this ndaa is a compromise. i'm disappointed we couldn't reverse the ban on very versusing the president's transgender ban. this n dmp aa gets the job done and i urge my colleagues to support it and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the co-author along with mr. cooper of the spaceforce provision, the gentleman from alabama, mr. rogers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. rogers: i thank the ranking member and chairman smith in bringing this conference report to the floor. i'm very pleased that spaceforce that jim cooper and i have been working on is finally becoming a reality. this report establishes the u.s. spaceforce as the sixth armed service of the united states under the department of the air force and first new branch of the military since 1947. it also recognizes space as a warfighting domain and transfers personnel to the spaceforce.

the budget point of order on the ndaa is primarily caused by three provisions, mr. president, first repealing the widows tax that is phased in over three years, we talked about that, that is part of the point of order, secondly giving visaings -- visas to afghans and allowing the military to file claims for medical malpractice. tall three have significant bipartisan support. the widows tax has 76 cosponsors in the senate and 383 in the house. a vote in this chamber in late september to instruct conference on the widows tax passed 94-0. you might keep that in mind anyone now who talks now about opposing it, they kiewlly voted for -- they actually voted for it back in september. as i mentioned in my remarks last night. i started to work to repeal the widows tax after being inspired by one of my personal heroes, a young lady named jane horton. i can remember back in september of 2011, i was in a little town north of tulsa, oklahoma, collegeville, oklahoma, i was talking to people there and going around speaking with our constituents. and i recall that that's when i fir

i don't think you need ndaa language for that. is that something that each of the services are looking to do because, you know, they are at a depression level unemployment as well. this is something we've been working on this committee as well related to military spouse employment, but pretty quickly i bet you would have a number of military spouses who would love to serve in that role. i'd love to hear from each of the services whether that's a priority. >> secretary esper prioritized that early on in his tenure to give the opportunities for military spouses to have preference for hiring opportunities on the inns la igs. >> are there positions that are open that are unfilled right now, though, that could quickly be used -- be filled with military spouses? any of the other services want to jump in? >> senator, we've added 300 additional positions and this is one of the problems that we discovered in our discovery this last year was that to your point we didn't feel like we had enough advocates out there and so we're adding 300. we

i ask my colleagues to stop indulging in this political theet earn pass the ndaa. mr. speaker, i yield back the alance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon toda host: speaker pelosi is coming up. pelosi: where the founders began in 1776. in the course of human

we're continuing to pass the ndaa every year. it supports a bipartisan national security of our country and should not be held hostage by issues outside this commitee's jurisdiction. unfortunately because of issues that are not in the senate armed services committee jurisdiction, this year's ndaa is not yet resolved, which means only leadership can clear up this logjam that's out there. otherwise, likelihood is greater now than it was. we're out of time and i didn't mean to deviate from the subjects of this committee hearing but i think it's very important that we bring this up as a critical thing that's taking place right now. i hope we can move past these issues so we can determine -- we can remain focused on the promises we made to those who serve our country and get the ndaa signed into law. that should be our priority and it is. with that, i would like to recognize the military families who have traveled here today to seek answers from you and we'd like to have -- they're in the back of the room. i want all families that hav

john: first question i want to ask about is the national defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. a marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u.s. military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. china and russia are endangering military satellites in space. we know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why it's important to have a separate organization created, why the air force

john: first question i want to ask about is the national defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. a marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u.s. military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy.

trump: today's signing of the 2020 ndaa is a watershed event in the truest sense of the word.came into office, the military endured deep and devastating budget cuts. our military, quite frankly, was depleted. as a candidate for president, i promised to reverse these crippling cuts, and to ensure our military remains unrivaled anywhere in the world. and right now, there is no one, there is no country, that comes even close. [applause] pres. trump: the law i am signing today provides $738 billion -- that is with a b -- $738 billion in defense spending for the 2020. that is on all-time record in the history of our country. that is the highest amount we have ever spent on our military, and that is after $700 billion in my first year and $716 billion last year. and it is all made right here in the usa very important. [applause] pres. trump: and i have to say that we make the finest equipment, the finest planes, the finest missiles, the finest ships. we make the finest equipment anywhere in the world. this brings our total investment in national defense since my inauguration to almo

in the previous ndaa. so, again, don't get me wrong, my point is very simple. there may be big politics, there may be big turmoil, but the strategic nature of our relationship with the united states remains unshattered and we will be moving forward. >> one last question, please. >> president trump has argued on multiple occasions that european countries aren't giving enough support to ukraine and are expecting the u.s. to pick up the tab and that they aren't supporting you enough. do you agree with that assessment given your position? >> we -- it is true to say that the united states has been the most consistent and, you know, serious supporter of ukraine in the defense and security sectors. we have received substantial assistance and support from the european union and we greatly appreciate that. but you know, enough is never enough. we would love to have more support coming to us because we believe that we're doing a very good job in forming the country amid the conflict in eastern ukraine and the occupi

this week the senate and house conference committee just released their ndaa conference report. i'm deeply disappointed they did not include our amendment. this is a major missed opportunity to take back our authority, a missed opportunity to stop the expansion of war and u.s. interventionism in the middle east. another terrible missed opportunity is the ndaa's failure to include a provision to eliminate u.s. support for saudi arabia's disastrous war in yemen. under the authority of the 2001 aumf, our troops are supporting saudi arabia in its war against the insurgent houthi. but the houthi are also fighting al qaeda, the actual target of the 9/11 aumf, so we are fighting a group fighting against al qaeda. this is a prime example of the misuse of this authorization. and the human cost is horrific. since 2015, more than 100,000 people have been killed in yemen, including more than 12,000 yemeni citizens, more than 20 million yemenis need humanitarian aid. there is no compelling national security interest in aiding the saudis in this war. we should not lend support to a war that t

chairman reed have made strides on our bipartisan ndaa. i would implore my democratic friends, please stop gambling our national security on the roulette wheel of domestic politics. please stop that. stop putting political theater ahead of our troops. we all know this is a heated political moment, but domestic politics do not excuse our men and women in uniform from doing their duties so they cannot excuse our democratic colleagues from doing theirs. our service members need congress to have their backs. we can only fund the government if it's bipartisan. we can only pass an ndaa if it's bipartisan. the road maps are in hand. we have the same traditions that have yielded 58 bipartisan ndaa's in a row. we have the bipartisan agreement that everyone signed just a few months ago when speaker pelosi and the democratic leader promised in writing, in writing they wouldn't throw partisan wrenches into appropriations. our country can't afford for democrats to obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else. so look, let's use these road maps.

the ndaa operates the resources to keep crucial installations like fort campbell and fort knox running smoothly. it is similarly important to many of our facilities in our colleagues' home states as well, and it directs readiness efforts, prioritizes research and programs and. so i look forward to sending the final bipartisan product of the the -- to the conference committee. in addition, congress, of course, needs to actually appropriate funds for our national defense and for all other functions of our federal government. just a niewntsdzs ago -- months ago when leaders put together a bipartisan, bicameral road map for the appropriations process, it looked like we would keep partisan disputes out of the process and finish up the appropriations with time to spare. unfortunately, our democratic colleagues decided that picking fights with the white house was a higher priority, and we went the autumn mired in disputes in the kinds of poison pills that the speaker and democratic leader promised would be off limits. as we speak, chairman shelby, and appropriators in both chambers, are tryin

thank you for bringing up the ndaa. it includes a provision that add coast defense missiles to categories that are appropriate for security stance for ukraine. did that come up in conversations in washington and particularly are you finding support from that, from the executive branch? >> yeah. you know that we already received two islander in the sense that nga is adopted, the president will sign it and we will be working with the administration on making sure that those provisions become reality. >> thank you. >>> i'm rudy porter from the solidarity center. the problem of oligarch control of the economy in ukraine is well-known. your two top priorities that you listed of making it possible to sell off land and to sell allstate-owned enterprises, my guess is many of the oligarchs are more than happy to start pulling out their checkbooks. how do you make this plan something other than a major gift to existing oligarchs? >> thank you for the he q. it is not easy to fight oligarchs. you are right. they have a lot of influ

law, just to clarify for people who don't follow this the way you do, and what was tucked inside the ndaa weeks of leave for a person who gave birth, a woman or her partner, or if they adopted or a foster caregiver. and with that, though, this was tucked inside in a way that some republican senators said they didn't get to fully vest this. they have highlighted some flaws in it that the f.a.a. or t.s.a. or people who work at the v.a., the veterans agency won't receive full benefits. can you guarantee for all government workers that that will be fixed, that they will all receive 12 weeks? >> the t.s.a. is a flaw that applies to basically every benefit that members of congress on both sides of the aisle have been working to fix. so it's not specific to this particular benefit. this applies to the full federal workforce, understanding that that is a meaningful glitch that has applied to many, many things for many, many years and that we're working to fix. >> brennan: will contractors get to receive the benefits? i think four out of ten people who work for the government are contractors? >> i

to move the ndaa forward. it's important for the widow's tax. mr. speaker, it's important for so many other things absolutely essential to the defense of this country. it's been one of those bills that we've come together in a way to be successful on decade after decade after thede, and it is a stain on success of the house this cycle that we've not been able and the we've not been able to move forward in a bipartisan way. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous of myt to insert the text amendment and any extraneous material immediately prior to he vote on the previous question. in the same way i can't speak to insider trading in that than the n any better gentleman from connecticut does, as a member of jurisdiction, i lso cannot speak to the ndaa any finer -- any better words than my friend from wyoming, ms. former member of the rules committee, the conference the house r republicans here and an defender of providing the very best for our men and women in uniform. i'd like to yield five minutes to the gentlelady from wy

[applause] the 2020 ndaa protects the legal tools we need to defend america's borders, it protects childcarevate housing for military families and ends the so-called widow's tax, which blocked benefits for the families of fallen heroes. that is gone. [applause] it was very important. that was very important to us, widow's taxes. god. after years of unrealized promises by other politicians, i honor my commitment today as i signed paid parental leave for the federal civilian workforce. [applause] that is into law. so thank you very much, i would say that is a very big thing. paid parental leave, another thing they have been trying to get for many years. as we head into christmas, i'm proud to report we are giving every soldier, sailor, air man, coast guardsmen and marine a well-earned payraise. in january, each of you will see the largest increase that you have had in such a long time. in fact, it goes back so far that a lot of people don't even know what that date is. i can just tell you, it is a lot of money. i say it again, if you would like not to take it, you would like to make a donation

that was just in the ndaa that passed this week. there are 12 proposals bills that we have been working on for months. i'm glad the house has finally come to a decision to be able to work through this impeachment process, we can actually get on to the 12 appropriation bills because they affect a lot of things for oklahoma. appropriation bills that are moving through tomorrow will have things like $50 million for medical student education that is really important to us for the university of oklahoma and oklahoma state university in the awards that they have received from medical education. we have been through our share of disasters this year and flooding in oklahoma. the funding to be able to continue those grants and that process is in this set of bills. we have $710 million for safer grants. that deals with fire departments throughout the states. incredibly important because they are the first responders to acts of terrorism. the ag bill itself is moving through right now and deals with a lot of the disaster supplementals that are

in speaking against h.r. 3, the ndaa which is also included in this legislation, i do support. the guest worker bill, i cannot support. with that, mr. speaker, i urge a no vote on the previous question. let's take up the amendment on the excise tax on medical devices and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. shalala: i yield myself the remainder of my time. iment gentlewoman is recognized. ms. shalala: we heard doomsday predictions from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. mr. speaker, if i thought this bill would slow down or eliminate our brilliant biomedical research and development enterprise, i would not support it. nothing could be further from the truth. the truth is that much of our drug innovation starts with our own government-funded research, paid for by the taxpayers, either at the national institutes of health or at our great research universities, two of which i have led. this bill provides critical additional investments in n.i.h., $10 billion to extend re

seth and i, i remember communicating with that light which came out in the ndaa and we watched it we didn't see much coming out into the press, didn't see much attention being given to it so we decided we with get some attention to. another reason to do this study was the national security strategy that came out in the early months, i think january, 2018, 2018, had a very big idea in it. that very big idea was the united states posture for conventional deterrence would move from that of deterrence by punishment to deterrence by denial. these are very different ways of attempting to deter conventionally. in the one, the aggressor obtains some level of success in their objectives, and that, the threat of being pounded into submission by the cavalry coming over the horizon is thought to be enough to dissuade them. the other is deterrence by denial, in which forces that are present are sufficiently lethal and capable to keep the opponent from the aggression in the first place. because when you look at geography in the region will look at in the western pacific, because there are so many

they had passed the ndaa, a defense authorization bill. had one moderate member who had passed this very sort of arcane bill that was tucked into the ndaa that he couldn't stop talking about because it helped his district. that's the kind of messaging you're going to hear from democrats who have to win over the independent voters. they're not going to be talking about impeachment. the economy is the bigger deal back home. >> the question is who can make that argument most effectively in 2020. we'll review the biggest political stories of 2019. stay with us. need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites and lets you filter by take-off time, layovers and more, so you can be confident you're getting the right flight at the best price. ♪ kayak. search one and done. being prepared is a part of who you are. but it's especially important in the case of a disaster. be informed about possible emergencies in your area. make a plan that covers where you'll go in an emergency. build a kit with the things you need to survive. there

the ndaa helps guide the pentagon's investments in modernization and readiness, cutting-edge weapons and capabilities and in service members and military families. and i'm grateful for the efforts of chairman inhofe and ranking member reed, who made compromises from the beginning and worked hard to ensure the conference report remain true to the 58-year tradition of a bipartisan bill that prioritizes our military and sets aside unrelated partisan priorities. i cannot say the same thing about democrats in the house, unfortunately, but i hope they will learn from this year's difficult path to a conference report and next year i hope they can produce a bipartisan bill from the beginning that puts our national security interest first. now, obviously that authorizing legislation should be paired with the appropriations measure that will actually fund our service members tools and training and enable our commanders to actually plan ahead. i'm grateful for the hard work of chairman shelby, his counterpart in the house and our subcommittee chairs to reboot a stalled appropriations process an

i think if you look at what happened in the last two weeks with the ndaa, there is the paid parentalve in the ndaa and modernizing the military and a 3.1% pay raise for the military families and also did the future act where we permanently fund hbcu and minority serving institutions and a deal reached on usmca where the president did a great job of negotiating that and democrats in the house made it even better. there is a lot that goes on but it is lost in the shuffle of mainstream media and social media that we talk about the partisan divide but the fact is a lot of people reaching across the aisle to try to figure out the ways to get things done for the country and i think if you look at what happened in the last two weeks, aside from impeachment, there was a lot of great things for the american people. >> senator doug jones of alabama, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >>> smaller stage, bigger fights. why a battle over a wine cave took center stage in the democratic debate. there are countless people working to help them get there. thank you to e

it passed the house last week and included in the ndaa is a provision that would provide 12 weeks of for all federal workers. millions of people who did not have it before. the president has said he will sign the bill. no word yet on when exactly that would happen. remember, his daughter is a big supporter of this as well, ivanka trump. again, this is a big deal. supporters hope that businesses across the country will follow the federal government's lead and provide paid parental leave for all americans. after all, the federal government is the largest employer in the united states. joining me now chrissie houlihan, one of the lawmakers credited with making this happen. i'm going to put impeachment to the side for a moment and talk about how you were able to get this into the ndaa and what it's going to mean. >> thank you so much for having me and for allowing us the conversation of good news coming from washington. we have an amazing course of events whereby both parties bipartisanly have come together with the support of our president to support 2.1 million people having paid paren

bill we saw the same thing happening on the ndaa when we did several things that were in the purview our committee that were added to that bill having nothing to do with the military but it was going in town, so add your bill on top of it. of them bills, three had absolutely no hearings whatsoever. been added on here. we're going to try and do this system ss the entire which is the way you're supposed slating in leblg this body. one -- legislating in this body. ne of them, i guess close enough for government worker highway, but the problem that we do simply have is there are so potential problems to this bill. now, two of these bills that this have dded to some specific issues, which we will talk about in the course of the discussion that we have on the bill. of them dealing with, once again, whether a city is the same thing as a state for planning.nagement one of them will also be doing with some of the programs that mandatory under this articular -- this particular faldaral of legislation that's been cobbled together as if this was a good, bright, approach to try america. problems

they're holding up, holding up the ndaa over unrelated nongermane left-wing wish list items. and meanwhile, the speaker, the democratic leader, are withholding their assent from important bipartisan provisions like the caesar syria civilian protection act which has previously passed both houses and has been modified to resolve all concerns by the committees of jurisdiction. unlike the democratic leader's rhetoric on syria in recent weeks, this bill would actually do something to stand up for the syrian people and hold assad accountable. i hope the democratic leader will allow this important demonstration of our support for the syrian people to go forward. in the meantime, as if to underscore the democrats' top priority is performance art for coastal elites and not the people's business. i understand the speaker of the house spent part of this weekend in madrid, in madrid, talking about climate change. she took an international flight to discuss carbon emissions. so the speaker was in spain lamenting president trump's decision to pull us out of the paris agreement. maybe she p

the right thing to do it's such a right thing to do we should have been spending our time doing the ndaa which is much more successful and more important to the military, that should have been passed months ago, that's how important this particular topic. is i'm not opposed to it, it is once again redundant. and we're already doing that. there's nothing that stops us from doing that. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from virginia is recognized. mrs. luria: i yield one minute to the gentleman from hawaii. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> i applaud the sponsor of this amendment, my colleague from the beautiful and critical virginia coast. everything she said in her remarks could easily have applied to many, many of our military installations across the country. of course, hampton roads is critical to our nation's defense and so is joint base pearl harbor, home of our air force and navy in the indoe pacific. - indopacific. my colleague knows our military has taken the lead in assessing the effects of climate change on our militar

first question i want to ask about is the national defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. a marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u.s. military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. china and russia are endangering military satellites in space. we know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why it's important to have a separate organization created, why the air force doesn't have the resources or commitment to get it done. >> the place to start is the importance of space for our daily lives as americans. one of the examples i use is every time you fill up your car to pay at the pump, the pump connects to a satellite to verify your credit card before you put gas into the car. every transaction on the new york stock exchange is timed to the gps satellites. you go through example after example of how our economy and daily life is dependent upon space. as you point out, adversaries such as russia and china have made incredible progress, pa

ndaa also authorizes a 3% increase in pay through our service members, the largest in a decade. this is a well-deserved pay raise for the men and women of the military who continue to make sacrifices for the nation. it will also help to recruit the country's best talent. additionally, there are a number of important provisions directed towards one of my top priorities, taking care of military families. the force and follow through on our commitment to take care of service members and their families. as i've said many times, continuing resolutions cause these are all very important for the force and follow through on our commitment to take care of service members and their families. as i've said many times, continuing resolutions cause great harm to military readiness. we are looking forward to beginning a number of important modernization programs in areas such as hypersonic weapons and others that have been held back because of this continuing resolution. as we close out 2019, i am happy with the progress we have made this year. i personally have traveled to the indo pacific to

and while we are looking at other components of the ndaa, tennesseans have been very concerned and are very pleased, i will say, about what has transpired with oak ridge national labs and y-12. oak ridge is a treasure for our nation, and much of the research in super computing and hypersonics is being done there. also in the senate this year we have -- we're paying attention to the implementation of legislation very important to our songwriters. i know, madam president, you've heard me say time and again that middle tennessee he, nashville, is -- middle tennessee, nashville is one of the most creative places on earth and home to more songwriters than anywhere on the face of the earth and the music modernization act will make sure that nashville's songwriters will be paid fairly for the songs they are creating. these are all the things that we have worked hard on and we see these as priorities. when it comes to a legislative agenda that has taken much of my time, i started this term in the senate working on some things that protect the unborn, much as i had done in my service in the hou

lastly, it's possible the house consider the ndaa conference report. aser legislation is possible well as we come to the close of this first session of the congress of the united states. and i yield back. >> thank you, gentlemen, for back.ng i would like to ask -- i know there are a lot of good faith negotiations that continue on u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. productivehaving conversations, meetings, some potential changes that i know negotiate -- we're negotiating with the other countries involved as well. have any ideaeman if we may be close to bringing u.s. mca to the floor for a vote? >> the answer is i hope so. we have made some proposals back. mr. neil. talked to represents from the mexican government about this therepresentatives of canadian government about the enforcement issue, which has been somewhat the holdup. the gentleman knows, both the nafta. and i voted for we believe that what is being worked on now is an improvement nafta. but it's only an improvement if you can enforce its provisions. knows, over the last two decades-plus, th

lastly it's possible the house will consider the ndaa conference report. other legislation is possible as well as we come to the close of this first session of the congress of the united states. i yield back. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for yielding back. i would like to ask, i know there were a lot of good faith gerkses that continue on the united states-mexico-canada trade agreement, usmca. we have been having productive conversations, meetings, some potential changes that i know we're negotiating with the other countries involved as well. does the gentleman have any idea if we may be close to bringing usmca to the floor for a vote? i yield. mr. hoyer: the answer is, i hope so. as the gentleman probably know, we have made some proposals back. mr. neal has talked to representatives of the mexican government about this, and representatives of the canadian government about the enforcement issue which has been somewhat the holdup. as the gentleman knows, both the speaker and i voted for nafta. we believe that what is being worked on now is an improvem

hastings: wherever it is, is it in the ndaa? >> i don't know. mr. hastings: i want to go back gain to the federal aviation employees. there are 35,000 of them. and yes -- >> i just want to suggest the -- it is not unusual that we have extraneous matter carried in the appropriations bill but they're all being negotiated or have been negotiated in a bipartisan, bicameral manner and the appropriate authorizing committee can provide you with more information about the details of each of these provisions. we'll ertainly will -- pass them on. mr. hastings: that's deeply appreciated. i'll file a standalone and watch it go through as well. mr. mcgovern: mr. cole. mr. cole: first i ask unanimous consent that, our colleague, mr. carter, kohn make it, can his statement as ranking member be entered? mr. mcgovern: without objection. mr. cole: i sit through hearings with all of these folks, i drink and smoke with all of them willing to drink and smoke with me, which is a considerable number. i want to testify to the great work they did. i have the great privilege

for months republicans have been calling for bipartisan solutions to the ndaa, to the appropriations process, and more. but only in the last couple of days here in mid-december, have our democratic colleagues gotten sufficiently serious about these must-pass bills. in the meantime, while we've waited on house democrats to act, the senate has made good use of our floor time to complete the american people's business with respect to nominations. last week alone the senate confirmed two executive branch nominations and put eight impressive justerrists on federal district courts. this week we considered yet another splait of president's well-qualified nominees. today the senate will consider john -- to serve as ambassador to the russian federation, stephen hahn to serve as commissioner of the food and drug administration, and aurelia skipwith of indiana to be director of the fish and wildlife service. we have nominated patrick j. bumatay. mr. patrick j. bumatay is a graduate of yale, practiced in the private sector and served in a variety of roles with the department of justice. mr. van

for the last 58 years, the ndaa, the national defense act, has passed with broad bipartisan support, but this year things took a little different turn. while we maintained historical norms here in the senate and passed the bill by a rollcall vote of 86-8, our house democrat colleagues took a different route. they managed to come up with a bill that was so partisan that not a single republican voted for it in the house. a party-line vote in the house may not be newsworthy but a party-line vote on the daschle bill is. after months of negotiations, senator inhofe, chairman of the armed services committee, senator reed, the ranking member, were able to work with their house counterparts to pass the bill. it is important because it will give our commanders the predictability they need as well as our troops the resources they have earned. it also authorizes $400 million for military construction projects in places like texas and 90 new f-35 joint strike fighters made in fort worth. overall the ndaa will benefit all of our service members and their families and our military bases, including

i'm told the pentagon is awaiting the passing of the ndaa and the final version of it, which will be some may have some impact on the bill of rights itself. but it will be forthcoming and it will in many ways deal with many of the issues we've heard here today. secondly, the question of the lease contracts themselves, we will push that all leases across the entire military reach the highest standard of any state lease. a homeowner's and tenants'laws and the highest standard. which i'm told might be massachusetts but i claim california. we'll see if any of the members think their tenant rights are better, north carolina, well, bring it forward and we will see. in any case, we will try to achieve, consistent with the multiplicity of contracts that do exist between the military and private housing providers. we'll make sure that the lease contracts protect the tenants. so the tenants will be in the first order. second, questions about metrics, how do we observe quality or lack thereof, those metrics are under review and i would ask any member that has ideas about what should be in those

nothing on usmcan or the ndaa, or funding for our armed forces. all impeachment, all the time. >> laura: i don't know i find his read to be funny. here is tony the special advisor to president trump. what is the white doing to prepare for this impeachment? >> what we have done obviously is make our case to the american people. the people did nothing wrong. we went through 2 weeks of democrats who proved nothing impeachable was done. none of this was evidence nor fact. our legal team has been working on this. we anticipated that politics would get the best of nancy pelosi and adam schiff. they can't help themselves. they are filled with personal animosity to the president and can't get over the 2016 election results and want to interfere with the 2020 results. >> laura: nancy pelosi was asked specifically about this tonight. watch. >> if donald trump is reelected and continues to behave with disregard for truth, human dignity and the law what recourse will the house have since the impeachment process would have already taken place? >> let's not eve

usmca, china, investment in our military, over $700 billion, more resources, more respect, ndaa, paid family leave, who knows what he'll do tomorrow. jesse: kellyanne conway, go, eagles. >> thank you. bye-bye. jesse: we've heard some insane things from democrats about impeachment, but this one from congressman al green takes the cake. >> we have to deal with the original sin. we have to deal with slavery. slavery was the thing that put all of what president trump has done lately into motion. jesse: slavery is an article of impeachment now. joining me with reaction, former trump campaign manager corey lieu lewandowski, candace owens. khan case, i don't even know what to say to al green. remember, he's the same guy who said we have to 'em peach him because we can't beat him. >> i hate to be the person to tell america, but abraham lincoln is not the president of the united states. we cannot impeach trump over slavery. the impeachment cannot be about slavery. at this point the democrats are playing a game of mad libs. you can pretty and they're on the cusp of losing the majority of the ho

. >> the 2020 ndaa is a watershed event in the truest sense of the word. before i came into office the military endured deep and devastating budget cuts. our military, quite frankly, was very depleted. >> that bill authorizes the creation of a sixth branch of the military, the space force. and parental leave for workers. we'll see the president when he folks add 5:00 this afternoon around the corner at west palm beach at the annual turning point usa action committee. back to you. ed: the key hours ahead for the president. thank you for starting us off. new controversy among some in the president's political base after what was published what might seen as a scathing editorial, saying that trump should be removed from office. are an arguing that the nation faces this with the president. and radical left nonbeliever than him in office. graham's son franklin slammed the magazine for even invoking his father's name. >> my father knew donald trump, believed in donald trump and in this last election, he voted for donald trump. and if he were here today, i'm sure