newsmakers" the senator from oklahoma the number two republican on the armed services committee senator james inhoffthank you for being here. guest: we heard earlier today from senator cornyn that we should expect at least two more cr's. there was some optimism coming out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending that budget caps would be lifted. what message douf for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal overnment? >> what we have to do, it was understood we were going to have appropriation bills. we have 12 appropriation bills and we have -- frankly there's a partisan element to this because we have tried to pass them out and we can't get them on the floor. as you know a minority can block them from coming up on the floor. the one that has to pass is the one for our national defense. we have to get past the budget caps. give an example. if we don't do anything as it is right now when we pass the authorization bill for the military it's at $700 billion. if for some reason we can't get beyond the caps and we have

greta: senator james inhoff. republican of oklahoma. the number two republican on the armed services committee. thank you for your time. appreciated. sen. inhoff: thank you so much. greta: we're back with our reporters. joe gould of defense news, congressional reporter, and patrick kelly with cq roll call. patrick, i'll begin with you. overall the impact of these continuing resolutions, the so-called stop gap spending bills on the military. what did we hear from the number two republican on the senate armed services committee? patrick: a lot of what we heard from secretary mattis, general dunford, john mccain. it is the line they repeat because it's the line they believe that the cr's are going to affect training and maintenance. they have deleterious effects on the military that manifest worse -- that general mattis said is worse than any but right now what than any enemy could impose on the force. something that clearly senator inhoff wants to find a solution to senator cornyn saying that we're going to have maybe two more crs, it does

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newsmakers" the senator from oklahoma the number two republican on the armed services committee senator james inhoffk you for being here. guest: we heard earlier today from senator cornyn that we should expect at least two more cr's. there was some optimism coming out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending that budget caps would be lifted. what message douf for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal overnment? >> what we have to do, it was understood we were going to have appropriation bills. we have 12 appropriation bills and we have -- frankly t's