some of us have tried to look into past bracs to determine if those bracs actually resulted in savings, real, substantial savings, and we couldn't find any evidence that, in fact, there were those sorts of demonstrable savings that would make the brac effort worth it. so i would like for you to disabuse me of my skepticism and tell me where i'm wrong and other members of the committee are wrong. will brac, based upon past experience, will it really bring savings to us? >> i am not an expert on this topic, but i have -- i believe that gao has done a number of reports that in the way my understanding of their conclusions was at the early rounds of brac actually did result in recurring savings over time in the single-digit billions, and i could get the exact figure for you, but i'm sure your staff could get to that report or i could provide it. the -- the brac ground that sort of poisoned the well was the last one because it really was a realignment and consolidation, brac really wasn't a closure brac, by and large and so it didn't save a lot of money and the way in which the process work

excess properties at previous brac locations. within the army's budget request there are several requirements that are managed and funded separately outside the main appropriations issues aggressively, $71 million for the arlington national cemetery. this goes to fund into day-to-day operations and the 29 rasterization objects for the arlington nationalization -- restoration. 962 maidan for the congressionally mandated chemical demilitarization program. fy '18 finds support the continued plan operations and both pueblo, colorado, and bluegrass kentucky. as media where the army has been managing large overseas contingency operation budgets since 2001. this has this has been an account that has ebbed and flowed as contingency operations have expanded and contracted over time. the army's 2018 oco budget request represents requirements and military personnel, operations and maintenance and research development and acquisition. this years multi component request totals $28.9 billion. the 2018 oco request supports operations, operation

as we went through the process more money was set aside to help folks who might be in that 50 to 65 brac, but face it, we are all sort of guessing right now because the negotiation is ongoing, the bill that passed out of the house is most likely not going to be the bill that is put in front of the president. the senate will have their chance to change the bill, improve the bill, negotiations will continue again so i think it is important we reserve judgment on what the president .. will or won't sign until we know what is in front of him. >> dickerson: the president kept saying it is a good bill but it is incomplete is what you are saying. >> no, i am saying the senate is part of the government, this is a bill that passed out of the house, we are about the same age we remember schoolhouse rock and i am a bill and only a bill and we will go through that process, is it ugly, is it slow? yes but it is the right way to do it and that's the right way to handle the bill. >> dickerson: the president said we will have great health care for everyone in the name when we are done with the schoolhou

so, again, we are asking for the authority for brac. we think we're getting signals from committees that they're more amenable to it so we'll be pushing that pretty hard. next slide. we're also, again, as i noted, we continue to look at our business processes. the secretary, when he came in as well, said that he had a rebuilding and reform agenda that he has in mind. so there is a number of ongoing activities that we continue to pursue. we're continuing to look at the major headquarters and to reduce them by 25%. we continue with acquisition reform, particularly to better buying power 3.0. we continue to look at -- take a hard look at our service support contracts and make sure that they're appropriate. and particularly for us in the financial management world, 2018 is an extremely important year. we are going to move from getting ready for an audit to actually beginning the audit. that's an extraordinarily important year. we're going to learn a lot from it. there will be wins and losses that come out of that process, but what i always

there was a requirement brac in those days that if you put on an opinion of someone who was conservative, you had to balance it with an opinion of someone who was liberal, and vice versa, that was required by the federal communications commission. and quite laterally a radio station or a television network was in danger of being fined or having a license suspended if they didn't do that. and i believe in 1987 the fairness doctrine was revoked, and with that you suddenly had dozens then hundreds, then thousands and now tens of thousands of people expressing not their best version of the facts as they've been able to determine them, but their points of view, their opinions. so yes things have changed enormously since i was a young journalist, and i don't think it's a change for the better. >> i think i saw john mccain on one of the sunday programs this weekend. and i'm paraphrasing here, i think he was asked what advice he would give to world leaders who were trying to figure out how to navigate a tricky terrain, and trying to establish a relationship with the trump white house. i'm paraph

. >> reporter: earlier today they believed he was under gps monitoring and that the ankle brac bracelet was removed days before he was supposed to be sentenced. >> right now, we're still trying to determine what private company may have been doing that monitoring and why he was removed from it. >> reporter: but now a court spokesperson said gps tracking was never ordered by the court. the sheriff's department and u.s. marshalls say they're looking non-stop for kelley while the nightmare gets worse for the families of the three women and two children he took away. >> she was killed in october 2014. here it is 2017. so you can imagine how long we've been waiting for some type of closure, some type of ending to the story. >> reporter: i texted that father a little while ago this new and breaking information about the gpson his response, wow, are you serious? tonight on news4 at 6:00, what happened to kenneth kelley if he is found and re-arrested by deputies. back to you. >> very interesting story, kristin, thanks so much. >>> a missing person's case is now a kidnapping investigation. that

he is showing very strong leadership, not just on this trip but if you go brac back to, use of chemical weapons, a sense of confidence and assurance he is handling foreign relations, which i think is really striking. i think you saw a consistent message coming out, number one is america's security. let's get together and fight isis, and then says same thing to nato, the difference is how different audiences responded. our city additional allies in the gulf and arab states, they really responded to that new american leadership. in nato, this is actually, a different message, they were not too keen on hearing it, from president's point of view it was the same story, that is putting american security first and american leading an effort to fight terrorism in the world, i thought it was great. >> it is such a great point, he started off the trip with a strong tough stance on terror, telling 50ulf leaders, that terrorism is a bad threat to all humanity, together we'll overcome that threat. are you suggesting that message was received mixed as far as how it was received abroad and here at hom

trust -- by the way, you can't foreet intelligence services and also the defense was being run by the bracnistration. they did not want the obama administration to know what they were doing. >> why would they hide? what did they want to talk about? why did he use russian -- >> why would you not want to have all of these people in these departments with information to go on 0 to leak on a daily basis in the coming months to try to derail your president? >> the months, the election was over. we handle that power all the time, are yo telling me tha thesnow elected trump administration didn't trust john brennan? that somehow the straight arrow guys in the intelligence services were going to work to actively undermine where they seen as a dissident? that has never happened in the history of the united states. >> one of the pieces that came out this week, the fisa court regulation that they said thebrethe obama administration had been actively engaged by unmasking people's identities on a routine basis which they did not abo acknowledge to the court that brought up major concerns? >> who said th

crisis because it involves a potential confrontation, as did watergate, between the president and other bracanches of government. it may well produce impeachment proceedings, although we're very far from that possibility. >> meantime, president trump still hanging tough on his decision, taking to twitter last night to post a video of democrats who have been critical of comey, tweeting this -- "the democrats should be ashamed. this is a disgrace. #draintheswamp." >> while director comey's firing was dominating the headlines, former national security adviser michael flynn was being subpoenaed by the senate intelligence committee. lawmakers demanding all documents related to his interactions with russian officials. the subpoena was issued once flynn's lawyer informed the senators he would not be voluntarily turning over any of the information they requested in late april. on tuesday, cnn learned several of flynn's associates had been previously subpoenaed. we get more now from cnn's manu raju. >> reporter: good morning, alison and dave. now, the senate intelligence committee's investigation int

whether there is, whether the brac is a model to take a look at, we are beginning to have discussions with members of congress about the their suggestions. we do believe that we have, i note today, 431 i have can't buildings and 735 underutilized buildings. we want to stop supporting the use of maintenance of building that we don't need, and reinvest it into the buildings that have capital needs. so, we are going to be looking forward to working with you on that. >> thank you very much,. mr.k is tear. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac