it was crowded, was people who were simply getting ready for the new year's holiday. they were buying presents a new ice, rink hedges opens. children were looking forward to going there, but that was exactly what caught hits, is doing this help breach a p. steel. know the opposite. more man or listing in the army, ukrainians are getting exactly the opposite of what they try to achieve. build it up or spend the steel is rushes bread, basket one over 3 just regions. summer time fuels here full of weed from flowers and farms, but the problem is that we can farms and fuel can provide you with the main thing. see a know safety but daily on scan inventory for the week of scan. yeah. defense system scan, because it has changed everything slowly, but surely it hardens both the region and people leaving here. so hopefully one of the system to find but the question remains, these one will attend, which i faulty report in from building. so just little run up for you here and i'll

tell you the west, of course, is back to bombing the middle east. once again, this time yemen in the cross says israel meantime destroying gaza and ukraine's zelinski cap in hand in davos, beckoned from all cash from the globes elite. so up to no good by the way of the world economic forum. why no good. because the w. e f likes to think gets in charge of setting the world agenda, and loves telling politicians to execute the agenda and obeyed that mazda is just for a moment. look up the w e. f henchman, house schwab. he's like a want to be born villain. tried to set the world stage according to his twisted elitist ideologies. i is open here at odds a. make sure your question will. the, the pentagon failed an independent audit of its accounting system for the 6

consecutive year. honors found, half of the department claimed assets could not be accounted for sky. now, here's an on this episode of $360.00 view. we're going to look at why the united states continues to write a blank check to a department which cannot account for what is already spent. let's get started. the required by law. the annual audit assesses the record keeping processes for the pentagon weapon systems, military personnel, and a property around the world. now, approximately 1600 auditors visited over 700 sites for the investigation. and the annual exercise has held the vast bureaucracy. locate and tally arms, saving money, and make it easier to find and ship weapons and technology in the past, alter afghanistan, and currently to crate. now in the slightest audit,

the pentagon cannot account for nearly 63 percent. 63 percent of its nearly 4 trillion dollar dollar and assets. now the probably defends regularly buys equipment and parts. it doesn't need because it can't keep track of the equipment of parts. it already owns. put any member of congress. your voice is a concern about the unaccounted for inputted budget of the department if it is quickly met, filed large course from both sides of the aisle and saying they do not support a military and want to make america less safe, being unpatriotic and not supporting our military is almost just as damaging of a label as being a racist homophobic or any other typical ap jackie's ation based on hey to. so let's discuss it all with our panel, robert patel, a political analyst. angie wong. co host, the final countdown and cry. rob man as host of the rob man as a show. thank you so much for joining me. thank you. thank you, thomas. i wanna start with you on this one because the iris is bring on 30000 new

employees over the next 2 years with the 80000000000 dollars it was given from congress back in 2022. how do you feel about the us government being more concerned about it? citizens, financial accountability and accountability rather than its own. it's, it's almost beyond belief, scotty, it takes or haven't gone. you know, i dare people to question my boss or commitment to the armed forces of the united states of america. i spend half of my time fighting to make sure that the defense department is taking care of its troops. who are the ones that are going to have to go die biting, die in the, a lot of these wars that most of us don't even support anymore. so, you know, we have to come to grips with this because i'll, i'll take you back to early in the days after the 911 attack, when secretary donald rumsfeld had the stand in front of the american people. when

the iranians and the militias were killing our troops because we sent them overseas to i wrapped in afghanistan and an armored bees. and he had to say, well, you have to go to war with the army. you have come off. we have a decade, snell decades for decades, we have had the opportunity to repair that kind of thinking in our inductor, old establishment inside the department of defense in each of the armed services. and we still can't pass an audit because we can't keep track of all the arms and the weapons that we've sent overseas. we can't even keep track of our real property . we buy buildings build buildings by land, uh all the time. and i remember one of the audits were we couldn't even account for all the buildings that the united states department of defense ed, because we needed to inventory so we could sell them off off on closed military

bases. it's unbelievable. it's despicable and what's most disgusting about it is it shows that a really crash disregard for the safety of our troops and i'm tired. it was interesting because angie this latest military budget is $2.00 to $3.00 times what china spends on its military. yet the pen of going to say if congress does not pass the u. s. as in danger of falling behind. so can you explain how they can come up with this reasoning and the justification? oh sure, i mean look, you know, if you can't pass your 6 audit, let's just give you more money. let's give you a 186000000000 dollars more because you couldn't count for the last 4 trillion dollars. well, here's the problem. i'm sorry to think that maybe the pentagon budget is a fact more way for you by end to be financing on these wars that, well, maybe congress hasn't supported yet, and he seems to be okay, getting some months,

be an extra 200000000 this week, or something that didn't go through congress and the last few during his visit in washington dc. congress was have meetings with the house as search. and guess why he left empty handed? all you got was 200000000, which is not small, but it only buys a couple of days in war. russia to go home. and now today, president clinton of russia comes out and gloats and says, hey, we're doing great. now, our war it with ukraine, we've got 600000 service men that are, we're doing just fine because so lensky now has to think about ending the war there . there was no my, there's no light coming in. there's no were blank checks, but yeah, uh, to the point of the pension con i, it seems like we're financing a lot of task congress. and we have to be very mindful of that. and maybe that's where we'll find those missing trillion dollars. well, and it brings up a good point, robert, because you're looking at what's going on. and i want,

in this latest putting on budget bill actually features $832400000000.00 must pass a part of it though, include a bunch of money, already reserved for taiwanda, possibly going to defend taiwan cyber security deal. and it prioritizes the incas arm. so is it smart? are we not kind of already preparing to go for a war that it hasn't even started yet? or if we were using it directly for that, it would be smart. it'll be exactly what we need to be doing. the problem is leave trillions of dollars. it does go missing that are appropriate. and if you of them for people who don't understand how significant this is part of the issue the rusher had in the initial parts of their fence. so against the crime was a they went to go find weapons. they have already been sold off by generals to our to arms dealers. they went to the, to find, find out that all their stockpiles have been depleted. they found tanks that didn't have engines in them because someone sold the damage and off the people. this is what happens. we have waste fraud and abuse and assist in

a system as much. and we talked about existing in the russian military and chinese military. it also exists in our military and the fact that we keep going back to the well and simply saying, well, we need to build new bombers. we need to build new fighters with the new aircraft carriers. when all these new things we are preparing for a war, it gives an adversary that does not exist. and the fact is that because the military contractors have, have facilities and everything and congressional district, if you look at the way the major products are bill. if you're building a new f $35.00, or if you're building a new be $21.00, you'll have the engine is coming out of missouri. you'll have the wings coming out of alabama. you'll have delaney, you're coming out of texas because they sprinklered around to every congressional district know congress, 1st thing to vote against it. and to be comfortable came up that we can't get control over and we can't find money for schools. we can't find money for health care, we can't find money for many problem problems we have in america. but because of the way we do military contract will always find money for more weapons, which is a very scary point. because once again, and i'm going to go to it to you,

chrome minutes on this one, and does it hurt if we already know that there's a conflict coming? does that not also hurt diplomatically and solving it before we actually go to work? and to roberts point about putting it around, there's a reason why congress people can't vote against it. they can probably go to get somebody going into something else, but they can't vote against money going into their districts because they'll be ultimately held accountable. i feel like we're on a hamster well when it comes to this a little bit of moral courage, they could vote against it for the right reasons. you know, for, for instance, of this current bill that was just passed by the house, had the extension. the reauthorization of $5.00 to $7.00 know 2 which is used to surveil american citizens and break our 4. so you violate our 4th amendment rights, but the, the roberts point though, you know, it wouldn't be smart if we were spending the money for the right reasons in building up a deep current source to deter china. that's the, that's how you keep the peace through strength and to focus strategy and

expenditures and resourcing of the right forces at the right moment in time. and that is this moment, but that's not what's happening. you know, he mentioned that though, you know, the another there, and you mentioned another 200000000000 to ukraine, ukraine's asking for another 61000000 from congress in a losing more effort. it's been obvious to us the day it started or before, but this was going to be a losing effort. and it's not helping our national security here in the united states or even nato's a credibility. it's actually farming us, the longer it goes up. so we've got to get back to doing things that are preparing us to fight a war. but the time that adversary, which is the chinese communist party, instead of having to have the ability through weakness, to take us to the brink of war and even into war, allowing the adversary to do that. that's the way you end up with peace through

strength, not what our current approaches. but angie that, that is what i used to have republicans are known for spending money is to purpose money sometimes wasting it. in this case it's the democrats that are in charge. they're spending the money, but guess what? the republicans aren't stopping it. so why are the republicans that they're so angry about, or maybe some of them are starting to get on board and open up and realize that they've been use the past 2 years. why aren't republicans putting the stop in the brakes on this type of spinning and this type of waste as well? you would think after 6 audits that there would be some consequences, right? but here's the thing. this has nothing to do that they're not gonna hold. they've had to gone in contempt. why? because there's big defense, money involved here, and they sprinkle money all over congress on both sides of the aisles. no one's going to say no, it's and money especially, is congressional numbers. all they care about all your round is how am i gonna fund raise for my re election?

so that is the, the circular problem that we have here at the moment is, you know, our congressional numbers. they're being, i'm watching the launch. what are right now, they're being paper tigers, right? they're talking talking, talking big talk, but ultimately they're going to do nothing. and that's why we're on our 6 audits. and there's been no accountability whatsoever. the real problem of why we can't do the audit is because the specials did not provide enough to the auditors to actually do anything. right. and if i didn't give my account and all the information to do my taxes every year, cats, what's gonna happen to me? right? but with the pentagon, nothing will happen cuz there's no accountability from congress. so that's where we need to put the pressure. well, here's the thing just this week, general pump our pump have for secretary of state by joining major defense contract and board, surprise, surprise took him 3 years, very little press given to that. but obviously he's been one of the biggest pushers of any sort of war that he could get a part of. we know that can't presidential candidates for sat on boards of major

defense contractors. why are we not? why are we not making these politicians, even tv products, where stickers like nascar, of who actually respond to them and why this is motivating their words that they're speaking? oh, because the revolving door, if you think about our current secretary defense lloyd austin, was a defense contractor. but then under trump, our secretary of defense, esper, was a boeing defense contractor. there is, there's a, there's an invincible tie between our government and the military in the monetary. you can go back to, you can go back to eisenhower talking to the military, industrial complex. you can help me. the gills got here and we talked with the military and the mom is the mom is here to come together whenever it's necessary to turn this planet into a cemetery. we are in a country with the profits off of war, the one part with the american economy that will never go into recession is the war based economy. and it's going to be up to the american people to stand up to this because of, you know, i think that the american people really understood the american military footprint

around the globe. remember, and trumpet ministration though for soldiers died in these year. and many americans said, where's me, 0 it, and why do we have troops there? and then we find out we have an entire us africa command with $100000000.00 drone base. that is a, basically you will be used as a force there. if you look at the, of for low for 8th of american forces at every corner of this globe, whether in real repo, real garcia and the indian ocean and the strength to milwaukee. this is what we do . and then told the american people demand differently and really stand up to the people and start calling as anti military, anti natural defense. because of what the rain, the sand is going to continue to happen. and it has continued to happen since the end of world war 2. on that note, let's take a break because after the break, i want to continue our discussion about the failure of the pentagon to pass an audit for 6 years in a row. and ask, why are, what are the repercussions of the american taxpayer are continuing to fund the department without any question? the

the the the as soon as 2016, numerous monuments, the soviet soldiers in poland, ukraine and the baltic states have been destroyed, all vandalized fish their stuff. but it must be the most certainly within. yeah.

unless or even some others could ask if i really think so that's the most on whether it's, it's flesh or almost 3 of the police government denies the rule of soviet sonya is in the victory of a non citizen. and is it raising historical memories of world war 2? because i, for the, for, can you please when you order? although it did seem the non c regimes, the trustees would remain things in people's consciousness forever. but as long as russell phobia is profitable and brings dividends, you are willing to have a to rewrite the cost. yes. to, to uh, take up the provides. i need to see because it looks like so i need to re welcome back. i'm sky hughes, and you are watching the 360 view. i want to continue our discussion with our cho hotel, political analyst, and you want cause the final countdown and colonel rob,

man as host of the rob manage show. and you're a person, i want to correct myself, i was wrong. it's not an american defense contractor. the general pop our search here say pop pay or joint. it's actually a ukrainian called a company called the v on. and it's out of cube. it's a part of key of star, and he's an independent, non executive director. wow. how is that? not a conflict of interest angie that you have somewhere in the united states. it obviously has a voice still very influential in the american budgeted process. now he's sitting on a board with a country that is at war with someone else. wire. nobody calling file on this. there seems to be a lot of american politicians sitting on a lot of cardboard slightly. you know, they all have therefore parents, at least at least they have their, uh, you know, foreign bank accounts and whatnot not so we shall all be looking into that. i'm going to be the opposite arguments, not a lot of our defense manufacturing actually takes place here in the us and we send

it overseas, right? so pennsylvania being one of the largest manufacturing states, i think our zone is another one. so, you know, we actually benefit from the money going into defense manufacturing, even if it's producing shells for israel or, you know, tanks for ukraine. we're, yeah, we're, we're doing the bulk of the work which benefits americans ultimately, which is good. but i don't know. conflict of interest doesn't seem to matter right now in all of the seems like it's like the wild, you know, dc, do you want to do anything because there's no accountability as you know, who's got to push back on them. ultimately, people are making money in dc like they always have. now they're just being de brazen about it. they're just not hiding anymore. you are completely correct for that because you have conflict of interest. you have insider trading. it does it matter. as long as you're a member of congress and that colonel man is, is that why politicians are coming into congress, maybe small amount of money, the bank account and leaving as millionaires even billionaires to

a certain extent. because i don't think americans understand how politicians can personally benefit from a large military budget, which is greatly accounted for. can you shed some light on us? unfortunately, you know who, who can shed light on why a congress person comes in with a net worth of less than a $1000000.00. and then 12 years later has a net worth of $64000000.00. uh, i could just tell you that that smells, smells the high heaven, robert and energy both the tapped into that when they were talking about the revolving door. well, we need to put legislation back into place that prevents general officers and senior officers like me from going right to a defense contractor. we need to put the legislation in place that prevents folks that have been corporate officers or board directors on the military, industrial complex corporations from the secretary of defense, or having any policy role in the department of defense that we need to apply that

same standard to other corporate efforts and other departments and agencies, the federal government because it is a big cash cow and the cash is going in to their bank accounts. now upon pay. oh, you gotta be restricting from ever serving in the united states government again because he's gone to work for a defense company in a country that is the most corrupt country in the world. and i'm not even being hyperbolic here. it's unbelievable. but the other thing that we need to stop doing, and more importantly is stop this english or policy. and robert touched on it just a bit. let me just go into that. we, we resemble a global roman empire. another roman empire wasn't global except for in the sense of its own civilization. but we are global and we are all we are organized exactly the same way. we carved up the different parts of the world like africa, come in,

the us central command and european command and asia pacific and in the pacific, a combatant commands. and we have these 4 star generals in charge of it. and we are leading with the military force spot with deterrence. us operations, not with peaceful means to do that, but with active combat forces around this world, and that makes us weaker. that makes us weaker. and i know it's counterintuitive for those folks that aren't professionals in the world of combat. but when we're weak enemies like china will take the opportunity when they get it to do things using military force. like take taiwan back and i'm not saying that they're going to do that tomorrow, but they certainly have an opportunity because we have spread ourselves. so. but then in all of these major conflicts, even though we may not have forces actively engaged right now, our logistics are supplies in our command and control and intelligence are all

actively engaged in at least 2 major waterfront right now. and we are spread very thin, that is the exact opposite of the approach that we use during the cold war. yeah, there were some hot wars and we had to learn some hard lessons from the vietnam conflict and war. but overall, we did it piece through string to bring down the soviet union eventually. and that's the line of thinking and strategy that we need to get back to. and quite frankly, that would increase jobs and increase pays and you brought up in robert the to the folks are in, you know, ex county or white county at these companies. small companies on these defense contracts. they're making good money. they've got good jobs, right? that's ok. but you can do more of that through peace, through strength, and developing strong deterrent forces. instead of going into these wars and expanding your weapons, your political capital,

and in your resources, like your men and women in the armed forces. and that's a fairly in it, as opposed to fighting and defending your own by the national interest and being ready to do that. and right, again, you're going off with kind of a robert said on this, robert, do you think the rest of the world right now perceives the america america is weak and are taking advantage of it? and then you have an audit that comes out that we don't even know where everything's going. do you think that also as a factor of the instability, why some of the actions in the world are happening today? i just think of this the opposite. okay. i've seen that many parts of the world who simply be followed to, to the american military being their military. i think if you look at europe, for example, of the course of the last 50 years, they've decided, well, why exactly? we're going to be investing all of this money into research development and building these massive armies. what america can just do it, so we'll have universal health care will help universal education. we'll have a transit system that works for him for individuals will help pinch and will be able to retire. ed, like, at 55 or 50 years old,

will take us the best in the middle of the day from like 11 am until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. because the american people handled the military side of the be going southeast asia. ended that have we military for, for about 50 years after world war 2 of the, just about rebuilding rebuilding their military. but throughout the south pacific the consult tools, the ones will america will handle these issues for us. so we can build advanced micro to factories. we can build advance a facilities, we can educate our population because we don't have to waste all that money on military because america will handle that problem. so for america is going to be the country. they've only be the best stop for uh, for security, for the entirety of the end of the world. a, we're going to be the hall monitor of the principal for the entire world. and we've seen, we can't even name the number of countries in our lifetime. good, america's gone into whether it's bread, nato, or level non, or syria, we're everywhere on earth. so for those countries, why exactly would even bother building a military discount? because billions of dollars, we can invest that into your own people. think america has to pay back from that.

we basically taken over the role that the british empire had at the beginning of the last century, being the global police force. and were realized that the same with the british did that this is how you bankrupt an empire by continuing to be the military and least for, for the entirety of the globe. that's an interesting pass and the fact that you know, bankrupting it bankruptcy being a key dominant leader. and angie, i'm going to give you the last word on this because after 6 audits and everything we know that has not been produced from it. you would think that they would make it mandatory before they gave them another penny, but politicians and congress are not doing that. in fact, they're going on and spinning it before it is even approved. do you think it is on purpose now at this stage that those in congress that they don't even want to know what's going on? it's like i didn't know so therefore i'm not held accountable for where all of these goods and where all the dollars are going. if it's not intentional, then the only other answer is do pity. i think this is all intentional. the certainly like a lot cleaner, to request

a check from the gone going to ukraine or to the gaza strip, then it is to get all the votes in congress right now, especially since you know the houses. so divide. it was such a razor thin majority of the republic, inside nothing's going to get passed. even democrats, hakim jeffries came out design as, as the do nothing congress yesterday. and that might be what's gonna happen in 2024, that speaker my jobs that might be deadlocked on every single item that gets on the, on the house floor because of the majority. and everyone has voting down party lights. so, you know, in order to get anything done, you might have to take some short cuts in calling just patting the pentagon budget and, you know, take, you know, whatever you need whenever you need it. messages there though, i mean, i think americans do not have an appetite for a lot of the foreign wars that we're fighting right now. we're always happy to support and we're always happy to be there. but what the days of the blank check? i think that's, you know, coming to a close, especially in the case of ukraine. well,

i want to take my c panel quickly and lice rob patello, angie wong, who is co host of the final countdown. and kind of rob man is the host of rob manage show for this very good conversation that hopefully will continue. this is your business or even your household was run with 63 percent of its funds accounted for. would you continue to not only give but raise the amount? this is exactly what the american tax parent is doing. sadly, this isn't just about a spending spree at the local mall or eating out too much. the lack of attention americans are paying to is what it, what is being approved is virtually giving permission to create and continue havoc and war and other parts of the world. i have no doubt, most americans would not only stop what they were doing to try to intervene if someone was going to hurt a child right in front of them. they definitely would not provide the gun or the bullet used by they sell it. american should have the same a conviction to do everything possible to prevent harp and pain to those around the

globe. they should not want to be the finance or of such a evil. and it examples continue to be given where american equipment and supplies are being used to terrorize someone, even if it's not being held by an american soldier at that exact moment. how much blood are americans willing to have on their hands all because they didn't take time to hold those and power accountable. because when it comes to the department of defense, every petty spit could be the difference between life and death. i'm sorry to hear that this has been your 360 view say so the the

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