The presiding officer without objection. The senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage. The presiding officer without objection. If there is no further debate, all those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The bill is passed. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent that the Armed Services committee be discharged from further consideration and that the senate now proceed to s. Res. 136. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 136, expressing support for the designation of may 1 2015, as Silver Star Service banner day. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the me
Friends and family members that were there with us doing this because based on what ive read, human memory is pretty fallible. Eyewitness testimony for example, is notoriously sketchy. Rather than assuming that they have a perfect memory of the past decade, i went out and if you could of the people who were there to get their perception of what happened and check it against my own. And tried to use so the combination of my own members, things i wrote at the time, and interviews of other people to make sure i had as accurate a picture as possible. Thank you. Welcome back. I had a question to if you could maybe contrast your experience with bryant. You guys are doing it at the same time figure two different experiences, yet you are transitioning your healing to imagine there were some things that were the same in somethings different. Im curious whether those gel and michigan and whether they were different. Were you able to provide support for them what he its not provide support for yo
For the next seven months. If the yearlong sequestration goes into effect. That is just one of hundreds of examples. Were going to hear today that the military service was are already taking actions to mitigate the impacts of the continuing resolution and the impending sequester. For example, the department of defense has instituted hiring freezes, reduced or eliminated temporary or Term Employees and deferred Facility Maintenance and began postponing or canceling maintenance of ships, air and ground vehicles. They will also implement furloughs for most pleas, cut backs in flying hours and other military training and contracts. In addition, hundreds of investment programs, acquisition programs and research and Development Projects may become unexecuteable. Even if many of the short term actions are still reversible if we act promptly they will have longterm costs. The longer congress postponed action the higher those costs will be. For example, the army informs us if sequestration cont
Six weeks after the flight was presumed missing. Meanwhile, off the coast of south korea, the loved ones on the capsized boat, the family members hoping they could still be alive in the upside down vessel. The effort to pump air into the side of the vessel, some rescue divers needing rescuers themselves. And just before dawn, friday morning in ukraine, the tinder box nation seemingly on the verge of civil war or a possible invasion. Today brought disturbing reports that armed separatist in the region demand that local jews register themselves and pay fees. Now, whether this is a crude hoax or not, they are trying to get them to back down. Today we have a former member of the kgb with insight into the possible grand plans. It is a busy hour, and lets get started with the news on flight 370, Nic Robertson is in kuala lumpur. And lets start with michael on day 42 of the search, down under. Reporter good morning to you, the planes are up again, the ships are also searching looking for wrec
It doesnt exactly make a whole lot of sense. Reporter no, boris, it doesnt. Mixed messages seems to be one of the themes, one of the themes to describe the way this white house operates. The Washington Post reported on wednesday that special counsel, Robert Mueller, is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. On thursday the president took to twitter to blast this idea that he is under investigation. He called the new focus on obstruction of justice foe phon which is the same word hes used to describe the russia investigation for months now. Then a day later on friday, friday morning, the president took to twitter to tell husband millions of followers that he is under investigation. Now sources close to the president told cnn he wasnt saying that he had been personally informed officially that hes under investigation. He was talking about media reports. Take a listen to what one of his lawyers, how he explained all this on state of the union this morning. The pr