mackenzie: thanks for having me. i guess we can pick up, where the senate's going to go this week and the resolutions as opposed. it is a long way from the president's budget to i think the kind of investments that are required that are very similar in line with the national defense panel. which we can speak more about in q and a. i think the biggest question on the table or put another way the elephant in the room is ok $39 billion extra in overseas contingency operation spending to get the defense budgets in the neighborhood ballpark of where president obama has them. or a billion over depending on , how you calculate it. how is that for defense? well, i'm here to say as somebody who helped the national defense panel think through some of these issues, it's completely inadequate. it's not just bad budgeting and governing, it's bad defense policy. $39 extra billion in oco or war spending isn't the same defense budget as plussing up the base budget. i know that's hard. i get it. hey, congress has done it twice alread

mackenzie eaglen who will start us off fellow at american enterprise institute. worked on defense issues here in the senate and also house of representatives as well as pentagon with the secretary of defense and joint staff. mackenzie served as staff member on national defense panel whose recommendations senator cotton endorsed today. mackenzie, if you could start off the discussion, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. welcome, everyone. i see some familiar faces out there. i'm not really sure where to start although we can pick up where senator cotton left off to talk about where the senate will go this week and house with budget resolutions opposed to what is required and what's needed. it's a long way from even the president's budget to i think the kinds of investments that senator cotton has outlined that are required that are very similar in line with the national defense panel. which we can speak more about in q&a. i think the biggest question on the table or, put another way the elephant in the room is, okay $39 billion extra in overseas contingenc

bob mackenzie filed this report in 2001. >> firefighters do a lot of good but it wasn't enough for gachelionnts to do more. he travels the world documenting the life of street children. in new dehli india, where children don't get schooling because they're on the street working. in nepal where children work around the clock in sweat shots if they escape being sold as sex slaves he found people trying to save them. in each country he finds people and organizations doing what they can to save some of the children. >> ♪ ♪ >> a nonprofit group called udain maintains small homes throughout india where homeless girls can find a safe haven. >> they're looking after orphaned children. in india this problem is acute. they are made to, they are forced to fulfill sexual needs. the situation is really grim. >> reporter: the kids are taken to hotels supplying quick sex. some children live in their families in tiny shacks leaning against the wall. but cachilion found a rescue operation that gives children a place to live and sends them to school. he's helping kids escape the streets. telling the story of

joining me now david mackenzie in beijing. david, it's heartbreaking and it's incredible to see. i know you've been treated bike that by the authorities in china before but you know for this for families wanting to go to a temple? >> reporter: i know. it's extraordinary, poppy, and these families were together in several places in beijing and every place they've designated the police are there and it may seem very hard to imagine and these families have been harassed and detained in recent months by the chinese authorities because, frankly, as a powerful group they represent a threat in some small way to the communist party because they are vocal and they're critical of the chinese government of the malaysian government and those family members though say, all they want is to get any information that can lead them to some kind of closure because it's been a year now of this harrowing grief, poppy. >> are they david, some of these family members still holding out hope that their loved ones are still alive or at least that some debris from this plane will be found? >> well they cer

mackenzie: it t probably will end up passingng, but it falls apart when there is a defense appropationaual spding. at that point, the e democrcrats d the physical hawks will strip att least cap this money out. penton leadership, including secretary carter, is likely to oppose all this extra funding. once you have t the pentago sayiying, did not asksk forhis and doot nd it, it isis goingng to lose the rationale, and we will not have e votetes to take it. va: almost everybody has said the righght approach is toaise the defense p spy $15 million thenomy, the budgeget can support that isn't at the rig way to ge to some sort of deal, so o that guys kw wh they are workin on ineveloping a budget? maenzie: this is not about the budget resolution or defense spending. it is about follow-on. the ntagon means fiscal certainty for the next two years. the pentagon is going to end up with a base budgetfbout 510 billion,n, and that going to be the end of the story. vago: is there any motionor that at ththis point? hn: everyone on the hl talklks about a mini ryan mury 2. on botsides of theislethey say

you can go to vegas and tell them mackenzie sent you. when that number is finally appropriated and the president signs it into law and it could be 2016 when it happens and it could be lower than the total amount than this week. and that means contracts are held in abeyance and things are deferred and in anticipation of the uncertainty on capitol hill. and even when the money is approved, there is a debate about how much more readiness certain components or services are needed, particularly right now. for the readiness right now there are pockets of incredibly high readiness at the d.o.d., and that is good, but you can only pour so much money into readiness without wasting it. some of the readiness are in large-scale maneuver and longer term readiness and some of it is function of readiness. and some can't get through the national training center. we don't have another national training center and money isn't going to solve that problem. so the third consequence is what you can buy with that money and what is needed is modernization and w

you can go to vegas and tell them mackenzie sent you. when that number is finally appropriated and the president signs it into law and it could be 2016 when it happens and it could be lower than the total amount than this week. and that means contracts are held in obeyance and things are deferred and in anticipation of the uncertainty on capitol hill. and even when the money is approved, there is a debate about how much more readiness certain components or services are needed, particularly right now. for the readiness right now there are pockets of in credibly high readiness at the d.o.d. and that is good but you can only pour so much money into readiness without wasting it. some of the readiness are in large-scale maneuver and longer term readiness and some of it is function of readiness. and some can't get through the national training center. we don't have another national training center and money isn't going to solve that problem. so the third consequence is what you can buy with that money and what is needed is modernization and wh

you can go to vegas and tell them mackenzie sent you. when that number is finally appropriated and the president signs it into law and it could be 2016 when it happens and it could be lower than the total amount than this week. and that means contracts are held in abeyance and things are deferred and in anticipation of the uncertainty on capitol hill. and even when the money is approved, there is a debate about how much more readiness certain components or services are needed, particularly right now. for the readiness right now there are pockets of incredibly high readiness at the d.o.d., and that is good, but you can only pour so much money into readiness without wasting it. some of the readiness are in large-scale maneuver and longer term readiness and some of it is function of readiness. and some can't get through the national training center. we don't have another national training center and money isn't going to solve that problem. so the third consequence is what you can buy with that money and what is needed is modernization and w

across the gloub originating in london a year later to new york city and san francisco thank to mackenziell. >> i knew there would be an appetite for something like that. >> an appetite for adults -- >> letting your inner child come out to play. >> -- kids you can comment you can't walk much less dance on your own two feet. even in this building even a security guard gets down. you turn into happy feet feet dressed in color. you can spot the rainbow everywhere from head to face to toe to no shoes needed. no alcohol either nap's a cup of coffee in her hand. here it's smoothies, not shot. this is a sober party >> it's fun event that if you need alcohol or drugs then you're not doing the party right. >> you don't need to be on anything. some fresh juice and you're good to go. >> once you're in you have four hours at your finger tips. leave whenever you want or whenever you have to. >> i was sk asking you what time it is because vi to go to work. i have to be there at 9:00. >> tons of friends are coming all the way from santa cruz just for the party. and then a couple of them drove back to sa

before that there was mackenzie phillips, tatum o'neal.he characters are different but it's the same thing as the years go on. we came up with a game to have fun with that idea. it's time to play it. it's called "generation gap." and my cousin sal is on hollywood boulevard. hello. cousin sal? >> sal: hello, cousin jimmy, what's happening? >> jimmy: introduce us to our contestants tonight. >> sal: tonight we have katy and jared and this lovely young lady. >> jimmy: hi, katy, how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> i'm from the desert, victorville. >> jimmy: if you don't mind how old a woman are you? >> i was 92 this month. >> jimmy: wow. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you seem very spry. let's go to your opponent now. his name is jared. jared, where are you from and how old are you? >> i live here in hollywood. i'm 15. >> jimmy: all right. that's perfect. this is why we call it "generation gap" because there is a gap between them. here's how it works. i will ask a question about something from your opponent'

so i asked htc's president yesterday jason mackenzie about the phone yesterday. >> if you don't havereat product, then your house is built on sand, right? so we built this m9 to be a great product first. it's not like many other products that look like they are made for mass production. we built a crafted device. it is beautiful. we are really selling a piece of jewelry with the htc it m9. we want it to be beautiful and we have done that with the htc m9. we have done that without compromising performance. so with the fast processor, that's in there as well. >> also replace the phone in the first year if you crack the screen or something like that. i also asked him about the htc new three-prong strategy for growth. >> not only are we delivering great smartphones but we're expanding to other categories and focusing on a few key areas. one is health and fitness and we partner with under armor, a great brand to attack that segment to that category together. you'll see big stuff there. the other is really in virtual reality. and gaming is really kind of where that's going to start. that's

david mackenzie, thanks for bringi bringing that to us. >>> one of four men arrested in the murder of critic of putin is a former police officer. four are accused in the assassination of boris nemtsov. grainy video captured his attack. nemtsov is one of russia's most prominent offensive figures walking home with his girlfriend when a gunman fired four shots into his back steps from the kremlin. tony brenton reacted to the news and talked about a possible motivate. i would guess -- obviously, i don't know -- but if you're shopping for a hit man in russia today is the place you go is the north chechen in particular where lots of outraleigh and lots of guns for hire. my guess is if these guys did it were probably hired by someone further back, rather than themselves initiating the crime. >> we know that all four suspects are ethnic chechens and two of them are brothers. >>> president obama is talking for the first time about the e-mail controversy swirling around his former top diplomat. hillary clinton, however, she is not talking. is that going to help her? is that going to hurt her? w

handoff to rachel hoff, who will introduce and moderate a discussion by a panel of experts featuring mackenzie eaglen, david adesnik, and douglas j. holtz-eakin. first, it's my pleasure to welcome the keynote speaker. senator tom cotton was raised on his family's farm in arkansas and he attended harvard and harvard law school. after a clerkship, he entered private practice. like all of us, his life was disrupted by september 11, 2001. in response, he left and joined the army to serve as an infantry

buying wood mackenzie for $2.8 billion in cash.king cutting soda from its kids meals following similar steps by mcdonald's and wendy's. they will include apple juice fat-free milk and low-fat chocolate melt. -- chocolate milk. shares from it tells down a bit in the premarket after yesterday's monthly global sales were the worst in over a decade. february sales down 4%. steve easterbrook faces more challenges we are joined by vanessa long. -- vanessa waong. >> mcdonald's is in this position where it is trying to redefine itself. they are picking words like progressive and modern. it is not clear what this means. they have a lot of initiatives going on that might suggest where they are headed more digital marketing, social media campaigns taking questions from their customers and answering any concerns about food safety on twitter. betty: the have taken 4000 questions? vanessa: 40,000 questions since the fall. a lot of it is repetitive. is your beef real? are your nuggets real? betty: criticism framed in the form of a question. in th

matt: jason mackenzie thank you for joining us.o longer mean you are on holiday from hell. we will talk about it. matt: have you seen the movie? alix: i'm afraid of scary movies and haven't done it. matt: don't watch it, then. ♪ matt: hostels conjure images of thin mattresses and smelly roommates. but the fast-growing hostile chain promotes stylish and contemporary affordable accommodations with an eye toward social media. here to talk about it is the chief strategic operator at generator hostels. i find this idea fascinating. i feel like this is what the kids are doing. you can tweet and that is your aim? >> the aim is to do lifestyle hotels and boutique hotels of always done. bringing the price down for the millenial traveler and empty-nesters. matt: you don't hear as much about this in the hotel business. josh: they're trying to share fun with all of their friends. that is what generator and other hostels that are coming onto the segment are offering. it is an exciting time and is very innovative. alix: are you 25 euros a night

a right answer, and yet we need some way to cocontrol this cost growth because ultimately -- and mackenzie said it quite well in a number of other pieces -- you know, we have these two binding obligations to the troops, both to compensate them appropriately because they've given up careers in other fields, and to make sure when they go out there they have the best equipment. we want to satisfy both all the time, but we're increasingly at the point where proper compensation is muscling out those other parts of the budget. michelle flournoy, undersecretary of defense for president obama, she talks about it as her own personal experience as a navy wife. the benefits are important in terms of pension, health and other things, but she's also potentially a navy mom with a son going in, i believe to annapolis, and she said that concerns me far more. i'm much more worried about my son and his units having all the right units and equipment they need to accomplish the mission and survive than i am about a marginal decrease in the benefits. but it's politically difficult. that's not often what a cong

as the buzz in barcelona dies down, tom mackenzie looks at some of the weird and wonderful gadgets youdidn't hear about at this year's event. >> mobile world congress is coming to an end. we have seen the smart watches and smartphones. what we haven't seen is this johnny walker blue label. it has some pretty smart tech built into its label. it allows the buyer to find out all sorts of things about whether or not this is a genuine bottle of johnny walker blue. it will also give you a list of recipes. that's what you get. this is an iris scanner. i'm registered on this phone. when i look at it, it scans my irises and within a few seconds it opens the phone. this is just a prototype. from the security obsessed to the self obsessed, you can get a 3-d printed image of yourself the thanks to this -- of your selfie thanks to this. this is how it works. i hope this out, press start move it around like so. this is what is captured from the scan. then it moves on to the next screen. this is the image of lucas' face. we upload that to the printer where it is printed out. it takes about five hours

handoff to rachel hoff, who will introduce and moderate a discussion by a panel of experts featuring mackenzie eaglen, david adesnik, and douglas j. holtz-eakin. first, it's my pleasure to welcome the keynote speaker. senator tom cotton was raised on his family's farm in arkansas and he attended harvard and harvard law school. after a clerkship, he entered private practice. like all of us, his life was disrupted by september 11, 2001. in response, he left and joined the army to serve as an infantry officer. he was deployed to iraq and served in the 101st airborne division and a reconstruction team in afghanistan. between his tours, senator cotton served at arlington national cemetery. after his military career, senator cotton served briefly in the private sector and was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 2012. last year, he was elected to serve in the u.s. senate. now serves on the senate committees on banking, intelligence, and armed services. he is the chairman of the armed services committee -- the subcommittee. his maiden speech delivered last week, senator cotton warned we ha

>>reporter: if you're planning to go to the sierra we do have a winter weather advisory mackenzie betweenand done this a few pockets of land over to the reason the system has showers move went through your reconfirm for as yet ready to leave for work is done in plant on a few isolated showers were at your umbrella and give yourself extra typhus for a few thoughts of removing from the area just off to the south of moscow sells for as an officer of the west and a few more showers is off to the east a summit else for moving off into the southeast and direction for a corridor you see a few isolated showers this morning is off to the north east of boulder creek living in pleasanton rich we do have a few isolated showers over their fear could be heavier at times the sea around 84 fax 680. >>reporter: a few isolated showers across the north backing be heavy at times of the edge of respecting we definitely need across the area and it will only last about 10:00 a.m. and grammar not this afternoon a cloudy sky still dark outside as a folk. --sfo >>reporter: looking into since 7:00 shower changes ma