Back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. A lot of them arent even pretending to be in charge. If the worlds going to get better, its going to be up to you. His comments are part of a National Ceremony honoring High School Graduates from the class of 2020. Were going to have much more on that story in just a bit, but first, weve got new details about yet another federal watchdog, fired amid the pandemic by the trump administration. Top democrats including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman eliot engel and senator bob menendez are launching an investigation. It comes after fridays latenight ouster of state Department Inspector general steve lenick, this man. According to a white house official, secretary of state mike pompeo recommended the move and trump agreed. Engle releasing a statement calling lenicks removal an outrageous act. Heres the thing, engle claims the Inspector General was fired because he launched a probe into mike pom
Four years yesterday. We would like to hear what you think about pat to marry patty mariposa proposal that includes spending cuts and tax increases. Here are the numbers to call. Here is the headline in the Baltimore Sun this morning. The budget plan the Senate Democratic plan released yesterday would raise taxes on the wealthy and some corporations we focused yesterday on the gop proposal and we will reflect on that a little today as we dig into one democrat tab on the table. Heres the headline in the Washington Times. Thats the direction the Washington Times is taking. We will look at a couple other headlines and how they are covering this story. The headline in the New York Times says we will hear more about that this morning and that is coming into play as well. Lets listen to senator patty murray, the head of the Budget Committee. She unveiled her 2014 budget plan yesterday afternoon. [video clip] are budget tackles this issue the way the American People have consistently said the
T about what you just saw. Not just these gunmen and what they were shouting and this gesture, but also as we played the whole thing out, you see these gunmen firing on this police car thats backing out of that street right as theyre making their escape in that small black car. Now i want you to look at something else. A frenchman who has just been arrested in bulgaria all in connection with his ties to one of these kouachi brothers. French authorities are scrambling to try to track down these accomplices. They also identified this man a radical, once known as al qaedas premier european recruiter. He was convicted of conspireing to attack the u. S. Embassy in paris. Now we know he was also the mentor to one of these kouachi brothers as well as a mentor to the gunman at that Kosher Grocery store in paris. All of this as al qaedas north African Branch is vowing to hit paris again. Paul let me turn to you first. Beginning with what these gunmen were shouting to this gesture, what was that
There was a fierce shootout and two terror suspects were killed a third was taken into custody. A belgian official now tells cnn antiterrorism operations are under way right now in other cities throughout belgium. We are covering breaking news with our correspondents our guests including the state Department Deputy spokeswoman. Lets begin with cnns john berman. Hes in paris and has just obtained new information on the belgium terror raid. What are you finding out . Reporter wolf ten separate raids in four belgian cities one specifically targeted at what officials are calling an operational terror cell planning an imminent major attack on belgian targets. Not only that the members of this cell the individuals had returned from syria, where they had been fighting alongside isis. This is the exact scenario that so many intelligence officials in so many countries have feared. In the dark of night, gunfire breaks out as police stage an antiterror operation in belgium. Belgian Authorities Sa
Watereddown version of the first order that was also blocked we another judge and should have never been blocked to start with. This new order was tailored to the dictates of the ninth circuit in my opinion flawed and this is a judicial overreach. Shannon chief correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. Lots to get to. Lets get to the budget proposal. Lets get to the numbers. The budget director told us he went through every word of every speech the president gave in the campaign trail and developed a budget policy for it. There are going to be increases and some cuts. First of all lets go through the increases. A big increase in defense spending. Therell be an additional 54 billion on and 52 billion to the dod and department of Homeland Security for 3 billion. Veterans affairs goes up by 6 , 4. 4 billion. In order to pay for this without increasing the deficit theyll be slashing spending across the rest of the discretionary budget. These are not little cuts, these are deep ones as