the wall street journal and joins us now with more. so the debates begin that this is going to take a wild to resolve. that is the right way to think about ap this is the opening salvo, political statement by the trump administration. no huge surprises here, this is what he was talking about on the campaign trail, boosting military spending, cutting a lot of other so-called discretionary spending. there is a good story on this in today s journal that looks at what constitutes those cuts. there interestingly even though congress will write the budget so it now goes into rewrite and congress in a lot of mulling heather: that always happens. this is how it works, so this is the president s proposal, congress writes the budget, they put stuff back in, take stuff out but very interestingly, he a lot of the cuts that the president is proposing are in areas that were profoundly pro-trump in the election, things like the appalachian section of the united states would get fairly sig
confederate flag to come down in south carolina. so there is no expectation that she won t be confirmed. other outsiders today. mitt romney, one of the top contenders for secretary of state. of course a political outsider. dr. ben carson was a former rival of president-elect trump s. he emerged as a top surrogate and has been tapped now for hud secretary. he wrote on his facebook page he may have developments to announce later on. we are tracking that closely. of course, we were told earlier today he continues to mull that offer. mulling. look, this is not the first time this happened. elections can make a big difference. people get put in place who may have been critical of the president-elect. but nikki haley, to say she wasn t a fan, understates it. i want to play a little bit of what she said before he got elected. i will not stop until we