Never forget. And canine competition, the parade of misfit pups vying for the title of worlds ugliest dog. I like how she has hair everywhereish sort of. Who collared the crown . Good morning. A lot of news to get to this morning. We should point out there are four of us on set this morning instead of five because ron is over in london on assignment, but we miss him. But we will get him later. As i said, a lot of news this morning but we want to take a moment to saver the worlds ugliest dog competition. Look at these pooches. We have three of the top contestants on the screen right now. It usually comes down to the tongue, youll notice. The winner often has a weird tongue. One of these dogs took home the crown. Well unveil the winner coming up in a few moments. My favorite beauty pageant of the year. We can say your morning is getting off to a great start. Absolutely. The only way it would be better if it was worlds ugliest cat. Dan sees the beauty in animals. And he loves animals. He
Director Francis Collins about their 2018 budget request, as well as various kinds of medical Research Done by the agency. This is about two hours. Senator roy blunt chairs the twohour Senate Appropriations hearing subcommittee. Will come totee order. The appropriations subcommittee labor,r, wealth health, Human Services, and agencies will come to order. For my opening statement, i , whoke to recognize we had an opportunity to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success she has made nih awhen we were out at few days ago. We are glad you are here. And i was just told the young us of your six children just got their drivers license, so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that. We are all glad to have a chance to meet with her. Im glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts. Rest assured, i think this committee will find them unacceptable, the 7. 5 million cut from nih would, according to analysts, this fundin
Quality health care that may one day save their life. Unfortunately President Trump and his allies do not share this goal. Instead they have passed trumpcare. A bill that would devastate hundreds of families and a y and millions more across the country. We are going to fight trump tuesday and snail. Nail. Th and we are fighting for universal health care that is a right and not a privilege for every in. Senate democrats will do whatever we can however we can whenever we can to fight back against this bill. We need you in this fight because we are all in it together. Millions of people are mobilizing against this mean, ugly hill because health care is personal. I am encouraged so many people have in calling and making their voices heard. Mitch mcconnell and donald trump may try to jab this down our throats, but they will be held accountable. Aloha. And cspans washington journal live every day. Chris jacobs from the texas republican policy foundation and discuss the future of and willre i
For the first time this week. Joe, you are up first. Joe hello. We would like to know, the House Armed Services committee is set to markup the National Defense authorization act next week. Can you tell us, what is in the bill and what is the top line for defense . Rep. Thornberry last fall, the speaker asked us to look at what amount of spending was needed to fix the mounting problems we were seeing in the military, planes that could not fly, ships that could not sale, ground units that have to take people out of one and put them into another in order to deploy, and the number we came up with was about 640 billion for the next fiscal year. President trump won election. He talked about a 355ship navy, a variety of other things. We still think an appropriate next year and a next yea , that is the number we are proceeding with in our markup. It may be at the end of the day, theres negotiations and we dont quite reach there, but our committee does not believe that we can continue to put ba
Video library. On wednesday, President Trump spoke at a rally in cedar rapids, iowa. [applause] thank you, everybody. It is great to be back in the incredible, beautiful, great state of iowa. [applause] home of the greatest wrestlers in the world, including our end dan gable. Some of the great, great wrestlers in the world, right . We love those wrestlers. Its always terrific to be able to leave that washington swap and spend time with the truly hardworking people. We call them american patriots. Amazing people. I want to also extend our congratulations this evening to karen handel of georgia. [applause] forget ralph norman in South Carolina. He called me, and i told him he said, you know, last night, i felt like the forgotten man, but he won and he won really beautifully. Even though a lot of people did not show up because they thought he was going to win by so much. Its always dangerous to have those big leads, but he won terrifically and he is a terrific guy. I tell you what karen i