Nondefense Side News Today

>> look at the red, white, and blue on the bridge. brian, you spend a lot of time there. is it always like that or is it just for memorial day? >> brian: no. i didnt even notice. i drove over there. there was a big memorial day sara outside of jaguar stadium they got the second biggest wall in the whole country commemorating all those who fought in northern florida lost their lives dating back to world war i. there is a huge thing there. i drove over the bridge. i didnt look at the sid...

good to be with you. im katy tur. for the united states, it was january 6th. for brazil, it was january 8th, yesterday, two days, two years, and two days after violent insurrectionists stormed the u.s. capitol, violent insurrectionists did the same to the capitol of brazils government rioters fueled by the same thing as rioters were here, a former president who spread lies about fraud and refused to concede when he lost. supporters of jair bolsonaro protested for months after the octob...

One is the deficit and debt. just passed spending caps and debt ceiling increase. on the campaign trail in missouri weve talked about concern of the deficit and dealt. is this dealing with that concern? >> well, i voted no on that increase and on the deal that would allow the debt and the deficit to rise. i think we need to rebuild our military. thats something that has been decimated by years of feckless leadership of president obama and the democrats. over and above that, my problem with the c...

D.c., trace. >> trace: that is significant. the democrats campaigned on getting stuff done. were going to get a bunch of stuff done. they laid their agenda out. as you said, if they go down this road, forget about it. >> right. they have these other bills that they want to do focusing on healthcare, focusing on wages, education. i talked about the must-do things dealing with keeping the government open and the debt ceiling. theyre never going to get to daca at this rate if they cant work out a i...

Problem. >> mr. speaker, couple of your colleagues mentioned this, i know where you are on the defense side of this. on the nondefense side, disaster relief, the big question is echoing what youre hearing from some of your conservative colleagues, would house budget chairman paul ryan have supported this bill? >> i wrote the first one. i did the first murray ryan -- called murray ryan. she calls it ryan murray. my nieces name is murray ryan, i call it murray ryan. i did the first one. why? becau...

>> this is why i say we should not be waiting around for the president to tell us what his position is -- >> well, what do you say to american who is are angry with democrats? >> were prepared to deal with and negotiate with the republicans. and as i mentioned, i know there is already bipartisan agreement on daca. there was a bipartisan deal that was brought to the president. he said no. there was already agreement to fund the childrens health program and also the community health centers. and o...

If they cant, they have to look for democratic votes. thats why the democratic hand is so strong. thats why nancy pelosi may be pushing for daca. remember, republicans wanted to address defense spending. thats what the democrats want to reduce. they say if youre going to cut back on defense, we want to do something on the nondefense side. we want to change those numbers so more favorable towards social programs. dont forget theres a little disconnect between the house and the senate dealing with...

3.7, 3.8. these cuts are out of the 30% of the budget, which is about half on the defense side and half on the nondefense side of what is called do discretionary spending. 70% is not included in this figure. so, the sequester largely -- not exclusively but largely comes out thereof discretionary side of the budget and were talking five, six, seven, eight percent cuts. now, obviously this year will be the first year or -- of those cuts but if you talk to hall rogers, the chair of the appropriatio...

Reductions strategically. >> they could go to the service chief on defense side and the agency on the department head on nondefense side and say okay, look. you are used to budgets growing and growing. >> some republicans dont want to give the executive branch power to move money. >> they close down the tax loophole and the flexibility to ask the rich of the rich to contribute more. instead, theyre completely inflexible. >> plan offered by senate democrats using tax revenue derailed after the bu...

Nondefense side, youre seeing a government thats just growing beyond our capacity to pay for it and our children are going to end up with a debt which is going to saddle them and make their lifestyles much less viable than pups. >> there is a different perspective at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and your colleagues in the senate. >> appreciate the time. love the set. up next wall to wall and take a closer look at the economic recovery and whether were headed for boom or possibly doom. thats a low ...