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Countries before reaching the us was hours earlier a judge appointed by donald trump ruled in favor of the policy. rob: the house passing a bill to raise spending caps and suspend the debt ceiling. it includes budget gains for military programs in the us and overseas and $300 billion to federal spending over two years which 132 republicans oppose the bill as it will exacerbate the nations already growing debt. the president tweeting his appreciation saying the bill is, quote, great for our milit...

Liking? >> you know, there are some good things in it from helping gold star to families to establishing the space force but at the end of the day, they are trying -- the democrats are trying to reduce the overall budget that is insufficient to deal with russia, china, and the terrorist threat that still sits around the world. as it stands now i cant support it. at the end of the day what we need to go to is a senate bill that passed 86-8. truly bipartisan and supports the presidents request. th...

Pentagon, which of course, has a multi-hundreds of billions of dollars budget. hes overseeing the beginning of a space force, something mr. trump wants. shanahan has been involved in of these business issues and has not ever had to tell trump no because these are the issues the president likes. so now, he steps on the world stage with no foreign policy or military experience. hes a former boeing executive, actually. he was there for 30 years in their commercial airliner and military programs. he...

Mattis and told him the proposed end february date to leave the pentagon wouldnt work. the president wanted him out by january 1st. the more public reason is that the white house felt such a long transition period would leave mattis as a lame duck. reality is that the president had, indeed, become irritated with the extensive news coverage about mattis departure. the big question now, who is patrick shanahan, who will work as acting secretary of defense? a 30-year veteran of boeing, working on c...

He is a very, very experienced high technology guy from boeing, two masters degrees from m.i.t., his dad was a vietnam veteran, you know, the family is a family of service. hes dealt with military programs for much of his 30 years in technology, so he understands very complicated issues like missile defense. i think its good news. you know, basically right now mr. trump just fired secretary mattis, gave him a week to get out of the pentagon. we ought to be -- feel lucky weve got a guy like shana...

Parts, consulting and things of that nature with regard to many of our military programs with the saudis that can be put on hold. if the u.s. and the brits, for example, deny further spare parts in midair refueling, their air force will be grounded in about two days. we dont have to have $110 billion, leverage over the saudis and they would be desperate to receive assistance from us. >> interesting, marco rubio made that their point, that arms deals are, in effect, because of -- they support the...

Please, senator? it was the previous question i didnt have a chance to answer. >> surely. did north korea agree to end the production and enrichment of uranium plutonium from the military programs? >> they agreed to denuclearize fully, yes. and it certainly includes, it certainly includes the -- >> i would love for you to tell all members what exactly transpired because we dont know. >> thank you, senator rich. >> mr. secretary. thank you for doing this job. the president made a wise decision ap...

Do you believe that any deal must include an agreement that north korea must end the production and enrichment of uranium and plutonium for military programs? >> yes. but as we begin to head down this path, i have to tell you, ive had discussions with chairman kim personally, there have been other discussions, i am going to reserve some space for us to be able to conduct these discussions outside of the public sphere, i think thats important, i think it is important for our eventualability to ac...

Include an agreement that north korea must end production and enrichment for military programs? >> yes. but as we begin to head down this path i have had discussions with chairman kim personally. there had been other discussions. i will reserve some space for us to be able to conduct the discussions outside of the public sphere. i think it is important for our ability to achieve the outcomes that i think everyone in this room hopes we can achieve. >> i want to give you negotiating space but i wa...

California values senator dianne feinstein elizabeth: mothers and wives of military members make you make sacrifices for their families good careers take a backseat and single parenting is often a way of life. elizabeth obrien is the epitome of a military spouse while raising a family shes supporting an army major. she today shes talking about military programs. appreciate it. >> thank you are having me. elizabeth: first and foremost, we are going to get into the program a little bit, but i want...