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Government in storing this material, but i'm also a little bit skeptical that there's any sort of juicy evidence in that text messages on the d.o.d.. we have heard the calls and have listened to it at least on the d.o.d. side. >> well we would know if there was juicy evidence if we could really see what was on those text messages. melissa, there's a new report out that says the secret service might temporarily disable text messaging on employee cell phones. secretary dick durbin is now calling for an investigation into the missing data. does any this get us anywhere closer to actually knowing ...

Directed the office of management and budget to withhold funds because of concerns about corruption in ukraine. you are coming from the dod side. i served a year in iraq and it was important and i think it's something that the army always does, as i have seen, that we don't want to deliver aid or assistance if it's going to some corrupt, or being delivered in a corrupt way. if we are going to build a medical treatment facility for the iraqis, we want to make sure we are not getting charged ten times as much. we are concerned about corruption in general when we are delivering funds through the ...

I heard the president directed the office of management and budget to hold funds because of his concerns about corruption in ukraine. and, you know, you come from the dod side here. i served a year in iraq. and it was important, and i think it's something that the army always does, as i have seen, that we don't want to deliver aid or assistance if it's going to some corrupt, or being delivered in some corrupt way. in other words if we're going to build a medical treatment facility for the iraqis, we want to make sure we're not getting charged ten times as much. we are concerned about corruptio...

Those to be a place where they'll be in position to help if recovery and rescue operations are needed. so they'll get out of the storm's way. you're seeing something similar happening with naval air assets over 100 air assets leaving the region. all throughout the government, you're seeing at least on the dod side, an effort to really be prepared. secretary mattis came down, talked to us on 9/11, a small group of reporters. here's what he had to say,ing. he said "even on a day as sacred as this, the pentagon continues to function. the biggest immediate threat to our people, four storms at one ...

Administration saying, it was my fault. of course he's taking full responsibility of whatever happened. what else have we learned in the last hour? >> we've learned there's been a short review and the secretary of defense has been fully briefed. they have confidence in the systems, the warning systems that are in place on the dod side. that's according to a military official. when you look at what the defense department does on an actual launch -- let's be clear, this was a false alarm, but on an actual ballistic missile, they have to make a decision within minutes on whether or not they're go...