Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i
Since march 20th microsoft is in midst of its second negative week in a row. Amazon is positive for the moment if it closed lower it will be the fourth straight negative session. Facebook, will have its fourth straight negative session as well also pacing for the worst week since midjune are we at a tipping point, pete, for some of these big tech names . I dont know that i call it a tipping point. I think id sort of more tab this something of little bit of a rotation i dont know how long that will last well see. Its just in the early stages of this well see how much pressure really does get put on i think the names are very favorable. I think theres a lot of reasons to like the names. It makes some sense that we would see pause there. We have seen a bit of a pick up. You look at financials and especially the regional financial names and see a bit of something thats showing some signs of a little bit of life. Well see if that can last as well i can tell you this, right after the earning
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me also welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. Its a real treat, a real pleasure and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. Hes been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a whole host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan kind of way, which is very true to the issues our country faces on national and Homeland Security. Im going to be very brief, which is very rare for me, since ive never had an unspoken thought. But im going to turn it over to the chairman now, and afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia, you dont imme
Devastated by the storm. Whats important now is return these words into action. Grateful for the leadership are seen from the state of texas in the state of florida. I want to focus in on whats happening in puerto rico and the virgin islands. We know right now close to three and a half million american citizens in the silence on the 3 brink of a humanitarianuerto catastrophe. Including 3. 4 Million People who live in puerto rico and over 100,000 americans on the u. S. Virgin islands. Tiig the american citizens live in puerto rico are part of a population thats bigger than the states of wyoming, vermont, north dakota, and alaska, combined. They dont have eight senators representing them in this body working for them in fighting for them. It i know when we had hurricanee sandy and it hurt new jersey, the work that senator menendez, myself, and the my predecessor all put toward working on making sure their community could recover. A we dont have the senators representing this incredible p