line numbers based on their going through each of these agencies s budgets and saying there is a boo applicationtive number here. sometimes they will give them more, part of it is giving them less. it s part of the conversation with the departments and agencies to figure out what those investments are. maybe it s repurposing funds in a different way. it s not necessarily a zero sum gain. there is a way that a department can reallocate money to a program that might end up benefiting because there s a duplicative or out of date program or office that that savings could be applied to something. but i don t want to get ahead of the process right now. only to say that we are at the very beginning of it. hbc news. yes the. the president is going to see that 80 plus presidents of hvc with the president today. that s right. some are concerned what this executive order looks like. and they are waiting to hear the commitment before they say i m
but i don t think at this stage we ought to exclude anyone or any issue. and, you know, at this point in the investigation, we are, as i said, still in the phase of gathering daumts or actually trying to get personal custody of the documents in the hipsy. we are also in the process of developing some very preliminary witness lists on these baskets of issues. we need to follow the evidence wherever it leads. fit leads to those particular u.s. persons thenwe will subpoena them to come into committee. yes? why hasn t the fbi given up the information to you yet? and secondly, have you asked the senate if they want to do a joint investigation? well i ve certainly raised the issue of joint investigation. and at this point, while nobody has explicitly ruled it out neither have they welcomed the idea. there may be a few reasons for that. but it was a formula i think
at stake here. and i think a lot of what the president says on this subject is designed to distract attention from the real sirius issues that are there. and in my view it s this, we are engaged in a desperate battle of ideas with russia right now. and i don t think it s hyperbolic to say that the success of liberal democracy around if world will depend on how this struggle turns out. they are not only interfering in our political process, but they are in europe and france and germany and elsewhere. they use a whole host of methods includingeck blackmail, extortion, paid media patrols, fake news, hack, dumping, forging of documents, and if we are going to inoculate ourselves against further russian interference in our elections and democratic affairs we need to know exactly what they have done.
the complete budge would be ready early may and the president today describe how complicated he discovered that the health care repeal and replace has become. can you describe when it is that the president would present his framework for an overhaul of health care? is it going to be included in the bumming so we would see it before may? i don t think you are going to see it in the budge, no. that s not the appropriate vehicle for it. i think i ve mentioned it before, i think you would drive or at least the leading option before i get locked into something is to add obamacare to the fy 17 bum process and put it through wreck sill yag. that would happen outside of the current budget structure. but i think he has been very clear he wants this outline within a matter of weeks and we continue to have these discussions with house and senate leadership, weighs and means and similar finance and similar diplomats on the senate side. when he talks to mcconnell and
inner cities? i think it is a good try. the director was very clear. part of process was to start the pass back process where we are going to the various departments, hud or d.o.t. and giving them a top line number and then hearing back. i don t want to get into a specific number with you before we get too far down the process. i think that s a conversation that we are going to have with the agencies. and then we will have, subsequently, with congress, when they start drafting their resolution. i have a follow up on this but i do have another question. he talked about health care, he talked about education, and he talked about crime. he continues to talk about chicago and law enforcement. so you don t have any kind of budgetary numbers when it comes to and health care is a piece that is it is a one of the line items for this budget. that s right. i m not saying we don t have numbers. i m saying we are not giving them out. that s a big difference. i he no you are going to do a