sailor, airman or marine, someone say who is serving at macdill air force base in your state shoulder these expenses that someone who is serving at edwards air force base in speaker mccarthy s california district that they would not shoulder? i think what you re speaking to is really opening up the military to questions circumvent or give individual soldiers, sailors and marines a say on state and local political issues. so take what you just said in terms of florida state law versus california, well, we could ask the same question in a future administration if a soldier doesn t feel like he can adequately protect his family in downtown chicago or 30 to 40 people are being shot a week because he doesn t like the gun restrictions or he feels like this is abrogating his second amendment, should the pentagon pay for him to go out to a more
pentagon. the president distancing himself from the campaign rallying cry. the president has a new idea. have the pentagon pay for his border wall. he discussed it in a private meeting with with with house speaker paul ryan. all right, john. no mexico. the the u.s. military will take it out of the budget. it is about security. that s what they do, keep us safe. it is about security. we remember who will pay for the wall? the troops. it is hypothetical increase. it was always about playing to the crowd. it has $1.6 billion for fencing. reenhancements. it s a new word.
pre we presume is military. after a year there is no funding for the wall and let alone a plan for how mexico not america would pay for it. and it is not just a tweet. according to the post, he pushing the military to fund the project and presented it to house speaker paul ryan and defense secretary john mattis according to three people familiar with the meeting talks to the post. and four days later he is regretting signing of the $1.3 trillion omnibus package saying it was a mistake and he should have followed his instincts. the spending bill only give the president $1.6 million for the border and white house had been pushing for $25 billion. and nbc news national security reporter courtney is at the pentagon. can the pentagon pay for a wall? so theoretically yes, sort
deposition if the matter goes that far, he s going to be asked that question, what was the source of the money, what were you doing, how did you get it p when did you get it, where did you get it? it s one thing wolf to talk to the press about matters, it s another thing to raise your hand and make statements when you re admitted to practice law. i can tell you the bar, new york state and every state throughout the country, they take lying very seriously. we ll see if robert mueller decides to take up this matter as well. everybody stick around. there s more news. just ahead the president is floating a new idea for funding his border wall with mexico? should the pentagon pay for it since mexico won t?
wow, maybe i ll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com. who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. sources are tell cnn the president is floating the idea of having the pentagon pay for the wall. will that fly? i don t think so. it is very inventive. i ll give him credit. now towed sign this huge spending bill cle wasn t happy about signing. the president is saying can you just use some of the money in there and it has to be reprogrammed chflt means that it would have to be voted on by congress which means it is not going anywhere.