chairman mac thornberry puts it best when he says we have too few planes that can fly, too few ships that can sail and too few soldiers that can deploy. this is not just costing us military might or hampering our mission, this is costingally can lives. last year, this nation lost 17 ailors aboard the uss john mccain and fitzgerald. this happened on aging ships with expired training certifications. everybody day that goes by without adequate funding is another day we are pushing our military past the breaking point and it is a shameful situation. and we have a duty to address it and do right by the men and women who put their lives on the line to poket us here and abroad, and that is exactly what we're going to do. questions. eporter: happy new year. since you are talking about funding for the military, thornberry said it would be impossible to pass an interim spending bill without an agreement at least without expanding -- can you implement the spending bill by next friday? the speaker: we are making good progress on caps negotiations and working with our cournts parts but the approp

thornberry: mr. speaker, i appreciate the chairman yielding and rise in support of this rule which will help give the house the flexibility it needs to deal -- to respond appropriately to whatever the senate may be able to pass. i think it's important to remind everyone that the house has done our work. we passed every one of the appropriation bills before the fiscal year began in october. and on thursday, we passed a bill to continue government funding until february 16. now we're waiting to see what the senate may be able to pass and this rule enables us to respond to that. i want to focus my comments on the febts that this budget drama is having on the united states military. mr. speaker, the first job of the federal government is to defend the country. we have to do that before we do anything else. there are more than two million men and women who have volunteered to risk their lives to help keep us safe. some of them are on station this very minute all around the world . every single one of them

general thornberry said it best this morning. it is all about us. what are we doing? what do we have to do to be better? our time is being spent evaluating those threats but then coming up with, i will call it, the surprise. it is not about how i will beat you. it is understanding what you are capable of. how do i do something even greater than that? if you are focused on your , you will fail in your mission. that is what drives my thinking as we go through and assess the roadmap for modernization. are running close to the end here. if you are not in the morning session, the new chief of staff of the army appears to be general david goldstein. rule and -- we will end the day on a note of humor. general goldstein might know in a little while. thank you. i know we have time for one question. i believe -- yes. sir. you are, a native of california. it is a real honor. it is nice to meet you. i know you have a question for the deputy secretary. >> i do. at the national defense forum last year, the question was in one of the panels that rather than being concerned, about th

thornberry: mr. speaker, i appreciate the chairman yielding and rise in support of this rule which will help give the house the flexibility it needs to deal -- to respond appropriately to whatever the senate may be able to pass. i think it's important to remind everyone that the house has done our work. we passed every one of the appropriation bills before the fiscal year began in october. and on thursday, we passed a bill to continue government funding until february 16. now we're waiting to see what the senate may be able to pass and this rule enables us to respond to that. i want to focus my comments on the febts that this budget drama is having on the united states military. mr. speaker, the first job of the federal government is to defend the country. we have to do that before we do anything else. there are more than two million men and women who have volunteered to risk their lives to help keep us safe. some of them are on station this very minute all around the world . every single one of them

it >> harris: congressman thornberry pointed to the fact that maybe the democrats took a look at the polling. i'm going to show you what some numbers might've been, stay close. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? great tasting, heart-healthy california walnuts. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. >> harris: a fox news alert, you can bet the government shutdown will be front and center as sarah sanders steps to the lectern, we are watching for that to begin. shortly thereafter, we are expecting the final vote inside the senate to reopen the government, then that goes back to the house. you heard representative jim jordan say right on this program he fully anticipates the house will end it quickly and put it on the president's desk by today. so why did democrats capitulate and blink? 31% in a survey said they would blame the de

in my other ear i hear general thornberry, to meet the military challenge. it is today aspiring to join this large team of sharp mind working to confront reality and identify opportunities. i look forward to the actions today's discussions will foster. in my role as deputy secretary of defense for four 1/2 months now. the transition from more than 30 years in the private sector has been surprisingly smooth and seamless. the environmentnt is similar. but with higher stakes. it is a large organization tasked with serious decisions on safety and security. i will say, a couple of the departmentspl behaviors strike e as abnormal. first, operating without a budget is not normal. [laughter] doing so every year for, for nine years is really not normal. next, airplanes are meant to fly. a service with significant number of its airplanes grounded and awaiting maintenance is not normal. part of my job as a leader is guarding against the normalization of abnormal behaviors withinn the departmen. a high level of performance is not only expected of our military itnc is es

you're letting down the military, the chairman of the armed services committee, republican, mac thornberry of texas, voted against that c.r. now, having said that, senator schumer and leader pelosi have been working for some time to try to get to an agreement. so senator schumer knows what our priorities are. and i'm sure he's going to be discussing with leader pelosi on a very close basis as soon as he gets back as to what was discussed. having said that, i hope they reach an agreement. i hope they reach an agreement on the things that i mentioned, on which we have agreement. including the caps, including dreamers, including chip. and including all the other things that i mentioned. so i'm hopeful that the president of the united states, as did he in september, we had a no-drama action, having to pass the c.r. every democrat voted for it. it was a no drama. why? because the president said, that makes sense, we have agreement. let's move forward. which is exactly what we did. i hope that senator schumer and the president get to that point and -- because i think we have a basis for agreemen

sessions: mac thornberry is right, mr. speaker. the chairman of the armed services committee cares very much about the men and women not only of the military where my son serves in the pearl harbor and i yield one minute to the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thornberry: i have consistently said and continue to say that every day under a continuing resolution does damage to the united states military. there is no question about it. i have also said today that a government shutdown does more damage to the united states military. and i just want to make one other point. i think we can vm debates about the proper level and the proper way to fund the military. but what is completely unacceptable is to hold the united states military hostage for some other political agenda has nothing to do with them. and that's what has been going n. mr. speaker, this house passed a defense appropriation bill for the full year back before october 1. that needs to pass now. get the military out of this pol

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juliette: manus, donald trump -- emily thornberry last outed trump after he called off his plan to visitondon next month to open the new u.s. embassy, saying he did not like the new deal. >> he is an asteroid of awfulness. i think he is a danger. i don't want him to come to the country. i don't think he should have been given an invitation in the way that he was. i think it was wrong for theresa may to prematurely give him arkw. i think it is humiliating for the queen. juliette: president trump told reporters he is the least racist person. the follow-up continues after remarks he made regarding immigrants from africa and haiti. collapsed. officials said several people have been injured, adding there was no explosion. the stock exchange billing also local the world bank's office. the british pound's rally could be vulnerable this week. analysts say sterling could come under pressure this week. ceo iswere told that the still planning for a hard exit from the block. >> we are still going full steam ahead. this will look after the 2027ness during the eu market. we are going false in the head

you're letting down the military, the chairman of the armed services committee, republican, mac thornberry of texas, voted against that c.r. now, having said that, senator schumer and leader pelosi have been working for some time to try to get to an agreement. so senator schumer knows what our priorities are. and i'm sure he's going to be discussing with leader pelosi on a very close basis as soon as he gets back as to what was discussed. having said that, i hope they reach an agreement. i hope they reach an agreement on the things that i mentioned, on which we have agreement. including the caps, including dreamers, including chip. and including all the other things that i mentioned. so i'm hopeful that the president of the united states, as did he in september, we had a no-drama action, having to pass the c.r. every democrat voted for it. it was a no drama. why? because the president said, that makes sense, we have agreement. let's move forward. which is exactly what we did. i hope that senator schumer and the president get to that point and -- because i think we have a basis for agreemen

you're letting down the military, the chairman of the armed services committee, republican, mac thornberry of texas, voted against that c.r. now, having said that, senator schumer and leader pelosi have been working for some time to try to get to an agreement. so senator schumer knows what our priorities are. and i'm sure he's going to be discussing with leader pelosi on a very close basis as soon as he gets back as to what was discussed. now having said that, i hope they reach an agreement. i hope they reach an agreement on the things that i mentioned, on which we have agreement. including the caps, including dreamers, including c.h.i.p. and including all the other things that i mentioned. so i'm hopeful that the president of the united states, as did he in september, we had a no-drama action, having to pass the c.r. every democrat voted for it. it was a no drama. why? because the president said, that makes sense, we have agreement. let's move forward. which is exactly what we did. i hope that senator schumer and the president get to that point and -- because i think we have a basis for a

the remnants of neo liberalism in corbin the shadow cabinet like shadow foreign secretary only thornberry who still hasn't consented to appear on this program since she was appointed i can i say to the shadow foreign section i will indeed answer the question but i know that she herself has praised karelian in the past. and i say. that i say to her i don't know which i yes i mean there is obviously now a crown representative who's been fully involved in the government's response this food the appointment of the crown representative to replace the one that a previous again in place the government chief commercial officer and the cabinet officer office director of markets and suppliers took over those responsibilities for corba. that wasn't the point for him this week's top u.k. story wasn't even just about karelian it was about the wholesale privatisation of u.k. society to favor a handful of massive multinationals but this isn't one isolated case of government negligence and corporate failure it's a pro can system. under this government. under this government virgin stagecoach can spectacu

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after question time, emily thornberry took issue with borisjohnson.ever thought it was a good idea to him by the president —— to invite the president of the united states to the uk, in fact i thought the invitation was issued with undue haste, but once it had been issued on behalf of her majesty is very difficult to withdraw it. he is beetling into the box, if he wishes to stand up at the box and offer a product of his work, we are happy to hear them. i'm not sure what is in order, guide me on this point but i must redirect the honourable lady and the house to her words on the 14th of may 2017 on the andrew marr programme when she said, "i think we have to welcome the american president to britain, we have to work with him, i rest my case. i think the honour is served. the shadow foreign secretary has offered us her thoughts and the foreign secretary with some alacrity has beetled back to the box in order to respond and i think we should at least for today leave it there. and that's it. i'm off to learn the names of all the newjunior ministers, but do

emily thornberry. >> talking about cavemen. why doesn't the minister realize lesson women taught predecessors 100 years ago when change is right it cannot be resisted forever and this is a change whose time has come. >> my advice is not to wean herself, watching old versions of the flintstones on the cartoon channel. i just think we ought to salute the fact not just the youth parliament but many schools and youth organizations throughout the country are working hard to get young people used to the idea that as they grow up they should take an interest in current affairs and when they reach the relevant age recognize the responsibilities by participating in elections and political campaigning. the situation we have here with the national voting age of 18 and one that is followed by 26 out of 27 other members of the european union by the united states, canada, new zealand and australia. unless she is going to denounce all of those countries, somehow it adequate, and not to grow up and treat the subject with greater degree. >> mis

emily thornberry flashed out at the president during an interview with the bbc after trump called offed london visit to open the new u.s. embassy. he is an asteroid of awfulness which has fallen on this world. i think that he is a danger and a racist. i don't want him to come to the country. i don't think he should have been given an invitation. i think it was wrong for theresa may to premier league give him and in the tatian. i think it in paris the queen and was embarrassing for her. meanwhile, president trump told reporters he is the least racist person as the following continues from vulgar comments he reportedly made. trump denies using the language. say the pounds rally may come under pressure this week. a high fridayd to after spanish and dutch finance ministers agreed to push for a deal that keeps the u.k. as close to the eq as possible, but germany may pour cold water on lloyd's ceo says the insurer is to planning for a hard brexit. still going full steam ahead on our plans to open in brussels. this will look after the business from the eu 27 market. businessillion euros for

have a real problem with that because i think this is a real symbol branded by people like emily thornberrysupporter in 2014... her career has not suffered for it, has it? she apologised for it. it is a symbol of the wider problem that where we have schools now with the educational establishment is brainwashing our kids that this isn't a country that you can be very proud of. no school is brainwashing their kids... would you feel able to put a flag up in the window? in my case it would be a yorkshire flag. i wouldn't have a problem about that. i'm proud of my county, my country, and the united kingdom. you don't feel that part has been shut down? i would do it just the awkward but i would know there be people... they would be people passing judgment on me because i was showing a symbol of patriotism. i find that that really is horrific. you should address the issue, which is people have taken that flag and turned it into meaning something, to some people it means racism, that's the real issue, whereas in society we see people twisting that into these immigrants are coming here at changing o

emily thornberry is standing in forjeremy corbyn. standing in forjeremy corbyn.here. there. than usual so i think a number of mps have decided not to turn up. mps have decided not to turn up. and remarks about how it would be a disaster to leave the union. disaster to leave the union. is a robin, as in the bird, in the commons chamber, fluttering around. commons chamber, fluttering around. i‘m not quite sure anyone knows what to do about it. to do about it. probablyjust as well it‘s not a seagull. well it‘s not a seagull. sorts of animals find their way into the houses of parliament. the houses of parliament. a rabbit the other day and a fox in downing street. let‘s see what happens. david lidington. mr speaker, i have asked to reply. speaker, i have asked to reply. minister is in china building on the ties between our countries. ties between our countries. delegation that this government has yet led. yet led. apprenticeship training centre in gateshead. gateshead. in pension contributions, dividends and unearned bonuses to themselves. and unearned bonuses to the

. >> bret: i want to play the sound bite from mac thornberry and senator blumenthal about the militaryvery day under these stopgap measures does damage to the military. >> if we could vote on the merits of this issue, the military would be taken care of and then we could go to beat the other issue but unfortunately the military is being held hostage to these other political issues. >> i will vote against short-term spending bill. it holds hostage not only the dreamers but also defense spending. >> bret: kelly acknowledged that this is not the way they want to go and they would like to see funding for the military. it seems like they are backed up against the corner. >> this is a horrible way to run funding for the military. it affects readiness and long-term planning and every aspect of the u.s. military and how it conducts its affairs. you have a group of hawks in the republican conference in the house of representatives who want a stand-alone vote simply on military spending for one year. >> bret: should be a political vote because you're back in the democrats it is saying we don't w

. >> dana: yet listen to what representative max thornberry said about military spending. >> you canome up with the best strategy in the world, but congress has got to put the money behind it. we've got to build the military that will deal with all those threats. right now there's political games going on in this building that is not adequately funding our military. >> dana: i want to ask you about that. we bump up against these shutdowns all the time. i don't think anybody wants the military not to have what it needs. it's extremely hard to plan ahead if you can't have the money in the budget so that you can look to get the contracts and the best possible price and all the other things we need for the readiness. what do you think about that argument up on the republicans side? >> yeah. you can't flip on and off this switch every few months when you're expecting weapons systems, funding for troops and their pay. you just can't do that. it is unfair to the military. but we are talking about a plugup of some $80 billion. it's not a trivial amount. we're going to spend an all time recor

. >> sandra: chairman matt thornberry house services committee this morning said this holds our military as far as the spending is concerned. and that was his primary concern fresh out of the meeting at the pentagon. >> harris: all we have heard democrats talk about though are chip and daca. they got six years on chip in this, for all this millions of children. i think 9 million of them that depend on that health insurance. it's a gap between medicaid and their parents and what they can afford. democrats are getting six years on a cr, on a continuing resolution. i don't know how they explain that to their base, if you will, if they don't at least entertain the idea of signing this. let's move on. the president says today today is the day he will name the winners of his fake news award. whether he should be intensifying the battle or if he is just giving as good as it gets from the press. and reporters are grilling the white house doctor about the president's health. some questions and some are more important than others. we will talk about it all. stay close. >> does the president wear d

i think chairman thornberry and mccain deserve credit for trying to get the resources up. as others have said and i agree and mccain agrees of this kid sees rhett a letter to secretary mattis, even if we get the resources up we can't spend our way out of it. we'll have to think our way out of it as well. how do we face these conflicts differently. some people talk about hybrid were information, gray zone area, the malaysian aircraft from the netherlands, we have to figure out how to deal with the information challenge. the russians are using it effectively in the chinese will not be far behind. >> were talking about a 56 billion-dollar increase in the defense budget. the 70 70,700,000,000,000-dollar budget if it's past. realistically there's only so much money in the pot. will that be enough? >> that unless we do some things differently. one of the things we heard at the hearing that we want to press up over the next ten years in addition it will cost about $1 trillion. that's a challenge. it was made worse for a lot of us will the cost of the tax package which is going to

we had a republican chairman, texas.omax thornberry from he did not twist arms or break arms to get his people to overturn it. at the end of the process we had the largest the partisan votes in 2008, in terms of passing that legislation. i had the honor to be at the conference khamenei when the two sides from the senate -- just saidschool house rock you are supposed to do a bill. senator mccain spoke from the heart about the fact that regular order is something that people might have overlooked and dismissed. but at the end of the day it makes all the difference in the world, in terms of having a healthy democracy that benefits people of all political stripes in all regions. in that defense authorization nill is a signal, not just a one-year signal, but frankly, a multiyear signal, about the fact that we are going to have growth, in terms of engine mark in john's district. helicopter work in rose's district. the challenge of the day, the one question the u.s. navy asks officce --re in my and i know john has his visits -- are we going to have the workforce to take on that work? we are se

speaker, i yield three minutes to the chairman of the house armed services committee, mac thornberry from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thornberry: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and appreciate her strong persistent leadership on behalf of our troops and our nation. mr. speaker, in the days leading up to the most recent government shutdown, we heard a number of members, both bodies, on the floor, in the press, say that they were opposed to that continuing resolution because of the damage the continuing resolutions do to the military. it is absolutely true that continuing resolutions do erode our fighting capabilities. this is the chance, the bill that the gentlelady from texas has brought, this is the chance to do it right. this is the chance to fully fund the military for the rest of the fiscal year and get them out of the c.r. mess. all of those members who came here to the well and have talked to the press and in the other body who express concern about the damage that a c.r. does, this is the chance to fix that problem by voting for the bil

i think chairman mccain and thornberry deserve a lot of credit for trying to get the resources up. we have to get the resources up ,. -- up. senator mccain agrees because he has written a letter to this effect to secretary mattis, even if we get the resources up, we are not going to be able to spend our way out of this. we will have to think our way out of it as well. that will be the painful part trying to think about how we face these conflicts differently. several people have talked on this panel about hybrid war, information warfare, about the inch or malaysian aircraft the netherlands. we have to figure out how to deal with this information challenge because the russians are using it very effectively and the chinese will not be far behind. others will be there as well. >> that is the question. we are talking about a $56 billion increase in the defense budget. it would be a $700 billion budget if past. is that enough? there is only so much money in the pot. enough?0 billion be will we realistically get a $7 billion defense budget? unless we do some things differently, i think.

god bless john mccain and mac thornberry and jim mattis and joe dun forksd but they're not going to be listened to, because you're not going to get the budget you need. and unfortunately, we're going to have to look at how to we change our requirements and, indeed, reduce our number of forces to fit the budget which we're going to get. and the pentagon i admire enormously for dealing under these circumstances. about the cia, i have huge qualms about the cia because management becomes a requirement. my notion for a very long time was to take a noah's arc approach, one of each species, and make them experts in areas. i go into the book where a graduate student at fletcher who was there not to study, but to do other things preferably with coeds worked his way up to be foreign minister and then prime minister of libya. they were coming out of the closet. we didn't recognize it. but if we had cia people who were able to mature and there are op to sit numbers in these areas countries, that's the best way to do it. your question, one of the reasons we can't do this is because we've got too ma

and i think chairman mccain and chairman thornberry deserve a lot of credit first of all for trying to get the resources of your quick got to get the resources of. but as others have said on the spam and i agree with them, and more to the point senator mccain agrees because he has written a letter to disaffected secretary mattis, even if we get the resources of we will not be able to spend our way out of this. we will have to think our way out of it as well and that's going to be the really painful part trying to think about how we face these conflicts differently. several people have talked on this panel about gray zone, hybrid war information warfare, senator shaheen was talking about the dutch, you know, or assimilation aircraft from the netherlands. we have to figure out how to do with this information challenge because the russians are using it very effectively, and the chinese will not far behind, and others will be there as well. >> that's the question. were talking about a $56 billion increase dollars increase in the defense budget. it will be a $709 budget, if pastor isn't goi

mac thornberry is the chair of the armed services committee. he didn't think there would be the votes to avoid a government shutdown on republican side of the aisle unless they had agreement in place. if they turn to democrats, look at the vote breakdown, pat tiberi, the republican congressman from ohio he resigns 5:00 this afternoon. what that means you're down to a 23 vote margin in the house of representatives where republicans pass bills without needing democrats. anything below that they are in trouble. if they pass a bill in december, avoided a shutdown with just 18. pat tiberi isn't here. trent franks resigned. steve scalise is recuperating from surgery. carlos korbel low, republican from florida would not vote for interim spending bill until they had a daca fix. that is why people are nervous the government could shut down on friday night. neil: if you way the bets, how does it look to you? >> it is tough. you dope have a top line on spending. the only way to, they have an agreement in hand and punt to next week. if you veer too far one

chairman thornberry, rank iing member and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide an joefr view of the department's financial statement progress and plans. i appreciate your committee's long and unwavering support for this effort. i also want to thank congressman conway tr his leadership over the years related to the audit. his direction of the committee's 2011 panel on financial management helped the department maintain its focus on audit. to rebuild the armed forces he also made a commitment to start the audit. inside the department of defense, secretary mattis and shanahan have set a tone from the top that embraces the audit as part of their vision to bring business reform to the department of defense. i know you have had many hearings where witnesses told you they support the start of an audit. this hearing is different. we have started the audit. but we are only able to have today's hearing with the department of defense under its first full financial statement audit because of this committee's continued support. i should note that audits themselves ar

we had a republican chairman, texas.omax thornberry from he did not twist arms or break arms to get his people to overturn it. at the end of the process we had the largest the partisan votes in 2008, in terms of passing that legislation. i had the honor to be at the conference khamenei when the two sides from the senate -- just saidschool house rock you are supposed to do a bill. senator mccain spoke from the heart about the fact that regular order is something that people might have overlooked and dismissed. but at the end of the day it makes all the difference in the world, in terms of having a healthy democracy that benefits people of all political stripes in all regions. in that defense authorization nill is a signal, not just a one-year signal, but frankly, a multiyear signal, about the fact that we are going to have growth, in terms of engine mark in john's district. helicopter work in rose's district. the challenge of the day, the one question the u.s. navy asks officce --re in my and i know john has his visits -- are we going to have the workforce to take on that work? we are se

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you're letting down the military, the chairman of the armed services committee, republican, mac thornberry of texas, voted against that c.r. now, having said that, senator schumer and leader pelosi have been working for some time to try to get to an agreement. so senator schumer knows what our priorities are. and i'm sure he's going to be discussing with leader pelosi on a very close basis as soon as he gets back as to what was discussed. having said that, i hope they reach an agreement. i hope they reach an agreement on the things that i mentioned, on which we have agreement. including the caps, including dreamers, including chip. and including all the other things that i mentioned. so i'm hopeful that the president of the united states, as did he in september, we had no-drama action, having to pass the c.r. every democrat voted for it. it was a no drama. why? because the president said, that makes sense, we have agreement. let's move forward. which is exactly what we did. i hope that senator schumer and the president get to that point and -- because i think we have a basis for agreement