Now on cspan a. Review of the 2018 federal budget from the money the president requested to what congress, who holds the purse strings, ultimately decides. Joining us from capital gal nancy, senior correspondental now correspondentent for bloomberg. Nancy, tell us what the president requested for 2018, and what were his Top Priorities . The president stuck with the overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes, numbers really members really like the defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agricu
Now on cspan a. Review of the 2018 federal budget from the money the president requested to what congress, who holds the purse strings, ultimately decides. Joining us from capital gal nancy, senior correspondental now correspondentent for bloomberg. Nancy, tell us what the president requested for 2018, and what were his Top Priorities . The president stuck with the overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes, numbers really members really like the defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agricu
Sentences i want to read, and then i will introduce the panel. We come back this afternoon for our third and final panel. We have done this we have not done this when we held hearings for the past several attorney generals, but Ranking Member feinstein contacted me last week and made a special request for this panel. I am doing my best to conduct this proceeding fairly. We will hear from each witness for five minutes. We agreed that we will not ask any questions of the witness. We will adjourn when we have heard from the last witness. I would like to introduce the witnesses. Mr. Chairman, we know that the attorney general is responsible for protecting the civil and human rights of americans. That is why many are worried as you have seen in these hearings. Senator booker and congressman ands, they bring discussion in important question about the basic rights enshrined in the constitution. How we tried to form a more Perfect Union that continues with every generation. Congressman lewis h
The region. Periods of heavy rainfall are likely from late this evening through monday evening, potentially resulting in flooding across portions of the region. In addition, southerly winds will increase late today and be locally strong and gusty through monday evening. Widespread rainfall will then taper off late monday night into tuesday. Cooler and somewhat drier weather conditions are expected late in upcoming week. Active advisories Flash Flood Watch for the entire bay area 4 pm today until 4 am tuesdaywind advisory for the entire bay area 4 pm today until 5 am tuesday many places around the bay area are still recovering from the last round of storms, including alameda county. Palomares canyon near niles canyon road in fremont is still shut down this morning. Officials are worried about the danger of falling boulders. Kron fours Lydia Pantazes shows us how crews in the area are getting ready for this storm. Weve had enough, i think weve had our share. Robert townsend and red rowto
Incident unfolding this morning, surrounding cyber attacks. Russia now being accused of hacking a Political Party computer in france, ahead of that nations president ial election. Frontrunner Emmanuel Macron says his campaigns computers have been hacked several times over the last month. Frances foreign minister has released calling the attacks unacceptable, and added that it was clear that the hackers were targeting the races proeurope candidate, and not the candidates advocating closer ties with russia. Happening now police in virignia are asking for your help to track down a murder suspect. Police say this man Jason Allen Johnson is wanted for the deadly shooting of 23 year old michael gray in north arlington. It happened after a fight b housewarming party on the 63hundred block of north 29th street. Virginia police say johnson may have fled the state, but they dont think he went too far. Johnson is described as a black man who stands fivefootfive inches tall and weighs 145 pound. A