Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i
We have learned from past crises, the risk is not doing too much, the risk is not doing enough. We heard from the president there just moments after the latest briefing from his new Covid Health Care team. The encouraging news from that briefing is there is a third vaccine now on the horizon. Dr. Anthony fauci says the data on this Johnson Johnson single dose vaccine is encouraging. Dr. Fauci says americans should not be skeptical of a reported 56 effective rate. Getting shots in arms is taking on even greater urgency now because of the growing number of variants or mutations. Dr. Fauci says it will require onthefly adjustments to keep up with the new mutations. The briefings are Night And Day from the previous administration. Science dominates. This was interesting, too. A clear effort by the Democratic White House to include republican governors as it prays states that are doing a better job of getting vaccines off the shelf and into their residents. I want to call out seven states t
For the nations better angels to prevail. Some specificity in the speech by joe biden, roll call saying the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get a covid19 plan ready for january 20. Our capitol hill producer craig kaplan, pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the office of the Vice President. Senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet from julian ross of the pittsburgh gazette pointing out the history of the state. Today is 48 years to the day biden was elected to the u. S. Senate from the news journal, the headline, november 1972. This is from the president elects granddaughter naomi, a tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. That, from one of the president elects granddaughter. Greta . Greta the former twoterm Vice President and 36year Senate Veteran joe biden will be the 46th president of the united states. Heres looki
If you voted for President Trump if you supported the president elect if you voted for somebody else youran also text us with first name, city, and state. Well get to your calls in just a minute. Tonight. Lon is with us reaction to the victory speech . We are bound to hear about firsts in this election, but heres a tweet about joe biden. Hes the second ever elected catholic president. Theaid its time for nations better angels to prevail. Some specificity in the speech by joe biden, roll call saying the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get a covid19 plan ready for january 20. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the Vice President s office, senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet pointing out the history of the state. Dayy is 48 years to the biden was elected to the u. S. Senate. The headline, november 1972. This is from the president na
We have reaction to the victory speech. And we are bound to hear a lot about first in this election. There are a lot of those. Here is a tweet from Andrew Rafferty that says about joe biden, he is the second ever elected catholic resident. It is time for the nations better angels to prevail. Speech by joe the biden, roll call saying that the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get the covid19 plan ready for january 20. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the Vice President s office, senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet pointing out the history of the state. Dayy is 48 years to the biden was elected to the u. S. Senate. The headline, november 1972. This is from the president naomi, aranddaughter tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. Greta . Gr