President just saying on air force one that after republican failure on repeal of obamacare, he is forced the work closer with democrats just to get something done. More on what he may or may not have agreed to with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi coming up. Also the rich may have to pay for. President trump doubling down, now saying wealthy americans are not his priority when it comes to tax cuts. Melissa the president just making comments aboard air force one on the surge in stocks and says that he respects fed chair janet yellen. The dow closing at another new record high. Lets go straight to Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what was the day like down there . Feels pretty great. We did have that back and forth action. There was a lot of pressure on a lot of parts of the market. As you noticed, we had a mixed close. The russell is lower, but the dow brings it in, third day in a row of records. It was up four days in a row prior to this, up nearly
It emergency funding for the influx of unaccompanied minors across the southern border. Its recessress delay to address the southern border if it cant get the legislation passed and agreed to in both chambers this week . Border state residents. You can join the conversation on social media. Us. Can also email we will get your thoughts. Joining us is warrant a. She is with politico. Its own bill in the senate has a version as well. House take up the legislation . You can see it happening this week. Of contention in that Republican Caucus about this bill. Is there enough for Border Security . Youre going to see john boehner reallyin mccarthy working their conference this week before they schedule a vote to ensure that if they put it up they have the ability to pass it. Democrats will not be joining in their efforts. Host democrats will not vote. Why is that . There are some reasons. Antipelosi is opposed to changing that 2008 antitrafficking law in conjunction. As as fine doing it proces
Should be derived strategically. We tend to look at strategy as linking and balancing, hence ways and means. Then we look at the results and risk. We believe that, at the end of the day, our strategy is reflected in the qdr. It is fundamentally about protecting our National Security interests. If we understand what those are and that some are more important than others, not only does this enable us to offer advice on when and how to use force, it means we can link those interests on how to allocate everincreasing means that are provided by congress. And in between the ends and the means lies the Fertile Ground of ways, and how we go about getting it all done. And how resourceful we can be in crafting those ways. The tougher we are on ourselves and how we manage a resources, the better we can conserve our ends. One of the most important ways is deterrence, which really comes in two forms. One is showing an adversary that we can deny objective. In other words, his attacks will fail. Alte
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