If you are taking any of those flights, get to the airport a little early. Welcome everyone. Pam cook is here and i know you are excited about the snow because you love to ski. I have my season pass ready to go. I dont normally get the season pass but this time i did because we get discounts for the family and it looks to be good. We are so lucky to have lake tahoe right here. Just 4 to 6 hours depending on the traffic. Lets check in with Rosemary Orozco because it is looking like snow this weekend. It will be nice eventually. If youre traveling today be prepared for the Winter Travel because it could be treacherous at times. The Weather Service has issued an advisory for later today. Lets look at what is going on here at home because yes we started with some wet roadways with scattered showers. Where we stand now, lets take a closer look at the Santa Cruz Mountains picking up on light showers. Over the south bay a little bit of light rain over the 101 and 82. Sunnyvale through san jos
Host got to leave it there and i apologize only because were done with this threehour program where we looked at free speech. Time for us to conclude. We take you towe now take you ts institution in washington, d. C. A form looking over Security Matters over 21st century security, looking at the Trump Administration and Security Matters. We will take you to that forum right now. Allow them to take off from where i leave. We will have broad discussion up here amongst ourselves. To my left is former secretary of defense robert hale. He has been through the battles of iraq and afghanistan and sequestration and shutdown. He has seen it all in the obama years where he was for the most of that time. He is speaking today under his own auspices. He is my former boss, i worked with him at the Congressional Budget Office 25 years ago. I know. Twoeflects badly at least ways, the amount of time and your progeny, so to speak. He then went to the air force and was the comptroller through the 1990s f
I think we know that from everything we do. The more training you have the more muscle memory you have the better able you are to execute your job no matter what it is. And if i could pile on, theres a great responsibility we have to do things different and better as well. We cant expect to be different. Training is where that development the done. That is where we learn new or effective ways to fight or more efficient ways to fight. This is learning how to fight in the future. It is extremely important. I dont want to send one more Service Member unprepared. Thank you gentlemen for being with us today. You know, in budgeting decisions we dont get to decide ourselves. It is beyond. I dont know how many of our members understand the details and difficulty that goes into running an effective military. In this discussion today it is probably the most grave i have heard since i have been here and rightfully so. I know each of you look at your troops as part of your family. At this point ha
Continues to be one of his top priorities. We want to know what that term drain the swamp. Means to you. How do you define it . What do you think is the best way to go about draining it . Phone lines are open this morning for you to call in on the washington journal. Democrats, 2027488000 is your number. Republicans, 2027488001 is your number. Independents can call in at 2027488002. You can also catch up with us social media, on twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Were asking about this term drain the swamp, want to hear your thoughts on what it means to you. For more on what the Trump Administration has been doing to try to drain the swamp, lets bring in a lobbying reporter with the Washington Post, joins us now by phone. Katherine, good morning to you. Guest good morning. Host a recent headline from the Washington Post, dromp is showing how tough it is to drain the swamp. He knows that this is open to interpretation of what that term means. Lets start there. How does
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