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Fight, or c all of the above? it is always c, in this case particularly with that border wall. look, the president has despite this beautal despite the brutal 35 day partial shutdown that we in washington went through earlier this year over his border wall, the president s clearly itching for another fight. again, now he s asking for about 5 billion frds congress for the wall in the dhs but in the homeland security budget and about 3.6 billion actually from the pentagon budget for military construction that would actually go towards that wall. and that 8.6 billion figure mirrors, actually, the amount of money that he s trying to tap through various venues including his national emergency declaration earlier this year and last month. but it really but this is all, you know, the border wall was a major part of his campaign promise and this shows that this is going to be a theme that he continues to just hammer through the through his re-election campaign. however, this time now t ....
It s not that long. american, united and southwest all fly this plane. there are dozens in service. i will say chances are american pilots have gone through u.s. pilots have gone through the training that might be the issue here. i agree, but i don t even like the idea of the pilot having to override the automated system while it s bucking, while the plane is bucking. even that s nerve-racking. they have to investigate. now to politics. president trump will ask congress for an additional $8.6 billion for his proposed border wall. setting up a new budget battle with democrats. this amount is much more than the president s initial ask last year which congress rejected. joining us is david gregory, a cnn political analyst. jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief at the daily beast and a cnn political analyst and laura barron lopez, national political reporter at politico. david gregory, this is just political theater, right? this is just a messaging exercise because congress ha ....
Inside the west wing, but hopefully we ll have more of these briefings and we ll get more answers out of the white house press office. something we haven t had in quite some time. this is wonderful and we welcome them. jim, thank you. stand by. dana, on the news of this budget that the president has given to congress today, this whole piece about the 8.6 billion for construction of the border wall. my question to you really is why is he bringing this up again? is is it to put up this big 20 fight? does he need the money? is it krrk, all of the above. all of the above. does he need the money? he wants the money and he wants to make a point on not just the wall, which obviously is the thing his aides describe as the policy extension of himself at this point even though it started out in the campaign as a rhetorical political tool. it s morphed into something much bigger in the president s eyes. but even more broadly as jim said, it is always a political ....
Welcome to the lead. we begin with the politics lead and trump gearing up for another fight. the budget request was delivered to congress. there is one number that is getting a lot of attention. 8.6 billion is what trump is requesting for his border wall flexion year. th next year. that order coming after congress refused to give him the $5.7 billion that he wanted the last time around resulting in the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. this is one battle brewing between the president and democrats. the first white house press briefing was supposed to focus on trump s new budget proposal. the 2020 budget which was released today. it was quickly overshadowed after sanders refused to defly a report saying he told a room of that democrats hate jewish ....
Uptds including their police, they have a forensic team here as well as the kenyans, all trying to help identify their countrymen and i m guessing eventually bring them home. heartbreaking work there. to politics now. president trump will deliver a budget proposal this morning, his first under a divided government. he is promising to balance the federal budget in 15 years by slashing spending for education, health, environment, foreign aid and other nondefense items a plan the lawmakers will likely ignore. high on the president s agenda, a white house official has confirmed that he will seek $8.6 billion for his border wall. the budget proposal has an additional $3.6 billion in military construction funds to pay back the money trump redirected using his executive authority. boris sanchez is traveling with the president and has more from west palm beach. reporter: in the proposed budget, president trump is ....