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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan budget act adopted in december included a provision that reduced the cola for working age military r...

Host fine, thank you to go ahead. Caller i was calling with reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. I heard people calling and criticizing al sharpton and Jesse Jackson for showing up. But the parents of Michael Brown requested that they come to ferguson. And i think the fact the requested should suffice in a. The other comment i have is that i think its a big deal or good idea that the attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been longstanding issues in ferguson, it is my understanding. But its all over the country. There are too many black young males getting sho...

Doing business with unwanted goods from europe and america. They have been talking in brussels. The european ministers about ways to stop the people smugglers, those who have been sending thousands of migrants across the mediterranean, and in many cases to their deaths. There is a statement now by the e. U. Foreign affairs minister, and we will listen in to what she has to say. The commission site, the agenda on migration was adopted as you know, last week, presented it, commission was sharing with us this presentation today but the focus today was obviously foreign defense ministers the exter...

Meanwhile just days after the District Attorney called this incident a tragedy but not a crime, the Justice Department is about to release a new report about a Deadly Police shooting in philadelphia. This hour Justice Department officials are preparing to release their findings on deadly force used by Philadelphia Police officers. Nbc 10s jesse gary live for us outside the u. S. Attorneys office in center city. Jesse, youve seen the report what can you tell us. Reporter while the report is still under wraps technically until official release inside the u. S. Attorneyed office on the sixth floo...

Is the need not only to keep our promises to the retired community, should be considered, invulnerable in my view, but also everyones commitment to people in active service that they have the best training, best equipment, that the families have the best opportunities while they serve. And thats one of the fundamental tensions were trying to deal with. Is that accurate, admiral . Yes, sir, it is. I would add if i could, the only real interest that i have in deliberately doing this is silly to make sure that if its repealed, its repealed in the way that doesnt take it off the table in some form...