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Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious c...

Joining us, ylan mui in washington, covering this breaking development ylan obviously, this is a big shake up at the white house. Here are the tweets that donald trump put out. He said that john f. Kelly will now be white house chief of staff. He called him a Great American and a great leader he also said he has done a spectacular job at Homeland Security and he has been a true star of my administration. Now, one interesting question in all of this will be how kelly will be able to handle what is clearly a politically potentially toxic environment for him going forward. When he worked for leon...

Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued ...

Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued ...

48. 62. The latest developments following the charlottesville attack that many call an act of domestic terrorism. Reporter charlottesville is in shock and mourning after a White Nationalist rally turned fatal. Car ramming into a crowd of counter protesters saturday, killing one woman, injuring 19 others the suspect james fields junior age 20 of ohio is expected to appear in court this morning a vigil was cancelled because of safety concerns. Mourners in downtown charlottesville around a makeshift memorial gathered anyway earlier in the afternoon sunday, attempt by the organizer to hold a press...