these improvements are critical to the d.o.d.'s responsibility that quote it is important to gainful value from every taxpayer dollars spent on defense, there by earning the trust of congress, on quote, that is from the 2019 a national defense strategy, in other words if d.o.t. wants congress to fund the military in order to counter the competition like that from russia and china we in the congress and the american people need to have the confidence that these dollars are being spent wisely. the chairman regularly states that they have been preparing the military for a return to strategic competition and does represent a prime example of bipartisanship for that support and our troops in the senate, they explicitly state the audit as a priority towards driving a better budget discipline for the department i hope this starts with the audit and spreads throughout within the d.o.t. -- this subcommittee has set out evoke for during the process, some of the successes, some of the failures and i know my ranking member senator kaine is al

d.o.d. participates in a whole government approach and we thought we had a very good 2018 election and briefed congress often on these things as part of whole of government approach and continue to look and make sure and look at all threats. the critical thing is we preserve the integrity of our process and elections are free from outside influences and we are doing that now going into 2020. [indiscernible] columbia is looking for additional humanitarian support. what other options does the department have to aid them besides the comfort. airlift supplies? and this week, we wrote about the very first operations forces in the very early days after the 9/11 attack and face and can't get the v.a. to cover their medical costs. is that acceptable. secretary esper: it's a brutal regime under maduro and what he has done and i think we join many other countries particularly those in the region ondemning that regime. and we always are prepared and plan to provide humanitarian assistance and what not.

treasury as law acquires the pentagon sometimes launders and shifts such monies to other parts of the d.o.d's budget and this is no mistake this is for all the pentagon's accounting fraud die. many billions of dollars that could be devoted to other national needs indeed the pentagon accounting fraud amounts to death on a grand scale def not only for america's taxpayers but also from the nation's well being and its future so right after the nation came out with this this past week alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted about it basically saying that these unaccounted trillions at the pentagon could help pay for medicare for all this story is starting to gain traction people can see the truth and right now it is the corporate media tools who are trying to make sure you think it's just some accounting there's pay no mind to the fact that it amounts to the largest theft ever perpetrated against the american people this week called for keeping troops in iraq to watched iran watch iran. not realize we monitor other nations with satellites and spy ware because you think we do are watching of other count

it requires d.o.d. to upkate standardized treatments related to mental health treatment and substance abuse referrals. it expands el yibblet for tricare reserve select. it expands support for military spouses by doubling the reimbursement amount spouses can receive for professional license and education. it expands military kiled care, including expanded direct hiring authority for child care centers and assessment of child care capacity on installations. this bill includes many initiatives to my home state of mississippi. i want to thank my fellow conferee for their contributions to this truly bipartisan conference report. i urge my colleagues to support its passage. thank you, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from washington state. mr. courtney: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from california, ms. speier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. speier: i thank the speaker. let me also say to my colleag

the d.o.d. must also create and implement a standardized dispute resolution process and a uniform lease across all installations. we still have a long way to go as a congress to ensure military families are getting the kind of quality homes and living conditions they deserve. but the fiscal year 2020 ndaa sets everyone on the right path, and we will continue to be watching both d.o.d. and the housing companies. in another area of importance to the safety of all families, after too many years of status quo, the ndaa includes a number of new authorities and requirements for the d.o.d. to confront its use of toxic pfas chemicals. while we were ultimately unable to reach an agreement with the house on establishing new regulations through the safe drinking water act and other substantial improvements like declarations of hazardous substances, the ndaa does make a number of new changes. for example, the department of defense must phase out the use of pfas in fire-fighting forms on all its installation

i think there is no question about it in terms of the offensive measures that d.o.d. must do. should say, though, the "washington post" was clear while cyber command in charge of offensive cyber attacks, it's a very sort of discreet lane in cybersecurity is contemplating these options. it is not at all clear whether they have been authorized to do these options by the white house. so you may see a conflict between a white house that has questioned whether russia is infiltrating our elections and d.o.d. and cyber command which clearly know what the threat is against our elections. >> mr. it's one thing for the department of defense to come up with this plan. and you mentioned even the threat of this offering up a deterrent. but if the president be denies that he was involved, he goes out of his way to compliment vladimir putin, how could the leaders carry this out successfully? >> this is the challenge here. one might speculate the reason they know the story is the people in the department of defense want the information to get out, that d.o.d. is prepared to do these defensive

the majority of the funding we have is d.o.d. funding so it makes sense to use the army corps of engineers as the overall contractor. but they are subcontracting out with companies throughout the united states just as we would do. but that's the main driving force behind it. and to be quite honest, they are better at it and done this before and part of what they do, the corps' job. jessica: is it really possible to control the border without fundamental change to our asylum law? mark: that's a good question and my answer is, there is control of the border, so, yes, we can get to a position where we have operational capacity to be able to interdict what's coming to the border. the challenge is addressing the flow. that is addressed in congress. we could have a million people coming to the border and doesn't change my want or need to have operational control. whether 1,000 or 10,000, i want the operational control and capacity to apprehend and interdict. jessica: and identify. mark: what we need congress to do is fix and pass the l

repercussions to their career if they come forward with their mental health challenges, of course d.o.d. must have policies to keep their service members safe but there is standards for importing the mental standards are vague and it goes much further for civilian mental health and civilian chapel,'s it is more likely to do nothing to help commanders maintain good order and discipline, i urge the department of defense to urge the rules for mental health professionals to ensure that they are allowing for a maximum confidentiality for service members but also protecting them, if we can eliminate the barriers that stand between our service members and have access to mental health care i believe that we can begin to make progress towards addressing our suicide rate, mister chairman i look forward to hearing from our witnesses, i look forward to committee with you and further supporting our law veterans. >> chairman tillis and ranking member gillibrand thank you for the opportunity to appear before you, with me today is my colleague captain mike the director of mental health programs, like y

there was abuse of power even d.o.d. was paying money to help set up the president. there were all kinds of abuses of power. perhaps none so than in the house of representatives by the majority. this is an outrage. it sets the bar for any president of any party for the future to go through three years of hell like this president has. it's really unfortunate. this is a sad day for the country. it's going nowhere in the senate, but i really hope and pray the senate will not just pick it up and dismiss it. america needs to hear from the witnesses. and we didn't get to hear from them here. this was a kangaroo court. outrageous to put the country through this. and we get a report. we don't even get to examine the maker of the report. it's a very sad day, i'm just glad i had such incredible team. i got to be on. these are really quality folks. >> well, this is really a travesty for america. it's really tearing america apart. i have never in my entire life seen such an unfair rigged railroad job against the president of the united states. i have known that my fellow democra

it's part of the reason the d.o.d.d this defense innovation unit to basically reach out and co companies and part of the reason you're seeing contracting reforms as well to do more work with more people or more companies and do more off the shelf tech applications. >> morgan, thank you very much for that certainly one to watch >>> on deck, star wars, the rise of sky walker, heads for the one billion dollar mark. numbers from the weekend box office that's up next ♪ beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. ♪ >>> good morning and welcome back you're looking at the tree at rockefeller center time now for the executive recap, the headlines you need in 60 seconds a tweet from p

i am absolutely in awe of the response by our sailoring by our civilian d.o.d.i mean real heroism. i am devastated, we are in shock, this is surreal but i couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform i wear because of my brothers and sisters in uniform, civilian or otherwise that did what they did today to save lives and for our brothers and sisters here with the state of florida and with escambia county emergency management on the, and the sheriff's department. from the bottom of my heart i thank you and thank you for your support governor. the days ahead willy difficult when it finally sinks in what has happened here. the most important thing going forward for us is support the families. they are family, they are our family. we are family here. the department of the navy. so that's where most of our efforts will be going through, supporting those families and the people affected by this terrible tragedy. with that, turn it back to you, sir. >> sheriff? >> thank you, everyone. we thank you for all the prayers for the escambia county officers and of course for the in

. >> i don't know the federal coast guard with the d.o.d., is the such a national emergency to even discuss the possibility. >> this is a major civilian disaster, it is being treated as such by the presidents, it is not a national military disaster that were called for federalization of the coast guard, thank you. >> hey bill. >> we're at the indianapolis motor speedway home of the largest single day sporting event in the world, the indianapolis 500. next to me is the car that won the first indianapolis 500 in 1911. we learn more about the race and why it's based here in indianapolis. >> white flag. >> white flag. >> white flag. >> tomorrow the speedway will be quiet. waiting for the next running of >>

meshing d.o.d.'s medical records with that of the v.a., and this bill takes bold steps in the right direction to ensure our service members continue to receive the best medical care when they transition out of active duty and into the hands of the v.a. second, president trump is rightly focused on addressing the crisis at our southern border. and this legislation will support his efforts to end the seemingly unending flow of drugs that find their way into every american community and practically every american home. as well as the violence of the brutal cartels who profit immensely from this trade. nearly $1.4 billion is included for the border wall, along with additional resources for department of homeland security to hire more personnel and deploy advanced technology in this region. we were also able to eliminate dangerous riders that would have limited the president's ability to enforce our immigration laws, while still ensuring a strong humanitarian response that reflects our values as americans

here, look, d.o.d., we'll work you. you never tried to work with d.o.d., but they said, let's -- call us. them. call agency after agency, secretary of state responded. letters agencies sent in response. that's not stonewalling. that's complying with the law. the ight not have liked answer. again, if you didn't like the answer, i think we all know when you pull out the constitution, just two branches of government. you could have gone to the third branch of government and said, make them comply because they're not. you didn't do that. you just rushed to impeach the president because you didn't like the answer. you go to the mueller investigation. the gentleman lists those six people that were convicted. one of them had anything to do with the accusations made against the president. they're not listed. they're not listed in the articles of impeachment. talked about russia. es, we know russia tried to meddle in our election in 2016. i think people on your side think president trump was president back then. barack obama was

is working with d.o.d. they're working with the o.e. they're working with the skin to be a county sheriff's to answer those questions and one of the things that i talked to the president about is given that this was a foreign national in the employ of a foreign service is you know be time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to to make make things better for these victims now the military base in pensacola where soldiers and military personnel from around the world receive training these 16000 military personnel on that base remain under lockdown this is actually the 2nd incident that took place on a u.s. military base this week earlier on wednesday there was a u.s. sailor who shot 2 of his coworkers at the u.s. base in hawaii at pearl harbor. the shooter was a foreign student at the base and a member of the saudi air force he had come to the base to study aviation and he was shot and killed at the scene by responding officers u.s. naval air station pensacola is located on the florida coast their base has 16000

is working with d.o.d. they're working with the o.e. they're working with the skin to be a county sheriff's to answer those questions and one of the things that i talk to the president about is given that this was a foreign national in the employ of a foreign service is you know be time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to to make make things better for these victims. now $16000.00 personnel are on the military base at pensacola in florida and that base is currently on lockdown despite the fact that there has been shot dead himself and that it is no longer an active situation the f.b.i. is on the scene the base is on lockdown it's important keep in mind this is actually the 2nd incident at a u.s. military base this week on wednesday a sailor was shot as sailors shot 2 workers dead that pearl harbor u.s. navy base that's in hawaii so there have been 2 incidents at u.s. military bases in which people were killed and shootings took place fatalities occurred so the scene is being watched the perpetrator is himsel

i think they are taking that approach to the wider d.o.d., and i think the other services are followinglong and taking a similar approach so that they will be making some tough tradeoffs. they have to come to us and say they will quit buying something, give us the reason, but there may be some in congress who try and overturn it. it will be part of a give and take, depending on the rationale for these decisions. we are not going to cut our way into having all of the capability we need to go up gainst russia and china. the independent commission that looked at the national defense strategy says we need 3% to 5% real growth consistently to catch up, especially in areas where we are behind, like hypersonics and counterintelligence. we have a lot of work to do in readiness and developing the capability we need. absolutely, we are going to have to make tough decisions, but we are not going to cut our way into success. >> that's the last word. republican from texas. the ranking republican on the house armed services committee, retiring at the end of his term. congressman, thank you. rep. thor

the lot of every. >> the d.o.d. has the responsibility of supporting and protecting those who defend our country and it impa because in a the department has expanded our reporting on suicide-related data this past system, we accomplished our first suicide event. in with the prior two years across all could be opponents. when compared to the five however, we've seen a statistically ♪ and after accounting for age and sex differences, with the exception of the national guard. we continue to on heightened risk for our m suicide rate for ou frrt in 2017 were comparable or lower to the rates. the department must and will do more to target our areas of greatest concern. our yong we know suicide is a complex interaction of many fact be we're committed to addressing suicide. >> guided by the defense strategy sfrt these efforts if the include houfing and supporting people at risk, strengthening access and delivery of sue sued care,from creating rn to provide a few example, take, for example, sfsh fsht many. >> we're partnerin

d.o.d. or d.l.'s around alexandra nice to geneva to the infamous espionage court. adjudicated by the same judge as every single other national security defendant in recent years. this is not going to be a fair trial you know that so if you're in this situation this constant threat to be extradited there and then to receive a draconian punishment of 175 years or maybe to reduce it 120 in prison in the supermax prison and we know what the conditions are like there this is this crosses the line of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment that's not just my opinion that's a consistent opinion of myself my mandate my predecessors everybody that's actually seriously deals with that that's the threat scenario he faced 4 years is not being taken seriously he's been ridiculed by the press he's been mobbed by the various authorities he's been accused of all kinds of things but not given a fair chance to actually defend himself we have a swedish proceeding that is in a preliminary investigation stage for 9 years well yes the media care in fairness to them said this is nothing to

say that we practice through this this is part of our training our mass our arms and their civilian d.o.d. along with this can be county in and sure sparkman and with guns called police department we train to active shooter scenarios regularly we just did one recently so this is. we never expect it but we train for it and we remain ever vigilant for you expect there are going to be more changes i get i'm i'm in this i'm not going to speculate here how do you plan on that and that he was acting oh i'm not going to speculate on the particulars of the of the investigation or exactly what what have you know that i'm not talking about that night yet thank you very much i appreciate it thank you everybody not talking about what you want to talk about how much you know i think your deputies how you know they're going to follow you you're a russian what a lot of people would not you know and raise their lives that you like i appreciate that we've been to the hospital of course to see the officers and their families and to kind of reinforce what kept you can sell it just said we do active shooter

to ukraine, including the ukraine security assistance initiative, please hold off on any additional d.o.d. obligation of the funds pending direction from that process. he goes on to say, given the sensitive nature of the request i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute direction. democrats now want duffey to testify. >> if there was ever an argument that we need mr. duffey to come testify, this is that information. this email is explosive. a top administration official, one that we requested, is saying stop the aid, 91 minutes after trump called zelensky and said keep it hush-hush. what more do you need to request a witness? >> reporter: in a statement, an administration spokesperson insisted the freeze was in place before mr. trump's call saying the hold was announced in an interagency meeting on july 18th, to pull a line out of one email and fail to address the context is misleading and inaccurate. >> so yes, there was a delay. there is nothing new in the emails about the timing truly, chuck. there was emails back and forth about this.

there was abuse of power even d.o.d. was paying money to help set up the president. there were all kinds of abuses of power. perhaps none so than in the house of representatives by the majority. this is an outrage. it sets the bar for any president of any party for the future to go through three years of hell like this president has. it's really unfortunate. this is a sad day for the country. it's going nowhere in the senate, but i really hope and pray the senate will not just pick it up and dismiss it. america needs to hear from the witnesses. and we didn't get to hear from them here. this was a kangaroo court. outrageous to put the country through this. and we get a report. we don't even get to examine the maker of the report. it's a very sad day, i'm just glad i had such incredible team. i got to be on. these are really quality folks. >> well, this is really a travesty for america. it's really tearing america apart. i have never in my entire life seen such an unfair rigged railroad job against the president of the united states. i have known that my fellow democra

monday it was said there's been no intent by d.o.d. to mislead the u.s. or congress.se speak did so with hindsight. the military spent decades following the lies how they taught commanders or account for success in the cawar. it's remarkable to see similar problems happen yet again. >> i suspect there could be some horrifying news as far as that is concerned. thanks very much to you. thanks to the washington post. >>> there's more breaking news we'renology in "the situation roo room". arms of impeachment against president trump have been unveiled and we're learning the next key steps in the process will begin tomorrow. k. no more buying cartridges. look at all this ink it comes with. big ink tanks. lots of ink. no more cartridges. incredible amount of ink. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. they can save you these. in fact, if you had a dollar for every time they said it, you'd have a lot of dollars. which makes it hard to believe, especially coming from a talking lizard. pip, pip, cheerio! look, all i, dennis quaid, know is that esurance is built to save you dol

we do active shooter training on-site and also computer simulations that we train with the d.o.d. police and master of arms program in the navy. this was an actual example where all that training comes into being. how we react and how we coordinatened communicate with each other. unfortunately, that training was put to the test today. i'll tell you, it's hard to speak to that without tearing up. i could not be prouder of the men and women of the escambia sheriff's office. they ran to the fight not from the fight. and even though they knew there was an active shooter and, again, chances of putting your life in danger are great, gue t? they went inside. so let me tell you. the best of our community was on scene today, and that's why it turned out the way it did. >> sheriff, one more about what happened. can you walk us through what happened today, please? >> well, just brearley, you know, we have a precinct not far off the base. thank god the call came in, officers were available. about a three to five-minute response. call came in ten minutes to 7:00 this morning. i won't get into

and when they say -- from the d.o.d. asked what caused the change in policy and the answer is redacted. >> so we don't know what is there. not last to talk about them. >>> president trump meantime focusing his anger on a target in front of a group of young conservatives. >>> then saudi arabia sentencing five people to death for the murder of jamal khashoggi but there are more questions now than answers after the trial. but to businesses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business. (second man) virtualize their operations. (woman) and build ai customer experiences. (second woman) we also keep them ready for the next big opportunity. like 5g. almost all of the fortune 500 partner with us. (woman) when it comes to digital transformation... verizon keeps business ready. if your glasses aren't so will we. no we won't. don't forget to use your vision benefits before they're gone. now in-network with vsp. visionworks. see the difference. (danny) after a long da

pause for 55 days, whether the ukrainians knew about it or not has been, you know, laura cooper from d.o.d. and, you know, some state department witnesses testified about light queries they had received, there was an article november 22nd in bloomberg and the zelensky administration said they never knew about the hold in the aid until august 28th politico28 article and they sai in the article and yermak is the principle person, says that they believe the embassy was keeping information from them. another interesting thingn mr. yermak says in that november 22nd bloomberg article is that he recounts the whole aside meeting with sondland, with which hasg become very significant apparently and the meeting he says, he doesn't recall it the way ambassador sondland recalled it. keep innd mind, mr. yermak spea english.pe but it's not his first language. and so he does not recall the pull aside meeting which happened on the way to an escalator after the meeting with the vice president. he recalls it very differently. so the question and the facts of what happened between ambassador sondland and mr.

there and the reserve is a huge part of the military, but even if you add in the reserve and civilian d.o.d. employees, still less than 1% of the population. i'm not suggesting it should be 5% or 10%, but because it's a small fraction, fewer people have direct contact with the military. is that a problem? do you have any ideas what we can do about it? are we seeing a greater distance between the military and a society the military exists to protect? gen. robinson: i don't consider t a problem. i just consider that we should understand that. i just retired and my husband and i moved into a neighborhood that has no military. we're in a place that we've never lived before. i stumble upon things and we live near a military base, but e're further away from it. what arealize is, when you tell somebody you're in the mill tafere and between my husbandened aed with had 73 years of service. when you tell somebody in the military, the first thing they say is thank you for your service. hen they ask what you did. what i realized is that percentage is small, but i think that in the big scheme of things,

taking the historically unprecedented step of saying we're not going to allow the state department d.o.destify to produce emails, documents. imagine if they had actually provided emails and these sorts of records. we would know a lot more than we know today. >> just to be clear, had any of them been turned over? the record of the calls prior to the questioning? were they known to the committee or the committee council? >> i think they were known. i don't know the exact sequence. they were known to the investigative staff for the open hearings. with respect to the depositions. again, you know, had some of those calls been known at the time of the original depositions, i think you would have seen more questions about them. >> these records include calls between rudy giuliani and omb number, office of management and budget. several calls between giuliani and white house numbers. calls between giuliani and lev parnas. this indicted figure who giuliani used to try to dig up dirt in ukraine. and then this eight-minute call with "-1." the reason that might be significant because "-1" in the rog

chance to see this from where a lot of the cutting edge research is being done which comes out of the d.o.d. world in the intel world. and i think we have learned some credibility from our colleagues, that if we come up with some ideas, and some -- stay tuned -- some of these areas are going to pose economic insecurity challenges beyond anything we have imagined in the last 50 or 60 years. but i think we will have some things to say about it. >> i was just saying, thank goodness that your committee does not have jurisdiction on that. because there is broad bipartisan consensus that you cannot read cat 50 owes (inaudible) (laughs) moving on to thinking about the work of the committee and senator burr served as a chair of the committee on intelligence, and warner, the vice chair. on october 8th, your committee issued a report entitled russians and social media. and i will read a little bit about what you said in your statement. senator burr, you say that russia is waging information war for your campaign against the u.s.. it didn't start indigent and with the 2016 election. senator warner, in

i think the reason this d.o.d.s is the memo says there has been some indication that some of the test makers were offering military discounts, and for that reason they said they didn't want military personnel buying these. >> pete, outside the military concerns, what should the general public, what should regular folks be aware of the they're thinking of submitting their dna? >> so a couple of thoughts here. number one is that the dna companies, the testing companies that we talked to, 23andme and ancestry.com which are the biggest ones say, number one, they let their customers decide how much of their dna information is shared with others. they say they keep it securely stored. some of this generic data is shared with drug companies, for example. but they say that's not -- there's no specific identifying personal information, it's just generic on the population as a whole. nonetheless, consumer advocates say the right thing to do is to look at the policies of these companies, how much control does the customer hav

based on what i've received, plan to view assistance to ukraine, please hold off on any additional d.o.d. obligations of these funds. duffey adding, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute direction. >> if there was ever an argument that we need mr. duffey to come testify, this is that information. s this email is explosive. >> reporter: to pull a line out of one email is misleading and inaccurate. but critics say the emails are further proof that key administration officials should testify in the senate trial. >> if the president is so innocent and claims he's innocent, why would he not allow just like richard nixon did the people that were closest to him to testify? zp >> reporter: lawmakers are away from work for the next two weeks. nancy pelosi is refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the senate until mcconnell and schumer agree on the trial's format and scope. >> she is focusing a spotlight on the need to have a fair trial in the united states senate. >> reporter: trump's republican allies blasting her for the move. >> s

we've heard of these battles before, usually in the national security space between state or -- and d.o.dnsc. >> reporter: it's been a series of tit for tat incidents. a source close to verma described the clash. azar undercut her plan to replace obamacare. verma slammed his plan to lower drug costs in front of the president. then azar tried to keep her from flying on air force one to this medicare announcement championed by her team. >> we are making your medicare even better. >> reporter: azar's aides, according to politico, said there was no room on the plane. the two also feuded over who would become verma's chief of staff. that prompted a gender discrimination investigation by outside counsel that found no evidence of wrongdoing, the source said. verma reports to azar and her allies believe he undermined her decisions in ways he would not for a man. one criticism of verma is she had no prior experience running a large government agency. a former department official who speaks with current staff says verma is also criticized because she prioritizes her brand and sidelines key staff fr

ukrainian embassy officials who contacted state department and d.o.d.icials were acting rogue with the then ukraine ambassador to the u.s. and working to withhold information from kiev to undermine the new zelensky administration. swamp drainer. the guy who would clean up the corruption president trump affirmed later. andrei yermak confirmed president zelensky's close advisers had no knowledge of the hold until made public by the politico article august 28th. look that is a fact. like everything else they're trying to obscure you can't take your eye off the ball. i know this is hard to follow back home from conscientious constituents of ours and citizens trying to do their duty, trying to be nchbl inform and engaged. it's hard to follow. you have to know both the process and the substance of these arguments is completely empty. spr ha vapid. we're wasting our time. i yield back. >> mr. chairman i move to strike the last word. >> gentleman recognized. >> there's been some discussion today as to what is the reason why we are here. it's been suggested by s

the fine men and women who were punished, wrongfully, earlier this year because they're not part of d.o.d. these great men and women performed a great mission without pay and thank goodness we are protecting them and their initiatives in this bill. that can never be forgotten. this bill provides desperately needed new air and marine assets to them as well as reinvesting in personnel. we've had plus ups for the secret service to continue leading law enforcement, national special security events and for protection for all, i stress all, of the presidential candidates. it's very important. we have plus ups for the cyber security infrastructure security agency to help keep our government i.t. systems secure as well as providing technical assistance to states, tribes, and localities. with more than $1.7 billion for fema disaster relief, which is very important, but i must stress to get funds to all of these important homeland security activities, we need to pass the defense, c.j. financial services and homeland bills. further, western support the agreements and fundings proposed in other packa

d.o.d. announced the release and then president trump held the aid without explanation. >> mr. goldman, based on the evidence and testimony that you have reviewed, is there any reason to believe that the president cared about corruption in ukraine? >> no. the evidence really supports the fact that president trump views corruption in ukraine to be synonymous with the two investigations that he wants. >> what the president did care about was a political favor from the ukrainian government and that is why he withheld the military aid, true? >> he told ambassador sondland himself that that is the only thing that he care -- cares about. >> now witnesses testified about the real motivation connected with the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. >> to withhold that assistance for in good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense. it was -- it was counter productive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical, it could not be explained. it was crazy. >> illogical, unexplainable, crazy. mr. go

all i can tell you is that i am absolutely in awe of the response by our sailors by our civilian d.o.dand by this can be a kind of sheriff's department there's some real heroism today i mean real heroism . it made me i'm devastated we're we're in shock this is surreal but i couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform that i wear. because of my brothers and sisters in uniform civilian or otherwise that did what they did today to save lives and for brothers and sisters here in the state of florida and with this can be a county emergency management and the elf on the sheriff's department from about my heart thank you thank you once for thank you support governor. the days ahead are going to be difficult when when it finally sinks in what has happened here the most important thing going forward for us is to support the families they are family they're our family where a family here in the part of the navy. so that's where most of our efforts will be going through supporting the. families of people that are infected by this terrible tragedy without much care. they care who want we thank for all

the d.o.d. had already said that it was -- that they were good wi with, the d.o.d.d they passed guidelines regarding corruption. what he just said was a lie, and saying that that is normal is such an unbelievably dangerous signal not only to politicians that are running for office this year but those who may run in the future. but you listen to both of those comments, jonathan lemire, and i feel like ralphie in a christmas story, i need an ovaltine decoder rink to figure out what they said. here's the deal, congress has given you guys almost $400 million in military aid, defense of military aid. you've been invieded by putin, but i'm not going to give it to you until you do a press conference that actually trashes my domestic rival, my domestic opponent. i mean, it's clear. it's straightforward. we have testimony and actually, over the past week more news has come forward that actually shows it's even worse than what sondland says, there wasn't a second call. we'll get to that later, there's a lot to get to here. jonathan lemire, it seems after three weeks republica

our reports are sort of a mess in the sense that they were providing overly pessimistic outlooks by d.o.d. personnel as to the conduct of the war, but their analytics are fairly accurate and bna only has about 70 medium helicopters to cover the entire country. is there a reason why, to risk invoking the vietnam model, that we are actually giving them the helicopters that they need for evac support and just to normal operations so they aren't like a static army? >> i think -- your question is why we haven't helped the afghan government build up its air force capacity more quickly? was that the -- >> medium helicopters. >> i mean, i would just -- there's a long sort of sordid history of u.s. efforts to try to build up any kind of air capacity on the part of the afghan government that's complicated by what the way u.s. security assistance works, but is also perhaps even more importantly complicated by the difficulty of trying to build up these sort of high-end capabilities in a -- in a military that has the kind of limitations of human resource capacity that the afghan -- that afghanistan ha

the d.o.d. is committed to creating a long term solution, and with our experience, i believed that we were well suited to help. when i founded our company some 20 years ago, we set out to create something that could fix the housing challenges, and that were facing our military, and after 9/11 an important job became a vocation. when i was on the hill last november i said i'm sorry under no uncertain terms. i said i was sorry about the issues that the residents were dealing with, and we will do right by the residents. today, i want to tell you about some of the things that we have done since i apologized nearly 10 months ago. since 2019 we are making changes to get back to the gold standard. the gold standard of resident service is known when we have deployed service members who are able to speak to their families about their daily lives, what is happening at school and not about the problems they are experiencing within the housing. we will know that we have achieved the gold standard when our r

you start worrying about corruption right after donald trump's d.o.d.trump's state department says no problem with corruption in ukraine? >> yeah, i get the feeling corruption in ukraine means dirt on political rival. heidi, you have reporting looking into this and what's coming up? what are you looking at? >> right, so schiff says he's kicking this over to the judiciary committee, but people i talked to on the judiciary committee have been thinking about how these articles could be shaped for quite a while because as nancy pelosi says, they've had the goods, right? and so my reporting is what the considerations are right now about what these articles might look like. what we do know at this hour is that there is likely to be at least one broad abuse of power article encapsulated in that everything that from the president using his office for personal gain, leveraging taxpayer dollars, appropriated federal taxpayer dollars to extort a foreign country in order to help himself personally. secondly, contempt of congress, and this is where there's serious d