Bring your parents. At the end of the day, you are the next generation of american patriots. Come up and take part of this. All right, everybody. Here we go. Ready . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [ applause ] all right. Firstoff, i cant tell how loud i am. Firstoff, thank you, everybody, for coming. First up, we have Grammy Nominated singer and conservative radio talk show host Monica Matthews from atlanta, georgia, who will lead us in a blessing for the day to keep everybody safe and she is also going to sing the national anthem. Here she is. Thank you. Thank you. An honor to be here. If you can stand, please stand. If you have a hat on, please take it off. Thank you. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail as the twilights last gleaming whose bright stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts
Lets get all the youngsters out there. You want to take part of the pledge allegiance, come up and bring your parents. At the end of the day, you are the next generation of american patriots. Come up and take part of this. All right, everybody. Here we go. Ready . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [ applause ] all right. Firstoff, i cant tell how loud i am. Firstoff, thank you, everybody, for coming. First up, we have Grammy Nominated singer and conservative radio talk show host Monica Matthews from atlanta, georgia, who will lead us in a blessing for the day to keep everybody safe and she is also going to sing the national anthem. Here she is. Thank you. Thank you. An honor to be here. If you can stand, please stand. If you have a hat on, please take it off. Thank you. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail as the twilig
So will changes to the bill be enough to get moderate republican holdouts on board . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, assistant Editorial Page Editor james freman, and Editorial Board member joe rego. Joe, the bill has changed for the better or worse and how . Well, i would say both. This is a bill thats moved to the political center. Its moved leftward. Its worse in the sense that it gets rid of a lot of the tax it keeps a lot of the tax increases on Investment Income 3. 8 percentage that were part of obama care. That were part of it. That republicans promised to repeal . They did for years. And it spends that money on other stuff. Its got 45 billion for opioid treatment. Its got a lot more up front medicaid spending. Its good and better in the sense that it retains the fundamental medicaid reform. Thats really the most important part of this bill. Moving to a per capita block grant to the states from the federal government. Right. A lot to the s
Balance those objectives, and then it needs to look at capabilities, what type of force structure do you need, the delivery systems, but also the warheads and the maintenance of the nuclear complex, and finally, it has to look at cost. How do you look for ways to save money . Where additional investment is required . Those are some version of the main components. Who works on this . Its right out of the pentagon, but in the past, there are levels of outside input that comes in. Rebecca generally, its been led by the pentagon but with varying degrees of involvement from interagency. Took on aocument broader scope. It strategy was a bit broader. It involved more of our inner agency partners, as well as international partners. Aaron what is the benefit of that and maybe the drawback . Review lets you get ideas upfront, bring stakeholders in, and inevitably, they are a little less surprised and more on board in the end. Drawbacks . It can be a bit cumbersome. It can move slower when youve
Tillerson hosts a Foreign Ministers meeting at the state department. He is joined by the iraqi Prime Minister talking about global efforts to combat isis. This is 40 minutes. Good morning, and thank you all for traveling to washington, d. C. , to participate in this counter isisinsterrial conference. It is encouraging to see the attendance when the forces of isis and daesh tune into their tvs and their computer monitors they will see the strength of a combined 68 nations and organizations. Together, we share a resolve to deal isis or daesh a lasting defeat. Our coalition is united in stopping an isis resurgence, halting its global ambitions and discrediting its ideological narrative and were ready to grow stronger and stay aggressive in this battle. President trump in his recent address to his joint session of congress made clear that it is the policy of the United States to demolish and destroy this barbaric terrorist organization and that is what we are going to do. Many of us here t