Guest we heard earlier today from senator cornyn that we should expect at least two more crs. There was some optimism coming out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending that budget caps would be lifted. What message douf for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal overnment . What we have to do, it was understood we were going to have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have frankly theres a partisan element to this because we have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the floor. As you know a minority can block them from coming up on the floor. The one that has to pass is the one for our National Defense. We have to get past the budget caps. Give an example. If we dont do anything as it is right now when we pass the authorization bill for the military its at 700 billion. If for some reason we cant get beyond the caps and we have to go to a strict cr thats going to go
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We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. Upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. For five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments budgetary assessments. Please join me in welcoming dakota wood. Dakota . [applause] thank you, jon. Its a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. Crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it . The fastest run hes ever made to d. C. , so were glad
That you may know named luis alvarez. He got his badge now. If he strays from his commitment, then well go back in attack mode. John will join us live as reporting begins now. Our reporting begins with fastmoving developments in the disappearance of a College Student in utah. Indications now that she may have been leading a double life. Searching online for sugar daddies and that something bad may have happened inside an area house. For now, cops are not being specific. Police in Salt Lake City do say that they have a person of interest after they searched a mans home miles from where 23yearold Mackenzie Lueck was last seen getting into somebodys car at a park in the middle of the night. Detectives were at that house through the night. They towed away a car and brought shovels and dogs into the back yard where the neighbors say they saw and smelled the homeowner burning something days ago. Just been waking up to burning fire smell. Jump up. Looking around. Theres no fire in the house s
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