And painting. Uh, our achievement in this area is obvious that those who have taken this path, who seek to erase russian russian culture and world heritage, are first of all robbing themselves; such actions are insignificant against the background of the greatness of russian art. Vladimir putin congratulated the mariinsky artists on the significant date of the theater turning 240 years old, the president said that the group is one of the most talented not only in russia but all over the world, Vladimir Putin noted that the theater has many branches and thanked the management and staff for ensuring the availability of productions and performances of worldclass artists for residents of russian regions peacekeepers are doing Everything Possible to protect the civilian population of nagornokarabakh moscow supports Constant Contact with all parties to the conflict and hopes to transfer the problem into a peaceful channel. This was stated today by Vladimir Putin in st. Petersburg during nego
Please put your phones on silent. Back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. Is pound and pc life. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. Would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. We have starting from my left and youre right, mark heller. Hes an agricultural reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Tamara harlingen at the atlanta journalconstitution. Sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. Philip, senior editor. Steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. Thats the number two for sonny perdue. We have betsy martin, executive and American University cochair. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have abby livingston, Was
David, do you have something to the president quite literally within minutes. Say . Yeah, my observation is over were getting headlines what the the last 11 years, wellintentioned people, some in president said. Much of what the he and this room do what we are white house reiterated on this starting to do today and have failed. Deal. He wants an end to chain i think the difference is their Mission Creek ended up to comprehensive in my encouragement for all of us is migration. In exchange for a solution to to do what dick durbin has been fix to daca, the dreamers, he trained to do, to limit the wants to secure the u. S. Border, scope of this. I like the idea both sides have i. E. , he wants a bored he wall. Pressure for solving the daca the border wall is a big issue for democrats. As you mentioned eight democrats inside of this meeting, issue. What can we do to solve this alongside with 12 republicans. The white house feels this Group Immigration problem. For several reasons. Of 20 is
So that leads to my next question. Youre tracking that particular amount of money, if you will, and where its going, its going strictly to new infrastructure . To modernization . What is the plan there . Right. Well, currently today, if we exit a property, that money gets returned to the u. S. Treasury. Were not able to reinvest that. The infrastructure bill would change that. So thats why were very supportive of that. What we do save are the recurring savings, the maintenance. So we dont heat the buildings, we dont have to repair them if we get rid of them. That remains in our general what we call our nrn budgets, our recurring maintenance budgets. Do you think there will be a way to, in some way, get an idea of how its converted directly or indirectly to care or. Yes. Services. Yes. And what we would plan on diagnosis is reinvesting that money back into probably nrn or minor construction projects. Okay. We could track that. Thank you. Another question i have is one of the things that
They told the House Veterans Affairs committee that the trip was appropriate. Colorado republican responded saying it is not the objects that are not to good it is the facts that are not good. Congressman kaufman spoke with reporters after he concluded. This entire event is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good morning and thank you for all to be here to discuss the president s fiscal year this fiscal years budget request holds a 198. 6 billion Million Dollars in va funding. That is a huge number. And even more striking when you compare the growth in the vas brother jim. Since 2006 the va budget is up hundred and 75 percent. And gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion of the eight resources i appreciate the secretarys testimony the departments core objectives that support those objectives. It may it must stay focused. They will take action on many important items in fiscal year 2019. Some examples include implementation and