the appropriations spending debate continues. >> the focus is really on the house and senate appropriations committees. appropriations chairman richard shelby, the house appropriations chairman, they will be key. the house and senate here has to negotiate on spending bills that will provide updated funding levels for the federal government, so there needs to be some kind of compromise there. they have to meet and get on the same page. that being said, they historically have worked well together, so they will be key players to watch. in addition to that, another key player for next week would be senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how exactly is the senate going to proceed? will they start to take bills up on the floor or just head into informal consultation with the house? certainly the majority leader will be making decisions on that. financial emma covers issues for the politico. politico.com is where you can read her reporting and follow her on twitter. >> the house returns tuesday at noon for general speeches and legislative work begins at 2:00 p.m. you can watch live on c-span. the senate con

as the appropriations and spending debate continues. >> the focus is on the house and senate appropriations committees . senate appropriations chairman richard shelby, house appropriations chairwoman nita lowey, they are going to be key. the house and senate have to negotiate on spending bills that fundingvide updated levels for the federal government, so there needs to be some kind of compromise that. they have to meet and get on the same page. that said, they historically have worked really well together, so they will be key players to watch. in addition to that, another key player to watch for next week would be senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how exactly is the senate going to proceed on the spending bills that it is moving. will they start to take bills up formalfloor or head into conference negotiations at the house? kind of unclear the moment, but certainly, the majority leader will be making decisions on that. >> caitlin emma covers appropriations and budget issues for political. politico.com is where you can read her reporting. thanks so much. quickly house returns tuesday at noon for

the senate appropriations committee and that passing a spending bill for the pentagon and energy and water programs just yesterday. forwardbills are moving and the senate could take them up on the floor. >> you write about aid to ukraine, your article saying trump administration backs off on the ukraine military aid. what happened? caitlin: this has been very controversial as an issue in recent weeks. the trump administration has looked at foreign aid as a whole with a lot of scripting two. if u.s. the administration why, they say we want to ensure that the money is spent wisely overseas and other countries are paying their fair share. the story last month but when we received a tip the trump administration have frozen funds,0 million pot of these are a bipartisan pot of money. it clearly brought up a lot of it sparked an intense amount of bipartisan backlash. republican senators like senator lindsey graham, one of the president's top allies, warned that you should not be doing this. we found out the office of management and budget has listed -- lifted their hold on that fund. thatack

and appropriate under the statute that this information be shared with the appropriate committees of the united states senateand the aa the whistleblowers claim meas to be released in the appropriate congressional approe congressional committees and evaluated according to the law. not this president, no president can solicit a foreign country to further his own campaign. that is unacceptable under the constitution of the united states which i would remind my colleagues that we have sworn to uphold and defend. mr. president, i would yield the floor.

hardly a banner day for bipartisanship on capitol hill, the senate appropriations committee began workits first funding bill of the fall over the pentagon. negotiations hitting impasse almost immediately as democrats real against the decision to move an additional $3.6 billion for military construction to build the border wall. republicans accuse their colleagues of violating the spirit of the current two year budget deal. donald trump feels it is his biggest asset but some pundits are saying not so fast. is campaigning on the trump economy enough to win in 2020? we would hear from miss nevada next to was also running for congress. and need cash? you should know about the newday va home loan for veterans it lets you borrow up to 100 percent of your home's value. the newday va loan lets you refinance your mortgages, consolidate your credit card debt, put cash in the bank, and lower your payments over $600 a month. call today. and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. >> will have the number one economy anywhere in the world. and every time i meet a foreign leader, almo

the senate appropriations committee is putting together four of the bills tomorrow.here was a big fight yesterday between democrats and republicans. mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader, accused democrats putting in poison pills something outside the parameters of late july, early august. that will be issue. of all the issues going on behind the scenes. i mentioned impeachment and also the usmca. that something really hasn't moved is since they come back from recess. i was told by senior source they could have vote by end of the year. steny hoyer said something interesting in his press conference. if they could build enforcement into the agreement, not as a side deal, that would help get democrats across the finish line. that is a big difference how nafta was structured, where sidecars were never really enforced, neil. neil: chad pergram, thank you very much, on capitol hill. latest on "markets now." far cry from where we were 18 years ago when the markets didn't open up. the fear back then we could see recession accelerating. george bush had been in office, reall

it came in a senate appropriations committee markup and they announced that the military aid was nowink because we still don't know a lot about this story that gives republicans who don't want to be seen as crossing the president a little bit of cover, at least for now, in terms of speaking out against the president. and we saw some of the early reactions on capitol hill on friday, particularly after we saw more and more of these revelations from the journal and from other news organizations, and they say, look, the president is right, this is a partisan whistleblower. we'll clarify the president says he does not know who the whistleblower is, so i don't know how he knows that. but right now you're not seeing a lot of pushback from republicans because we're saying, look, was there an explicit quid pro quo? i'm not sure that matters ultimately at the end of the day but that's the line republicans are treading. >> that's the same line they would repeat if this were hillary clinton or barack obama, i'm sure. to the point, so we're in this climate now, we're approaching an election year.

chuck schumer left the senate to pass a resolution calling the whistleblower complaint against president trump regarding u.s. aid to ukraine be given to the appropriate senate committee. he made the announcement this morning.ct >> we continue to read reports containing additional information about the nature of president trumps phone calls with ukrainian president.he and his ministrations conduct weeks or months before the communications. we know someone inside the intelligence community found the presidents conduct alarming enough to warrant an official is a blower complaint. rme complaint was so alarming that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by president trump said that it was credible and urgent and a complaint that, by law, must be submitted to congress but this is not a discretionary moment. the law says this must be transmitted to congress. well, we still have not received whistleblower complaint in congress has been advised in writing by the inspector general of the intelligence community that the trump administration is preventing us from getting this report. later today i will request a unanimous consent of the senate to pass a r

senate calling for the whistleblower complaint against president trumps interaction with the ukraine president be given to appropriate senate committees. here's a look at what they had to say. b >> we continue to read reports

trump's request for $5 billion to fund the wall but the amendment was defeated in the senate appropriations committeeakers will continue to negotiate on the border wall funding issue before the short-term spending package expires nover 21. >>> let's get a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> remember last fall, it was very humid and warm and this is just the opposite and now we're dealing for the most part, it's hot and dry. i mean a flash drought has developed throughout much of the eastern half of the country. because for about the last month, it hasn't rained and it was just day after day of the brutal heat to. give you an idea, right here in atlanta, you walk outside, it is 78 degrees. it doesn't sound so bad if it was in the middle of the summer, that temperature is how it should be for your high in the afternoon. so your morning low, we're supposed to be kind of the coolest. is where your high temperature should be. and that's how out of whack we are. it does feel like august out there. in many areas and so we keep showing these map, the arrows here, in the orange, and th

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. >> mike: hardly a banner day for bipartisanship on capitol hill as the senate appropriations committeefunding billable fall covering the pentagon. the negotiations hit an impasse almost immediately as democrats railed against the president's decision to move an additional $3.6 billion for military construction to build his border wall while republicans accused their colleagues of violating the spirit of the current two-year budget deal. president trump feels it's his biggest asset but some pundits are saying not so fast, is campaigning on the trump economy enough to win in 2020? we will hear from miss nevada next, was also running for congress. ♪ (speaking japanese) where am i? (woman speaking french) are you crazy/nuts? cyclist: pip! pip! (woman speaking french) i'm here, look at me. it's completely your fault. (man speaking french) ok? it's me. it's my fault? no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. (pterodactyl screech) believe it. geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. ♪ ♪ this simple banana peel represents a bold i

in this and a proposed expanding the senate budget committee to include the chair and ranking members of the senate committee on appropriations and committee on finance. last, it would've required the house and senate budget committees to hold a a joint hearing on the fiscal state of the nation. someone so why not included in l recommendations the committee debated and considered many budget process reform proposals, if that include a to lift the earmark moratorium. earmarks are generally defined as any spending or tax provision that would benefit a specific entity or locality at our included in legislation at the request of a member. one house rules use the term earmark this is sometimes referred to as congressionally directed spending. in the early 2000s, earmarks begin to receive more scrutiny and to address growing concern in 2007 the house and senate adopted new chamber rules with the stated intention of bringing more transparency to the earmark process. those rules which are still in place require three things. first they require earmarks included in legislation and committee report language be disclosed. second they re

years of what we are called minibus appropriation bills, the process of having a house in senate appropriations committee continued to develop spending legislation like they historically have, but in packaging those bills together into small multi-built packages for congressional consideration which i think is an interesting compromise the that congress ns to have struck between making sure that it continues to work while also recognizing the political incentives that members have. >> thank you. i would like to thank the claremont institute and i know joe put a lot of work into these panels as well. i would also like to point out that the work of the claremont institute is important in many ways. the claremont is one of the best publications and political thought today and also point people to the online journal, the american mind. so here we are once again another a bsa, joy, oh, joy. congress is still declining. indeed i think it's declining at increasing rate, to put it i think more economic terms. regardless of who controls it, republicans, , democrats, or subdivision thereof. you wonder whether ther

fourth, i call upon the senate committees on foreign relations, appropriations, armed services, and the select committee on intelligence to immediately hold hearings on the president's purported use of security assistance to pressure ukraine to open an investigation into a political opponent. i urge chairman risch to fulfill his commitment to hold a hearing on russia and markup on russia sanctions soon. if president trump had used money to coerce another person to perform some corrupt action on his behalf, we would call it out for what it is -- extortion. are we just going to let the president of the united states extort foreign leaders? are we going to let him reshape american foreign policy to advance his own personal goals and political goals? is this not a gross abuse of presidential power? if not, then what is? these committees have a responsibility to ask these questions and they have a constitutional responsibility to do their job. the senate as a whole has an obligation to get to the bottom of this. do my republican colleagues really think it is okay to ask a foreign power to pu

what we've called mini bus appropriations bills, the process of having the house and senate appropriation committees continue to top spending legislation like they historically have but packaging these bills together into small multi-bill packages for congressional consideration which is an interesting compromise that congress seems to have struck, making sure it continues to work while also recognizing the political incentives that members face. >> thank you, joe. i know joe put a lot of work into these panels as well. i'd also like to point out the work of the institute is important in many ways. back there, one of the best publications in political thought today. i'd also point people to their, i guess, online journal, "the american mind." so, here we are once again. another apsa. joy, oh, joy. and congress is still declining. indeed, i think it's declining at increasing rate, to put it in -- i guess those are more economic terms. regardless of who controls it, republicans, democrats, or some division thereof. you wonder whether there's something maybe larger afoot. seemed to me that you can't re

senate appropriations committee will try to move four bills through committee in next week or two. we'll see if they sync up with the house for the remaining eight bills. here is the fly in the ointment. president trump started to go around congress, bypassing congress, moving around money for military construction projects to pay for his worder wall. you could see where members of congress from both sides of the aisle, neil might want to put restrictions in the spending bill from doing that the power of the purse according to the constitution goes to the congress. that is the problem they have with that. the other issue here is impeachment. house judiciary committee is going to try to formalize what they will look at in a mark-up session on thursday. this could incense the president, they can't come to any agreement what sorry. that will be real problem here. the other issue they have to work out is the usmca. there weren't many talks over the august recess. in fact i was told a couple point they might even get a piece of paper up here, formalizing that. that never happened. house

republican senator from south carolina, lindsey graham, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and sit at senate appropriation'sforeign relations and budget committee, always pleasure to have you. >> thank you. maria: first list talk ukraine for a moment, does the president have to worry about when he has phone call? >> can you imagine future presidents having a phone call with a foreign leader and winds up going to congress, if that's not executive privilege moment i don't know, what would be, so the foreign minister of the ukraine said there's no pressure, they got the money, nothing has happened, but here is something that really did surprise me, joe biden said everybody has looked at this and found nothing, who is everybody, nobody has looked at the ukraine , nobody has looked at the role that ukraine played in 2016 election, do you think the media in america would look at it and report on it if there was something bad for the bidens or they unduly interfered in 2016 election. here is what i'm calling for, calling for somebody in the justice department to look at all things ukraine, we looked at all things

republican senator from south carolina, lindsey graham, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and sit at senate appropriation'sforeign relations and budget committee, always pleasure to have you. >> thank you. maria: first list talk ukraine for a moment, does the president have to worry about when he has phone call? >> can you imagine future presidents having a phone call with a foreign leader and winds up going to congress, if that's not executive privilege moment i don't know, what would be, so the foreign minister of the ukraine said there's no pressure, they got the money, nothing has happened, but here is something that really did surprise me, joe biden said everybody has looked at this and found nothing, who is everybody, nobody has looked at the ukraine , nobody has looked at the role that ukraine played in 2016 election, do you think the media in america would look at it and report on it if there was something bad for the bidens or they unduly interfered in 2016 election. here is what i'm calling for, calling for somebody in the justice department to look at all things ukraine, we looked at all things

all 12 bills out of the appropriations committee. the senate did not do squat until september and that has been our biggest problem. in the time that is remaining, hopefully, they will get all their stuff done and they are able to get to a place where we can get this done. i am looking forward to a time when we get back to the way it is supposed to work. that is the process, where everyone can put amendments up. we did that in the house this time. having these short-term is noting resolutions good for this country. it is not a democratic or republican issue. it is showing what is wrong with how washington operates. rep. nadler: less than 10 minutes -- >> less than 10 newsmakers wit.akers >> we have seen a shift in the ideology of the democratic party and some of the most excited democratic voters -- you and i have spoken about how the american people maybe are even open to progressive ideas and people in washington realize. medicare for all, free college and higher education, is this a test case? are we proving the case by giving those ideas a

senate will act as jury. and our role as the solemn jurors of democracy demands that we place fidelity to the constitution above else. now on the appropriations committee. the business of the american people and the responsibilities of congress do not pause while the house perhaps to formally begin an impeachment inquiry. today, for example, the senate must pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the end of november and give appropriators time to complete the 12 appropriation bills. i expect the continuing resolution will pass this morning and head to the president's desk. that's the easy part. the hard part is getting the bipartisan appropriations process back on track here in the senate. senate republicans unilaterally departed from our bipartisan negotiations earlier this month by proposing to divert as much as $12 billion from military construction and health programs to the president's border wall. obviously that was a nonstarter with democrats and the republican leader and the leaders of the appropriations committee on the republican side had to know that. and, as yesterday's vote for the national emergency declaration sh

but that is what republicans on the appropriations committee proposed.t the senate wisely rejected that idea. there when he publicly leader is staying we are hurting the military. gimme a break. we are defending the military. how much does the majority leader think the american public will solo. they're taking money out of the military but in the wall. and when he says, that we are hurting the military. zero no, leader mcconnell you know hurting the military and we defended them. because we want the money to go to the military. not to the wall. and by the way, in that regard, leader mcconnell did not stick with the agreement. the agreement was not only on this but the bipartisan agreement on where the money on the defense side and the non-defense side would be distributed. instead of consulting democrats, they tried to jam something down arthur's spring taking money out of defense, out of headstart and other programs in the health and human services budget andl. putt into the wall. will that wasn't going to stand. and it i will not stand. leader mcconnell, i hope you've learned her less

office, you say, unless you do this, give me the dirt, i won't give you the senate-approved appropriations for your committee, that's a business of extortionlike shakedown and that could violate that statute. it's a stretch, but the camp aid finance thing seems much more clear, and the abuse of office, the impeachable offense stuff that's been talked about all day today, is where that derives from. so it could be illegal but an abuse of office at the same time. >> interesting. michael zeld in, thank you so much for joining us. >>> let's talk about the politics of this now. alana is a cnn political analyst. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, martin. >> alana, let me start with you. should the president be concerned about this new round of impeachment talk if the white house doesn't share the whistleblower content with congress and doesn't make a transcript of the call public? >> i certainly think adam schiff's comments this morning on the state of the union, i think it was, with jake tapper that he does believe that we've crossed the rubicon, in a sense. he's been wary of impeachment in the past, and a

by may 15th and he first session of congress, it would still be difficult for appropriation committee with the house and senate to have complete action on 12 bills before beginning of the next fiscal year. that is why, i would prefer iffy cooperation with speed split into half. you consider it in the first year and six in the second year. i must note, the committee proposal in the concurrent resolution during would allow for an annual appropriation bill to be triggered for each fiscal year. were expressing my own ignorance of the committee's thinking but i am not clear how one we generate to reconciliation bills with one budget resolution. but benefits of the budgeting process are real and our long-term planning and it's developed predictability and increased opportunity for oversight and authorization. it brighter flexibility to realign the resources and increase time of the program evaluations and a couple of final comments and the budget process. but it's important for congress for this work. the committee is a various incentives of privately pro him living chair where children to travel with a budget resol

senator murray and i are going to go vote in the appropriations committee. senator enzi has agreed to preside. we'll be back shortly. i will stay for a second round of questions until senators have a chance to ask the questions if they would like to. senator enzi. sen. enzi: thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank mr. scalia for being willing to take this job. as we go through confirmation hearings, i often wonder why. of course, i've gotten to ask you that personally, and appreciated your answer and appreciated all the public service that you've done. i was here for your 2001 confirmation and enjoyed your answers then and enjoyed the conversation we had the other day in my office, and i've got to say, you've got the biggest family attending in the 22 1/2 years i've been here. and you've also got the highest percentage that have stayed for the questions. mr. scalia: i see that isabella left, the 5-year-old. sen. enzi: she was probably the one understanding the questions, too. i appreciated senator murray's comments about pay gap. it's something that i've been co

senator head of the appropriations committee and was asking for the foreign leader -- >> i understand, sir. >> would you forward that to our committee? >> i mentioned it a little bit ell earlier in the united states, the united states senator is not a member of the intelligence community, and so any wrong doing in that regard should be referred to the department of justice for criminal investigation. >> i respectfully disagree with u, because obviously that would be a solicitation by that u.s. senator for interference in our elections, and that's in your jurisdiction, correct? >> election interference, yes, congressman. >> and -- >> once again, congressman, although it is, as far as what the legal responsibility to do in compliance with the intelligence reform act, the whistle-blower protection act, it does not -- the statute does not allow for that to be done. >> i disagree with that. >> yes, sir. >> but here's the dilemma that you were in and we're in, but we will now be able to follow-up because executive privilege if it existed was waived. your under approach, as you saw it, it me

senators. look, i sat on the house appropriations committee where we offered amendments for strengthened backgroundly t no buy. amendments to allow the cdc to study the impact of gun violence on public health. those amendments were routinely defeated by republicans on the committee. and here's what i found frustrating and fascinating at the same time. we walk out of those committee hearing rooms, we go into the members only elevator. the doors would slide closed and i would say to those republicans why would you vote against this? 85% of your constituents support strengthened background checks. 85% to 90% of your constituents support no buy, no fly. the response was i wish i could have voted yes but i'd get a republican primary. nothing is as intense in republican primaries as the gun issue. these members of congress, many of them, put their idealogy, but also their political survival ahead of the survival of their constituents. that's got to end. >> shannon, what is your strategy now as an activist on this? do you think the nra has been weaken weaken weakened to persuade lawmakers that the better

committee chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. circumventing the established procedures and protocol that is exist so the committees can pursue sensitive matters in the appropriate deliberate, bipartisan manner. >> congressman khanna your thoughts on the comments yesterday. >> if i were guilty and i need add lawyer i would hire mitch mcconnell, because he can make the worst facts spin to his advantage. but the person who is obstructing the process isn't adam schiff, not senator chuck schumer. the person obstructing the process the director of national intelligence who refused to give the complaint to congress. and if he gave the complaint to congress none of this would have been public. but the -- schiff -- representative schiff was left with no choice because the director of national intelligence continues to be in blatsant viet. >> a few minutes left with representative ro khanna. republicans 202-748 high pressure 80. annan int depend 8002 in in the time we have left you brought up being cochair of the bernie sanders complaint. he has a problem and her name is elizabeth warren. >> i disagree with that premise. bernie sanders has a campaign that is focused on w

senator, and i are the chairman of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee and senator tester is ranking member of the committee we are both familiar we put the budgetary issues. i want to talk about the cts because i understand there was a protest of the procurement of the tc his that were awarded to nick's detection and funded in fy 2019. in your statement you mentioned that 300 have been not produced yet. but you have a contract on them. how much of this contest delay the implementation and when or what time are we on for this 300 ct scanners. >> we are fortunate that in short order the process was resolved. we only lost about 90 days as a result. the award has been completed. we have already identified where the machines are scheduled for and we will begin deployment in full. >> this fall when he will be deployed. and how are you making the determination where they should be deployed. >> will into their ports through a wide variety of lenses, including risk. and we tried a lot of different environments. we have big airports covered and small airports covered. we will make sure we recognize how they all oper

it would require the complaint to be reported to the appropriate committees and the whistleblower to be given protection. on c-span two, the senate votes on a resolution of disapproval against the president's emergency declaration for boardwalk funding. on c-span three, our live coverage from the united nations general assembly continues with a speech from the president of iran. at 10:00, the house judiciary committee looks at military and and theirpe weapons use in recent mass shootings in el paso and dayton. coming up, virginia congressman ben klein on speaker pelosi's announcement that the house will begin a former impeachment -- a formal

i cannot imagine how a republican in the appropriations committee of the house of the senate would not see this as striking at the heart of congressional power. >> alexi, you have reporting on this very topic. what are -- and i'm just going to guess it's democrats because republicans have to this point in the trump presidency marched in lockstep with this president no matter what he's doing. what is the plan to either reverse these decisions or draw attention to their foolishness? >> so that's right. today i obtained a document that was compiled by the dnc's research team that sort of outlines all of the times president trump said as he was campaigning for president back in 2016 that mexico would pay for the wall and how it was going to be paid for by mexico and no one else, and we didn't have to worry about anything. this document shows in great detail not just the things he said but where he said it in the crucial battleground areas. i have been told from various democrats i have spoken with that are sort of familiar with the plan that the national party and other democratic groups a

saudi kingdom will reward most oil supply by the end of the month joining me senate finance homeland security appropriations committee miss this knowing money that has been allocated for defense spending? . >> well, one of the challenges they have is their facing south, to be able to look towards yemen assume attac from there not cross gulf air in straits to come straight from iran the key factor to come out we notify rains put mines on ships taken hostages individuals say will say will sorry on ships helped houthis in yemen to be about able to spark is a civil war on southern border funding hezbollah hamas, assad interesting to hear iraniansey americans fault the i iranian regime has been pushing against entire region. >> is what kind of response could you like to see from united states from saidis at this point? >> we have got to begin with two things one that is we really need to be put pressure on the i iranian regime not on iranian people we don't have a beef with rainy people, there are lots of good folks, that are -- cap repetitives to own regime putting as much pressure as week on regime they have been the pr

so i think the senate is suggesting appropriate middle course, let's have the senate intelligence committee conduct its investigation and knows how to handle confidential information without the world necessarily needing to know. we're seeing the dynamic because of all of the background of impeachment which is unfortunate but it is a reality. >> bill: i didn't hear you say no entirely but perhaps no eventually or even maybe yes eventually. ron johnson said this. it's a very dangerous precedent and i think it will harm any president, whether this one or a future president's abilities to talk to world leaders candidly. would you do a partial release to issue some sort of clarification of the issue? >> you just need -- my answer is no full release at this time. but you calibrate. you do step-by-step. senator johnson is spot on in saying this is a dangerous precedent. doesn't mean you don't eventually do it but you try to negotiate. sit in a room with the senate intelligence committee. may be the senate intelligence committee members themselves review the full transcript. different ways of cali

senator tester and i are the chairman of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee and senator test ser the ranking member on that committee, and so we are both familiar with the budgetary issues. i want to talk about the cts, because i understand a protest on the procurement of the cts that were awarded to smith detection, and it was funded in fy-2019, and in the statement, you mentioned that 300 have been not produced yet or manufactured, but you led the contract on it. >> yes. >> how much is this contest delaying the implementation, and what time line are we on for the 300 ct scanners? >> we were extremely fortunate that in short order the protest was resolved and we lost only about 90 days as a result and thewardeen completed and we will deploy them this fall and have determined the locations. >> how did you determine that? >> we looked at the airports in the wide variety of lenses, and not only the risk locations, but the try it out in a number of big airports and small airports to recognize how they operate across the board. >> do you expect that the next tranche of cts will have a more improved technology with even

and every secretary of the navy and so on looks us in the eye in the senate armed services committee and in the defense appropriations subcommittee and says, this is essential. there's not a pen think out of place. and we need it there's not a penny out of place, and we need this and we need this badly. and shame on the republicans for allowing this argument over whether or not to build a border wall, to do two things. first, to infect the department of defense with politics and to start to undermine the credibility of the department and its interactions with the legislative branch. and, second, more importantly, to diminish funding for critical military projects. now, what kinds of projects are we talking about? so there are 127 projects that are being raided that we funded, we enacted a law and then the president declared an emergency, the republicans upheld that emergency, and now these projects are being defunded. let meet give you a couple of examples -- let me give you a couple of examples out of these 127. this is the form that comes in. these are the department of defense's words. first project, fort bragg no

appropriate action. this is what it is. this is just one of the many unending attacks on the president. and here's the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. >> if you believe that donald trump did something to hurt this country. >> and finally, here's steve ska lease. >> do you think it was appropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader for help investigating his chief political rival for 2020? >> again, go look at what he talked about in that conversation. he was talking about the 2016 interference that happened in our election. >> every time i've asked you whether you have been, you're concern ed about the actions th president took, you've avoided answering the specific question. >> don't try to confer. >> i'm just asking you seem uncomfortable defending the president's actions. >> please don't put words in my mouth. >> i think well you've made a lot of statements and accusations that aren't true, chuck -- >> i don't think i made one. >> now here's what we know over the past three years, the president had welcomed and asked for foreign goths to governments to interfere in elections. here he is in 2016. >> russia, if you're liste

committee sherman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. circumventing the established procedures and protocol, if it exists, so the committees can pursue sensitive matters in the appropriate bipartisan manner. although we don't know the substance of the allegation, there is speculation that it relates to our relationship with ukraine. for my part mr. president estimated earlier this month, i was very glad to see the white house releases security assistance funds for the ukraine. a champion u.s. security assistant to the ukraine over the objections of the obama administration in 2014. i consistently have believed in the importance of helping our ukrainian partners defend their territory against russian aggression. in fact, i had been personally pressing them to release security assistance funding for several months, to ensure the united states did not walk back on our important commitments to the ukraine. on two occasions, i raised a need to keep our commitment to the ukraine with the secretary of defense, expressing my interest in seeing this money be released to help our ukrainian partners. i raised it with the secretary of state. my staff also engaged senior officials o

senator cotton. apologize -- there is a simultaneous appropriations committee here and i had to attend. let me raise an issue which is ,ot exclusive to the air force sexual assault and misconduct. you took ars ago step forward in terms of requiring an affirmative evaluation on adherence to policy and training but i think what has happened in the interim is it becomes more check the box. checking exes in wise, this has , ite the company commander is very important, and it is not an issue of political correctness. military,os of the don't exploit other soldiers. can you comment on what you can do and hopefully inspire other services to do? i'm addressing -- >> yes, sir. discussed in our office of wherehis is a lot you want to look at changing the way we are training, because clearly the trend is going the wrong direction. they are encouraged by the that event received, up in west point a few weeks ago, and the change they brought training in front of rooms full of people. we are getting away from the compliance of a powerpoint and making it more interactive. clearly the message we've been

committee chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. circumventing the established procedures and protocols that exist so the committees can pursue sensitive matters in the appropriate, deliberate, bipartisan manner. although we don't know the substance of the allegations, there is speculation that it relates to our relationship with ukraine. for my part, mr. president as i stated earlier this month, i was very glad to see the white house release security assistance funds for ukraine. >> a couple of things. the first is the president admitted to raising the issue with the bidens and i don't believe he should have done that but we need to learn a lot more about this. i'm not prepared to go as far or anywhere near some of the people around here are going. >> we don't have all of the facts yet. the president has admitted that he asked president zelensky to investigate corruption, included but not limited to the circumstances surrounding mr. hunter biden. that doesn't surprise me. the president calls for a lot of investigations. it's just the way he rolls. >> i think right now, it's just another issue that the democrats have latched on to. it is amazing to me the differ

i am the chairman of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee and the senator is the ranking member on the committee so we are both familiar with the budget issues. i want to talk about the ct because i understand there was a protest on the determinant of cts awarded to smith detection it was funded in 2019, and your statement you mentioned 300 have been produced yet, but you let the contract go? how much of this contest delayed the limitation and what title line are we on for the 300 ct scanners? where externally fortunate and shorter the process was resolved so i only lost about 90 days as a result, the award has been completed and we already identified where the machines are scheduled and will begin deployment in the fall. this fall you will deployment? how are you making the determinations of where they should be deployed >> we look at airports through a wide variety of lenses, some of the risk relations but also to let us try it out and a lot of different environment so we have big airports,, small airports covered. to ensure we recognize how they operate across the board. >> to anticipate the