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People, as rescuers race against time to save survivors who might still be trapped underneath the rubble. The secret Service Agent who was just feet away from jfk during his assassination now breaking his silence, revealing in new detail could rewrite the narrative. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. We begin on the Breaking News this morning, kim jongun appearing to be on his way to russia right now, to meet vladimir putin, a south korean Government Official tells cnn it looks like the north korean dictator is headed there on a train that departed from pyongyang. Moments ago, the kremlin and north korean state media confirmed the meeting would happen soon, but would not specify exactly when. Youll remember last week, u. S. Intelligence warned that kim was planning to meet with putin to discuss supplying ....
Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strategic implications are enormous, so i appreciate the senator raising the question. We have to put the discussion into context in terms of your budget. This chart, which im sure youre familiar with, is the last 50 years of defense spending as a percentage of gdp. Starting in 1962 at about 9 , today it is 3. 3 and headed down , at a time of increasing threat and payroll for our country. Often we get confused about the absolute dollar amounts, but a percent of gdp as a way of comparing apples to app ....
D. C. , not by the government or not by any any local agency. So, it is it is one of those difficult questions that i think is going to take a lot more work than 90 days to resolve. Susan final comment . Sari i just wanted to add one thing that seemed important today, especially because commissioner ramsey is not here. When this report came out, a lot of Police Officers were very upset because they felt it was a broad rash and painted a very negative picture of the police. And i asked lee went through the Police Academy and through the fbi training to see and understand it. And i went to Firearms Training when you go through a simulator and you are in the darkness, and someone comes out of you and you have to shoot or be shot. And i think i was killed several times because it is really difficult, and it is really har ....
Deafening silence. Perhaps you can now understand. A dramatic 44second pause by the Prime Minister of israel in his address before the United Nations general assembly. Jim sciuttos our chief National Security correspondent whos with us as well. Jim, this is a vintage, as has been pointed out, netanyahu speech before the u. N. Every year, he comes. He always does something dramatic. The consistent theme over these many years is that iran, under the ayatollah, the Supreme Leader marks no bones about it, they want to destroy the only jewish state. And he speaks about that. Right, he has a talent for the dramatic moment. You remember him with the placard showing the iranian progress on the nuclear bomb it also a cartoonish placard to make that point. But thissen wou ....
Ing remarks that President Trump has made about russias president vladimir putin, and we know that when former president obama left office, relations between these two countries were at their chilliest in decades. And there was some concern within the Foreign Policy community that what we would see was an easing of that very chilly relationship. So well have to really drill down on what specifically that means. You also heard sean spicer address that phone call with the australian Prime Minister in which by all accounts President Trump was not agreeable to a deal that was put in place over with former president obama and the australian Prime Minister that would effective will he export 1200 refugees who would ....