if we did, we wouldn't be here today.would be sitting at home saying, boy, that was a tough year, instead of saying that was one of the greatest years in the history of our politics, in the history of ourtoday. country. i don't think it has been done, not by much. almost, iear that was would say, unlike any. it was a timid to success and i give everybody in this room the credit. i give certainly these people behind me tremendous credit for what took place, especially in that last month. that was a month of tremendous pressure. that was people that were able to act under pressure, my favorite type of person. they were able to act under tremendous pressure. i just want to thank you all because that is what it was all about. while we had a great year, we weren't being given credit for it. regulations at a level that nobody has ever done in one year. we knocked out more regulations than anybody. supreme court justice, judges all over. somebody different records, so many successes. but when we got the great tax-cut bill, and w

we did not, we, we change the concept midstream.hether you got it right or not or if the events altered the thinking of the objectives you wanted to achieve with the system. it's that discipline, along with getting it right in the first place making it survive in the first place, the first contact. those technical requirements communities is the foundational element of the cross functional teams. which we describe, if you look at these cross functional teams , and the army command and getting it to the secretary and staff, we are trying to reduce the number of layers. by the reduction of layers it brings accountability into the system. speedy decision-making. that is where the challenge and frustration of congress has been for a long time. program fails, who is accountable? it really does start with the people in the hallway of the marshall corridor in the pentagon. secretary, myself, and the chief advisor. we are trying to bring that into the fold that we have to sit on top and provide access and get decisions brought faster so we

so we are. anding to get our new phone system hopefully by the end of the calendar year in 2018 or at least some progress. this is going to give us much more customer service. ease. we would be able to record phone calls for equal control. which is very important. and we will also be able to use certain technologies. for instance, when a phone call -- we can pick up a caller id or someone can put an employee id and all the record come up in front of us so a lot less prepettive motions for member services and we can get the call started and answered more quickly. again, you know, it was the end of the calendar year and we always interaction with other departments including our payroll department. so we met with them this year, as usual to go over year-end work flow procedures because every year that is very important. getting out the w2s. make sure they are very accurate because a lot of things we do in our processes is reflected on the w2. i also met with -- on deputy of human resources the empl

we notify them as quickly as we can in advance and we do that. you have great relationships with our state and local counterparts. this is part of the northern virginia gang task force. that team is responsible for going after many of these gang crimes you see in the particular area, it is great. fill you in with the drug enforcement administration so i can let that -- level my federal we areships to make sure all part of the same team working together with home and security, hsr. we had somebody on the task force there. we had members cross designated to the fbi. we are trying to make sure that we have a robust relationship going on with everybody in the area to make sure we are not missing a trick that was who, what they're doing and so let's go after these people. i know we have worked quite a bit with the congressman, she is pushing a bill here. we are looking to get additional funding. -- et's turn over to it takes a whole government approach and we are able to do that. states, locals, federal partners and also international partners. i thin

when we became a state, we used to raise 50% of what we consumed.ow we raise 5% as a result of what has changed. agriculture is writing to the surface in a very significant way. one of the things we are concerned about is food security in alaska. storm, wehip or one have empty shelves. we are focusing on alaskan groan, trying to emphasize that, and we have a farm-two hyphens farm-to-school , and competition we started with safeway and fred myers and other retailers. we just had a celebration at the governor's house, a big dinner for the retailers that sold the most alaskan-grown. it is a $2 billion industry and a mask of -- in alaska, so we do not need to look for the margaret -- market. .> that make me feel better >> my question to you is this. what percentage of the food concerned in the united states -- to we grow one of percent of our food or import food? >> that is a great question, and i will answer it by trying to exactmouthing the statistics, but break it up by subsectors, if you will. in some places, these numbers are very beneficial and in

if we don't hear places where we can save money, there is no way we we can spend what we need to meett. i think your leadership and under ash carter and the chairman has gotten at procurement reform, employing commercial technology, ideas that can enable us to get more for less money. that is never going to be more important than it is going forward, given the fiscal situation we are in, and given the environment as described. how do we meet that? we have to be smarter about how we spend our money. with that, i yield and look forward to your testimony. >> the committee is pleased to welcome the secretary of defense and device chairman of the joint chiefs of staff -- the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. gentlemen, thank you for being here. secretary, you are recognized for any comments you like to make. sec. mattis: thank you distinguished members of the committee. i'm here at your invitation to testify on two subjects, the 2018 national defense strategy, and nuclear posture review. i am joined by the vice chairman joint chiefs of staff. in the midst of our ongoing counterte

we are at a breaking point that we can do this. sometimes more often on their mobile phones or their ipads with homecare visits, we have home directed primary care teams that go into homes, homes specialty care. and caregivers. the v.a. supports 27,000 caregivers right now even animals, dogs are super important for mobility. and now emotional support issues. there are ways we can build a system around our veterans and let them remain in the settings they want. i think it's cheaper, i think it's better and we're going to take it as a moonshot. we are not there right now. why been talking to your directors and your state captains about doing this together. that's where they said, look, help us clean up the daycare. -- the adult day care, that's part of the solution. i think we will be leading the way for the rest of americans. much.nk you very i'm going to ask governor fallin to make any closing remarks. >> i think we heard great information about what the veterans affairs missions are. hopefully we heard some great comments from our

since we are talking about money do we know approximately how much we need to spend? >> we do not. there is nothing in the budget. right now we are working with the team on looking at the internal layout, we ar we are wg with them. we haven't gotten to furnishing or anything like that. at this point we are unclear. we would assume they want to do something consistent through the building. we want instructions from them. we may purchase the same types of equipment. >> moving costs as well you will discuss? >> moving cost and furnishings and everything else we will do. we will discuss that later. we weren't ready to think about that in this budget. we hope once we are done with finalizing the layout of our floors and this is happening city wide, then the next phase, i think dpw is managing it, to go to actual furnishings and that those is. >> what is going to happen once we move out? >> i know the building was sold. other than that i am not clear what will happen with that building? >> have we anticipated the costs of what commissioner lee was referring to out every serves? is there

i think that is tremendous to know we are making that progress, and we still what timeline do we have in terms when we think this would go? >> we are currently slated for november of 2018. port staff will work with the city family to access public information and voter information up to the point at which the board of supervisors present the question in june. at that point that will be in campaign mode and be off -- we will do that as volunteers. i think one of the important pieces to acknowledge is that we are at the begin of multigenerational effort. in addition to talking about the earthquake safety and first phase introducing the citizens 250,000 of them, go amber, go team, to the sea wall and understanding that we have a project today and project into the future to address sea level rise is critically pore because it is not just us that will be tackling this project. we are in the long game with this infrastructure. >> i couldn't agree more. we are trying to figure out how to get to 67 percent. that is goal one. the question would be what the e is the opposition going to say? how

one we got into the capabilities, we turned back -- when we got into the capabilities we turned back and said ok, is the program of record for modernization that is on the books sufficient to support the strategies that we have laid out to fulfill the roles? we concluded for the most part that it was. that a comprehensive modernization of our existing force was sufficient to address -- to fill that strategy and address those roles. one area where we were not confident that the program of record was sufficient was as a result of our deep dive look into russian strategy, russian doctrine, and russian nonstrategic nuclear capabilities. let me tell you why we made the recommendations to add a low yield capability to a limited, small number of warheads as a near-term solution, and then a recommendation to once again field nuclear arms see launch -- missiles in the future. it is a growing disparity in nonstrategic nuclear capabilities between russia, the united states, and nato. russia is not only replacing its capabilities, it is expanding them. we concluded that there are -- that there w

we do as thorough a job as we can. looking at the health care providers, how many are in regions where they're the only provider, how many regions where they're not? one thing i think would be always helpful, especially if it's something you don't agree with is we love the opportunity to come in and tell you how we got our numbers and how it happened. to be honest, if you feel like we're missing something, if there's some research literature we didn't see, we'll take a look at it. >> thank you for that. and i appreciate that. and i hope that that message gets out to all of the colleagues here in congress so that we can have more of that dialogue. that gets to my second point, which is about transparency. i think that we have to look at it in a way that members can get more transparency from the cbo to make sure that we are looking at what you're deciding and what we think is not exactly accurate and have that dialogue. one thing i continue to hear from my colleagues and even my colleagues across the aisle, that they wo

we will, we will engage congress. we will make our argument. there is something unique about this approach. very often, the administration will go to the congress and say we are doing this. we are doing that, but respect to the sea launch cruise missile, this is a process. we deliberately said we are going to begin a capabilities study that will lead to analysis of alternatives. based on that, we will come back to congress next year with the acquisition approach. in the meantime, we will have a discussion with that, a strategic discussion. let's talk about the strategic imperatives. we will make the argument and come back next year. they will understand how much it will cost and we will have a decision on that. i think it is going to be a challenge, but it's -- those 16 senators who are opposed to it, i think i understood that they would be opposed to it regardless. what i'm concerned about are those 16 senators in the middle who are ready to be persuaded if we have the right arguments. you >> ok, thanks. i certainly echo rob's point. no questi

and we collect all of that. we begin to analyze it, we begin to cost things out. and then we do this in the late autumn typically. we start then. and then in december, right at the beginning of december typically, the mayor's office provides budget instructions and the mayor's budget instructions typically are based on forecasts of city revenues and city expenses. and they are sometimes based on special areas of focus that the mayor wants agencies to take. those agencies, those areas of focus often tend to be at the instruction phase, very broad. and you know, in the mayor's office gets to specific things that the mayor is actually interested in him or herself as we move through the process. and then at the beginning of january, what happens is the governor issues a budget. and the governor's budget is very important to us, because of course, a great deal of our funding is federal, a great deal is state and the rest is local. so the state budget that comes out in the second week of january typically helps us refine our notion of the revenues we'll be working on. a

we need to make sure we diversify our economy.m talking to people about tourism, defense investment, or other sectors of the economy. skills base for, and we would like to see a broadening of our state's economy. if you have investment you would -- you want to put in a successful place with a nice them to western australia and you will be able to create a business in a welcoming and decent place to live. i would observe the success in the australian economy has been to a large degree of bipartisanship on key economic issues. where there has been consistency for australia has been in pursuit of free trade, establishing consistent , andatory policy settings in spite of competitive federalism you have seen around the table today, it has mostly been in good humor. we are able to work together effectively. the challenge is that most of us are facing now the pains of growth. they say economics is a dismal fine. there is always a downside to where your economy is that. is telling us, it jews of near full employment, skill shortages -- fo

so we did what we do. we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. we hosted 50 meetings to comments from more than 13000 people they told us what they needed to shape their communities. across the state from the bottom up. we created a new blueprint for a new economy. we cut red tape we promoted the state not just the tourists but as a pro-business which championed innovation and technology made it easier for small businesses to get along. we made it easier for people to create and grow their own businesses. we help make colorado place the loves entrepreneurs. we have become one of the best places for business in america where one of the most active and healthy estates we shattered on employment records tourism records we've hosted world-class cultural and music events. we become a bridge between nonprofits we have community initiatives that have touched millions of lives. were putting our faith in people like 7-year-old ashley scott. two years ago ashley started the holiday benefit and purchase blankets, socks and gloves for the homeless. this year

we do not need your help, we do not want your help, we despise your enrollment. we do not make use of your ill-gotten gains. that is not who we are. that is not who donald trump was. i think more than anything else, to protect ourselves in the future we need to develop that type of consensus. that any for interference will be rejected. it could cut in the opposite direction. opportunity level and actors. they're not republicans and they are not democrats. it is in their policy to undermine the united states. they view it as a zero-sum game. anything that is good for us is bad for them and vice versa. in fairness, some responsibility is also attributed to the obama administration for not more forcible deterrent. i think it goes back to the korean hack of sony. in which there was a minimum response. i more forcible think that others around the world watch that and determined that cyber is a cost free intervention. certainll always be a level of plausible deniability with cyber because even though we are quite good attribution, we will never want to fully show our h

we need to address that to see if we have some improvements that we can make it structurally. senator reid. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. this is a last appearance by that committee. let me thank you for decades of service to the nsa on cyber command. one of the threats facing the influence operations but mostly conduct through cyberspace and engaged in the sophisticated influence campaign china has been engaged in information operation against their own citizens and their behavior and is becoming more active abroad conducted against u.s. companies and their own economic gain. and in the attempt to silence the company from exercising three speech these efforts highlight the vulnerabilities in the area bu that we hope will address today. while they are conducting the obligations it still predominantly is designed for the technical operations to defend or attack the system. to sustain the function it's not to do with the content of information and the cyberspace, the cyber command has made important strides in the cognitive dimension that still has a long way to go to foc

we sit here and, from my point of view, we need this, we do, but we also need to do some work inside the building, make sure that we spend your treasures the best way that we can and that we have to have the tools to do that. industry is ready. as i referenced earlier, if we change the process, industry will adapt that process. >> i would actually like to address that and touch on the commercial sector and industry. it underpins both the hard and soft power. i don't think there's any daylight or shouldn't be any daylight between the innovation, the economy that we've seen crop up over the last decade or so. you have young companies that take high levels of risk that are backed by venture capital and understand that risk. they want to bring it to scale, the department has 3 million people. the largest organization in the world. if you want to bring it to scale, this is where our industrial partners are absolutely vital. they understand the process. they have the relationships. they know how to work in classified locations. what we've seen from our vantage point is the most successful

where we see something is a good idea, we invest with them, sometimes we buy them, but we also just investthem. there is a quid pro quo. they get the capital we inject , yet we get to introduce them to the world, not just the country, and that helped us double the number of billion-dollar brands we sell around the world. i think it will be an "and" strategy, rather than one or the other. david: it is a beverage company, not a food company. there are competitors who said let's become a food company, at least in part. why did you make that decision, and does it make you anymore vulnerable, forgive me for saying, even for acquisition? a, what, $200 billion market cap? there are some big consolidations in the food industry out there. james: firstly, we are focused on beverages because that is where the greatest synergy and greatest application of know-how and our fabulous global bottling distribution system is. it is the thing that is most synergistic with what we have already got. beverage is one of the best growing markets in the whole of the supermarket, or in the other stores. so it is a g

what do we do? why do we collect data? to better understand who is in custody or sentenced in one of our out-of-custody, alternative programs. 85% of the people are pretrial. 15% or less, sentenced to county jail. most of the people are out on pretrial alternatives. we collect name, age, address, booking number, case number, sf number. we have our own jail management system that somewhat interacts with court management system and somewhat interacts with the other systems in criminal justice and i will echo what christine deberry said. one of the things that i hope will come out of this is that we will gather, identify first, and gather excellent data, so we can make good decisions, and we're not there. and i think that was said by a number of the other people before me. we're not there. i'm hopeful that the justice system will be able to come up and get together and there will be more investment in it, so we can get the data we need. and one of the things that i'm doing in my budget is my jail management system that collec

we push, we wush, we write letters. let me give three quickly. one is way back in april of 2017, we asked some questions about the management of the chief information officer. i'm not going to get into the details because we don't make these investigations public typically until we report, but we need that information. we've been given a minimal amount of documents. most of which are not at all responsive to the request. need help there. second is, back in december we asked our privately-run immigration detense facilities. again, not to get into the details, but be need that information. you guys have not been responsive. you haven't produced any documents. we've made phone calls, sent e-mails, status updates. we need that information. that's back in december 6th. finally in january of this year, just a couple of weeks ago, we asked you guys for information on the procedures to protect unaccompanied alien children. you remember we had a hearing and a report on this topic and deep concern about the lack of accountability. this was senator mccaskil

once we get that up, we will be briefing you. i've got to see, but that too is something i will need to confirm when i see the commander. again, these are the commands that take the words through our allies, turn them into reality, action, not just series, which i want to hear how they are doing with our allies. we will break that out into this, however we doing this country, that country? there's a main concern that we are responsive to other nations, we are aware of the challenges they face. then i'm going to go over to munich. it's the premier security conference in europe each year. what i really want to do, i want to do a lot of listening and some bilateral engagements just like i will be doing in rome, minister of defense, the minister there since i came in. i will do it in brussels. in munich i would be meeting mostly with ministers who are not nato, other people around europe and elsewhere. i will be doing that work throughout the trip and all the locations, reinforcing the transatlantic bond to which we are fully committ

when we got to our country, we said we have these oceans. we want less war. one of the things they included in the constitution was this. they included in the constitution a specific provision that said when we go to war, we have to declare war. it has to be passed by congress. so there was a debate over whether that power should be in congress or should be in the hands of the president. madison said this. he said that the executive, the president, is the branch most prone to war. therefore, with studied care, we gave that power to the legislature. so war is supposed to be determined by us and ultimately us as representatives of you. it doesn't happen that way and hasn't happened that way for a long time. why are we at war in seven different place ?s we don't vote on it. we haven't voted on anything since the proclamation of the iraq war which i think was a mistake but we at least voted on it in 2002. we voted in 2001 to go into afghanistan. we haven't voted on anything. they said the 2001 proclamation gives us the power to go anywhere because these people ca

we we have that -- we have had issues around manchester, the veterans hospital. there have been serious concerns in the v.a. hospital in massachusetts. my biggest concern is i don't see anyone stepping in effectively, where there are problems in the v.a. hospitals. do you think we might have come to a time where we need to change this business organizational structure, and particularly with regards to hospital leadership and their reporting directly to your team as compared to not being sufficiently responsive? sec. shulkin: i appreciate you sharing these concerns as you have. you have been a very strong advocate for getting this issue right. the concept was introduced over 15 years ago. it is time to take a look at how the modern health-care system operates. that is what we are doing in our modernization work. we have looked at trinity, kaiser, that have multiple hospitals throughout large regions. we are looking at those best practices and seeing what we need to do. the basic strategy is we have to give people running the facilities, the medical center director

we are united on where we have to go and where we need to reach. but it is important at this point in time to call a spade a spade, and diagnose the situation the way it is, not the way we wish it to be. cancer byoesn't treat diagnosing the flu, and i have to -- and i happen to have the flu, so bear with my voice. is human nature to be afraid of the unknown. concernedget to be about the lack of clarity, especially at these times of uncertainty. knowing and weot don't like not having control, and we don't like to feel -- all of us. wise human beings, as responsible citizens, and as a people with a goal and a anding, we conjure hope must. we garner our strength, especially now at this point in facingnd we embark on byd-on all these hurdles conquering our fears, first and foremost. we, as a nation, are solid in our believe that ultimately we our reach and achieve international goals. we must because shoes but fearless about the future. cautious but fearless about the future. i want to reiterate our positions. the palestinian position, the position of

so when we do the math when we are tracking it we are ok until the end of may. >> are we providing care based on the amount of money? we are putting the veterans needs first. the money follows. >> we gave $4 billion for infrastructure. it appears that won't be used for the structure, and will go to community care. am i reading that correctly? >> i don't think that's exactly right. i will turn to john to explain the $4 billion. there has been confusion about tracking that money. >> you are talking about the 2019. >> correct. >> we are asking for the money where it is not -- most needed. i would point to the major and minor construction requests, one of the largest in five years. we looked to nonrecurring maintenance for the last two years. it is substantial, $1.9 billion and $1.4 billion. i'm not discounting the aging facilities. based on the funds available, we could better use that funding, frankly, in community care. rep. walz: we are talking about the $20 billion in backlogs, how we have attempted to handle that. like many of you, i turned on my morning news and saw the president had

>> we would be as we were in 2017. lines.ng the same in terms of the risk that exists, because we just heard the state of the union from president donald trump, he did not mention a stronger or weaker dollar. what does that do to your business or bottom line? do you prefer the weakening that we see? >> we have seen the impact in the past years. i think the region has taken a number of things into account, and there is kind of a comeback with commodity spaces. i think president trump has been delivering both in davos and the state of the union a different kind of speech that we have not been used to. the track record is starting to materialize. yousef: in terms of financing, any plans to rollers -- to release further bonds? >> always. yousef: is that a change from last year in any way? >> no. yousef: in terms of risks on your radar, what are you a little worried about? is it the geopolitics clearing up even further? >> we have seen that in 2017. yousef: you have the ongoing iran-saudi rhetoric. it has been a tough year for geo

we are not where we need to be in rural parts of colorado. a 60-year-old man making less than $50,000 spending a third of his income on health care. the field has been tilted against the middle class. what we are proposing will help address those inequities. financing private-sector innovation, making sure we get targeted government action, trying to protect the most vulnerable that government doesn't, hospitals, doctors getting paid more when people are still sick. our goal is to make sure there is incentive and appropriate motivation to make sure that imbalance in the system gets changed. we should reduce incentives for unnecessary care, we should eliminate them. make sure they have access to primary care. let individuals take responsibility for addressing their healthcare challenges, way out ahead of what they have been doing historically. everyone deserves the chance to better health care. they can't just do it by themselves. like trying to ski down a mountain without any boots. we need support from congress and the administration. it is

we can't force anything, but we can certainly make it clear that we want to help if we can. >> as andrea said, the women coming into our programs voluntarily and they work the law h enforcement a-- enforceme and so we have written a book, and so we will get referrals from those out of state, but as far as the younger girlsb, i have not talked about that but we work with the younger girls aged 12 to 17. they come to us from the department of chirp and family service, and we have a great relationship with the fbi and criminal justice. so we assume temporary custody with us, and we have them for about a year, and in that time frame, we work alongside the government partners to create a plan of care, so every girl when they walk in the door, she gets to sit with everyone who cares about her, and she decides what her goals are and we work forward with that by providing individualized therapy, group therapy, family therapy, because she has to go back home somewhere and we have to start work on that the day she walks through the door. we are a residential and school and treatment home, so they

we know what we have to do. we have developed strategies. as i say, we are positive.tical point is that we are open today and we are going to get going in and clearly, our results -- the market will the results. for us, our future opportunities are very strong and very bright. >> i wish i were there. the results. for us, our futurethere is somen that you guys have been talking about, and the quote here is "advanced forms of entertainment." what does this specifically entail? >> we are excited because what we recognize globally as the transformation to the digital platform. everyone seems to live their lives in many different forms, and what we are doing is taking a lot of that social media and creating an environment where that social media is part of the experience at mgm. i am standing here at the moment inside of the spectacle. that is a combination of some of walls with digital content from all over the world. content and opportunities for our guests to actively participate in the experience within our space. when you combine that with the natural environment we a

we take them, we feed them, we get them medical help. we then get them an education, three-year education, because we're dealing with so many children and after the education, we teach them an avocation. i don't know if that's the rain or what is going on. but we have -- we teach an avocation and when they leave news three years they go out around the world with a -- one is they have hope for the first time in their lives. yes, they go through -- been through a lot of stress and things, but they go out and we help them get jobs with global companies. so, again, it is nationwide and i just wanted to applaudal for just addressing it as a world problem, again, it's a huge problem the out. >> we do appreciate it. we have another question out there. thank you. >> hi. i'm with the u.s. department of labor international labor affairs bureau and we do quite a bit of work on supply chain issues-ranging from programming to biannually produced research on goes made with forced labor and recently produced a smartphone app called comply chain to help

we know we need to do more. that's why we are now using things like image prediction technology to help us recognize when those sales might be taking place. >> okay. so since instagram can turn into instagun for someone who intends on using it for nefarious purposes, the answer you would give to the chicago police department when it said it did not receive cooperation from facebook during the ten months investigation is that you did cooperate or you have now established a policy of cooperation with the chicago police department and every police department across the country? >> thank you, senator. i believe they clarified their statement afterwards. we have been cooperative with them from the beginning. i would be happy to follow up afterwards with you on that. >> that would be helpful. in terms of the private facebook groups that this type of activity has migrated to, you are saying as well you are working to shut that down as well? >> that's right. this is an area where we recognize enforcement can be challeng

not just how we grow our food but how we move our food and how we trade with other countries. and so leading us through this very important global conversation is adam ferris, a moderator. he's an alumnist at the university of oklahoma and will graduate from the u.s. army work college with a masters in strategic studies in july. so congratulations, adam. the light is at the end of the total. some of the students here are graduating in may in the room. dale moore is the director of public policy. he joined in 2011 as the executive director of public policy and manager of the agriculture and trade policy team. lisa shroeder is a global director of trade. as part of the global affairs and public policy team lisa has director responsibilities for defining and managing the company's director trade agenda as well as developing a strategy on international aspects of corporate issues. based in washington, d.c. her responsibilities include trade policy negotiations and investment that foster growth and businesses through identification of policies facilitating market access and reducin

means we with this the way we should. we gave him a subpoena on the spot. that same week, we had corey lewandowski come in. corey lewandowski gave uneven more absurd answer. he said he would not answer the same questions bannon would not answer. he would not answer anything after the day he left the campaign. that he was never part of the administration. there was no claim of potential executive privilege down the road. he just said, i am not prepared to answer those questions today. the committee said, ok, please come back when you find it convenient. no subpoena, no nothing. no talk about contempt. no nothing. i have been urging we bring him back ever since. i had a commitment at the time that we would bring him back. i am trying to make sure we honor that commitment. we see bannon, when he did come back yesterday -- he had a list of 25 questions that were written by the white house for him to answer. that was all he would be able to answer. i cannot go into the specifics of the questions, except to say you could see bo

you know, we make aluminum and we make steel in missouri, but we buy a lot of aluminum and we buy a lot of steel as well. from bass boats to beer cans, a lot of aluminum out there. we got an aluminum manufacturer that closed down, but with special electric rates is reopening under new management. and so clearly we're concerned about those new jobs, but also concerned about all the jobs, whether it's in the electric steel area, or the aluminum area, very price sensitive here. >> good. and i understand that very well. one thing i just -- i do want to tell you, we just got this notice, general motors in korea announces the first step in necessary restructuring. they're going to gm korea company announced today it will cease production and close its plant in may of 2018. they're going to move back to detroit. you don't hear these things except for the fact that president trump became president. believe me, you wouldn't be hearing that. they're moving back from korea to detroit. you saw chrysler moving from mexico to michigan. and you have many other companies, all want to be where the actio

we know we will be judged by that. as mike -- with my time at the vice chief. ,e will not have any problem any officer accountable. we will investigate and hold them accountable. >> i will add one thing. ,ur senior officers, one shot one shot near down. perhaps on the junior ranks, which i to give them a second chance, at least it's not a zero defect mentality. >> i appreciated second chances when i was 18 and 19. >> me too. >> a rough hypothetical. we havethe issue is, someone who has served honorably , a one or two star, then you are a three star for 32, and they have a relationship or whatever, and you have to determine a retirement, deal the back to the two star are one start. one of the eight your point, they do something similar, how hard is that to determine? is going back ranked to the 30-year point or should it be more serious depending on the crime or action taken? how hard is that when you are making these determinations? >> sometimes you go back to the last rank onhonorably served. if it is a junior rank, m

and we wind up -- we do what we can. but we really kind of wind up assuming that implementation's going to be about average. about the same as other pieces of legislation. and that doesn't always happen. >> i don't want to spend too much on health care. i do want to ask one question. when we put together the aca, one of the things that we focused on was making sure that preventive care was a significant part of the agenda. and because we believed, those of us who were involved in that, that preventive care ultimately has a significant benefit on the budget in reducing long-term health care costs. have you ever -- has the cbo, to your knowledge, ever done a score on the benefits of preventive care? >> yeah, the one that had the clearest sort of result was from cigarette tax. and the cigarette tax, you know, there would be revenue generated from the tax, there would be revenues, increased revenues from better health. that had a real impact. you had an odd, in terms of spending, it had sort of an odd counter, right? because

we want to assure that, while we see warning signs, we act quickly -- we act quickly. when we have somebody that is mentally unstable, like this guy who was asicko. people have to act. as i said last week, we have to create a culture in our country that cherishes life and forces real human connections. we are also working to reduce violent crime in america to make our communitys places that are safe for children and everyone. under my administration, gun prosecutions have increased significantly. the attorney general is very much after that. we are also after the gangs. they have been incredible. there were a couple of commentators that were lightweights said, ms 13, who talks about that? that is only talked about on fox. no, that is talked about in communities where they are killing people very slowly. they want to do this slowly. they kill people with knives. they wanted to be a painful death. we are getting them out by the thousands, putting them in jail. our people are much tougher than they are. that is the only thing they understand. toughness. they don't underst

we like to think we have overcome it, that we are done. we have to put it in that framework. the solution is not a one-off or a 45 minute powerpoint hr departments are doing across businesses. it is a whole suite of changes. norway has done it and they have not sunken into the atlantic. let's remember, this is a bigger picture. you heard me make a joke to make facts great again. we have things like the center for disease control that have not been put out of did -- put out of business yet, but this administration is trying to. there is data around comprehensive sexual history and sexual violence prevention the cdc has been developing over the years. there is a lot more needed, but they cannot do it if they are being systematically gutted. that is one of the casualties in this administration we need to pay attention to. the fourth and final point is, while men should be uncomfortable, and that is ok, and live with that moment, we should add a couple drops of sugar or honey to the water at the end of this. i think this moment also has a potential to be the greatest revolution i

we take them. we need them. we get them medical help. we then give them an education, a three-year education because we're dealing with so many children, and after the education we teach them an avocation. i don't know in that's the rain, but we have -- we teach them an avocation, and when they leave us in three years, they go out around the world with a -- one, is they have hope for the first time in their lives, you know, yes, they go through -- they've been through a lot of stress in things, but they go out and we help them get jobs with global companies. so, again, you know, it is nationwide. i just wanted to applaud y'all for addressing it as a world problem. again, it's a huge problem in the united states -- >> thanks for your question. appreciate it. move on. we've got another question out there? thank you. >> hi. i'm with the u.s. department of labor's international labor affairs bureau, and we do quite a bit of work on supply chain issues ranging from programming to biannually produced research on goods made with forced labor an

we don't have time on our side. we have to get resources to them as quickly as we can. i would say to our friends in the freedom caucus, we got these numbers because we stayed together. and i would ask them not to quit before we get across the finish line. we need to get the budget deal passed and turn to the kind of reforms that are crucial in terms of the overall budget process. it is important. as we are having these debates as republicans and members of the house, we all keep much in mind, the moms and the dads out there whose sons and daughters are deploying. and we cannot be in a situation where we are letting our political debates, our fights and arguments get in the way of giving them the resources they need in a dangerous world to protect and defend us. it is a sacred obligation. i'm proud to stand on this stage and grateful of the hard work of the speaker, the chairman, mike and martha. and will be proud to cast this vote to get the military the resources they need. >> before running for office, i spent seven years on active duty in the marine corps. you ride

we have to shake things up this past year. we always do a postmortem. we help out. we implemented recommendations this year. the buyers will be reaching out in connecting with the american people on our behalf. also way the consultants were going to be compensated. this wasn't always welcome. it's important that consultants that win races and lose races are not compensated the same. the advice from mr. lynch and many of our colleagues has been implemented. i think we are stronger because of it. you have a number of democratic primaries in california where you've got half dozen candidates who are against each other. timesve set a number of and iready to intervene think he means through money in these primaries. where do you see the primaries in california that could be locked out because of the top two system? are there any you are watching? rep lujan: i appreciate you executive director. he knows how to roll of his sleeves and win races. i'm honored he accepted the responsibility to be the executive director. many people across the spectrum recognizes work. i agree

we need that. and then after we do that, when we see there is trouble, we have to nab them. you know, years ago we had mental hospitals, mental institutions, we had a lot of them. and a lot of them have closed. they've closed. some people thought it was a stigma. some people thought frankly it was the legislators thought it was too expensive. today if you catch somebody, they don't know what to do with him. he hasn't committed the crime but he may very well and there's no mental institution, there is no place to bring them. we have that a lot. even if they caught this person, i'm being nice when i use the word person, they probably wouldn't have known what to do. they're not going to put him in jail and yet -- so there's no middle ground of having that institution. where you had trained people that could handle it. and do something about it and find out how sick he really. -- really is. he is a sick guy. and he should have been nabbed a number of times frankly. your concept and your idea about concealed carry, it only works where you have people very adept at using firearms.

we couldn't build, we couldn't farm.you had a puddle and you land, they called it a lake for the purposes of environmentals. it is crazy. it is crazy. and i signed certain bills, i would have farmers behind me and have house builders, home builders behind me. and these are tough people. strong people. they fought hard. they worked all their lives hard. and half of them would be crying. because we gave them their property back. we gave them the right to earn a living. they couldn't do it. they couldn't do what they had to do. we gave them their property back, we gave them their dignity back. >> by the way you don't mind if i go off script a little bit. it is sort of boring. it is a little boring. beautiful speech, everything is wonderful. but a little boring. we have to, you know -- but we gave them their dignity back. and that's why our country is doing record business. we're doing record business. we're doing business and you have to look at the fundamentals. companies are pouring back into this country, pouring back. n

we experienced that in the u.s. and we think we understand how it plays out. in rural areas and it is constructing towns and cities because it needs them, less than 9% of the population have a mortgage. completely agree that there are huge amounts of misunderstanding about the chinese economy. francine: when it comes to the chinese renminbi, what would be c doc do next -- the pvo next? >> in the context of the bigger relativelyey will be happy to allow the currency to appreciate gradually over time against what is continuing to be an appreciating u.s. dollar. we have seen a significant move over the last month and it may be the case it has come to aggressively. -- too aggressively but we will see the chinese currency appreciate this year. i am so excited about the vix. karen ward and jeremy stretch, thank you. let me show you the markets, the 30 euros bond, everett -- 30 year bond, watching me vi -- the vix. up to 50, i am going to die. a better vix been a few days ago. stay with us for more fancy charts and karen ward and jeremy stretch. ♪ ♪ tom: bloomberg su

we don't do it when we consume products, do we? do go to the supermarket once in a while question mark i do the shopping in my family, and i use this analogy of milk. the lust that i use analogy was two years ago, but the number of milk options, or fake milk, has doubled. the whole world is alive when you are given options and you are the informed consumer, and as with the parents should be. they should be given informed information so they can make the choice themselves. other it is private, public, or in between, it doesn't matter. >> let me get on esa's, which is one of my favorite topics. a lot of critics will say that esa essays are just vouchers by another name. that is a criticism, and my question is -- mr. bush: what is wrong with that? >> are the vouchers by another name or are they something new, and what is important about it? mr. bush: the difference is that a voucher will give the parent their choice to go to a private school. where transferring from a prop -- public school to a private school. in esa can do that, and

we lose, we lose, we do find in the supreme court. it's a very bad thing, daca is going back and we will see what happens from there. we want fair trade deals. we want reciprocal trade deals. governor walker has a wonderful company called harley-davidson in wisconsin. when they send a motorcycle to india they have to pay 100% tax. 100%. the prime minister who i think it's a fantastic man called me the other day, said we are lowering it to 50%. so far we are getting nothing. we get nothing, he gets 50%, they think they are doing us a favor. it's a great company. when i spoke with your chairman, they weren't even asking for it because they've been ripped off so long that they were surprised i brought it up. i'm the one that's pushing it more than they are but it's unfair. india sells us a lot of motorbikes. they have a big number, a company that is a lot of business. they have a motorcycle or motorbike that comes into our country. the number is zero. we get zero, they get 100%. brought down to 75%, brought down to 50%. i wasn't sure, he

we do make changes. we add new programs. but we do it without eliminating or even consolidating existing .rograms budget is supposed to be our roadmap to the future. we talked about the need for infrastructure. budgets, one of those infrastructures we better be working on if we're going to have a better budget process. it's a tough road ahead but i'm confident we can find success together. senator sanders. >> chairman, thank you for holding his hearing and director mulvaney, thank you for being with us this morning. anybody ine to tell america today there is a lot of political demoralization. one of thes held more favorable levels -- best majority of people think we do a terrible job. president trump's favorable ratings are lower than a president -- people look at washington and they do not see much they feel good about. this budget demonstrates. there are politicians who run for office and they say one thing. president trump when he was a candidate frame for office and said he's a different type of republican. mulvaneyck ty