i spoke with congresswoman renee ellmers by phone this afternoon and she says she's taking her gloves off to continue the fight. ellemers says she was outraged by one of the suggestions the air force offered to make sure airborne training continues at fort bragg. "we have heard that they are planning busing a number of the paratroopers from fort bragg all the way to charleston to get on aircraft there and then be flown back over fort bragg and dropped. now that is absolutely ridiculous." the letter from the air force says there is a gg and dropped. that is absolutely ridiculous. >> the letter from the airport says there's a review period to deactivate the unit. meanwhile, the majority of the service will have to find other milt insulations and move families to those locations. she's not fiving up the fight. she has a schedule to fort bragg on monday. after that, she's headed to the pentagon to get to the bottom of this. she want to make sure the troops stay safe and have the equipment needed to do so. >>> vice president joe buy deb is headed to the -- biden is headed to the tri angle.

. -- representative renee ellmers. senator thom tillis -- i will do everything i can to help stop the president's plan. but not everyone wants it stop. >> this is a type of punishment we probably do not want jon: some would rather have the terrorists moved to domestic prisons rather than having guantanamo bay state open and continuing to sustain america from legacy. >> we do not play that game anymore. tisha: the president has been to close guantanamo. what is the holdup? what is different this time? jon: the president needs money. board. as for what is different -- there are fewer prisoners to move and the president did add some detail to his plan, but most still believe it is a heavy lift for mr. obama. tisha: still a battle ahead. jon, thank you. steve: the publix grocery store debate is backed up. with stiff resistance by residents. on thursday, the town council will consider a change to a rezoning request. they are still months away from a final discussion. a vote in charlotte could lead to a new law across north

commanders to ensure troops readiness, and we just received a fiery statement from representative renee ellmers. she says she is done playing nice, that the air force unapologetically marched forward has shown disdain to the voices of the fayetteville community. she will be meeting with fort bragg leadership on monday. they will be fighting the delegation for the next 90 days to get more answers on this, perhaps put a stop to it, but this letter pretty much confirms that the unit will be deactivated. >> it does sound like a fight here thank you. drama in a wake county courtroom today. only the judge, jurors, attorneys, and essential courtroom personnel know the outcome. it happened in a trial of amman accused -- a man accused of murdering a young raleigh mother. we know this had to do with the jailhouse informant. what happened? >> prosecutors have been saying they were concerned about protecting the identity of the witness because of gang threats >> i don't know that there is any other way to get around that being a situation which would identify him other than just to ask him and not to broad

i want to give special thanks to our colleagues, renee ellmers of north carolina, diane degette of coloradomike pompeo of kansas, doris matsui of california and mr. charles dent of pennsylvania for their work on this piece of legislation and at this time i would like to yield to the gentlelady from north carolina, mrs. ellmers, five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. mrs. ellmers: thank you. i thank the chairman for yielding to me on this specific issue and leading our subcommittee in energy and commerce as well. mr. speaker, i rise today to urge my colleagues to support h.r. 4444, the e.p.s. improvement act of 2016. this bipartisan bill that would provide certainty to north carolina lighting manufacturers that provide over 3,000 jobs in my home state. h.r. 4444 will resolve the underlying issues of the department of energy external power supply rule. in 2005, congress directed the department of energy to develop energy efficiency standards for external power supplies. the d.o.e. initially stated that products intened to be covered by these stan