yesterday saying reprimanding betrayed his country. Obligations as a soldier. Editors of New York Times kn
Businesses are on the edge waiting for loans to come through so they can reopen eventually. Governors in georgia, south carolina, and tennessee all announcing plans to relax some restrictions while others say they still need more testing to safely reopen. This is the president said he plans to temporarily pause immigration and a deal to get more money to Small Businesses. We begin today with chief White House Correspondent john roberts. He is live on the north lawn for another busy day. Always a busy day here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. You know that all too well. Looks like the president is not going to sign that executive order today, could be tomorrow at the earliest but two reasons why hes doing this, one is the employment piece of it as you mentioned, unemployment now way up, 22 Million People have applied for unemployment insurance, the other issue is the president wants to stop as many infections from coming in from overseas as possible. Listen to what the National Security adv
Today to transfer to the project will only cover the construction, the increase in Construction Costs. There will be a need for increases also what we call the soft costs, delivery costs for the additional 25 months. And there are also significant risks remaining on that project. So, we are at the same time negotiating a final change order for the discovery of those features with the contractors. All that to say that we will need to go back to our commission and to this committee in about april or may. We will come back and seek from you an approval for additional revisions to the program costs. Now, any increases in the program on that project in the program, we will want to compensate by with savings. So, at the same time we are undertaking a very comprehensive assessment of all remaining projects with the goal of identifying savings that will be able to compensate for these known increases that are to come. Listed here are the two actions that we are excuse me, ms. La bonte, supervi