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You often hear in these polarized times republicans and democrats are dead locked on almost everything. but the real scandal is what both sides agree on, the best example of this is the defense budget. last week the democratic house filled with radicals, according to the republicans, voted to appropriate $733 billion for 2020 defense spending. the republicans are outraged because they, along with president trump, want that number to be $750 billion. in other words, on the largest item of discretionary spending in the federal budget, accounting for more than half the total, democrats and republ...

On. the best example of this is the defense budget. last week, the democratic house filled with radicals according to the republicans voted to appropriate $733 billion for 2020 defense spending. the republicans outrage because they along with president trump want that number to be $750 billion. in other words, on the largest item of discretionary spending in the federal budget, accounting for more than half the total, democrats and republicans are divided by 2.3%. that is a cancerous consensus today. america's defense budget is out of control lacking strategy cow her rans a wasteful and eterna...

>> chris: the house has approved a $733 billion defense policy bill. no republicans voted for it. some liberal democrats also opposed it because they want to cut in spending. president trump has threatened to veto over a clampdown on funding for his planned border wall and the requirement he get congressional authorization before taking military action against iran. the house has also approved money to keep health care coming for men and women who worked amid the wreckage of the world trade center after the 9/11 attacks. there are still questions whether the senate will approve the measure. sh...

Treading water if they got the $733 billion to advance and make the progress that this calls for, they need to get that number. >> patrick shanahan makes his first appearance at the pentagon when he arrives for work tomorrow morning. heather? >> big day for him. lucas, thank you. investigators are looking into two separate new year's eve attacks in europe. in western germany, police say the driver injured four people when he rammed his car into a group of migrants in a small western city that happened just after midnight. the suspect reportedly making anti-foreigner comments during his arrest....

$733 billion to advance what the strategy calls for, and they need to get that number. >> in his annual new year's annual new year's day aggress, north korean leader kim john said his resolve for complete denuclearization remains unchanged, and welcome the opportunity to meet president trump a second time. he urged the u.s. and south korea to continue spending on joint military exercise, something patrick shanahan will have to decide in the coming months. while he starts the day as acting defense secretary, he makes his first public appearance here tomorrow when he shows up for work. blake? >>...