Like. Cspan, powered by cable. Host a deep dive on the key nato summit happening in lithuania. Our and he dove now on a key nato summit taking place this week in this mania. Our guest, defense experts. A senior fellow from the Heritage Foundation. Friedman a policy director at the defensive priorities. Mr. Freeman, first, the summit began yesterday. What was your take away from day one . Well, it is a kind of predictable disappointment for ukraine. Obviously a big issue, if you Different Things are going on. Swedens likely ascension to nato. The biggest issue, of course, is ukraine and what the alliance is going to do for ukraine. Ukraine, obviously, wants to be a full member of nato. They want that membership assumes possible. It appears that what happened at the summit is essentially the can with kicked down the road. The joining nature of nato at some future date. It is a great disappointment to ukraine and its most ardent followers. It means that the United States is not gonna be o
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We are just getting started. Building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. U. S. Defense secretary austin and joint chiefs of staff mark meli testified before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the 2024 defense budget. The military leaders discussed the need for him on time budget approval. This is about one hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming the witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of the committee this morning. This will be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here a little bit. You are the ultimate professional, somebody that has been very good for the whole committee to work with. You are a straight shooter and youve done a hell of a good job and i appreciate thatc and i jut hope the senate will be able to find common sense to be able to reform your successor so that the department is enforced to rely
president trump and going after his possible pending indictment as politically motivated. un-american, and another a partisan attempt to try to bring him down. a manhattan grand jury is hearing a case related to a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. today they will hear from one final witness robert costello, a one-time legal adviser to president trump s former attorney michael cohen. he is expected to rebut cohen who has been the key witness against donald trump, isn t he a known liar? just establishing that fact. the grand jury will then need to decide whether it will indict donald trump and that could happen as soon as tomorrow. several legal experts are questioning the strength of this case however, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is looking to elevate the misdemeanor issue to a felony and make donald trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges. and house speaker kevin mccarthy went