again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york day 85 a of the trump administration, the end of a week that saw a public fight between the president and the speaker of the house. and of much greater importance just in the past 24 hours we saw the president hand his attorney general uni lateral authority to declassify any intelligence he deems necessary and related to the origins of the mueller investigation. tonight, the president is on his way to japan for a state visit. the traveling white house made a refueling stop at elmendorf in alaska. before leefraching the white ho the president expanded attorney general power. why should the attorney be able to select what s declassified. he is one of the most respected people in the country and has been for a long period
speaker of the house. and of much greater importance just in the past 24 hours we saw the president hand his attorney general uni lateral authority to declassify any intelligence he deems necessary and related to the origins of the mueller investigation. tonight, the president is on his way to japan for a state visit. the traveling white house made a refueling stop at elmendorf in alaska. before leaching the white house the president expanded attorney general power. why should the attorney be able to select what s declassified. he is one of the most respected people in the country and has been for a long period of time. he is going to look at a lot of documents. some he might find interesting, maybe he finds none interesting. but for over a year people have asked me to declassify. so what i ve done is declassified everything.
confirmation hearing to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs. expect him to be asked by these severe cuts and their impact on military readiness. bill: we mentioned army. is it just the army or more than that, jennifer? reporter: we re told all bases here in the u.s. and abroad will be affected by these cuts. by name we heard for the bening in georgia, home to the u.s. ranger reg end and elmendorf in alaska are basing for cuts and for the drum in upstate new york. marines why cut by 10% last five years. u.s. navy for the first time since 9/11 may have to single aircraft carrier out of the persian gulf later this year without a replacement. we re told they will rely on a french aircraft carrier until they can deploy another carrier which is raising eyebrows here at the pentagon. bill: thank you, jennifer griffin from the pentagon today. martha: house hearing that is getting underway as the latest
headline running, people are putting deadlines together. but a lot going into the first or second paragraph, they see there is going to be less people wanting to work because they ll get health care with less hours. but it also makes clear what the strength of the economy, what we call in economics the demand coming out of the economy for more jobs, for more resources, for more growth, the good stuff that really makes the economy leap forward is going to be there because of obama care. pretty clearly stated by elmendorf, the head of the cbo yesterday. and yet the republican media machine continues. that s right. at some point all those things that elmendorf laid out will probably be a reality. but i do think there is still some uncertainty about what this what obama care actually means for the economy. the economists are actually not quite sure because we haven t had this sort of expansion and these sort of marketplaces in individual states, and certainly not across the country eve