four days later the whistle-blower complaint is filed with the intelligence community s inspector general. three days after that dan coats and sue gordon leave the white house. before that week is out, president trump says publicly, that should be forgiven. russia and vladimir putin should be let back into the g8. politico is first to report trump put on hold $250 million in military aid to ukraine, money that was appropriated by the congress to help ukraine stands up to russia. before the next week is out, the white house announces that it is cutting almost the entire military construction budget in eastern europe that is specifically designated to help other nations on russia s border stand up themselves against russian aggression of the type faced by ukraine. two days after that, the washington post publishes its op-ped about trump allegedly
stands up to russia. before the next week is out, the white house announces that it is cutting almost the entire military construction budget in eastern europe that is specifically designated to help other nations on russia s border stand up themselves against russian aggression of the type faced by ukraine. two days after that, the washington post publishes its op-ped about trump allegedly demanding help from ukraine for his re-election effort and threatening to deny crew crane u. ukraine u.s. military assistance unless and until he gets it and now there s a new acting director of national intelligence that isn t letting the whistle-blower complaint that s reportedly about ukraine be baforwarded to the intelligee committees which they re legally required to do. somewhere out there right now in america is a whistle-blower from the intelligence community who has gone through channels and done things by the book and sought whistle-blower protection under law to alert congress in good f
this new school for the border wall. let s just say for a moment that he took some money out of the military construction budget. i would say it s better for the middle school kids in kentucky to have a secure border. we ll get them the school they need, but right now we got a national emergency on our hands. do you think it should be a choice between these two things? i don t want to get into the politics of the situation. what i do he do know is that what we do educating military children, we do it very well academically. but there s a whole other side to it that you mentioned. our families want their children in a safe location. they want them feeling secure. and there s a whole social emotional side to what we do for those children. they ve lived under the stress of war their entire lives. multiple deployments. we deploy probably more than any
drug forfeiture fund. $2.5 billion from the defense department s drug interdiction program. something under republican criticism as well. $3.5 million from the military construction budget according to the military and veterans affairs sub committee means it could be used for military readiness training centers, f 35s, and hangers. kelly o donnell is joining me now, what s the next move for congress after this? they will try to override the president s veto. president trump will sign for the first time a veto that makes sense because for much of his presidency he had republicans in charge of the house and nat. they were in lock step on many
after their vote, they voted to they voted to, you know, go against the president on this matter and they were getting a lot of complaints from, you know, republican activists. i suspect that might have been a motivating factor for a number of these republicans to vote against this resolution because there really is no good explanation for it because as an institution, congress has to stand up for itself and for the president to be able to reallocate or reprogram dollars without congressional approval to the magnitude he has he s taken 35% of the entire annual military construction budget, 3.6 billion out of 10.3 billion. they have five years to spend that, but still, this is a big deal. i am just astounded what s going to happen now the president is going to rue this day. tell you why. he needs the cooperation of congress to reallocate and reprogram money, to transfer money. that cooperation is going to go out the window because of this emergency declaration. it s going to be mu