Nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. Forest service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to be able to welcome you back to the committee, thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately, it is up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from perfect, i agree that the priority must be on Wildland Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in hazardous fuel reduction and other active Forest Management activities. We know such investments pay dividends in reducing the risk of severe wildfire. Hopefully we will see this important work planned
We are doing this interview seated so i dont feel like a shrimp. Thats kind of what we are doing. We are really tall but it works out between the two of us. My guess is hes actually done the research. He did the research. Is it true that Mike Bloomberg a hes five feet 2. [laughter] kind of like his phone number. [laughter] we are super excited to have you. Its pretty cool. [cheering] we are having a trump Family Reunion backstage which is now is going to be on the stage of the course of the next couple hours. Its a real honor to have you here. Thank you, we are so excited to be here. You know, matt, this is it. This is so exciting. This is a place to be in washington dc, right . And in america right now by the way. Im gonna try and get to this. I almost lost my voice but i said i gotta make it here today to talk to people at cpac. The good news is brad likes to talk. I have to be able to communicate with my boss, you know hes a tough boss. Thank you for having us here. This is a great
Agreement on an appropriate package. The House Appropriations chairwoman told us today that they will be working through the up. End to wrap this she says they were pretty confident that lawmakers will be able to finish a bill by the end of the weekend and the house is preparing to pass this next week. It also appears as though the senate will take it up the following week. It is very fastmoving. It appears we are homing in on the number around somewhere in the range between 6 billion and 8 million, but again, it seems as if theres a good faith, bipartisan effort to get this done quickly and is couple of days. Host the white house of course sent its request earlier this week. How much was it for and where was that money going to be coming from . The white house on the us for 2. 5 billion. What is interesting about that request is only half of that would have required new funding from congress. The other half relied on a funding transfer. Taketially, they wanted to hundreds of millions
It tells the story of the brutal 36day battle in which nearly 7000 marines were killed. Contains graphic that may war and death disturb some viewers. [orchestral music] narrator this is the pacific as you know it, wide stretches of water, but this is the pacific as the joint chief of staffs view it, a battlefield, a vast fortressstudded plane on which the japanese defend the heart of the homeland. It is the most heavily fortified island in the world. Buried deep underground, the jap preparations for murder. 20,000 fighting men waited for us to make the first move. And they dont have to wait long. [explosions] the navy begins to soften up the island so we can land. [explosions] planes from our Carrier Force take off to strafe and bomb. [machine gun fire] [explosions] gunboats move in close to work over enemy beach installations. [machine gun fire] enemy fire gets closer. [heavy gunfire] dday, the beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history. We watch the Center Control vess
Prizewinning biographer jon meacham look at American History through song. [inaudible conversations] please welcome tim mcgraw and jon meacham. [applause] hey, guys, how are ya . [applause] hi, how are you . Good morning. Im the old guy up here [laughter] so history, as you all know, is about words. Thats why youre here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, the sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full mean being of our creed. And its also about music. And music is one of the most universe aral expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree more congenially than you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely. You know, as sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and their guns, they were carrying their pens,