$3.5 trillion bill. i m hearing it ll be closer to $2 trillion. there s a lot of disagreement on literally $1.5 trillion. that s the holdup here. i don t know what the plan b is. because democrats are leaning in on this two-track system. it was shaky when they decided to go this route to begin with. there were probls from the very day it was announced. now, the democrats have to pull it off because they ve dn saying for weeks that they could. yamiche alcindor, thank you for your reporting. ll be watching this closely. congressional hearings will continue today for three top defense officials regarding last month s u.s. withdrawal fm afghanistan. joint chiefs chairman mark milley, defense secrety lloyd austin, and u.s. cenom commander kenneth mckenzie will testify before the house armed services committee this morning, after answering questions fm the sene armed services committee yesterday. the focus of sterday s hearings was supposed to be
served as the cia director and defense secretary in the obama administration. he was also the white house chief of staff for president clinton. spent nearly two decades in congress as well. secretary panetta, thanks very much for joining us. nice to be with you, wolf. what is your initial reaction to the information contained in this declassified version of the russian hacking review? well, it pretty much confirms what jim clapper testified to before the armed services committee yesterday, that they have clear, ironclad evidence that the russians were involved in trying to interfere with our election system and that they they were taking an unprecedented and aggressive stance to try to influence our election. that s the bottom line and
i know certainly the american people do that we re at a turning point and that there s enough people sort of pulling for some sort of agreement that people will finally be able to compromise and sacrifice on both sides of the aisle to actually get something done. finally, let me ask you. you serve on the armed services committee. there were three senators on the armed services committee yesterday who said incorrectly that they had seen photos of a dead osama bin laden, including senator scott brown of massachusetts. what do you think happened? i don t know. i heard the reports as well. i wasn t shown the photographs. it s a tough issue in terms of whether to show the photographs or not. and i am deferring to the experts who have looked at the photo, which i haven t, and those who can analyze what the impact would be. the positive do you support the president in his decision not to release the photos? i do. i think we have to defer to those who have seen the photo, which i have