The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on the militarys readiness and the upcoming fiscal budget. It was on the income overseas offensive and defensive abilities. Many of them related to the 2011 budget control act. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. The subcommittee on defense appropriations on the United States senate will come to order. Today we are receiving an update on military readiness and Defense Budget matters. Were pleased to welcome to the committee the honorable james m. Mattis, secretary of defense. General Joseph Dunford jr. , chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The fiscal year 2017 department of defense appropriations agreement has been approved by the other body in the house of representatives. And i look forward to our completing work on that bill in the coming weeks. Were well into the fiscal year and members of the subcommittee understand the poepimportance o enacting appropriations. As we complete our work on the 2017 defense agreement, we also recogn
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Welcome to your new day. Allison is off. Brianna joins us this morning. If you havent tuned in yet, shes thrown me under the bus once. Maybe twice. Lets see how it goes this hour. We do begin with breaking news. North koreas state news agency releasing a statement saying President Trump is driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the, quote, brink of nuclear war. This comes hours after President Trump doubled down on his warning to north korea saying the threat to unleash fire and fury may not have been tough enough. Defense secretary James M Mattis says despite the effort the effort on north korea is diplomatically lead. The Global Resources of cnn have all of this covered for you. We want to start with will ripley live for us in beijing with the latest. Will. Reporter brianna, i want to get right to this brand new statement that has been released by north korea just within the last few minutes. The title of this statement on the north Korean News Agency is u. S. Nuclear war f
Against the white house decision to have the president s chief of staff and his lawyer show up at the onset of two classify tds Intelligence Briefings on the russia probe in which the president is a subject. Trump attorney emmett flood and john kelly both coming to both briefings. The first at the department of justice. The second in congress secure intelligence rooms opinion an unprecedented intrusion in the classified intelligence process by the president oos advocates. They were demanded by House Republicans to review Sensitive Information about the fbis use of informant at the beginning of the russia probe. The president has claimed without any evidence that the fbi embedded a quote spy in his campaign. The president wanted them to attend and saying they are entitled know what the government has on fbi informants who met with members of trump campaign. Nbc Kelly Odonnell is at the white house for us and Pete Williams joining us from the news room here in washington. Rudy giuliani d
Into the history of any other modern presidency as one of its worst days or start of the end. But lets start tonight with the resignation of the secretary of defense jai james matt is. Dated today, december 20th, 2018 on Defense Department letterhead. Daer mr. President i have been privileged to work as the secretary of defense to serve alongside of the men and women in our department as defense of our citizen and our ideals. One core belief ive always held is our strength as a nation is linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. While the u. S. Remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies. We must use all tools of American Power to provide for the common defense. Including providing effective leadership to our alliance. Natos 29 democracies demonstrated that strength in their commitment to fight