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House Armed Services Committee Chair mac thorn perry sat down to talk about military ready did iness and defense spending. Interviewed by the Brookings Institution Michael Ohanlon. This is an hour. Good morning, everyone and welcome to brookings. Im Michael Ohanlon in the Foreign Policy program. As you know i have the privilege and honor welcoming back to brookings, congressman mac thornberry, from texas to does defense policy, matters, many subjects up the sun. The chairman of the Armed Services committee. First texan have that role. His family goes back to ranching in the 13th district to 18...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And...

The fact of the matter is it is growth being curbed, not the programs themselves. Look at this. The Congressional Budget Office says we spent 100 last year and were supposed to spend 106 this year. For a lot of people anything less than 1107 is a cut. There are no medicaid cuts in terms of ordinary human beings refer to a cut. Were not spending less money one year than we did before. Were growing medicaid more slowly over the 10year budget window. Neil i want to repeat again, if you were to follow the traditional media describing this budget, this isnt a protrump or antitrump statement here, t...

Investigation. Lets go live now to abc in manchester with the latest on the investigation. Reporter security is tight here in manchester with police keeping a close eye on public spaces as authorities continue to hunt to anyone connected to last nights deadly blast. Police believe that last nights blast was the work of a suicide bomber and a 23yearold man is in custody and they are raiding official homes looking for links to anyone with the attacker. It started as a joyous night for 20,000 music fans many younger than 20 years old but it ended in ter. Terror. Oh my god. Last night as pop super...