Facebook users. Thank you for joining us. You are watching cnn newsroom. Im rosemary church. Im john vause. Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Important speech for u. S. President barack obama as he prepares to outline his Foreign Policy goals and addressing graduating officers at west Point Military academy. The speech comes after mr. Obama laid out his plans tuesday for withdrawing u. S. Troops from afghanistan over the next two years. Senior White House Correspondent jim acauosta reports. Reporter declaring the combat mission in afghanistan over by the end of the year, president obama laid out the final chapter for the nations longest war. The bottom line is, it is time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our Foreign Policy was focussed on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. A small residual force limited to Training Afghan fighters and counterterror operations. Under the president s plan. 9,800 u. S. Forces next year, half that by 20
North of seattle. And it appears this violence, this tragic violence erupted over a girl. Whats the very latest . Hey, there. Absolutely details emerging that he wasnt coping with with a romantic heart break. And the girl involved was one of those the gunman shot yesterday morning. Authorities at the school identifying him as jalyen fryberg. He was a homecoming prince described as a golden boy. He walks up to a table in the School Cafeteria and unloaded a. 40 caliber gun on three girls and two of his own male cousins. It looks like he shot the girl he was upset about first of all. Three of those he injured are in intensive care. One boy suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The other took a round to the jaw. The hospital where two of the 14yearold girls are being treated said its traumatic for the victims on multiple levels. Much of the day yesterday was spent trying to make identifications, so that was terribly stressful for them. Weve seen tears, anger. They are just grieving. Right
Under barack obama and Hillary Clinton, defense spending is on track to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since the end of world war ii. We currently have the Smallest Army since 1940. The navy is among the smallest it has been since 1915. Thats 100 years ago. And the air force is the smallest its been since 1947. When Ronald Reagan left office, our navy had 592 ships, when barack obama took office, it had 285 ships. Today, the navy has just 276 ships. The average air force aircraft is 27 years old. We have Second Generation b52 bombers. Their fathers flew the same plane as theyre flying right now. This is not the United States. Our army has been shrinking rapidly from 553,000 soldiers in 2009 to just 479,000 soldiers today. Some decrease. And they want to make it smaller. In 2009, our marine corps had 202,000 active marines, today, its 182,000. Our ship count is below the minimum of 308, that the navy says is needed to execute its Current Missions a at minimal level.
Government showdown. All eyes are on the goal of getting the tax bill done and signed by the end of the year. We are live in West Palm Beach, florida. The president s maralago estate where his wrapping up his thanksgiving break on this sunday. Hello just a few more hours to go and for the fifth consecutive day, while the president has been spending along thanks giving we can here in palm beach county, he is shooting out tweets. Around 9 am the president ial motorcade arrived down the street at the International Golf course. That is where the president remains as usual. The White House Office does not allow the media to take pictures of these outings, nor does it divulge home the president may be golfing with. On friday though donald trump himself tweeted out his golf partners, tiger woods, number one the world, Dustin Johnson and brad paxton. That at Trump National injury prepared what he liked to play 18 holes with the president . They wrote this for golf week. Com. Essentially not in
Trying to take you out with bull [ bleep ]. Ill talk to the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, democrat mark warner and jim jordan. Plus democrats and activists are arguing over impeaching the president. Impeachment of this corrupt and lawless president is the first step. Impeachment is a divisive issue in our country and let us see what the facts are. Debating purity tests for democratic members of congress and disagreeing over whats more important to them in 2020. A candidate who shares their views or one who simply can beat President Trump. And finally, no deal. The president walks away without an agreement with kim jongun on nukes and sanctions. Sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times. So what happens now . Joining me for insight and analysis are helene cooper. Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times and matt bai from yahoo news. Nbc News National editor heidi prezbela and editor of commentary. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Fr