army corps of engineers. it took the county approximately three years to obtain the permit which mandated them to clear 13-acres of vegetation and required 20 acres of mitigation at a cost of over $3.5 million for a permit that is only valid for five years. this is not an isolated example. additionally, our counties note there are challenges within the existing army corps structure which includes cumbersome and complex requirements, the length of time it takes to complete water studies, limited funding and competing agency requirements. congress has a unique opportunity to address this issue. and we are encouraged by the senate's stated commitment to complete a wrda bill this year. we look forward to working with you to identify ways which we can address challenges within the section 404 permitting program for public safety infrastructure. we would also like to address funding need because without wrda and the army corps, our counties would not have been able to accomplish the multitude of projects that we've

carter, the army corp. component of the program that was established by wrda in 2014 has yet to get off the ground. that's the army corps portion. the epa has already implemented their portion. what are some of the challenges the corps is facing in implementing this program? and at this current pace, how long will it take for the corps to catch up to where epa is? >> thank you for question. indeed the wifia program for the corps has not been funded. and part of what has been going on is there is -- the corps has no history with a loan or loan guarantee program. so developing the guidelines and understanding how will those projects be scored in terms of the risks to the government have been some of the primary challenges. so as basically as those issues get worked through with either congressional or administration involved in those discussions of how do you score the risk, as those progress, then funding could be provided and the corps could start providing these loan and loan guarantees which could assist

processes and have corp. submit to congress the results of this with potential alternatives on how they're going to address it. thank you. >> and you said you are going to share two additional ones that you would like to add in writing we would be happy to receive those. >> we would be happy to do so. >> thank you, mr. robinson as well as mr. friedman, ports and inlands are important to life blood of economy, every year over a trillion dollars worth of goods move through ports and inland water ways and to every basic corner of the united states and around the world. can you talk a little bit more about the importance of inland water ways and how their management impacts your ability to transport goods allowingtous keep jobs at home and help us to more effectively compete globally. >> senator barrasso, speaking on behalf of tulsa, oklahoma, just in that segment of the waterway 53 miles, there are 8,000 jobs, there's been $5 billion invested annual payrolls to the counties and to the cities, 320 million annuall

lee, the other corps commander. lee wrote in his official report to hood, the attack was a feeble one and a failure with a loss to my corps of 1300 men killed and wounded. it was not made with spirit and determination and all that. lee -- hood had no idea what happened at jonesboro, so he simply took what lee wrote and paraphrased it. you read books on john bell hood and they will talk about how he was complaining because there was not enough blood spilled at jonesboro, but they never say a word about stephen lee. this one is another example of misquoting and taking things out of context. a week after john bell hood died, here is an article in the new orleans times -- the picayune. act can those days when somebody died, it was very eloquent, you know, and this is not unusual. you can kind of read it on your own, but it is very a look went thought talking about what a great guy he was a great , soldier. then in the middle it says as expressed in his own forceful language when last with us five short months sense, "th

is the marine corps. generalchairman is maxwell detailer who assumed office october 1 1962. am looking for to my assignment in the pentagon and as service of the joint chiefs of staff. i find it and is binding on pentagon and a new adventure and a new approach to the problems of defense which are most is heartening. i refer to such things as the rediscovery of the need for conventional forces, the recognition of sunbird -- submissive insurgency and the willingness to make hard decisions in the controversial areas of defense. >> in recent years, the secretary of defense through the joint chiefs of staff has directed the far-flung military operations of the unified command's composed of all services. also, there are specified commands which means single service commands such as strategic air command. there are nine in all, depending on the military crisis of the moment, the joint use can designate the appropriate command for action. the event the command with headquarters northern virginia and is the cuban crisis with admiral dennis and at the home. denison at the head. comman

one was rehired by the peace corps.s with the agency's problems with sexual assault. 4% of assaulted volunteers had to wait more than four weeks to get counciling and some were limited due to a misunderstanding of peace corps policy. reese miller was only allowed six sessions. >> was spiraling downward. i asked for more counseling. i called the doctor and she said we need to have a serious talk whether you're foyt be a volunteer or not. >> do you feel like they were blaming you for what happening to you? >> 100%. >> do you feel like the peace corps has improved in the last two years? >> sadly, no. >> reporter: she was hired as the first victims' advocate. she said she was pushed out for trying to change the culture. her 2015 whistle-blower complaint prompted a letter from the special counsel. >> to continually hear on a continuing basis the saint stories following the same theme shows there's a systemic problem with the peace corps. >> they say they've improved over recent years having increased policy and doing a bette

one was rehired by the peace corps. agency's problems with sexual assault. 4% ofhan four weeks to get counciling and some were misunderstanding of peace corps miller was only allowed six asked for more counseling. i called the doctor and she said we need to have a serious talk whether you're foyt be ao you feel like they were blaming you for what happening to you? corps has improved in the last two years? sadly, no. >> reporter: she was hiredvictims' advocate. she said she was pushed out for culture. her 2015 whistle-blower complaint prompted a the special counsel. >> to continually hear on a continuing basis the saint stories followingthere's a systemic problem with the peace corps. >> say they've improved over recent better job at responding to have to get involved in this is peace corps to do more to protect se initial report. that bill is now before congress. >> the peace corps should have been doing the right thing all along, and coming down on the side of our peace corps volunteers, our angels abroad. >> reporter:

the army corps of engineers needs to do more long-range thinking. when you have two major floods in 15 years. host: what do you think about that? guest: in 2014, the house passed a border resources and redevelopment act and they did a lot of work to streamline the process to eliminate the duplication and overlap, to defund projects that had not been funded and free up projects like sammy is talking about. that is something again, congress took action. it may not be exactly the projects he is talking about, they are trying to get things done more effectively. an authorization bill that fixes the problem of the army corps of engineers. host: according to "politico," there is action on this very issue of earmarks. publicans on the house rules committee plan to revive the debate over earmarks in hearings launched next week, as members of their own party blast the band practice as a symbol of the washington swamp. rules chairman pete sessions has assured members that the hearings are not intended to rush into a new policy. the committee will hold its fir

nestle corp will buy a reservoir of water a public utility of water from the public domain for nothing and then they'll sell in bottles for a markup and they'll claim their business genius men even though they're basically just stole of the public's utility the public's. ok the public is like deranged by it the public is also now like clamoring to get. raw water from a company and california raw water means it's not treated oh they go like this and take it out of the river and give it to you and there are all sorts of bugs and viruses and bacteria in there water people want authentic disease an organic authentic disease a set of virtual cyber diseases yaz the mind by what they're actually they want to have authentic gastro intestinal problems that are real you know the fact that the new york times even covered this story of people buying raw water for like twenty

what do you think of the idea of a space corps? secretary wilson: well, i wanted to thank the congressman for the national defense authorization act for the 20% increase for funding in space. that's what the president requested for this budget. the united states needs a shurd access to space which means the ability to launch and i completely agree with general hyten that we need to move quickly. we need to accelerate acquisition. one of the things that the space and missile command has done this last month is let a $100 million contract with space consortium to prototype faster. milestone decisional authority has moved -- last year's defense authorization act we milestoned authority out of the secretary's office down to the air force. i moved it to the service acquisition authority or assistant secretary and we pushed it down and said we need to go fast. we need to prototype, innovate and with our next steps with respect to replacing space-based infrared with respect to indications in warning, we are -- general hyten and i are abso

p is of the marine corps. -- >> i am looking forward to my new assignment in the pentagon. find in this building a new atmosphere and a new approach to the problems of defense. i refer to such things as the rediscovery of the need for conventional forces, the recognition of subversive willingnessand the to make hard decisions in the controversial areas of defense. >> in recent years, the secretary of defense through the joint chiefs of staff has directed the far-flung military operations of the unified command's composed of all services. also, there are specified commands, which means single service commands such as strategic air command. there are nine in all, depending on the military crisis of the moment, the joint chiefs can designate the appropriate command for action. handled the command cuban crisis with admiral denison at the head. the pacific command handled southeast asia and the far east. withuropean command headquarters in paris is closely associated with the supreme command of nato. strike command located in tampa, florida. the newest unified command is under g

as a health measure, the army engineer corps began to collect engineer corps began to collect the moundsf garbage and her engineer corps began to collect the mounds of garbage and her breed piled up in the streets during the fighting and its aftermath -- and debris piled up in the streets during the fighting and its aftermath. tons of refuse were loaded into army trucks and hold the way in an effort to help the residents get their neighborhood back to normal. the people of saigon have cleaned up the city and begun to rebuild. barbed wire and barricades have given way to the traffic and given way to the traffic and activity typical of the city. life is returning to normal. yet the citizens of saigon will never forget how the communists shattered it with such devastation and violence. ♪ announcer: two days before president trump delivers his first state of the union speech, watch past state of the union addresses on sundayannouncer: tn eastern on american history tv, featuring president reagan in 1982, president george h. w. bush in 1990, president clinton in 1994 and president barack obam

what do you think of the idea of space corps? >> well, first of all, i wanted o thank the congressman for their support of the national defense authorization act for he 20% increase in funding for space, which is what was requested in this year's budget. he united states needs assured access to space which means the ability to launch, and i completely agree with general that we need to move quickly, and we need to accelerate acquisition. one of the things that space -- month, a hundred million there are contract to innovate and prototype faster. milestone decisional authority has been moved, actually last authorization act moved milestone decision authority out of the secretary f defense's office down to the air force. i have moved it to the service acquisition authority or assistant secretary and we we need down and said to go fast. e need to prototype, innovate, and with our next steps with respect to replacing space-based nfrared, with respect to indications and warning, we're -- general hyten and i are bsolutely determined, s

i want to pay tribute to the first responders, the corps of engineers, and fema workers as well as the national guard from connecticut and elsewhere who are on the ground serving in sacrifice for their fellow americans. they lack the support they need in resources and commitment from the administration and from this congress. it has been denied them in resources and support because of a lack of will, not a lack of money. schools still, many of them are shuddered and students have been denied the privilege to continue their education. the health care system of the island is still in shambles. primary care is struggling to recover because of the lack of electricity. a doctor's office simply cannot be run without electricity. nor can manufacturing plants be operated without a reliable source of power. and in restoring power, the corps of engineers has provided for generators in the places where formerly there were plants actually producing. generators are a temporary source of power, not a reliable, permanent source. transmission is still down in many parts of the country. and to add insu

army corps of engineers and bureau of reclamation had water supply responsibilities and brought in the bureau of reclamation and the environmental protection agency was concerned about salinity standards and the e.p.a. was involved. and that was just at the federal level. there were state agencies as well. so it can get for large-scale ojects, these can be complicated administrative procedural projects and challenges. host: can that consolidation be done in keeping levels of safety and those things you have to consider as well? guest: it certainly can be done and we have examples of where it can be done well. again, with strong federal leadership about what the intent is to make sure that laws are being honored, that the public is being heard. this is doable. it's not impossible. but there needs to be a consensus and an undergo of what that should look like going in and not making it up as we go along. host: here's the report, not everything is broken, the future of u.s. transportation and water infrastructure funding and other topics in there if you want to find it on the website, you

he was eager to join the corps of engineers. i think early on the outlines of mcclellan's personality were also becoming clear. he often stood on ceremony. once complained to his mother about an overly familiar visitor to west point who kept calling him "george," rather than giving him proper respect. mcclellan could be a prickly character who could easily take offense. he was proud of being an engineer, the only engineer in his cohort heading to mexico, and he was determined to show "them," the pronoun lacked some antecedent -- i suspect refer to some west point administrators and faculty, to show them i can nevertheless do something. he still kind of resents being second in his class. the prospect of war and success and fame greatly excited young george mcclellan. "war at last, ain't it glorious." the impatient young mcclellan goes off to fight in mexico where he freely criticizes his fellow officers, mexicans and anyone who did not live up to his exacting standards of military professionalism or gentlemanly behavior. in his v

bush's administration, as well as being the peace corps director. let me talk about the peace corps director first, because that was really interesting and it speaks to one of the great strengths of president george h bush, that is he had an insightful international view. in the summer of 1991, he already knew and sensed that the former soviet empire was going to collapse. and he knew that peoples of the different republics of the former soviet union were going to need a different kind of assimilation into the rest of the world. so that is what he wanted the peace corps to do, is to help develop, send in volunteers with a different kind of skill set. volunteers who were older, who had more experience, and you would be able to help the peoples of the former soviet into adjust and assimilate a new post soviet union world. host: eight years as the labor secretary, both terms of george w. bush, what was he like to work with? elaine: he was very, he was a very good boss. he expected his people to do their jobs. and, um, he gave you the ability to do your

the marine corps gets smaller before we lower standards. [applause] >> if anything, we are going to raise them. >> all right. [applause] talk have heard to much about the budget control act and as you said, republicans and democrats all want to get rid of sequestration. why haven't they, why can't they? >> eyelet into this earlier. -- i alluded that to this earlier. when you passed that i assumed we would act in good faith to come up with rational approaches to deal with some of our budget issues. that we would all work to do that. and we would be honest about looking at the domestic and defense side of the budget. i think there are some people who saw that as an opportunity to cut federal spending. that was their goal, and they have continued with that goal and feel like they have been a success and they have to some extent. it has been very hard to get people to go back and revisit in an honest way how we deal with this. i think that is the challenge that we have got. i do not think that is going to change anytime soon unless we changed s

the marine corps had a buddy program.e could enlist together and go through all of the training together and be sent to vietnam together and be in the same unit. didn't quite work out that way. surprise, right? but no fault of the marine corps, really. my friend's sister got in a really bad car wreck and she was put on -- she was -- didn't know whether she was going to make it or not and he had to go home for emergency leave for a couple of weeks and it put him behind me, but that was the plan for us to be together. in vietnam together. but it didn't quite work out. he wound up losing his life on may 28th, 1968 while i was in the hospital in pensacola. so i didn't see him any more after that point. >> and, john, after this experience, those photos in "life," you said you were -- "life" magazine hired you. you were the youngest staff writer and you worked there for many years. did you ever go back to a war zone? did you ever shoot combat photos again? >> you know, there were some really talented photographers in vietnam an

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] week on q&a, mark bowden discusses his book. >> mark bowden author of hue 1968. what was it? >> it's a city in vietnam, third vietnam aty in south the time, and the scene of bloodiest e biggest battle fought in the vietnam war, or what the vietnamese call the american war. you know that a lot has been written about this so how did differently? it >> this is the first time that a have list like me would access to vietnamese participants. so i was able to tell the story the eyes of both the american soldiers and marines who fought and also the vietnamese, vietcom, north vietnamese army, and i think by, there e has gone is a lot of documentation in the hanoi, as well as in bethesda, maryland, and also the records of the johnson administration, all of william papers are there. johnson's national security really, staff papers, so 50 years is kind of a good time, go back, because the record is establishe

the marine corps had a buddy program.uld enlist together and go through all of the training together and be sent to vietnam together and be in the same unit. didn't quite work out that way. surprise, right? but no fault of the marine corps, really. my friend's sister got in a really bad car wreck and she was put on -- she was -- didn't know whether she was going to make it or not and he had to go home for emergency leave for a couple of weeks and it put him behind me, but that was the plan for us to be together. in vietnam together. but it didn't quite work out. he wound up losing his life on may 28th, 1968 while i was in the hospital in pensacola. so i didn't see him any more after that point. >> and, john, after this experience, those photos in "life," you said you were -- "life" magazine hired you. you were the youngest staff writer and you worked there for many years. did you ever go back to a war zone? did you ever shoot combat photos again? >> you know, there were some really talented photographers in vietnam and mo

marine corps. he was commissioned in 1975, went to uva but i just learned routes for michigan state. he saw east lansing. he served deputy commanding general of the first marine expeditionary force during operation iraqi freedom. and senator jeanne shaheen of the great state of new hampshire. she is the first woman in u.s. history to be elected both governor and u.s. tended to. she's been innocent since 2009 on the armed service committee, foreign relations committee, and foreign appropriations and she just flew in from a very important vote in congress. she's, you have a particular interest of course in new hampshire's portsmouth naval shipyard and peace the national guard base. with that i'd like to start by reading a few quotes about the current state of the u.s. military that got my attention, and then there are a few statistics that if think you all will find somewhat alarming. senator john mccain said recently, perhaps the greatest harm to our national security and our military is self-inflic

i was finishing up my marine corps career. it wasn't until 1991 when they commissioned the uss way city that we began to get together. on, there have been a number of battalion reunions. endlessly -- and only the uss hue city hosts a memorial to honor those that fought and died in hue. it's a meaningful thing, probably somewhere between 70 to 100 veterans and their families show up to that. >> was that the same for you? did you lose touch with the menu served with in hue? >> i did not. when i got back, i got out of the hospital, i try to assimilate myself back into society as well as possible and try to forget and move on. t i didn'thallenge, bu mostto be viewd as vietnam veterans were being viewed by the citizens of the country at the time, the uproar. attitude theyl had towards some of the vietnam veterans. so many of us, as well as myself, did not admit to the fact that we had been to vietnam. we didn't want anyone to know, because we didn't want anyone to have a predisposed idea of who you were or what you did. before they

. >>> the white house press corps going on a wild goose case. among their hard-hitting questions, is the president a germaphobe. i kid you know. we're going to discuss the extraordinary briefing with charli.>>> president trump's dor today putting to rest any concerns about his fitness for office. but that didn't stop the white house press corps from trying to gin up fake news. take a listen to some of the absurd questioning we heard. >> can you assess the president's mental fitness? >> he is taking cholesterol medication and borderline obese. >> a waist measurement for the president? >> does the president ask you about how he could follow his predecessor's example to be as fit as barack obama was? >> doctors and clinicians across the country who have said in this president they see symptoms of this, that and the other. symptoms of dementia. >> does the president do anything in terms of exercise. >> do you keep a tally of how much golf the u.s. president plays? david: what killed me, they actually asked if he had dentures nap's a critical questio

[captions copyright national satellite corp. 2018] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org president trump: i'm pleased to welcome the president, who has been doing a tremendous job in kazakhstan and having you at the white house is an honor. mr. president, thank you for visiting with us. we have very important iscussions going on. speaking foreign language] president trump: for more than a quarter of the century the united states has seen a strong, sovereign and independent nation of kazakhstan as a valued friend and strategic partner in central asia. as we are honored and we are the first country to recognize the independence on christmas day, 1991. long time ago, but not that long. you have made incredible strides. since that time the united states and kazakhstan have worked together to advance peace and security in the region and far beyond the region. speaking foreign language] president trump: together, we dismantled kazakhstan's nuclear weapon infrastructure and ensured a safer and healthier

e, full of the marine corps. my friend's sister got into a and they did not know if she would make it. he had to go home for leave for a couple of weeks and it put him behind me. that was the plan, frost to be together in vietnam. but it did not quite work out. he wound up losing his life on may the 28th, 1968, while i was in the hospital fin bank -- in pensacola. i did not see him after that. experience,er this you said life magazine hired you and you work to bear for many years. you do ever go back to a war zone and shoe combat photos? -- did you ever go back to our war zone and shoot on that photos? >> there were really talented photographers in vietnam. becausethem were there they were addicted to it. it was the adrenaline, living on the edge. i think i was different in one sense. i loved it. i would not trade that time for anything. it made me who i am. been then, there has never -- the worst day of business, as a civilian, is a walk in the park. it puts everything into perspective. to answer your question,

the army corps of engineers says a lot has been done here in this fire ravaged area to prevent erosion of the hillside here including installing the tubes called waddles. major vince lee spent part of this rainy day assessing some of the burned out properties he's in charge of clearing with the army corps of engineers. his goal, to prevent erosion this winter. >> these, in essence, help to prevent the contamination or water that they use to wet down the contaminated ash as they excavate. it helps to contain that material within the property so it doesn't come out. >> reporter: those also surround the burned out firestation 5 in the fountain grove community. the material you see here is also an absorbent helping to keep contaminants from washing into storm drains. the storm is also filling up the local creeks and rivers. it's one of the reasons sonoma county issued a flash flood watch for areas devastated by the fire three months ago today. >> we're always concerned. i'm a contractor. i've been watching the fire stuff. a lot of my friends lost their homes. everybody is very nervous righ

the iranian republican guard corps, the leader's of those organizations should be shanked sanctioned. revisit the comprehend's of strategy against iran and how we are going to stand up against this regime with our allies. we are not in this by ourselves. we got to push back hard on it. >> sandra: we are not in this by ourselves when it comes to north korea either, general kane. as we begin a new year, that threat is growing. kim jong un making it very clear he is ready to act. at that threat continues to grow you have to wonder what 2018 holes. >> it's likely to show down here given the director of the cia has said they are months away from achieving this capability. he said that publicly. this thing is coming to a head and we are relying on china to

>> 22 years of medical practice meets a press corps on life support. >> the president would be clinically obese if he was just an inch shorter which he probably is. >> they tried his patience over his most important patient. but when breaking news makes a house call, will journalistic integrity be left in the waiting room? >> by all standards, the president does have heart disease.>> doctor ronnie jackson stars as doctor brock artery. - - as scrub mcgee and hope hicks as hope hicks. don't miss this season premiere, i seei see in my drea. >> i give that three thumbs up. the good news wasn't enough for some.

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] the secretary: good afternoon -- sarah: good afternoon. i'd like it start today's briefing by bringing up treasury secretary steven mnuchin. the i.r.s. is releasing new withholding tables which is great news for american workers. we're going to be keeping more of their hrd be a earned money as a result of the new tax cut law. and the secretary will get into those details on that and then answer a few of your questions on thatting to in. then as always, i'll be back up here to take questions on other news of the day.

and so when people look at how low esteem the washington press corps has on our country, it's because people see they blaifd one way with obama and the other way with trump. but you're right. the difference is that if schumer forces a shutdown, trump controls the executive branch. he's not going to shut down the world war ii memorial. he can shake the veterans hands when he goes out there. the president has the good hand here. david: it was within president obama's interest to slow up things that people cared about in the government, which he did, sometimes going out of his way to do that and it's not in president trump's interest. quickly on the mueller probe and what's happening there. is there any interest -- and i have asked a lot of people this in congress -- on the part of the mueller team to investigate either fusion gps, the whole trump dossier mess or the iranian one deal or anything other than still trying to find this mysterious collusion between trump and the russians? >> there's no indication of that. i mean you look at all of the attorneys that they have there. a lot of

finance pros believe because it is in a speculative bubble that burst any time it's pull in daniel corp our financial correspondent in frankfurt daniel what's behind europe's plans first of all. well if there are plans there really have to be at a very early stage we had a statement little bit earlier from one of the executive board members here of the bank in frankfurt saving gas there that they are wishing that there would be some sort of regulation but that regulation would only work with world wide corp we're also hearing that france is talking about this also the u.s. senate will have a meeting next month where they will be talking about the risk of cryptocurrency s. and you know we're just talking about bitcoin there are about one thousand crypto currencies in the world all of them would be very very difficult why is there so much resistance coming from asia a very interesting well there are pretty much three reasons behind this the officer reason that's what they are saying that the trading with bitcoin is really demanding lots of energy off servers and also from computers south

boeing, at&t, comcast, wells fargo and fifth third bank corps. all announcedd employee bonuses or pay increases following that bill. real money back in the pockets of the forgotten men and women that deserve it in this country. take a look, for example, what happened over at, yeah, liberal cbs news. they had an accountant crunch the numbers to see how the tax plan is going to impact the middle class in country. uh-oh, didn't come out the way they expected. watch this. >> we wanted to see how folks would actually fare. we asked households from three different parts of the country to send us their tax returns and had an accountant calculate how things will change for each of them. >> a single mother whoho rents a home in kerry, north carolina, her income last year as an administrative assistant was a little under $40,000. >> if she were your client, what would you tell her? >> i got good news for you, marcy, you are getting more money back next year. >> amber and jason edwards were also hoping for good news. >> i hope it alleviates pressure on the

this is the bad news for the press corps as i understand it.s morning, tucker, i thought the big story was the crazy questions asked of that doctor. later on when the show ends, i find out everyone doubts the validity and the sanctity of the doctor's comments and want a public way. if hillary clinton had won in the age of equality, would we have done the pinch test on her? would we have asked for her weight and demand a second source? this is incredible. in the age of political correctness, we are fat shaming a president who simply has to lose 10 to 15 pounds. were they rooting for disease, rooting for something to stop him from being president? >> tucker: tells you everything about their world, where being 10 pounds overweight really is a sin, though. i actually think a lot of reporters are upset by this, the idea that, you know, a 71-year-old man might be mildly overweight. that's like worse than a war crime to them. i mean it. >> i'll take it up a notch. from this group of people that wanted jill stein to contest the election because it was

she herself was a veteran of the british signal corps in world war ii. and she voted for the poster that featured the horse. and the blue cross fund society helped save the horses. horses, of course, were one of the major aspects of the war effort. they were really not treated very well by the war itself. and so she wanted it in the exhibition because her father had been in world war i, and he told the family stories about how he had worked with horses as part of his war effort. so basically, that was the vote that pushed it over. we included this poster, even though it is a fairly small poster in relation to the other posters in the exhibition. it also gave us a human feeling to what the posters represented in world war i. this exhibit gives us the whole idea that one type of munition that was used in the war was not necessarily one that was fired or one dropped from an airplane, it was one that was presented to the public to really get their involvement in the war effort. theso that is really takeaway i think i would like for people to have, is that th

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marine corps. he was commissioned in 1975, went to uva but i've just learned routes for michigan state. he is from east lansing. deputy commanding general of the expeditionary force during operation iraqi freedom. senator shaheen of the great state of new hampshire. she is the first woman in u.s. history to be elected both governor and u.s. senator. she's been in the senate since 2009, on armed services foreign relations committee and appropriations and she just flew in from a very important vote in congress. she is particular, you have a particular interest in new hampshire's naval shipyard and naval air base. >> with that, i would like to start by reading a few quotes about the current state of the u.s. military. there are a few statistics i think you will find somewhat alarming. senator john mccain said recently perhaps the greatest harm to our national security and our military is self inflicted. we are killing more of our own people in training than our enemies are in combat. secretary mattis

he was commander of southern command when he was still a marine corps general. kelly on immigration, he and stephen miller depending on the day, miller will have something to say. he's going to be heard internally about this. john kelly is really driving the ship so to speak. i can tell you that white house aides have worked hard over the last few months to steer the president away from at least publicly saying mexico is going to pay for the wall. they didn't want him to mention it. and if he did senior aides wanted him to talk in those terms that the nafta reorganization will create money for the u.s. federal government to pay for the wall. ask congress for it first. renegotiate nafta and some of those benefits after the fact can be steered back into that program. reportedly as nafta negotiations are having a tough go at it. >> it's not going smoothly. i don't think anyone expected that it would. this is a heavy lift when you've got three countries and very complicated trade issues. it's not clear that they're going to get there and it is not clear what happens

we have to ask fema, we have to ask the corps of engineer to help us. texas, california, they have different ways. you can go the expressway, by railroad, going to puerto rico, you have to take a ship you have to take a plane. so it's different. very different. the situation of the city -- of my city, our cities, is fiscal -- fiscal challenges we face everyday. we compare with the u.s. mainland from 2006 to 2016. ponce lost approximately 10.4 of its population. surely dramatic increase in the past few months. we have here in the state, in mainland, more than 300,000 people who live -- leave the area. they left puerto rico and they're here. ... the government pension fund. finally the fiscal plan approved by the oversight board eliminates 350 million more dollars in transfers to municipalities for the next two years. for our safety alone it means 10% of my budget. today i send it to the federal government. one hour later i received a letter from the pension agency and they said they were charging me more than $20 billion more. even though the municipalit