women in our department as defense of our citizen and our ideals. one core belief i've always held is our strength as a nation is linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. while the u.s. remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies. we must use all tools of american power to provide for the common defense. including providing effective leadership to our alliance. nato's 29 democracies demonstrated that strength in their commitment to fighting alongside us following the 9/11 attack on america. the defeat isis coalition of 74 nations is further proof. similarly i believe we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries who strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours. it is clear that china and russia for example want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model, gaining veto authority over other nations economic

a full explanation from the department of defense. the department won't be seeking -- won't be seeking reimbursement for their fuel and support. i will continue to conduct oversight to get to the bottom negligence.rent aware of mythe dod concerns and i will evaluate whether an inspector general is necessary to determine the extent to which united states taxpayer funds, potentially millions and a tens of millions of dollars were used to fund the saudi war. without the it legally required acknowledgment and approval from the congress of the united states. the united states should not be funding this for or supporting this war or providing intelligence or logistic support. inshould not be complicit the indiscriminate targeting of civilians in yemen and the murder of children, the famine and humanitarian crisis that are ongoing. that is why today we should pass this resolution. it is all the more important today that the senate take a stand given the trump family ties to the saudi's and the president's habit of undermining the intelligenc

reporters who contacted the defense department, however, were told that the defense department also could not answer those questions because they frankly had no idea what the president was talking about with this new order. so the pentagon referred reporters back to the white house to try to get those questions answered. so the white house said, the president announces it, everybody is like, dude, what now, huh? the white house says we don't know, ask the defense department. the defense department says we don't know, ask the white house. which is ridiculous and absurd. and just for us as citizens, it is remarkable to see our government and our president overtly bungling something this serious. something this important, just trying to hum a few bars and hopes everybody else figures out what this means and what people are supposed to do here. it's ridiculous, absurd, right? it feels that way to everybody observing this process, including people who are allies of the president like republicans an capitol hill. but if you're an american military family tonight, if you have a family member ser

obviously he's not listening to the department of defense and to mattis. i don't know what he's got going with pompeo. there's chaos and it's obviously a real problem. >> oddly enough, "who knows" is also the response it seems top military officials are having to give the troops when they're visiting them overseas right now, we're seeing that in "wall street journal" reporting, a marine commandant is saying, "we don't know." when it comes to the shutdown, the latest reporting that we've seen is essentially that mike pence brought down the ask, if you will, from $5 billion for border wall funding to $2.5 billion. that's real money. do you wish schumer had taken the offer and ended the shutdown? >> the offer -- for what is the $2.5 billion going to be spent for? we're more than willing to put up multiple billions of dollars for security, comprehensive security, immigration reform. the senate in 2013 by a vote of 67 put out a comprehensive immigration reform, visa reform, border security, 700 miles of fence. when that came to the house, boehner refused to eve

reporters who contacted the defense department, however, were told that the defense department also could not answer those questions because they frankly had no idea what the president was talking about with this new order. so the pentagon referred reporters back to the white house to try to get those questions answered. so the white house said, the president announces it, everybody is like, dude, what now, huh? the white house says we don't know, ask the defense department. the defense department says we don't know, ask the white house. which is ridiculous and absurd. and just for us as citizens, it is remarkable to see our government and our president overtly bungling something this serious. something this important, just trying to hum a few bars and hope somebody else figures out what this means and what people are supposed to do here. it's ridiculous, absurd, right? it feels that way to everybody observing this process, including people who are allies of the president like republicans on capitol hill. but if you're an american military family tonight, if you have a family member servi

department to create a new us space command aimed at consolidating military space operations and defend american assets. >> a new era of american leadership in space has begun. it will develop the space doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures that will enable war fighters to defend the nation in this new era. shannon: there working to establish a new branch of the military called the space force, by 2020. the vice president making the big announcements as space x prepares for a historic lunch but it never happened, the company postponing their mission until today after a problem with rocket sensors, it is launching an air force satellite into space. the other rocket launchers postponed on tuesday, the weather pushing back an area of the mission until today. it would blast off with a french spy satellite and the ul a's delta heavy rocket carrying a recon spacecraft will blast off in california after it was delayed for high winds. jeff bezos delayed the launch due to tech issues and that is scheduled to take off on friday. that happens today and friday, we will you know. it is 11 min

department astro zeneca likes the story so much, that they're moderna's fourth largest shareholder they own roughly 8% of the company. also working with merck for rsv and vzv. perhaps more important, they're helping merck with its anticancer vaccines that help your body's immune system target tumor cells. and you know these anti-cancer vaccines are really a fabulous frontier help with the financials they don't tell you very much because moderna has nothing to sell at the same time, the company is spending a fortune on r&d, because, well, they're in the r&d business fortunately, because moderna has been able to raise cash so easy will i in private markets because it's considered to be such a superior company, the balance sheet is incredibly clean. they have $1.8 billion in cash that's going to set them up for a while. unfortunately, they're probably going to need it because nothing is going to come to the market for a while. because of poor timing, the stock came public right out of the gate has the stock become cheap at the time of the ipo a $7.5 billion valuation. now a 6.2 valuation.

magazine obtained information from the defense department more picks up the story. what comes to dealing with america's allies the trumpet ministration has one great fear paying too much money you want to say maybe you can have to pay many nations ovett sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the united states they're not paying their bills well there is one war in which the united states has been paying well beyond its fair share according to the department of defense saudi airplanes and airplanes from the united arab emirates have been refueling themselves at the expense of the american taxpayers apparently it's all due to an accounting error u.s. central command recently reviewed its records and found errors in accounting where the department of defense for to charge this sort. adequately for fuel and refueling services now it's quite an expensive mistake the costs are still being added up but apparently it's in the millions of dollars u.s. aerial refueling assistance was provided to the saudi led coalition for more than three point five use activi

you've been here, though, in the defense department, running a defense department. when you saw the letter today, you read it, secretary, what did you think? >> i felt that jim mattis did a great job expressing what he's about, the elements of leadership, that he represents, as secretary of defense, and throughout his military career. and that he reached the conclusion that those principles that he's lived with for 40 years are not in alignment with the views of this president, which says an awful lot about the differences here between jim mattis and the president. and it also raises concerns about where do we go from here? >> so, obviously, you know him, right? mattis was commander at u.s. central command when you became defense secretary. you've worked with him. you know him. you know his ethics, his morals. you know what kind of a person and a human being he is. when he writes in a letter that his views on treating allies with respect and being clear-eyed about malign actors, which he lays out specifically are authoritarian regimes, he names russia and china, wha

department for much of its income so whether or not he's going to be a check or whether he's actually going to be someone who just goes along to get along.

including those managed by the department of defense. the manufacturing programs and the active support and funding of those areas and active support of policies and the authorization of the programs themselves reflects the interest of the hill in the past and i think going forward. we have over the years written a lot of legislation in various targeting areas of manufacturing, for example, there was an md aa that originally mandated the creation of the manufacturing office within the pentagon and that was to try to strengthen the role of the voice of industrial policy within decisions made in the broader acquisition programs. we have tried to strengthen the tech program and the joint vince manufacturing program and a plan to coordinate those efforts and try to connect those programs to the manufacturing extension program and the department of commerce and to push forward manufacturing strategy. that can help guide congressional investment in manufacturing in targeted sectors. we've also focused on the workforce portion of the manufactur

the defense department will leave it to local commanders to decide. there are rules about politicking in uniforms. there are rules about displays that are seen as partisan in one way or another. hats ise signing of the something different than at least one soldier who held a trump reelection flag. that seems to be a politicking push. i do not know if that is necessarily a mortal sin, but certainly the kind of thing where a commander should step in and say there are rules about politicking for one thing. if you hold up an american flag to celebrate the president, that is fine. if you hold up a trump flag, that comes across as something different. on the signing of hats, that will be left up to norm -- to local commanders to decide. the defense department has said they will leave it to local commanders, to let them sort out, and remind folks that the military is supposed to be seen as separate from politics. the commander in chief comes to any military facility, there are a lot of selfies and handshaking and autographs. i do not know that that part is u

a defense contractor running the defense department. clearly he knows about defense contracting. the reason i ask is because we're in this moment in which there are troops deployed or continuing to be deployed to pliess where the president of the united states says we shouldn't have troops and shouldn't be involved. mattis was good for troop morale because he was one of them. does that matter? >> first of all, i think we have to have a secretary of defense that is an honest, smart man. he may be acting for a long time. that's what we have got. i used to tell civilian policy makers, i go at breakfast with them and talk about dealing with generals and admirals. the arms forces doesn't need help running this deployed force and combat. they don't need operational help. they need somebody with vision who understands the american people the way we run or government and future threats and future technologies. i'd be pretty optimistic about shanahan certainly in an acting capacity. the senate needs to watch who gets nominated for permanent secretary. >> good to talk with you. thank you f

i think the concern is that the infrastructure, the state department and defense department thought they could talk the president out of this. one thing i would note, and i think ambassador sherman would agree with this, we have had a tattered relationship with turkey over this quite some time. the kurds have been part of the pkk who have committed atrocities in turkey for years and years. this was not in my mind an impulsive decision. i could agree to stay. i could agree to leave. there were tough decisions on both sides and there had to be compromises on both sides. in this case the president decided to leave. i think we need to respect that because for one, a strong nato ally is now closer to us than it has been in a while. i do agree that we need to consider the next steps in syria. i think we're going to continue to provide air strikes and intelligence. it's a tough situation. ambassador sherman knows you win a few of those arguments, you lose a few of those arguments, but at the end of the day, the president gets to make the decisions. >> and the details will come. fantastic conver

the other issue is the erosion of analytical capability in the defense department. as the commission points out, making strategic response requires a foundation of state-of-the-art analytical capabilities. however, the commission detailed, rigorous concepts of determined that solving key operational problems are badly needed, but do not appear to exist. therefore, i would ask the witnesses for their thoughts on how to address this shortfall. finally, implementing a defense strategy requires resources. the commission ss is that in order to -- the commission assesses that additional resources will be required. however, the challenges facing our country are complex and multifaceted. as such, the commission notes that comprehensive solutions to these comprehensive challenges will require the whole of government, even the whole of nation cooperation, extending far beyond the dod. trade policy, science, technology, engineering and math education, diplomatic statecraft and other nonmilitary tools will be critical. so is funding for those elements of american power. it is t

as i mentioned earlier, these defense industrial policy lever is run across the department of defense as well as the inner agency. as a result, the value that a defense industrial policy office create for the department in general, specifically for my boss the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, is insight into the longitudinal view across the levers. a perspective that says are we pulling them as an enterprise and away the most effectively address the risks that have been identified? and if we are not uniformly pulling the levers, why? can we do it better in a more coordinated fashion to address the concerns that we have in our ability to meet future and current war fighter needs? with that, steve, past back to you. >> thank you very much. [applause] right there, eric. and hopefully we will have carolyn join us. there she is. hi carolyn. all right, that's great. i think that did exactly what i'd hoped our pursuit purposes which is key up the discussion give those of you who have not yet delved in to the 13 nato138 report, a preview. the archetypes is a key thread to be aw

defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems and microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contract amazon is vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well and google had also been in the running though it dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles or the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations or something that some argue we spoke to were roger kay a technology analyst who says that for microsoft military contracts are a greater priority and as employees concerns it is interesting that in silicon valley which is one of the younger culture or sort of all line tech on that there's this sort of aren't studiousness sort out at the whole seeings and certainly some of what smith was saying is directed at existing employees don't think that the message for them is pretty much we're going to be used in important part of our portfolio and we in turn you bond with it and if you have an issue with that we may need to decide

i mean he took a minute to look at the defense department's own inspector general's report so really he does bother to look at the thing that was designed for the public to look at. that's what he did anyway after the redacted the night after so it came out it got hundreds of thousands of views like true to go articles on the same topic also went viral and so did that forbes article yet despite thank you get this quite. this is quite all the exact still not a word from congress not a word from the hacks that you're mainstream media outlets but then just a few weeks ago something significant was said by the deputy secretary of defense patrick shanahan it happened in a quiet news dump in a press conference that actually actually began like this. deputy secretary of defense so you guys know i came down today reporter to see if we need to do. that. just because we're murdering people all around the world doesn't mean we can't. get in. during that silly wacky press conference the deputy secretary of defense casually mentioned halfway through that the pentagon had failed its first ever aud

money commissioned a study by halliburton to find out how much more of the defense department could be privatized robert proud to serve our troops and was he laid to get this million dollar contract and of course returned a verdict that oh mr secretary lots more of it can be privatized. dick cheney leaves the defense department and goes and heads halliburton himself and he spends the entire nine hundred ninety s. building up the how important war empire well if we're going to talk about star wars we might as well invite darth vader i. am. happy to accept. when he comes back into power as vice president and then they start hiring halliburton to you know in advance even if u.s. troops going into iraq personnel and equipment was being deployed to the gulf it's hard to look at this and not say these guys had a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire. power of small nation states that could you know overthrow some small governments around th

defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contract i was on his vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well google had also been in the running there were dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles of the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations something that some argue is contradicted by reality on the ground. we believe this program takes a significant step in fully leveraging commercial products and services to quickly and economically meet our operational needs this another operational improvements increase lethality and readiness. it is interesting that in silicon valley which is one of the younger culture sort of old line tech. that there is this sort of studiousness it out at the old scenes and you know we want to have at least the impression there were no we're not doing very distinct you could probably find a correlation between important business done with t

♪ >>> the outgoing defense secretary forced to depart two months early. the president frustrated by the critical resignation letter from jim mattis. >> it is possible the shutdown will go beyond the 28th and into the new congress. >>> it is day three of the christmas government shutdown. the sides remain far apart on the president's demand to fund the border wall. >>> and this, the treasury secretary trying to reassure investors after the worst week for stocks in a decade. what steve mnuchin told the world about his conversation with the heads of big banks. >>> and did the president cross the line venting to the acting attorney general about implicating him in the michael cohen case? welcome to "early start." i'm joe johns. happy christmas eve. >>> i'm christine romans. it is monday, december 24th. we begin with the defense secretary james mattis forced out of his job two months earlier than planned. he an announnounced his resigna thursday. the departure triggered by the president's decision to withdrawal troops from syria. mick mulvaney defended the dec

but the problem is that i support funding for the defense department and we have to maintain a defense that is the strongest military on the face of the earth and you have to continue to do that but don't kid ourselves that there is a real danger lurking in the obvious. a 20 trillion-dollar debt that will expand even more and we are now at a point like at an annual deficit diminish our resources for the future to blow up our economy. so do we face that now to say we have all this money in the future and pass it to the future for our children or will be confront that now? that is the real challenge. but the reality is that republicans and democrats and president trump, nobody wants to confront this issue. nobody wants to confront it. nobody talks about what you have to do to deal with that deficit. wisecracks because it's tough politically a deal with entitlements and discretionary spending and defense in taxes. you are serious about doing it but not everybody has the leadership so play this game to hope we can continue to borrow the money, what we need to do is have a comprehensive bud

it's on defense department letterhead. dear mr. president, i have been privileged to serve as our country's 26th secretary of defense, which has allowed me to serve alongside our men and women of the department in defense of our citizens and our ideals. one core belief i've always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. while the u.s. remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies. we must use all tools of american power to provide for the common defense, including providing effective leadership to our alliances. nato's 29 democracies demonstrated that strength in their commitment to fighting alongside us following the 9/11 attack on america. the defeat isis coalition of 74 nations is further proof. similarly, i believe we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countrie

defense department approaches these things and why not? and i support funding for the defense department and we maintain a defense that is the strongest military on the face of the earth, that's what we are and we have to continue to do that, but i also don't think we ought to kid ourselves that there is a real danger lurking in the out years, and it's a $20 trillion debt that is going to extend even more in these next ten years. we are now at a point where we are approaching a $1 trillion annual deficit and that's going to eat us up alive in terms of interest payments. it's going to diminish our resources for the future, and at some point it's going to blow up our economy. now, do we face that now? and pretend that oh, my god, we'll have all of this money in the future and just pass it on to the future to blow up for our children? or are we going to confront that now? that's the real challenge and the reality is republicans, democrats, president trump nobody wants to confront this issue. nobody wants to confront it. nobody's talking about

army, the department of defense or the u.s. government. [laughter] and we have also with us the author of the book, professor robert brigham, who is a professor of international relations and history at vassar college. they're going to talk for about 40 minutes or so, open it up to questions and answers, and then we will adjourn to a reception and a book signing, and there will be books for sale at the reception. so over to the two of you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> so, bob, i wonder if i could just start asking about your motion vegas for the book. this is clearly not your first book about the vietnam war. i'd like to just start by asking what made you want to go back to the vietnam war now and to do so new the lens of the role of national security adviser and then-secretary of state henry kissinger. >> i think vietnam is still casting a long shadow over american foreign policy, so i think my research agenda's pretty much settled for the rest of my career on vietnam. on kissinger, "the washington post" asked me to review his bo

defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems but microsoft not the only one competing for this lucrative contract is on its vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well google had been in the running though it dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles . now the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations it's something that some people disagree with and we spoke to roger kay a technology analyst. it is interesting that you know you know one of the younger cultures are all lying on the doses. so studiousness the all seems. you know we want to have at least you pression there were actually no we're not doing various things you probably for any correlation between forty years use done with the knowledge you're really firing various to corporations and how the they are of their own. radio stations across the u.s. have been dropping the christmas classic baby it's cold outside from play lists following a backlash from listeners critics

we recognize it is unpopular with the defense department. >> do they know what the stakes are of pulling u.s. troops out and leaving the syrian defense force to the turkish slaughter and the impact on iran? really? >> ordinary americans have no idea about those things. they elect the president so he does. >> the one thing the president did not immediately recognize was that mattis was resigning in protest. once that became clear, aides say the president remarked that mattis was portrayed as the smartest guy in the world because he was leaving the trump administration. now sources tell us, senior military officials are worried about the uncertainty that the upheaval is causing with mattis on the way out. who is in charge for now? here is correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: deputy secretary of defense patrick shanahan has been named by the president to become acting secretary of defense. there was a feeling inside the white house officially that they needed to get a new person in that they didn't want mattis in a lame duck position. admi

the defense department disagrees. they released this statement. the coalition liberated the isis-held territory, but the campaign against isis is not over. >> the white house is struggling to articulate the withdrawal plan. they cannot say how many troops are coming home or other personnel leaving. the pentagon referred questions back to the white house. >> the president ordered to withdrawal all troops is being met with universal condemnation. we have more from london and najir. >> reporter: good morning, dave. everyone we are sepeaking to is concerned. this is a move that james mattis was saying this is not possible. he was saying the u.s. presence in syria is in the national interest. this is not about the remaining pockets of isis, when we say the remaining pockets, there are 14,000 remaining isis soldiers. this is the number they put out in august. it is about routing the remaining pockets of isis, but ev enduring victory. you need to have trained the officials. that campaign is 20% done. that is without bringing in the reality of seeding the

the defense department in the u.s. should be going given the threats and challenges it faces yes i mean overall i think if we look at the high i'm pretty of the challenges that the u.s. and the west in general is up against i think defense has to be written with a small d. which means military is just one of the levers of power that should be concentrated upon in the new secretary of state will have to make sure that all these different levers of power in the defense realm ticket when we talk about information warfare and science on these also are included and i think a too much a robust into wench always focused on on conventional military operations near piazza david said and this is something i think is kind of missing the mark however i think if you look at the line of people that were up in negotiation discussion over the last couple of days in washington of who could succeed general masses all of these people i would share mattresses point of view are saying well the strategy is problematic in afghanistan in syri

we are focused on national security a department agency and department of defense. we focused on prominent programs and moved into developing things like the first stealth aircraft in the late 70s he mentioned the internet so we worked on defense problems all along the way during the last decade iraq and afghanistan we may have gotten a bit too focused but we sort of looked up and out and started focusing on what are the races we need to win so we are focused on those. i think better than any other organization in the government bridges the gap between the commercial sector and private sector we bring in people from industry from universities and other agencies we are able to adapt to the problems and where we are leading to these problems. >> i loved your comment that your job is to avoid the government being surprised in this way is by creating surprises herself so i want to ask you to surprise us. tell us a couple of technology areas we might not be thinking about where you think some big things are ahead. >> i can't tell you everything that they will focus on a

defense department is fully funded. jennifer and another write in "c.q.," the coast guard is part of the department of defense. one of the nine departments currently without funding. while the rest of the military is in the department of defense, which is not affected by the shutdown. thanks for pointing that out. our republican line is next. we hear from ted in colonial heights, virginia. caller: yes, sir. just a couple comments about this even though i'm a republican. i see some democrats still want what donald trump is trying to do. what strikes me most is two things. number one, i keep seeing films in 2006 of about a ram obama, hillary clinton, chuck schumer and others saying we need a want, we wanted the wall. have they forgotten this now in 2018 that they said that now there's a republican president? second, and what's critical to me is, such is the health care we fund out for illegals every year would pay for what he's asking for the wall five times over in one year. and i don't care whether you're republican or

department spends on equipment and on personnel which might lead to a reason why the president recently said that after approving the largest defense budget in some decades that he's now calling for a cut in the defense budget but let's also not forget mr shanahan came from boeing which has a very robust relationship with the u.s. government in terms of providing military equipment aircraft and materiel and so while he might be perceived as someone who is in sync with the president's thinking he also comes from a culture that is very much dependent on the defense department for much of its income so whether or not he's going to be a check or whether he's actually going to be someone who just goes along to get along that is another area of concern back to both republicans and democrats are expressing and what can you tell us about the phone call that president trump held with the turkish president arroyo on. well the president did tweet out that he did have a conversation with the president of turkey that they agreed that there needed to be a very methodical and carefully orchestrated pu

trump only brought shanahan into the defense department last year he's an engineer who spent most of his career at boeing a major supplier to u.s. forces he has no background in politics diplomacy or military affairs. stocks on wall street plunged on monday following a tweet by u.s. president donald trump attacking the federal reserve markets well all radio reacting to slowing economic growth and the government shutdown before trump launched his latest attack on federal reserve chair paul troung tweeted the only problem economy has is the fit they don't have a feel for the market if it is like a powerful gulf war because he has no touch she can't. trump has criticised paul for raising interest rates too quickly so he says the us president has some sympathy on wall street for that position. well that is clearly charm trying to blame someone and who is currently easier to blame than the fed chairman and his monetary policy chum seems to have two wishes to ensure a strong economy and they're both not related to his policies how convenient he wants a low oil prices and low interest rates

does the defense department want a new aumf? does the president? would have to cover different countries?do you need one for somalia, one for yemen and syria? or is it just overarching? did we just see the first steps towards that with the vote in terms of curtailing the war powers in yemen? ms. hicks: i think you just answer the question by asking all of those. [laughter] when does it end? is there a time certain to an aumf? what countries does it cover? there are so many things and we all have very different ideas on where that needs to go, what the end goal would be, and that is where we as congress need to have those discussions. are the common goals and where can we go? do you think there's bipartisan support for this? >> i don't there has been some theort in some language in committee for a new aumf, but given events and yemen and given where we are, we are talking about a whole new effort starting with the new congress. said so well,i the challenge is we have not been able to get something we can agree to. i just hard to get a commitment to

only brought shanahan into the defense department last year he's an engineer who spent most of his career at boeing a major supplier to u.s. forces he has no background in politics diplomacy or military affairs. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the body of a seven year old girl who died in a u.s. border patrol custody has arrived home jacqueline car died in texas earlier this month reportedly from dehydration and shock after a three thousand kilometer journey u.s. authorities have heavily criticised for the way they handled her case. israeli coalition leaders have agreed to hold early elections in april seven months before they are deemed israeli media reporting a fall out within prime minister binyamin netanyahu is right wing government coalition parties are in dispute over a new law extending the military draft to ultra orthodox jews. well with the christmas holidays upon us many people are reminded of the virtues of giving but for one restaurant owner in the us capital washington d.c. there is no off season for generosity. paid him a visit. it's the season

and other military branches are not affected because they're under the defense department. 32,000 coast guard members were on duty when the partial government shutdown began on saturday. the navy credit union and usaa will provide loans if it's needed. >>> and a mushroom facility is being sued for 67 million, and monterey mushroom intentionally dumped toxic waste water into the facility. monterey mushroom said in a statement that it was shocked and disappointed at the lawsuit and the company had been in communication with the office. the pollution was as a result of late winter storms in 2016 and 2017 >>> a diver from britain, he criticized elon musk's efforts to represents cue young soccer players in type land trapped in and cave earlier this year. and elon musk tweeted a derogatory term about that diver. and this diver played and big role in rescuing those boys trapped in a cave is suing elon musk for $75,000. >>> and there's no plan to develop a state run public bank for the state's cannabis industry. experts in the area said it's in crisis without a banking system without a system t

the defense department and the u.s. should be going given the threats and challenges it faces yes i mean overall i think if we look at the high i'm pretty of the challenges that the u.s. and the west in general is up against i think defense has to be written with a small d. which means military is just one of the levers of power that should be concentrated upon in the new secretary of state will have to make sure that all these different levers of power in the defense realm for ticket when we talk when information was then silence on these also are included i think in a too much a robust and to watch always focused on on conventional military operations near piazza david said this is something i think is kind of missing the mark however i think if you look at the line of people that were up in negotiation discussion over the last couple of days in washington of who could succeed general masses all of these people i would share mattresses point of view are saying well the strategy is problematic in afghanistan in syria b