a and, secretary hagel, although you ve estimated that this will cost tens of millions of dollars, in april of this year, you testified, let s start with the question of how do you pay pour military acts in syria if we do something. yet, i do believe it s clear that a supplemental will be required. history tells us there will likely be second or third military effects that demand military action. therefore it gives me great pause that we have not addressed our devastating consults due to the military sequestration. even as we commit the military to another new mission, we ve surged troops to afghanistan and cut the military s budget. we ve flown missions over libya and cut the military s budget. we re pivoting to the asia pacific and cutting the military s budget. all told, these cuts total an outstanding $1.2 trillion. and now we re considering strikes on syria, while the military s budget continues to
this was a big night tonight. lots of states. we re going to win a few. we re going to lose a few, but as it looks right now, brother going to get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals. so this morning romney cannot claim the crushing victories to win over skeptics, but he is amassing delegates. more than 400 so far. that s way ahead of santorum. gingrich and ron paul who failed to win a single state last night. but the race still has a long way to go. tonight we re doing some counting. we re counting up the delegates for the convention. it looks good. we re counting down the days until november and that looks even better. ohio may not have offered the most delegates last night, but it could be the most telling. and with romney scoring a razor thin victory, some say it speaks volumes about santorum as well. our political editor paul steinhauser is in columbus, the state capitol. paul, what should we take away from ohio? reporter:
and sharp and sudden turnaround by the obama administration. the white house now says it s tweaking the health care reform provision that sparked a sudden confrontation between church and state as well as republicans and democrats. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here in the situation room watching all of this unfold. it was pretty dramatic what happened. it was, and all of this caught the white house off-guard. there s no sign that the uproar is dying down. the president plays cleanup. they will not have to pay foror provide contraceptive services, but women who work at these institutions will have access to free contraceptive services just like other women. a law that requires prepreventive care will not discriminate against women. the catholic health association says this resolution protects the conscience rights of catholic institutions. e.j. dionne who helped kick up the firestorm now writes president obama did today what he should have done
military acts in syria. a furious president trump surrounded by grim-faced military leaders in what was planned to be a meeting of syria, his arms folded, blasting the fbi raid today on his personal attorney michael cohen. i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man, and it s a disgraceful situation. it s a total witch hunt. i ve been saying it for a long time. i ve wanted to keep it down. we ve given, i believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. so let me be absolutely clear about this. the president is absolutely wrong. nobody broke into michael cohen s office. and nobody, not even the president, is above the law. a dozen fbi agents armed with search warrants legally seized documents from cohen s office, his hotel room, and reportedly his home.
warning shots, what is the commander and chief signaling to the world? i don t know if this sends a message, north korea is a problem, they be taken care of. i will say this, i think china has really been working very hard. former defense secretary leon panetta joining me just ahead. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell back in washington. the world is on edge waiting to see what north korea will do less than 24 hours away from a key anniversary. a day traditionally marked by provocative military acts. the president s twitter only stoking the fire tweeting that north korea is looking for trouble. if china will help, that is