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Countries before reaching the us was hours earlier a judge appointed by donald trump ruled in favor of the policy. rob: the house passing a bill to raise spending caps and suspend the debt ceiling. it includes budget gains for military programs in the us and overseas and $300 billion to federal spending over two years which 132 republicans oppose the bill as it will exacerbate the nation's already growing debt. the president tweeting his appreciation saying the bill is, quote, great for our military and our vets. a big thank you. it now heads to the senate and the president is expected to sign...

Liking? >> you know, there are some good things in it from helping gold star to families to establishing the space force but at the end of the day, they are trying -- the democrats are trying to reduce the overall budget that is insufficient to deal with russia, china, and the terrorist threat that still sits around the world. as it stands now i can't support it. at the end of the day what we need to go to is a senate bill that passed 86-8. truly bipartisan and supports the president's request. that's where we need to go. steve: in addition to reducing funding for multiple military programs, i...

Pentagon, which of course, has a multi-hundreds of billions of dollars budget. he's overseeing the beginning of a space force, something mr. trump wants. shanahan has been involved in of these business issues and has not ever had to tell trump no because these are the issues the president likes. so now, he steps on the world stage with no foreign policy or military experience. he's a former boeing executive, actually. he was there for 30 years in their commercial airliner and military programs. he steps onto the world stage now. he will be going to nato meetings. he will be dealing with americ...

Mattis and told him the proposed end february date to leave the pentagon wouldn't work. the president wanted him out by january 1st. the more public reason is that the white house felt such a long transition period would leave mattis as a lame duck. reality is that the president had, indeed, become irritated with the extensive news coverage about mattis' departure. the big question now, who is patrick shanahan, who will work as acting secretary of defense? a 30-year veteran of boeing, working on commercial airplanes and military programs. he came here with the trump administration and as deput...

He is a very, very experienced high technology guy from boeing, two masters degrees from m.i.t., his dad was a vietnam veteran, you know, the family is a family of service. he's dealt with military programs for much of his 30 years in technology, so he understands very complicated issues like missile defense. i think it's good news. you know, basically right now mr. trump just fired secretary mattis, gave him a week to get out of the pentagon. we ought to be -- feel lucky we've got a guy like shanahan in office. i can't imagine someone with a political future who would be willing to join this ...