lied under oath to the american people. i have now decided to recuse myself from any existing and future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states. i am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history. education is the civil rights issue of our time. martha: how s he doing? our fox news political editor, molly hemingway, senior editor at the federalist, and zach buchanan, senior dnc advertiser who honed their trump warm room. let me start with you. thank you for being here. what did you think of the trump administration we? i give it a very solid d. the only reason it s not getting a f is that the speech on tuesday met the bar that a trained monkey would have to meet up for it to be a good
he s promised american ships sailing the seas, american workers building the fleets. i am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history. and by eliminating the sequester and the uncertainly it creates, we will make it easier for the navy to plan for the future, and thus, to control costs and get the best deals for the taxpayer which, of course, is very important. right? got to get a goo deal. well, joining us here now, retired major general mark mcconnell. thank you for coming in. he likes to talk a lot of things up. some people may accuse him of exaggerating. the increase for the military in reality, i think it s 3% more than what president obama requested for this year. many people are not happy about that, particularly the
inefficient out-of-sequence work driven largely by material shortfalls, engineering challenges and delays, developing and installing critical technology systems. the uss gerald r. ford is neat but it s a study in the pitfalls of massive military spending. what better place for the president to announce his huge new increase in the military budget than on board the uss gerald r. ford. calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history on board a ship that serves as the textbook picture next to the entry about the failures and embarrassment associated with unfocused massive military spending. on any other day this would probably be the big story of the day but today the attorney general recused himself from
questions. is there a microphone there? yeah, you can t escape. doing their jobs. well, trump had spent the event focusing on his plan to beef up the military. he toured the uss gerald ford, a newly built aircraft carrier. later he spoke aboard the ship in true trump form to make things great again. i am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history, and by eliminating the see questions ter and the uncertainty it creates, we will make it easier for the navy to plan for the future, and thus to control costs and get the best deals for the taxpayer which, of course, is very important, right? got to get a good deal. let s talk more about this with rick francona in la quinta, california. you compared the spending to the
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