do more also on defense. we have to do more defense. ae lisbon treaty allows structured cooperation of the member states of the european union. the defense ministers of germany and france seized in the opportunity to do more. almost all member states say, yes, if we want to be in a union of security and defense, we also have to do more on defense and security. allave 16 military missions over the world, in which we participate. we bear more than a third of the expenditure of international missions. we also have the largest -- we are the largest donor in syria and afghanistan. but we have to do more in order to obviously integrate the military. the minister of defense spoke in detail about this. ,e need a leadership capacity command capacity within the european union. shape and insert connected and integrated approach, which not only brings forward our military capacity and capabilities, but also governance and developing cooperation. it has to be an all-encompassing approach. we also have to bring one issue forward in the way that we de

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defense strategy for the rise of china. this is the first of three regional reports that fit under an umbrella strategy we released the middle of last month called preserving the balance, us, asia defense strategy. meeting this discussion this morning is doctor thomas mahnken, our president and chief executive officer and for those that didn't get a chance to get the umbrella strategy i left more on the table, you can grab them as you leave. thomas mahnken. >> thank you. thank you for coming. as jamie said, this is the second of four reports in a series that seek to layout a fiscally informed defense strategy for the united states at the global level, released on january 19th and three regional strategies that can comfortably sit under the overall framework and this is the first of those three regional reports and we look forward to rolling out the remaining regional reports in the next week. this report was written by evan montgomery, senior fellow, it is my pleasure to stand in for evan who is serving as council on foreig

will do more of this on defense, we have to do more on defense. we have to allow a structure on , our defensive germany and france has actually seized the opportunity to do more. yes, if we want to be. deal moreso have to on national security. 16 motions all across the world where we participate. we have more than one third of the national expenditure. we are the largest donor in this area to defense. we can do more, do obviously the integrate our military effectiveness. also in detail i have spoken about this. ,e need a leadership capacity we need to have this and the eu, we need to shape an interconnected approach which will not only bring forward our military capacity. forill also develop corporations. it has to be all encompassing. we also have to bring everything forward in the way that we do that. for example, we train people on the ground, we also have to have forces on the ground. , the eu mustity never be seen as an alternative to nato, it complements and is integrated. that is how we see this. also with the appropriation and defense, tha

defense secretary james mattis just concluded a meeting with nato defense ministers in brussels. then he held a brief news conference, where he discussed the nato alliance and answered weston's about -- answered questions about u.s. relations with russia. >> ladies and gentlemen, secretary mattis will make a statement and then take two questions. sec. mattis: yes, ma'am. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i just completed the defense ministerial, wherein had the opportunity to engage in a bilateral discussion with a number of rfid -- of our fellow ministers. ministerialwe all had a dinner , reaffirming our strong transatlantic bond. it is the strongest i have ever seen. i have experience here at nato, and i was impressed by how strong the bond is. my intent is to affirm the full u.s. commitment to nato, and to gain an updated appreciation of the situation facing our alliance. the burden-sharing message i delivered was effective, and it was very well received, and i depart confident that the alliance will be unified in meeting today's security challenges. i especially appreciat

welcome to defense news. executivetrump's order limiting immigration has spurred some reaction from iran. could it further deteriorate an already troubled relationship? senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. order and thetion reaction to it. was this a good move off the top? have been a good move and that is something we can discuss. wasthe how badly executed, and unprofessional that it was a discredit to the office of the president and the white house and the voters that put the man in office. input from the people that normally have input in this? whether it be congress, general mattis. is that accurate? privy to any more information than the average guy in washington but it seems fairly clear from the output but the incoming secretary of state's team or anybody else involved, there were no briefings done for capitol hill. this was done in exactly the opposite way that almost anything of this kind. >> was there a reason for doing that? could they h

trump said the defense cuts depleted the military. our military leaders testified these cuts placed the lives of our military service members at greater risk. that is an exact quote from military leaders but congressman mulvaney has said in the greater scheme of things sequestration cuts were not that big. he also said and i quote, the only thing worse than those military cuts would be no cuts at all. this is the kind of statement that could only be made by a person attached from the reality of what these cuts have meant to military service members. tell that the thousands of soldiers who were forced out of the army because of these cuts. tell that to the marine pilot's who fly fewer hours per month than russian and chinese counterparts because of these cuts, tell that to the air force maintainer stealing parts from retired aircraft and museum pieces to keep their planes in the air because of sequestration, tell that to the crew of the submarine who can't deploy because their boat is no longer qualified to dive, can't receive upkeep b

sec.gen stoltenberg: our collective defense clause, our collective defense commitment is unconditional. it is absolute. natot is the core of the alliance. and i welcome the strong commitment of the united states to this trans-atlantic on to and this collective defense clause. at the same time, i fully support what has been underlined by president trump's and by vice president pence today, the importance of burden sharing. and i think we have to remember that this is not only something that the u.s. is asking for. alliesomething that 28 agreed to. the leaders from 28 nato ally sat around the same table in 2014 and agreed to stop the cuts , to gradually increase defense spending and to meet the 2% target within a decade. and the good news is that we are moving in that direction. after many years of decline, after many years of defense cuts across europe and canada, we solved that in 2015, we stopped the cuts the first year after we made the pledge and in 2016, we had a significant increase of 3.8% in real terms or $10 billion. there is a long way to go. done.eeds to be we have at least t

that defense, our defense strategy is about achieving our objective. our objectives are protecting american lives and property, working together with our allies to help defend the. maintaining the free flow of goods of information across the global commons. one element of that is clearly determined. it's trying to deter the outbreak of war. so, that requires us to think about wars might unfold and how to think of preventing them. i said in my remarks a couple of times that the united states is comp long-term competition with a number of regional powers, great powers. i use the word competition with malice and forethought. to me is not the same as conflict, it's not the same as cooperation either it's in the middle of that spectrum just to say that there is a competitive relationship and i would say that something that many authors and scholars on the chinese side will say as well that it doesn't preclude cooperation in a number of areas. but, but, i think asas we think about the possibility of cooperation we need to do that with a hardheaded sense of w

defense program. he told the department to focus on increasing capability of the joint force for the height and fight. those words are very specific, and what that means is that the department for the long-term is going to look at those capabilities that will defeat a very capable adversary in the 2025-2030 timeframe. now realize that every program that the department is funding right now, those are the capabilities that he will happen in 2025, if you look at tenure acquisition cycle. those major programs are what you will have. what the department has to do is take a look at the capabilities that they are building, to a gap analysis, including a comprehensive cyber review, and then they need to rebuild a robust expectation program, something since 9/11 the services really, one, don't have the time, they don't have the money. but really take the gap analysis and each of the services apply a robust experimentation program to identify breakthrough capabilities that they can get to two the 2025-2030 time

commitment to article five and our mutual defense is rock solid. in our meetings, we discussed in detail the strategic situation facing the alliance. including the minister of germany, recognized 2014 as a watershed year that awakened allies to a new reality. my message to my fellow ministers was simple. nato arose out of strategic necessity and nato must evolve in response to the new strategic reality. our community of nations is under threat on multiple fronts as the ark of insecurity bills on nato's periphery and beyond. we discussed the increased threats facing our alliance and unified by the threats to our democracies, i found resolved to address the growing threat. actions haveessive violated international law and are destabilizing. terrorism in the middle east and north africa is a direct and immediate threat to europe and us all. i am mindful of the tragic attacks on our allies and what they have suffered in paris, nice, istanbul and right here in brussels. the list goes on. we recognize as well that the imposition of instability have taken

joining me, bill richard, former secretary of defense. what is your biggest takeaway from the remarks you just heard? >> well, the biggest takeaway was that the vice president has done a good job in basically cleaning up the president's comments that have deeply disturbed our european allies. on the positive side, the statement about the european union, 28 countries working to the -- together, the problem being the president supported brexit. secondly, i was a little troubled on the negative side by what seemed to be almost a linkage on the burden sharing issue, especially as it relates to germany. germany contributes 1.3. it should be 2. every president has tried to get nato to increase. but at a time when we're going to need nato in the fight against isis, on terrorism, on iraq and afghanistan, i think we got to be very careful on that linkage. i would have wanted to see more on the cooperative side. russia was the big elephant in the room that was not discussed. will nato keep the sanctions on russia. >> would you have preferred to see

he asserted -- currently sitting in at the defense department. i do not need to tell you about his work. it is great. any mistakes are mine all of the brilliance is his o. this will be the order of the day. i will try to keep it brief and entertaining, then we can move on to some discussion. o i have already failed. . can we go back please. with the overall on umbrella asia will be the most important theater for the united states going forward. that it hasowledge competed for our attention and it will continue to compete with attention for europe and the is mostast, asia important does not mean we dismiss the other theaters as well. it does acknowledge a very important point. the united states is a global power, we are not a regional power. we are going to have to balance our interest and commitments across multiple theaters. the fact that asia is growing ,nd facing importance goes back the recognition of that goes back across multiple administrations. it goes back at least 15 years. trying to back that recognition with capabilities has been prov

we need to speak to a strategy of forward defense but forward defense needs to be modified and bolstered to retain its credibility in a shifting strategic environment. now to do that there are three options that we could take. there are three options not mutually exclusive. three options that have been put forward that offer a forward defense. the first which has been our traditional approach is a strategy of denial. so strategy of denial is based on trying to stop an adversary from forceibly achieving its objective. a second option is one of we have seen in the past where an adversary maybe able to take the guns but we inflect punishment and force the adversary to withdraw. third rollback. the idea there is to directly reflect the adversary's gains. they are not mutually exclusive. you can think about the strategy option in combination although some, as i will say in a minute, would have to precede others in terms of implementation. default is the number one american way. a lot of people think about a campaign in the western pacific a distance block aid. the idea you can take your gam b

but europe's defense requires europe's commitment as much as ours. at the wales summit in 2014, all 28 members of the nato alliance declared their intention to move towards a minimum security investment of 2% of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade. as a candidate for office, president trump actually called attention repeatedly to the fact that for too long, for too many, this burden has not been shared fairly among our nato allies. and that must come to an end. at this moment, the united him and states and only four other nato members meet this basic standard. and while we commend the few nations that are on track and have met the obligation, the truth is that many others, including some of our largest allies, still lack a clear and credible path to meet this minimum goal. so let me say again what i said this last weekend in munich, the president of the united states and the american people expect our allies to keep their word and to do more in our common defense. and the president expects real progress by the end of 2017. as secr

germany has started to increase defense spending. again, i expect all allies to keep the pledge they made together as leaders in 2014. >> let me say again, the president and i, our administration are grateful to the secretary general for his focus on burden sharing and for our nato allies, whether it be germany or other countries, to meet the commitment that treaty allies made to one another. i think it's a demonstration of president trump's leadership that before taking office, he was speaking about the fact that the united states provides more than 70% of the cost of nato tod today, and we are committed to continue to do our part, but that the time has come for our nato allies to step forward. and the secretary general's strong message on this is in all of our collective interests. i will tell you i had very productive discussions with chancellor merkel. we spoke about just this issue. and we look forward to a continued dialogue. our hope is that we will have a date very soon where chancellor merkel will come to the white house. i

spike in defense spending, 10% increase. the perspective is the following: eight years ago, defense spending was 4.6% of gdp. today it's 3.2%. that's a catastrophic collapse. that's a huge decrease. remember the stories that you had months ago about the cannibalizing of some of our airplanes to keep others in the air, the decrease in training. there's been a ruinous decline in defense spending and what this is going to be, a minor beginning to the rebuilding. i supported entirely but as of now, i tend to side with john mccain that this may not be enough. when you read the stories about this being an enormous increase and to put it in larger perspective, under the john kennedy, defense spending was 10% of gdp. we are about at a third of that level and we are in dire need rn rising, of correcting. >> bret: mccain released a statement in which he says president trump intends to submit a budget that is 3% over obama's defense budget which has left the military underfunded, undersized, not ready to confront threats to our nationa

but at the same time we see boosts to the defense department. is there a connect the dots between the two? hest: we have to see what does overseas. the white house just got the isis plan as well. that will impact how much they spend. --isn't clear yet how that especially with mick mulvaney, he has been a big critic of that. host: at least a couple of republicans are always the -- are already expressing the figure guest:. where will this it? the figure. guest: john mccain authority said he cannot support this. i think there are some who think the readiness has gotten to such a bad point that they will support this but it is unlikely to get much traction among immigrants because of the cuts to nondefense. they have called for comparable increases to defense and nondefense if you bust the budget cap. host: our guest is here to talk about the increases. (202) 748-8001, republicans. (202) 748-8000, democrats. (202) 748-8002, independent callers. increasing the size of the active u.s. army, increasing the u.s. navy fleet, providing air force with airc

you are watching "defense news." aaron: welcome back to "defense news." for years, the commercial satellite to mean occasions industry has begged for closer ties to the defense department. now there may be some movement. for a lot of years, there was a lot of discussion about commercial industry doing more for the defense department in particular and the government writ large in terms of satellite and we are starting to hear that happen after years of talk. we are starting to see the military in particular embracing more of the commercial sector and more of their activities. you see them getting more involved with launch aspects. the industry is basically doing all of the launches. aaron: space ask, ulana. this is something commercial handles for the pentagon. >> you got the startups. you've got the well-established big guys. they are doing control aspects, as well. are really doing more. then you have commercial topanies providing bandwidth enable communications to the deployed war fighters. you are seeing more and more the commercial industry interactin

defense budget today. today's budget is about $600 billion a year. -- formally about $60 billion annually. thatb may discuss, some of $60 billion includes a gray area between overseas contingency and peacetime operations budgets. the contingency war funds are being used to some extent to compensate for a pentagon budget that is under strain and not quite able to get everything within the caps of the budget control act your one more word on that, it is still in effect. the 2007 law. even with all the seismic events of american politics, it has survived. it survived the inauguration of donald trump and many other things that many thought did not happen. the vca keeps on ticking. the possibility of return to sequestration remains. there are possibilities of returning to other problems, like government shutdowns. the $600 billion is a good number to keep in mind. plus more costs, and it includes department of energy nuclear weapons costs. it is a reference point. donald trump's campaign promise to build up the

president trump proposed to pay for defense increases with non-defense cuts.se will be difficult. that is not really where the money is. neil: the money is largely entitlements. that is 70% of the budget. people enjoy the entitlements, they're entitled. not some give me programs, social security, medicare, et cetera, i understand that but it is what it is. that is where disproportionate amount of our spending is. largely that is off limits and off limits now still in this latest trump budget can. then what? >> that is exactly right. non-defense discretionary is 15% of the budget. it is 5% of spending growth. you can't do anything for long-term debt if we don't go after social security, medicare, medicaid, and other mandatory programs and make them sustainable over the long run. neil: mark, as you know, chuck schumer is saying look, if this is what you're going to do mr. president, you will hike defense spending, don't get into details whether the president will offset the extra 54 billion, maybe he will, maybe he won't, the president is talking about a big boo

no defense. >> shannon: great shape. none. well, president trump says leakers inside his administration will be caught. rush limbaugh is calling this sabotage. who is behind the leaks? will they get busted? >> bill: the president firing off at the mainstream media calling them the enemy of the american people. is that fair or is that too far? we'll debate this next. >> i hate the press. i hate you especially but the fact is, we need you. we need a free press. we must have a free press. so tell us your big idea for getting the whole country booking on choice hotels.com. four words, badda book. badda boom... let it sink in. shouldn't we say we have the lowest price? nope, badda book. badda boom. have you ever stayed with choice hotels? like at a comfort inn? yep. free waffles, can't go wrong. i like it. promote that guy. get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed. when you book direct at choicehotels.com. book now. >> shannon: the folks in one town getting quite a shock when a small plane crashed into their neighborhood. chec

we will do more on the defense.he lisbon treaty allows a eu, theion of the defenses of france and germany, sees the opportunity to do more. all that they say, yes if we want them to be. if we want to be a union of security and defense, if we want to be. we have 16 military missions, all over the world in which we can participate. we bear more than a third of the expenditure on national missions. also the largest donor in syria and afghanistan. we have to do more. in order to integrate our military. we spoke often in detail about this. we need to talk about our leadership capacity to we need to talk about what is happening in the air -- eu. we need to integrate the approach, which helps our military capacity. about anded to talk celebrate our approach. in the to move forward ways that we are going to deal with those countries. we have to train people, we will have to equip the security. the eu mustcity on never be seen as an alternative. rather it must be complemented and integrated in the overall state. that, there

allocate these funds for the public defense so that they provide the necessary defense to the people that need them. and because san francisco has made itself known as a sanctuary city i hope that we do what we need to do, so that we can live up to that. they the tax that they pay for, and they may not have papers but they participate in the tax paying, responsibilities. i hope that you gives the funds to this defense. >> thank you. >> my name is stephanie, and i am a resident of district three. i want to thank supervisor fewer to taking the initiative to expand legal defense funding for our city's most vulnerable residents as the grandchild of immigrants, i strongly support this initiative, especially given our current national climate of fear and instability. immigrants, both documented and undocumented form the back bone of our society. and deserve due legal process and representation regardless of ability to pay. i am here to express my concern as a latin that and an immigrant from latin america and given that we are a nation of immigrants and that the people come from many place

how much of this federal defense budget goes towards u.s. and friendlys democratic allies -- japan, western europe -- how many of those do we still need? why is the emphasis on increased conventional weapons defense spending versus benefit programs for current veterans -- too many people say veterans and that implies retired veterans -- and va hospitals. i had a grandfather in a va hospital. they could use those benefits programs. host: we believe it there because you put a lot out there for the guest. guest: serving in the military, i can tell you right now that even though i do not believe that those soldiers, sailors, airmen, coast guardsmen -- we could never pay them what they are worth. but we do have one of the best compensated militaries in the world. that is one of the reason why our cost is so high. because we appreciate so much what they do for us. we appreciate the sacrifices they make. and you bring up a good point. we are not doing enough for our veterans. that the problem is with the corruption in the veterans association is to

number 4. >> dan: this is a tremendous defensive effort. watch the defense by tum tum nairn.f he doesn't scramble through that, they don't call the foul. if he tries to move through, happ takes a couple steps. >> kevin: that's also trouble. 2:03 remaining. michigan state, a team which has had turnovers, including this freshman right here, winston. only one turnovers in the last 11 minutes. wisconsin has to come up with something. on senior night. inside, winston. what a great play by ward. freshman to freshman passing. ward puts it in. 21 for him. zak showwalter came very close to a flay grant foul there wrapping him up. ward, we talked about how big and strong he was. pushed that in to the basket. what a play. >> kevin: got 21 points. >> dan: he's a 57% free throw shooter. hasn't missed from the line today. put back up and in by hayes on the miss. the wisconsin time-out. 1:34 to go. badgers have lost three of four. desperation time in east lansing. ♪ ♪ ♪ only at&t offers you all your live channels and dvr on your devices. data-free. entertainment. your way. only from at&t. >

japan's defense minister is a retired japan self-defense force lieutenant general. he's an expert of national security and japan-u.s. relation and has met mattis. he says mattis' nickname "mad dog" is somebody that tackles his mission. it's not an insult. >> based on my background as a member of japan's defense force, i would say that james mattis is an excellent military man. there is no doubt that mattis has the qualities of a fine leader. >> he said mattis is an intellectual man, is known for moving his library with him has been referred to as a warrior munk, because of his focus in life on military study itself and he has never married. here's what mattis had to say a month ago about threats to the u.s. and world order. >> i think it's under the biggest attack since world war ii, sir, that's from russia, from terrorist groups and with what china is doing in the south china sea. >> yamaguchi says mattis chose korea and japan for his first overseas trip as u.s. defense secretary to make a statement about the region. >> translator: mattis' visit shows that the u.s.

the defense secretary who is actually over in iraq right now.is mattis well thought of here within our own government, but thought well of by our allies around the country, and in many ways has had to go and did a lot of cleanup. i do think there is concern from some of these generals who are being considered for this that they're not going to be able to get anything done because donald trump may just wake up some morning and fire off a tweet that could cause their world a major shake-up, and that's problematic. >> the new national security advisor could be announced hopefully very soon. there's going to be an announcement, we believe, this week on a new travel ban that will try to deal with some of the issues that the federal courts rejected the first time around. they seem to be getting closer, but apparently not there yet. >> well, i don't know if there's any way that they actually can please the judicial branch of the government, because the problem isn't so much what's in the text. it's what president trump has said. what they look at in th

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two, simultaneously increasing defense spending massively. three, to simultaneously pledge that he was going to balance the budget while unleashing massive economic growth in our country. well, what he did then was to put together a team who had a remarkable ability to harness voluminous amounts of information to defend that knowingly erroneous premise. you cannot say that you are heading towards balancing the budget if you are simultaneously saying i'm going to give massive tax breaks to those who need them the least and massive defense increases which are going to further lead to federal expenditures, because then you have to turn and you have to cut programs. you have to cut medicare. you've got to cut social security. you've got to cut the e.p.a. you've got to cut head start. you've got to cut food stamps. you've got to cut programs for the poorest. you've got to cut all of those investments in science in the future. you've got to cut and cut and cut and cut and cut. but that really wasn't the goal, because ultimately ronald reagan just r

my whole issue is that we are spending way too much money on defense.he last time i got on here come i said trump makes it seem like every day we have explosions happening in america. the wall needs to be up north that's where all the harriman when and everything is coming in. heroin and everything is coming in. when you get rid of obamacare, all of you people whining about people on welfare and stuff, you have to worry about whether or not you get a catastrophic illness. saying get ridt of social entitlements, you have to worry about the things that just one illness away stamps --foodrence stems host: oklahoma. republican tom cole in the pages writes new york times" -- you can find this online at nytimes.com. ronald from louisiana. democrats line. i see a few things going on that really rocks me appear. they showed $156 billion wasted at the pentagon. but he wants to put $56 billion to the pentagon taken from the state department that protects the country and works with other countries. he has pushed away our allies, which makes me quite nervous. he's

melinda: i want to ask how all of you parse those remarks by defense secretary mattis.irst, let's take a look at what nato has beeeen up to lately. >> nato maneuvers in poland. the exercises are meant to s shw that n nato will defefend it ean member states against any russian aggression. but how much protection can poland plus estonia, latvia, and lithuania actually expect? mixed messages from the white house. presidential candidate donald trump says he supports nato, but also claimed the alliance is obsolete. now president trump favors better relations with russia. that does not appear to be good ukraine, where fighting has flared recently between government t troops and separatists.d europe is under increasing pressure to demonstrate unity. germany is working to improve strained relations with poland. earlier this month, chancellor merkel met the prime minister in warsaw to try and patch things up. -- our presesident trump's polilicies a wake-up call for europe? karnitschnig,ew that report asks how much u.s. support the eastern european countries can count on, but the

that's a significant increase in defense spending. the defense build-up. $54 billion more next year he says than we're spending this year. how would he pay for that? you can also see here, he's calling for cuts. you hear this one a lot in politics. especially from conservatives. he wants to cut foreign aid. also cuts to the epa, environmentsal protection agency. that statement we read from chuck schumer. the democratic leader already taking issue with some of these cuts that the president has in mind, but here's the other headline, and phillip rucker just mentioned this a minute ago. this could be a potentially major break with conservative orthodoxy and specifically with the vision of paul ryan. the house speaker, the president, he campaigned -- he said, no cuts to medicare, no cuts to social security, no entitlement cuts. he campaigned on that. well guess what, that is a big break from what paul ryan has basically built his political career on. the path to prosperity, that was the fiscal blueprint that paul ryan put together a few y

do more to share the burden of defense. it sound like it was regarding only nato, or is the european union looking for a new path? >> it is not usually -- mutually exclusive. i think the pat quinn be stronger cooperation among european and native allies within the nato context, to do more burden sharing, to sway american concerns that europe is not doing their fair share, and today reiterating that germany is prepared to spend more on defense. sarah: in the meantime, the word dominating the conference seems to be uncertainty. what have you seen and heard from participants so far? reporter: everybody is concerned with what path the donald trump administration will go down and uncertainty remains. defense secretary mattis gave a very brief address, did not take questions, and gave some general commitments to nato. but many were wanting to know about the modified commitment that he said they would have in brussels, if europe does not pay up, what it would mean. the only reiterated the overall commitment to nato, but did not go

but it was the defense team's turn today and attorney al lopez said dna protocol was not followed and the bag was contaminated. >> i think the defense did a good job in establishing that the protocols of the dna evidence collection were not followed and the prosecution will now have to shore that up through their own experts. >> reporter: defense attorneys also tore apart the district attorney's assertion that garcia-torres tried to kidnap three women separately in the parking lots of two safeway stores in morgan hill in 2009, three years before sierra lamar disappeared. not one of the three victims could pick out garcia-torres in a photo lineup. garcia-torres continued to look composed as he listened to attorneys talk about him and the evidence that may or may not lead to his conviction.

will be matched by equal kmengs buy non-defense programs.vings will come from removing outdated and duplicative programs. the spending will be sensible, rational and will be tough. with our deb spiraling out of control we simply must look at the way we are spending taxpayers dollars. families are being forced to make difficultis chos because for too long the federal government hasn't treated their money with the respect they deserve. the national debt exploded from $10.6 billion to $19.9 trillion -- sorry, those are both trillions, the day before president trump's inaugural. every child born in america this year will inherit an average of over $60,000 in deb. too much. our budget will restore respect for taxpayers dollars, and fund all the measures necessary the kept our country safe and prosp prospering. this was a weekend of discussion between the governors and the administration. the president and first lady welcomed the good afternoonors to the white house last night for the annual governor's ball. and last night the president had a prod

the new pretension backfired on cooper's defense. >> to kevin cooper's shock and the defense attorneys came back saying there was kevin cooper's dna on a-41. >> but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. >> back in 1983, the lab technician daniel had testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now he was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. >> we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date he took it out and when he revealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. >> he also had nearby in the lab the vial of kevin cooper's blood that was taken from him when he was arrested. >> contrary to original testimony, the state now reported there was enough of a-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the trgs t-shirt was only shown to have doug ryen's blood it. >> when the t-shirt was tested, at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the t-shirt across the chest. it was previous to this time. >> cooper's defense argued that

allocate these funds for the public defense so that they provide the necessary defense to the people that need them. and because san francisco has made itself known as a sanctuary city i hope that we do what we need to do, so that we can live up to that. they the tax that they pay for, and they may not have papers but they participate in the tax paying, responsibilities. i hope that you gives the funds to this defense. >> thank you. >> my name is stephanie, and i am a resident of district three. i want to thank supervisor fewer to taking the initiative to expand legal defense funding for our city's most vulnerable residents as the grandchild of immigrants, i strongly support this initiative, especially given our current national climate of fear and instability. immigrants, both documented and undocumented form the back bone of our society. and deserve due legal process and representation regardless of ability to pay. i am here to express my concern as a latin that and an immigrant from latin america and given that we are a nation of immigrants and that the people come from many place

but that's split between defense and non-defense. we have a law that has caps for defense and non-defense. he wants to increase the spending for defense by $50 million, a 10 percent increase but wants to reduce the spending for nondefense category by a similar amount. that's a pretty hefty lift for republicans, we're talking about that category of non-defense spending what most people think of when they think of the federal government, that's the fbi, transportation, that's science, technology, education, you just had a segment here on the historically black colleges, that's fundsing for those particular colleges too, so how you increase spending in one category and reduce it by another by a similar amount is going to be difficult and by being a budget eeer will requir 60 votes. as you know there's not 60 republicans, that's going to require them to come along with that, so i think -- i don't think there's anything -- i don't want to overstate the dead on rival, i just don't think you can achieve that level of non-defense discretiona