President donald trump addressing the joint session of stronger is rebuilding a newborns heart. And restoring a fathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Despite a rare disorder. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. The president s address is getting mixed reviews on capitol hill. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter House Republicans were briefed this morning on their partys plan to replace obamacare. North carolinas mark meadows didnt like what he heard. The final result of where we are today is not something that i support. Reporter the plan being finalized by gop leaders and the white house replaces some obamacare subsidies with tax credits to help people buy insurance. Conservatives like virginias dave brat say thats just another handout. Some of the stuff in there is ju
Across the country. Now two former Obama Administration officials discuss what defense policies and strategies might look like under President Trump. The Brookings Institution hosted this event. Its just over 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Were grateful to have everyone here today. Were going to be talking about what should Donald Trumps Defense Strategy, budget, and other military plans be looking forward for the United States. At a moment where the Trump Administration is undoubtedly still asking itself these questions and a lot of decisions havent yet been made, were still very early in a new presidency and we have about as great of a team to help answer these questions as i could imagine. And im looking forward as well as they are to discussion with you in the second half of this mornings forum. Let me briefly introduce each of the gentlemen here and then ill say a couple of broad words about where we stand in the Defense Budget debate. Just to allow
Across the country. Now two former Obama Administration officials discuss what defense policies and strategies might look like under President Trump. The Brookings Institution hosted this event. Its just over 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Were grateful to have everyone here today. Were going to be talking about what should Donald Trumps Defense Strategy, budget, and other military plans be looking forward for the United States. At a moment where the Trump Administration is undoubtedly still asking itself these questions and a lot of decisions havent yet been made, were still very early in a new presidency and we have about as great of a team to help answer these questions as i could imagine. And im looking forward as well as they are to discussion with you in the second half of this mornings forum. Let me briefly introduce each of the gentlemen here and then ill say a couple of broad words about where we stand in the Defense Budget debate. Just to allow
Forum. Let me introduce each of the gentlemen here and then i will say a couple of broad words about where we stand in the Defense Budget to allow them to take off from where i leave off. We will have broad discussion among ourselves and go to you about half way through. Immediately to my left is former under secretary of defense who is pentagons comptroller. Bob has been through the battles of not only iraq and afghanistan but sequestration and shut down and has pretty much seen it all in the obama years where he was the comptroller for most of that period of time. He has been with hamilton but speaking today under his own and is also my former boss. I worked for him at the Congressional Budget Office. After that reflects badly in two ways by the time but as things turned out bob went to the air force and was comptroller throughout the Clinton Administration and spent a number of years in various pursuits. And then tom wright is sitting in the middle today. Tom is my colleague at broo
Suspended over a very inappropriate facebook post. Just several hours after two teens died and a third was seriously injured in a crash, officer rob glover posted this on his personal page. Blank em, shouldnt have been driving that fast. Well sheriff troy berry calls that comment disgusting. Officer glover removed the post and apologized before being contacted by the department. Glover was suspended this morning pending further action. The Trump Administration unveiled its updated travel ban designed to keep out terrorists. The new ban is different in several ways from the one signed in january that caused confusion and protests at u. S. Airports and got bogged down in legal challenges. The new executive order from President Trump imposes a 90 day ban on visas for citizens from six muslimmajority countries traveling to the u. S. The updated executive order does not apply to current visa holders and it from the list of banned countries. Iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat i