Were really down. I said, are you kidding me . We got 2900 people to think we ought to run the country. Year after year, and then john sununu came, and we have really gathered momentum. In 1994 we elected a class of republicans who just did not give a whit about their election. They came to balance the budget. It was remarkable. And then after 10 long years in 1997, i was one of the chief architects of allen saying that federal budget. First time we have done it since man walked on the moon. We have not done it since. We paid down the largest amount of the publicly held debt in modern history, and the economy was doing great. Some of you might remember i was a giants Television Star on fox news. [laughter] you are right back, how great i was on fox news. I also worked at Lehman Brothers and learned an awful lot about this, which is so critical in terms of understanding what motivates ceos. So i left. 10 years i was out. Im a believer that if we are really not here to serve others, i do
We are live this morning for remarks from outgoing joint chiefs of staff chair general Martin Dempsey. He will be talking with the children of parents in the military at the conference hosted by the military Child Education coalition. The wife of general dempsey is also speaking at this event today. Live coverage on cspan2 in washington, d. C. Your respect here from the general in just a moment. A special thanks to the many many volunteers that you will see battle in this room but throughout this National Training seminar, but also to those volunteers who support us day in and day out. We just get tremendous support. There is a special group that you will see of men and women running around in lieu tshirts. There from deloitte and for some years now weve gotten great volunteer support from deloitte and a special thanks to ed casey and the members of deloitte for their outstanding support. As you go through this next couple of days and you look through the program you will see an Outsta
This is al jazeera live from new york city, im erica pitzi. A man that attacked a Movie Theater hat a history of mental illness. He had at least one arrest as well as multiple commitments to Mental Health facilities in his past. He had moviegoers in tennessee ducking for cover. [ gunfire ] thats the sound of the latest theater shooting suspect being shot dead by police in tennessee. It was a lot, oh lot of shots. It was coming from outside the theater. Police began receiving calls after 1 00 p. M. In the nashville suburb of antioch. Witnesses say the 29yearold vin tente David Montano walked into the movie wearing a surgical mask, as well as two backpacks and a weapon. He was armed with a hatchet and armed with a weapon that strongly reassembles a semiautomatic pistol that we know now after examination is an air soft gun. He was allegedly armed with pepper spray. The gunman apparently unleashed this pepper spry throughout the theater, as additional officers to swat team entered that the
Washington today. Lets start with deferred action, the conversation in the white house about what going to happen with that program. What is being considered at this point . The white house is making a decision of whether to keep that program in place. The white house faces a deadline on tuesday of whether to continue this program for people who were brought into the country illegally as children. Attorneys general have threatened to sue the Trump Administration unless they discontinue this program next week. We think the president really doesnt want to. He has expressed publicly his tortured feelings about this program. He thinks a lot of people have grown to be good americans, essentially, and he doesnt want to rescind the protection isinst deportation, but he facing these lawsuits, so he has a tough decision to make. We are hearing it is probably not going to happen today. Going to talk to a democratic representative from arizona. How is Congress Reacting to this conversation . What
Tuesday in parliament. The main news from westminster. Hurricane irma has affected 500,000 british people, a minister says the government is working round the clock to help them. Hundred of dedicated British Public servants are doing their utmost to help and they will not relent in their efforts. But compared to other countries, has the uk done too little, too late . It is the british who are left stuck with the only commercial Plane Services available charging extortionate rates to get them out. Also on the programme. The culture secretary is referring 21st century foxs planned takeover of sky to the competition watchdog. And nice work if you can get it condemnation of big pay packets for university bosses. Should we not collectively, irrespective of party in this house, condemn this kind of approach and remind our vice chancellors thatuniversities are a team effort. But first, the Foreign Office minister, sir alan duncan, has rejected criticism of the governments efforts to help brit