National state of direct tors, local governments to stand up a structure where collectively dhs can sit at the table with representatives of state local governments. This is through bureaucratic naming well leave this discussion here and go live to the white house for todays briefing, here is the spokesperson sarah sanders. This bill achieves our top priority a much needed increase and funding for National Defense. This is increasing budget caps and provides certainty for the next two years. Defense spending will match the request by the pentagon and reflects what the president signed into law with the National Defense authorization act. Thanks to President Trump we can have the Strongest Military weve ever had. It increases the debt ceiling and moves us away from crisis to crisis budgeting. And e building americas crumbing infrastructure and tackling the Opioid Epidemic and taking care of our veterans. We have secretary mattis here with us today. Will come up to make a brief statement
Missile threat from north korea. There is no Silver Bullet solution but it is clear that Congress Must play a proactive role in providing more robust tools to the executive branch to confront this threat. There has been a lot of attention on north korea in the weeks following north koreas fourth test. But senator corker and men gardner worked on this issue before it got this far. They came together with a robust piece of legislation. I want to thank you for your leadership. You are new to the committee but not new to addressing problems our nation faces and i want to thank you for that. I would like to thank them over many months to focus on the attention poised by north korea to develop a bipartisan bill. I want to single out senator cardin for the constructive manner in which they worked with our team on this important piece of legislation. Other senators made important contributions as well. Senator cardin i was just boasting about your effort here. The senate and congress and count
Whats called a snow hurricanes. Do you want to be socked with that . Another winter storm is moving into new england. There are warnings about this. Its not your typical blizzard. Well have a live report. But we begin with that terrifying shooting at free speech event in denmark. A manhunt under way for the gunman. Witnesses reporting, saying he shot through the window of a cafe with an automatic weapon before taking off in a dark volkswagen. They later found the car a few miles away. They faced several death attacks after drawing caricatures of the prophet muhammed. The scene, very familiar to the massacre in january at the Charlie Hebdo paper in paris. This event featured a Panel Discussion about free speech in the wake of that attack. In boston they are preparing for yet another storm. Four storms, recordbreaking in massachusetts. This time a snow hurricane. Massachusetts governor Charles Baker is now up at the podium. Lets listen to officials in massachusetts as they prepare for ge
Weapons seized by Royal Navy ship HMS Montrose have been presented to the UN as evidence, linking an Iranian state organisation – the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – to the smuggling of weapon systems in violation of a UN Security Council Resolution, Ministry of defence, UK reported.. On two occasions in early 2022, HMSWeapons seized by Royal Navy ship HMS Montrose have been presented to the UN as evidence, linking an Iranian state organisation – the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – to the smuggling of weapon systems in violation of a UN Security Council Resolution, Ministry of defence, UK reported.. On two occasions in early 2022, HMS » The FINANCIAL UK Politics