keith hall, the director of the congressional budget office. earlier this year he appeared before this committee to discuss cbo's work and his efforts to increase responsiveness and transparency at the agency. this morning, dr. hall will be talking about the cbo's latest projections and the challenges we face as a nation. we look forward to receiving your testimony. for the information of colleagues, dr. hall will take up to about seven minutes for his opening statement followed by questions. welcome, dr. hall. please begin. >> chairman enzi, ranking members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about the congressional budget office's most recent analysis of the outlook for the budget and the economy. my statement summarizes cbo's new baseline budget projections and economic forecast which the agency released on monday. in the congressional budget office's baseline projections which incorporate the assumption that current laws governing taxes and spending generally remains unchanged, the federal budget deficit grows substantiall

now it was the defense's turn to show that chris hall loved his wife, would never harm her, and that her death was a tragic accident. here again is keithy miserable minute of their dad's trial for murder here at the courthouse in riverside, california. their review of the prosecutor's portrait of their father? it was a lie, they said. >> it was hurtful to us to hear someone basically say he knows our parents better than we do. and he knows our father is a sociopath, and that we're blind to it, and he knows there was hidden violence in our parents' marriage and we just didn't see it. you're basically telling us we didn't know our whole lives were a lie. >> and there's no proof of that. >> chris hall had never been violent, argued the defense, had no motive, no reason to suddenly turn on his wife, it had to be a freak accident. so, said the defense, lindsay patterson didn't really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn't she claim to see cristi's body in the spa when she looked again? it didn't make sense. but the highlight was the daughters' testimony, emotional, quite powerful. i

cbo director, keith hall testified about the numbers before the senate budget committee.

keith morrison: he said he thought maybe he'd leave mark's car and the body behind that grange hall. he went and bought the bolt cutter, returned to the grange, and those ladies saw him transferring mark's body to his own car, called the cops. corbin volluz: and when that police officer pulled you over, was mr. stover over in the back of your suzuki? he was. keith morrison: he went to visit ex-wife jennifer, he said, because he wanted to see her two sons, though he never did. nor did he drive to see his own children, who he said were in battle ground, washington, a four-hour drive away. i realized that i couldn't drive to battle ground with mr. stover in the back of my rig. keith morrison: so instead, he said, he ditched mark's car at that casino, looked around for a place to dump his body. michiel oakes: there's kind of a dilapidated-looking dock thing. and i got my car as close to that as possible and muscled him out and dropped him in the water. keith morrison: an area investigators had searched but never found anything. then, he said, he drove across the state not to his kids, bu

hall of famer arguing it is a good thing. >> trying to win back the base, the nfl lost support of the democratic congressman, keith ellison ofr the rule change requiring players to stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room until the anthem is over. ellison, the beauty chair of the democratic national committee calling for the boycott and tweeting friends who know me know that i love football but i won't be watching this nfl season because the unfair, cowardly and idiotic kneeling been, boycott nfl. a different response from a hall of fame or. eric dickerson telling tmv this gives you a choice, if the guys went to stand they can stand. if they want to stay in the locker room they will stay in the locker room. you can't please everybody but you know somebody is not going to like it. it is what it is what it is like religion and raising your kids, no one will agree with you all the time. everyone has a disagreement how you raise your kids, religion, politics. my thing is i stood when we played and i would still stands. carson weighing in at the anthem protesters tweeting freedom sometimes comes at a cost. i thi

halls of langley. that letter was signed by former c.i.a. and national security agency director michael hayden, former n.s.a. director general keith alexander, former attorney general michael mukasey and many, many others. i said it before, but i will say it again, those people who know haspel best who worked alongside her on a daily basis, been in meetings with her, witnessed her decision making, they like this woman, they respect her, and they think she is the best of the best. so enough already, i think we should listen to the people who know her the best. the third item related to ms. ms. haspel that i will mention is a telling exchange that she had with my colleague, our colleague and friend, the senior senator from california, ms. feinstein. senator feinstein asked about a certain book that at least, in which one author claimed proves that ms. haspel ran an interrogation program in the days after 9/11. ms. haspel in graciously responding to our colleague's question pointed out something very important that the author in the book in question said definitively that he never intended to suggest in the book that gina haspel is i