and former maxon president vicente fox discussing relations at the national press club in washington dc. life tuesday at 1 pm eastern on c-span two. the house next week takes up the annual defense authorization bill, we are joined by joe gould who is defense whose congressional reporter, tell us about some of the key programs and policies in this annual authorization bill. >> sure. earlier this month, the services committee marked up its version of the national defense authorization act, which is the annual policy bill, this year, adheres to the top line that was negotiated as part of the two-year budget deal, so it is $716 billion, which is a -- an increase from 2018, which is 700 billion. the mech there is a number of policy provisions, that also lays out the hardware and what kinds of numbers will be provided to the military, there is some 77 f 35's in the bill, to virginia class submarines, there is a 2.6% pay raise, an additional 16,000 troops, and there are some policy provisions in there as well. supportive of the administrations nuclear posture reviews, and it includes house

hospitality people working in bars and james restaurants and though i asked where the wage growth has been maxon and soon after that job growth is bad ways grow nonexistent the word for professional business services max the whole picture would be an absolute disaster mining utilities those are those are two of the big ones no no job growth in those max not right so as labor productivity continues to rise hourly compensation continues to fall right talk about that a little bit now the b.l.s. only comes out with the these are real waste reports every may so and as for a year and a half ago so we're going on. two years old here now but the last stats i had maxed was was the real wages that's that's inflation adjusted wages are down in seven out of the last eleven years and people keep expecting modell's to go out and buy houses when home prices which aren't even a c.p.a. you've rising and rising and rising real wages are declining and economists can fish for out why why people are buying oh well that chance or presumably it's dangerous to the stability of this consumer economy and political system

and former maxon president vicente fox discussing relations at the national press club in washington dc. life tuesday at 1 pm eastern on c-span two.