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Money to install a sound proof phone booth and bulletproof desk. president trump defending pruits arrangements in a tweet. while security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, scott pruit received death threats because of his bold actions at epa, record clean air and water and saving billions of dollars. rent was about market rate, travel expenses okay. under scrutiny, massive pay rakes for two of pruebre pruitt aids. >> why did you go around the president and white house and give pay...

By firing after dramatic firing. donald trump continues to defend those who may be should be fired. like scott pruitt. trump defends the ep battled epa administrator again saying pruitt is doing a great job and quote, while security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, scott pruitt has received death threats because of his bold actions at epa. record clean air and water while saving usa billions of dollars. rent was about market rate. travel expenses okay. joining me now is tarra del...

What were they doing here? they were casing new york city airport for potential attacks. john, you say this to be a wake-up call to ramp up our security spending at airports. >> it certainly should. i fly every single week, sometimes up to four days a week and i see incredibly inconsistencies in tsa throughout our country. if you look at how many times they fail security tax they is actually no excuse for this whatsoever. the government also takes about one point to $5 billion of tsa security th...

Saudi stop on this trip should be the one where he can best draw that line between everything thats happening in washington, and reset his image here. there is this huge hope and expectation were hearing this from all saudis whether on the street or leaders in the government that they hope that this trip will reset the relations between the west and the arab muslim world despite what president trump has said on the campaign trail, theyre prepared to put that behind them. so the mutual expectatio...

East. >> nick watson is live in london. what do we know about the itinerary? >> reporter: we certainly know that this is something that the iranians, for example, are going to be watching very closely. trump when he was in saudi arabia and israel will be expected to discuss the cooperation of both nations on the issues of isis and both those nations will want to talk to president trump about iran as well. look, the saudis in particular here and to a degree the israelis as well have grown particu...

>> let me tell you like ronald reagan. you sometimes take your victories a slice at a time. i wont go over the hill with a flag flying and shutting down the government. big wins in this overall spending bill. spending is down but military and defense spending and even border security spending is up. we have finally broken this tied together this link the obama administration had for every dollar we wanted to increase defense spending he wanted an extra dollar of domestic spending. we have now br...

Replace the affordable care act. the senator believes house republicans are deliberately keeping the measure under lock and key. >> theres some question as to whether or not it exists at all. president trump visiting navy say loors long the uss gerald ford and building on his plan to pump 54 billion more dollars into defense and security spending. and a way to prevent wars and if necessary the way to win them. trump says hes asking congress to eliminate the defense sequester so the navy can rega...

For a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. tonight, president trump getting ready to give his first address to congress as some government agencies are bracing for major cuts at the hour. the white house revealing trump will boost defense and security

Washington is celebrating this week its 150th anniversary. they will be having a special event at the museum, african-american museum of history later in the week, the president receiving these leaders in the oval office. we will check in and see what else happened. in the meantime, the presidents team unveiled details of a budget plan featuring a $54 billion increase in defense and security spending to be paid for with major cuts across government agencies. lets get some insight from our poli...

This just in to cnn. sources telling cnn the president signed off on checking the phones of white house staffers in a crackdown on leaks. white house press secretary sean spicer checked phones for encrypted apps and other messages that may have been used to contact reporters. we will have jake tapper having more on that story in a moment. defense secretary james mattis has been meeting with key members of the national security council to discuss their proposed plan to accelerate the fight to d...