I can and washington dc and the french art america. First things first we noticed was driven on my left lapel every year. News anchors are t wear it to twenty nine which is today russian reserves to commemorate the end of World War Two this bread is a symbol of the tree for the fifty thousand us led nato troops still deployed in afghanistan are set to a job like the center and a long and costly battle to defeat the taliban. A part time in three series are cheese mayo up as explores the expense of reality of troop withdrawal in the pentagons exemption for proper accounting practices. For thirteen years now and the vendor sites the sounds of war but with every Helicopter Mission and every damage from me to return from the afghan theater. There is another sound. When congress is increasin paying attention to. After a decade of four lawmakers are tightening their grasp on the purse strings. Decreasing the minimum Defense Budget for twenty fourteen to five hundred billion dollars city and d
This week on defense news, responding to russian provocations, fleet modernization and his partnership with the United States. Plus, with the armys new concept will mean for future weapons frams from the armys acquisition secretary. Later, john nagle on his new ook. Welcome to defense news. Im vagvag. Cutting edge air defense destroyers in service already and to be joined in the coming years by t two g giant Aircraft Carriers, as well as mew frigates. The carriers will operate the short takeoff of lockheed martins f35 fighter that will also than used by the u. S. Marine corps. Rush why continues to provoke its neighbors. Last week a suspected r russian sub waspotteded in swedish waters as a russssian spy plane briefly penetrated atonian air space. We met with an admiral, britains first sea lord and a top nato commander who was in washington last week for a meeting with top defense leaders. Given the threat from russia, i asked him what the contingency rce should look like andow itit wi
Senate. It will move to a oneday extension of government funding. Government funding is expected to run out at midnight tonight. What Congress Needs to do is extend their deadline so that they have more time to pass this covid relief bill. The deal is set, in addition to some of the things that you mention is in this bill, there are other important items as well. Including the Eviction Moratorium for one month until the end of january, giving renters more relief. Also, 25 billion for rental assistance and thats something that renters are going to need as well. Small businesses are going to deduct. Leigh anne, we have House Speaker about to deliver remarks on this deal. Lets take a listen. I am honored as well as tonight happy to welcome the distinguished leaders of the democrats and the senate. I want to salute for the magical work he did the last evening to find a solution to give us a path to bring the legislation forward thatll help americas working families. Our purpose has always
Barbara, the words from general milley i should not have been there. So significant and so strikingly different than the president s stance. Reporter it is, and heres the reason general mark milley is saying this, because as chairman of the joint chiefs, he really is the guardian of ensuring that the United States military remains apolitical, nonpartisan, regardless of who is the president of the United States and that the u. S. Military fundamentally has a Good Relationship with the American People, that the u. S. Military does not take to the streets against american citizens peacefully protesting. Thats the undercurrent here. Thats why this is happening. General milley has prerecorded a video message to graduating military students. The message was embargoed. The New York Times went ahead with that in advance of the embargo, so now we want to bring the same information, of course, to all of our viewers, and in that message, milley is going to say, and let me quote, as many of you sa
The recovery, the economic recovery will likely take a loan time. What were seeing today, jake, our investors taking gains off the table for what could come next. Jake. All right. The dow down 1,861 points today. Now to politics. Any moment we expect President Trump in dallas, texas, talk about race and policing with Law Enforcement and Community Leaders. This comes, of course, the United States of america facing a reckoning and President Trump so far has largely been on the sidelines when it comes to policy solutions, not endorsing any policing reforms, for example. And of course when it comes to a leader trying to heal this nation, well, this president seems more focused on dividing, retweeting an attack on the contract of george floyd, pushing out bizarre conspiracy theories about the old buffalo protesters assaulted by police, refusing to even have a conversation the pentagon wants about renaming military bases named after confederate generals. Tweeting dane all caps, those that de