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the president is proposing to increase the state department and other international program spending by about 9%. that includes foreign aid for iraq, afghanistan, and pakistan. it keeps major military aid programs to israel as well as egypt and jordan. and the spending plan sets aside funds to create a new middle east and north africa incentive fund to promote democracy and good governance. the proposal maintains billions of spending on international projects including aids and on the saving side the budget cuts aid to eastern europe and you're asian countries by 18%. it also cuts st...

on the campus and in the city and the commonwealth he loves. next to his brother's library and museum which itself echoes it patriotic call to service we can be certain that edward kennedy will live on and all who will be inspired by the educational mission in this great institute which will probably bear his name. congratulations and thank you all very much. [applause] >> as senator kirker was speaking leo lean over to me and said doesn't he sound like a u.s. senator. >> great appointment, governor patrick. thank you. [applause] when i first of the institute it was with vicki and te...

president on the 3rd of december? as arguing for a strategy of regime change? arguing for building up a strategy, working toward regime change in iraq? >> i didn't see it as the british prime minister arguing for regime change. >> so why do you write a note about it? >> well, he gave you evidence. you have to ask him that question. >> well, that's what i've tried to do is to describe the context as i saw it in which he was talking to president bush. and as i said, if that being said a means by which saddam hussein could have been replaced by a democratic government without military a...

the program. and thank you for joining us. the president and first lady will be participating in a service project around 11:00 a.m. this morning. we will have coverage of it. you can see that on c-span3. for more of the measure, you can go to our website, c-span.org. thanks again for joining us for this edition of "washington journal." [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> today is dr. martin luther king jr.'s birthday, a federal recognized holiday. attorney general eric holder participates in a prayer breakfast honoring the civil rights leader, coming up next. ...

bad. back to you. a shooting near frostburg state university killed one student and injuries another. a fellow student this morning behind bars charged with m. >> reporter: good morning. students at the university are mourning one of their own after a student was shot and killed over the weekend. 21-year-old tyrone hall, also a student is behind bars. police say he shot and killed brandon hill and also shot alex har grove from washington, d.c. but he is expected to survive. the two showed up at the apartment and confronted him about allegations he assaulted a female at a party earl...