Yanis varoufakis. Out of favor with leaders. Strategy assessment. It was a strong warning from the pent gone today from president obama. He said the fight against i. S. I. L. Will require more time and a broader effort. Plus homecoming. Hundreds of thousands of the faithful turn out to hear a message from pope francis a native son during the first leg of his latin american tour. Hello everybody and welcome to Al Jazeera America im David Schuster in for antonio mora. We begin with reaching a financial settlement with greece. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to present some kind of an agreement to the finances minister meeting tomorrow. A exon strategy to common strategy to find crisis. Translator it is not only the greek population and the greek people here that have a say. It is the other 18 countries. We have one common currency. We want to keep this currency and therefore all sides need to be responsible and show solidarity. The summit will be without a popular figure
Week, covering congress for military times is leo shane. This is the bill that projects pentagons programs for the coming fiscal year. What stood out in your mind in in this the items authorization bill. Guest every year, this has a ot of different procedures and policies in it that are of importance. This is the second year where is real headline on it exactly how theyre funding the measure. Its another controversy over this. The white house has issued a veto threat saying, look, youre going beyond the budget caps and we got the agreement last fall. Basically what we got it down to aside about 18et billion of the temporary war funding, of the contingency funding, and put that back in the base budget. What the white house is saying is, look, thats not the deal. We have that separate. Youre not supposed to use that money that way. What republicans are saying is, look, this is a readiness issue. Weve got to get the money in up our end o plus strength, got to better fund troops and equipm
One long insult to all those who have worn the uniform. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening and what a location. Im chuck todd live at the intrepid, sea, air and space museum in new york city. Welcome to mtp daily. Counting you down to the start of the first ever commander in chief president ial forum tonight. Nbc news along with the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america will host Hillary Clinton and donald trump backtoback in a live forum focusing exclusively on issues that the next president will have to confront as commander in chief. And folks, National Security is playing a much bigger role in this election and perhaps should play a bigger one. The next president is inheriting a chaotic world with instability on every continent. Theres global uncertainty. Isis. Couple that with trumps inexperience in government and military affairs and clintons email issues and questions about her National Security leadership at state department. And all of this has brought
Families. A remaining spot to be filled, that of secretary of state. Over the weekend we learn add few more names on on that list of potentials including miami rodney, general pennsylvania petraeus and jon huntsman. There are others. And with us, jessica a couple weeks ago dr. Carson been seem to be want to be part of the cabinet. What changed . Reporter wolf, you know, it was just a couple weeks ago a close aide to dr. Carson said, dr. Ben carson was not, in fact, interested in leading a federal agency. When his name was mentioned for health and human services. At the time, because dr. Carson didnt have experience leading a federal agency and didnt believe that was his strength. Then you go back to two weeks ago, and donald trump tweeted he was, in fact, considering dr. Carson for hud secretary. And then it was just on wednesday, last week, that dr. Carson put on his Facebook Page that an announcement was imminent. The question is, what changed here . Youll remember to back in decembe
World. Just like we did in our campaign against communism during the cold war. Meantime, this race could be taking some wild turns with National Polls tightening, questions about where the battleground landscape really is. We decided to bring in my pals, jacob rascon, Kristen Welker out in columbus, ohio, talking with voters, and with me, Peter Alexander and kasey hunt. Thank you for hanging out with us today. Jacob, kristen, peter, kasey, jacob, you, the trump speech, put this into context stood out for you. What are the headlines for tonight . Reporter he spoke to a crowd, of course his supporters, including many retired generals who signed that open letter just yesterday, he started off attacking Hillary Clinton, he had a lot of names for her, reckless, trigger happy, unfit to be president , and other names, then he went into a plan, a lot of specifics, in fact, including adding 50,000 soldiers, 74 navy surface ships, 87 new fighter aircraft, a Cyber Security upgrade, the big questi