Funds cost 7 billion every month, and thats just for the army. Mr. President , we have an opportunity to correct this or we have an opportunity to waste another 20 by a yearlong c. R. I am urging the American Public to make it known to those of us at veterans day programs this weekend and next week. Im urging my colleagues to stress this when they talk to the public. There are there are appropriation bills that are not yet worked out but for heavens sake, lets at least do the bill that pays the troops that sends a signal to the rest of the world in these trying times that we are at least going to fund our Defense Department and our future veterans who are on active duty and who have taken the oath today that we will do them in a modern and timely fashion. Were five weeks late. Lets dont make it another five weeks after this and another five months after that. Pass a fullfunding appropriation bill for our troops, for the department of defense, and give them the type of representation an
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Punished for something that sterling would argue happened in private. Right. A lot of questions. How do you do that without hurting the team, which is in the middle of a championship run, they think, had he hoep hope. Its a great time for the nba, and there are stars on this team. Blake griffin, chris paul. Its a really unusual situation thats unprecedented. Nbc news has confirmed that Donald Sterling has been fined 5 million and has been suspended indefinitely. This is according a senior nba official. It looks as if they are going to take, as you were describing, a very stiff penalty against mr. Sterling. Well, the nba has never even suspended an owner for anything else. They fined them for yelling at the refs, things like that. This is really unprecedented when this happens. Clearly theyre saying to him we dont want you here, and the hope, i guess, is that he will in some way reach some kind of agreement to get rid of ownership of the team. Now, how does that happen . Unclear. I thin
Hello. Happy monday. Welcome to mtp daily. Im Kristen Welker in washington in for chuck todd. Were in the final stretch of the summer now with 71 days until the election. Both campaigns are spending the day off the trail. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton are fundraising today. And both candidates are starting to prepare for the upcoming debates. Well have a lot more on that in a moment. First, more details on trumps immigration policy speech. It will be on wednesday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. This after donald trump spent part of the weekend in iowa. The trip came after a week of seeming reversals and rhetorical somersaults from trump on immigration. And he spent most of his saturday speech trying to clarify his policy. Take a listen. On day one, im going to begin swiftly removing criminal, Illegal Immigrants from this country. Were going to build a great wall on the border, and were going to institute nationwide everify. On the sunday shows, Trump Supporters attempted to articulate h
This is supposed to be Donald Trumps signature issue, but in 48 hours, hes now set to give a major speech laying out exactly where he stands on immigration. Why is he still explaining this close to the election . Well take you through that very tricky and complicated story. And also, Colin Kaepernick taking a stand against Police Brutality by staying seated during the National Anthem. We have 49ers fans response to that. Our top story, huma abedin separang from her husband, former congressman, former new york mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. This after the New York Post reported that wiener has been sexing wuths yet another female friend. Donald trump seizing on the incident today to try to criticize Hillary Clintons campaign. Hallie jackson is at trump tower. This news breaking a few hours ago that huma abedin, shes obviously been through a lot publicly with Anthony Weiner the last few years with stories like this. This new one breaks in the New York Post. Now huma abedin says shes g