to pay for at least part of this bill seem to keep coming off of the table. the president has indicated he wants to protect 401(k) plans. he said that in a tweet just about 24 hours ago. here s the tweet. there will be no change to your 401(k). this has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works and it stays. now, there had been talk around the hill of reducing the pre-tax amount of money workers can save in their 401(k)s as a way to pay for this bill, as required by senate rules. but it doesn t seem the case, at least according to the president. there s also heartburn on capitol hill about getting rid of other deductions, iluding the mortgage interest deduction, which is so popular around the country. alisyn, back to you. okay, joe, thank you very much. so members of congress say they want answers about what went wrong in niger, but what did they know about the mission? we ll ask two of them, next.
operational planning, i disagree with that. now, our role is in oversight function is to make sure everybody had the right training, tools, that were they getting the right intelligence before the activity. and i think general dunford, yesterday, outlined a number of the questions that the military still has and is looking into this case. and i think this is a perfect example of how thousands of our citizens, our men and women, are putting themselves in harm s way every single day to keep us safe. and the world is a dangerous place. and are you comfortable with that? some of what this niger episode has revealed is that americans are in places that most americans don t know they are and wouldn t be able to identify the mission. are you comfortable with what was happening in niger and the fact that we now know that 800 troops were there? i m comfortable that our military planners on the ground have the troop strengths around the world that they need. i want to make sure that, you
but it didn t happen. well, there were 30 of us. we have to get to over 51. why? why are they holding out? i can t speak for others, as to why they won t want to do it. but it may be for the reasons that you mentioned, that if you aren t voting for it, then you re not on the hook. and that s irresponsible. it s not what we should be doing here in congress. it s why i voted the way i did. i hope we get another 20-plus colleagues in the senate to vote with me and the others, who believe that we need to have this kind of discussions. and certainly, after this tragic incident. and our heart goes out to the families who had a very tragic loss in niger and the american people deserve to have answers. those folks who serve in the military every day, as well as the public, as to where our activities are. and it should be up to the pentagon to make this case to members of congress as to why we re there and then make sure that we buy in and have support, if that s something that we belie
thank goodness we have senators portman hatch leading the charge. we haven t heard folks talk about this morning you will see in the lunch the president really make the case that we need to get his nominations through. too many are being held up for silly reasons. people need to have these folks in their positions to help moves us forward and look for the president to make a push there too. one quick point before i turn it over to ana, when he was talking about leaving it to the professionals he was talking about rex tillerson, not talking about hillary clinton. now ana, your response? you know, listening to bob corker today, frankly gave me a heavy heart. first of all, hope that courage is contains you and a lot of those republicans that are talking behind the scenes and are talking in whispers like april says, look at what corker is saying and realize that they, too, have a duty to speak. corker is not being a spokesperson for the dnc. he s being a spokesperson for the republican
responsibility to serve the country. the largest point about the draft system is a fair one in a particular case where one particular case and person getting deferment because of alleged bone spurs. i say alleged because the person himself doesn t seem to remember much about it. because i was student deferments, and ultimately had a medical deferment because of my feet. i had a bone spurt. which one did you have the bone spurt? you ll look it up in the records it s in the medical records. when the spurs were bone spurts were legitimate or not he said he always felt like by the way, donald trump s father sent him to that school when he was 13 allegedly because of bad