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Budget, quite another to get it through congress as history has proved. big spending increases in this budget proposal but some serious cost cutting as well, first look at the big ticket items. more than $50 billion, $54 billion to be exact in defense spending, $42 would be go to department of defense, 2 billion and other agencies, department of veterans affairs because the president has promised to take care of veterans gets an increase of 6%, about $4.4 billion. also $1.5 billion to begin construction for the border wall. in order to pay for all of that with it increasing the deficit, the pr...

Big increases in hard power, big cuts to soft power. let's take a first look at some of those big ticket hard power items. $54 billion increase in defense spending, that breaks down into 52 billion for the pentagon and 2 billion to be given to other agencies who are involved in defense. homeland security ops the budget by $3 billion, veterans affairs gets a little more than $4 billion. also, $1.5 billion for beginning construction of the wall, as well. massive cuts on the other side to some of the most important apartments we have. state department gets a 28% decrease in funding. a $10 billion...

Can't gi them these kinds of excuses. >> that may not be true. guantanamo bay is playing less incorporate of a rule. he has argued that very few of those released anticipate the fight. >> we assume they're going to be out of four, five, 600 people that get released that a handful of them are going to be embittered and still engaging in anti-u.s. activities. >> the director of national intelligence, james clapper, concluded something different in october saying, quote, "we assess that some detainees currently at gtmo will seek to re-engage. at least 17.9% confirmed returned to the battlefield s...

>> i think the first thing is the school shouldn't have handed a letter to a 7-year-old. the 7-year-old could read. obviously the little girl could open it up and read it. >> she did on the ride home. he asked her dad and he said you're overweight. >> first of all, one number is meaningless. bmi 17.9 is a meaningless number. it's up to the pediatrician to look at the child and evaluate that number. it's looking at what they're eating, their waist circumference. >> all those factors go in to measuring bmi. you brought in a wheel this morning. your argument is one number generally being used by ...

Yesterday morning and he told the patchdispatcher that he accidentally shot his wife. he told the dispatch thaer the gun was in the bed, he tried to move it and that's when it went off. she was shot in the she was shot in the back and still in critical condition tonight. according to investigators, the gun that mccollum was using was his police department issued weapon. a a glock 17.9 millimeter. that's the same gun that all police officers in peach tree city are issued. he had just got an promotion and become the chief of police late last year. he is current i on administrative leave. we foun...