Damaging the fbis nonpartisan representation but what is less clear is the timing of his dismissal in midst of Trump Campaign staff. There was no advance notice, james comey the 56yearold fbi director was in los angeles when he reportedly learned he was fired wednesday afternoon from a tv screen as he spoke to fbi agents. President trumps letter was delivered later stating the attorney general and Deputy Attorney general had sent a memo quote recommending your dismissal. Mr. Trump said im accepting their recommendation and youre hereby terminated the. He said comey crossed the line by making inappropriate statements about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The timing of the abrupt dismissal drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. The Administration Needs to answer the question why now. Were the investigations getting too close to home for the president. Prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of michael flynn, the president s former National Security adviser. T
Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . In this case they authorized about 56 billion in funding and 696 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. At 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . That is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the number is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending caps is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we know is that if Senate Democrats have leverage, they are likely to press for more on the nondefense budget which is likely to lower the defense side of the budget. Thats 596 billion number we are talking about is likely to come down. Lets go to investments, what does this bill called for in terms of ships and planes . What we have heard from the white
Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . In this case they authorized about 56 billion in funding and 696 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. At 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . That is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the number is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending caps is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we know is that if Senate Democrats have leverage, they are likely to press for more on the nondefense budget which is likely to lower the defense side of the budget. Thats 596 billion number we are talking about is likely to come down. Lets go to investments, what does this bill called for in terms of ships and planes . What we have heard from the white
Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . In this case they authorized about 56 billion in funding and 696 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. At 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . That is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the number is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending caps is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we know is that if Senate Democrats have leverage, they are likely to press for more on the nondefense budget which is likely to lower the defense side of the budget. Thats 596 billion number we are talking about is likely to come down. Lets go to investments, what does this bill called for in terms of ships and planes . What we have heard from the white
Civil security office. Todays forum will be available later at our website, cspan. Org. [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] good afternoon everybody. I have about 10 minutes so if you would start making your way back here, that would be great and we look forward to a great second panel. [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] now the senate comes back today at 3 00. Of course, coverage here on cspan2. They are back from their july 4 recess and we had a chance to get a preview of the earlier from a capitol hill reporter. Joe gould is congressional reporter with defense news. What does the Defense Authorization bill and what in the version, the 2018 version approved by the Council Armed Services Committee . The house Armed Services past its national Defense Authorization act for 2018 earlier or sorry, late last month and what it is is the bill, the annual defense policy bill. It gets reconciled with a cent version and in this case they authorized about 696 billi