i appreciate your interest in the art of the department of defense. it is a long-term meaningful and necessary undertaking that encompasses the whole of the department and its success depends on sustained congressional support. the personal interest of the chair man and others on this committee have shown in this issue are a part of the reason the od has a long last begun the audit did although they are not new to the department of defense, this is the first time that the department has undergone a full financial statement audits. the financial statement audit is comprehensive. it occurs annually, and it covers more than financial management. financial statement audits include town, location and condition of the military equipment, property and oriented testing security abilities in the business system and the system complies with accounting standards and validate the accuracy of the personal records and actions such as promotions and separation. the department anticipates having approximately 1,200 financial statement auditors assessing whether the bo

since january of 2011, the defense department has returned approximately 686 acres to gov guam. my guam land return act holds the defense department accountable for meeting the net negative commitment in full. this legislation would require the secretary of defense to maintain a public inventory of all land parcels the defense department expects to ultimately transfer to gov guam under the net negative commitment. my legislation outlines 17 specific federal land parcels, totaling 476 acres that should be transferred to gov guam. the guam land reform act would also provide a public mechanism for the governor of guam to petition the defense department to consider transferring additional land parcels to gov guam under the net negative commitment. and lastly, my legislation includes several provisions relating to current and former federal land on guam. two provisions ensure that no cost transfers of surplus federal land and other valuable property do not create additional liabilities or public safety concerns for the federal government relating to environmental cleanup or flight pa

sophistication, magnitude, velocity.nd volume and wa>> reporter: the interne largely created by the defense department in the late 60s mostly for research and development programs. now, like every other major institution, it depends on it for almost everything it does. as a result, the dee department's information network is now targeted by nearly 40 million malicious emails, everyday. colonel paul craft's cyber protection teams defend the network from this top secret operations center called "the j-soc." >> we do not want the enemy toho get a fo into the department of defense's networks to gain or maintain any terrain just ley would in land. >> reporter: the newshour was granted exclusive access, under conditions we not identify team members or the cyber-defense

processes, the auditors would be stymied. >> guest: to the idea of contractors that work for the department of defense, the accounting goes to them to. >> guest: when contractors are doing work for the department of defense, that's part of what you will have to look at is what have we got from them, if they are deliverable. did we get those deliverables? how's it all accounted for? >> host: one more call, sheila from maryland, republican line. >> caller: i have a couple questions for mister harrison, i believe that's his name. what is the starting point? at what year do you start the audit and you mentionedthat a big part of the problem was it , was when you talk about $550 million or figures, does that include integrating new computer systems? it would seem to methat would be a wise use . what is the starting point of your audit, what year and are you also for these fixes, $550 million, you could integrate any computer systems. >> guest: i believe the starting point is they are looking at current this goal year. that's what they're trying to audit. so part of the fixes is changes to i.t. systems, cha

it really brought to the fore a unified department of defense. - policy makers talked in terms of us foreign policy, and defense policy. since world war ii and down to the present moment, policy makers tend to talk in terms of national security policy. national security policy tends to privilege, or to place particular emphasis on the role of the military in advancing us interests. - [narrator] after world war ii, george kennon, a top american diplomat in moscow, sounded the alarm over the existential threat he saw in the soviet union. paul nitze saw the soviets quite differently. he called for military expansion to counter soviet armament. - [nicholas] george kennon concluded that the united states, after our success in the second world war, could not just draw back. that we had to have these permanent alliances like nato. - this treaty is a simple document. the nations which sign it agree to abide by the peaceful principles of the united nations. - and like our pacific alliance with australia, and japan and south korea, to safeguard the united states, because we had forces overseas

defense department is referring us back to the white house on any questions on this.t answer is, yes, this is theoretically possible. while it would be logistically difficult and there would be a lot of hurdles for the us department of defense to actually do this, theoretically they could. the funding issue is a quinn th -- question that a lot of people have. the defense can take money that's been allocated to one budget account and move it to another without congressional notification or authorization. >> is that what would happen here? >> it's possible. theoretically they could. if they wanted to take the money and give it to department of homeland security or something, congress would have to be involved, there would have to be an approval process. but there's actually press sent for this happening. that's what people don't realize. in 2006 a national guard mission called operation jump-start that lasted for two years and it was national guard soldiers deployed to the border with mexico and they did southwestern border security. that included building about 30 mile

our first priority is the defense of the department of defense information network, or the dodin. second, we enable others by delivers effects in and through cyberspace. finally, we defend the nation against cyber threats through support to dhs and others when directed to do so by the president under the secretary of defense. in concert with the national defense strategy, we are charting a path to achieve and sustain cyberspace superiority to deliver strategic and operational advantage, and increased options for combatant commanders and policymakers. without cyberspace superiority in today's battlefield, risk to mission increases across all domains and endangers our security. since my last update almost a year ago, cyber command has achieved a number of significant milestones. first, joint force headquarters dodin, our subordinate headquarters responsible for securing, operating, and defending the department's complex i.t. infrastructure, has achieved full operational capability. second, joint task force, the organization we created to lead the fight in cyber against isis, has suc

uniform,n and women in i'm told for the first time in this people's memory, the department of defense and department of state have a close working relationship where we all agree u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the men and women in uniform at the department of defense under the leadership of secretary mattis and general dunford protect us as americans and our way of life daily at home and abroad. military,olunteer they do it for love of country, they do it for you and they do it for me and for no other reason. as americans, we are all eternally grateful to each of them and we honor their sacrifices. the rewarding part of having leadership and partnerships in place is that you can actually get some things done. and i want to give recognition to the state department and our partners for a few of their accomplishments under this administration. we exceeded allies, the expectations of almost everyone with the dpr pressure campaign. --the air of strategic patience we increased the scope of the sanctions. the department understood a global campaign to bring partners and allies on boa

have is a military that set up the power project overseas so we should call the department of defense department of often through the department of defense of other countries because in the in the few times during our history that the military has been asked to defend the country it doesn't fit hasn't done a very good job in a war of eight hundred twelve we got the capital burned before they managed to fight the british to a drive to declaring war on the superpower at the time in world war two they didn't think the japanese were capable of attacking pro harbor so the military failed there and of course on nine eleven the fighter jets went out to sea so we need to increase our defenses and quit you know meddling in other countries there isn't this you know you know early that through the thing that i find again i think daniel really hit it here because i'm i'm very disappointed to do and that's why i have my own program because i can talk about things that i think are interesting because when i look at the literal of corporate media there's almost nothing of interest to me whatsoever it's tragic

guest: the area they got the biggest boost is the department of defense. the one thing they do have the ability to do is, they know how to spend money. when you get hundreds of billions of dollars a year you learn how to spend money. timesthe washington breaks down some of the money that went to the department of defense. ,his is just for procurement saying some of the big winners in the defense department, the navy and marine corps for the biggest winners, securing $49.1 billion to revamp the aging fleet of warships, helicopters, and jets. the heirs force received -- the air force received 36 billion. just over $10 billion were earmarked for the navy's high profile ohio and virginia class marine programs. the navy and air force received $38.4 billion for advanced air fighters and the majority of those funds will be funneled into the f-35 program. guest: the joint strike fighter, the f-35. -- itite house requested was not a bashful budget request -- they asked for 70 aircraft. congress said, we see or 70 and we will give you 20 more. was like thet appropri

as a result, the defense department's information network is now targeted by nearly 40 million maliciousils, everyday. colonel paul craft's cyber protection teams defend the network from this top secret operations center called "the j-soc." >> we do not want the enemy to get a foothold into the department of defense's networks to gain or maintain any terrain ewst like they would in land. >> reporter: theour was granted exclusive access, under conditions we not identify team members or the cyber-defensese technologies vice admiral nancy norton is the commander of the joint forces headquarters-dodin, which is responsible for protecting the military's network. >> the national defense strategy has made pretty clear that we have near peer competitors in cyberspace from russia and china. north korea and iran are also routinely working to gain a competitive advantage by getting into our networks. >> reporter: in addition toth e adversaries, u.s. military cyber warriors fight thousands riof non state actors, ter groups, and professional hackers all committed to cracking the firewalls of cyber's

as i mentioned in the opening statement, the department of defense reorganization provides opportunity and potential risk including policies, plans and programs across the department. historically see wmd has been treated as specialized issue with somewhat segregated policies. the secretary, can you please describe how the office of acquisition and sustainment and the under secretary for policy will require coronation to establish policies and coronation to support goals and enforce preparedness. >> thank you congressman. i'll take the first shot at that policy piece of the equation. as i noted in my opening remarks, i am the lead for the development of strategy and policy on see wmd for the secretary, and as you know, there are many other critical functions within the department including a-t and dell that are necessary and critical to supporting our efforts. the secretary has made very clear that we have got to achieve a higher unity of effort in terms of how the threat has been increased and the myriad capabilities and functions within the department. we have engaged from the get-go

have you been in discussions at all with the defense department and would you welcome a redirection of appropriations instruction?more >> we want more capability and have done a lot of things over my career with the department of defense. from great partners, and an operations perspective, regardless of where the operation comes from, we will do that. >> you touched on this in the opening statements, can you respond to congress declining to fund the hirings and questioning the underlining need for that. your viewerske all to know that you can go to cdp. gov. we will continue to meet our requirement as is a in the executive order. congress give us important resources and recruitment retention, and relocation funding. we are happy about that and we will do everything we can to fulfill the mandate for hiring. just a follow-up on my line of questioning, has the president signed off on the defense foreing wall. >> i'm not sure he saw the entire package. i'm not sure. we look at immigration priorities he put out in framework, the 25 billion was not asked. >> that doesn't necessarily say how

jesting that perhaps others maybe in the defense department state department will ensure that that doesn't happen very soon well at the end of the day the president is the one who makes the decisions but there will certainly be an opportunity for the department of defense to make their views known the secretary of state's people at the state department's people the intelligence community as well they will put in front of the president clearly the options that are available. regarding his comment yesterday there's an old saying in this town you can either take the president's comments literally or seriously you can't do both so let's wait and see whether that off the cuff statement turns into a new policy. to my question though do you think it will turn into a real policy. well we'll see if the department of defense is able to explain the implications and the costs of a premature withdrawal the way we did a premature withdrawal inside of iraq. the president may make his mind up differently however the president could also say well that's fine we have spent seven trillion dollars in that reg

the defense department has to be careful in giving everything to one company. >> and how about the pentagonit in the and one country saying one thick and tomentd >> and we were the cut edge of the defense department and we built the best ships. >> lou: we can't even get to space right now. the russian tip dips and intelligence officers and two astronauts who can't get to the space station and back without russian help. >> i have no desire to go to space. i am an old man, just going to l.a. and flan fran is a tour for me. >> lou: my wife offered me to the pace program. >> and she told me that it was for moth of us. but i am not sure. estimate of car for her, we have got california out of control. they are threatening to arrest of the orange county sheriff. i can't tell if it is a cheffer left wing to exprovide california. >> it is a left wing state. i grew up in california and it was always a trendsetter. but i hope it is not. if it is the country is in trouble. but the cost of the immigration, the vast americans don't know what it costs. and the fact that you can am can here and get on welf

the second thing was that nixon wanted to basically retaliate against the defense department so started cutting billets. didn't trust the office of the secretary of defense. so what the bureaucracy do when under attack? they protect themselves. the myth with darpa was the d was added and became darpa -- what the pentagon did to protect bullets being cut was they made all of these agencies independent agencies that weren't -- the numbers wouldn't be counted. so you had the advance research projects agency, the defense advance research protect agency that defended it from cuts. that's why the d was add he, not any redirection of the agency that was about it. i think darpa was under nixon's radar, signs and technology did not occupy a lot of his time, at least not at that granular level. >> well, i'm going to shift gears a little bit. many who live through the eisenhower years tended to see him as a -- yes, great general, an amiable grandfatherly figure, kind of distant and removed, perhaps, and maybe heaven a bit of a bumbler, the garbled sin tax in public, disconnected from what was goin

but i think the defense department has to be careful of giving everything to one company. lou: how about the pentagon, for crying out loud having its own technology experts, its own colloid. >cloud. >> no reason they shouldn't. lou: this business is set into the mind of washington where everything can be outsourced, everything can be offshore. one company, one country, same thing. no matter what. bull. there are strategic interests here that are fundamental. >> we were the cutting edge of the defense department. we built the best ships and planes and we've got to get back to doing that. lou: hell, we can't get to space right now. i love it. we throw out 60 russian diplomats and intelligence officers, meanwhile we've got two astronauts who can't get to the space station and back without russian help pi mea. i mean it gets complicated. >> it is complicated. i have no desire to go to space. i know you once wanted to go to space. lou: my wife almost made it. >> just going to l.a. and san francisco is a tour for me. lou: my wife volunteered us for the civilians in space program

defense department has three point two million employees that makes it one of if not the biggest employer in the world right we spend more on defense than the next eight countries combined with this big amount of money and with so much beer. ocracy which all of us would like to see effects and so much bureaucracy and so much spending it to me feels a little like the big banks where i feel like is there or is it impossible to draw down our military at this point because of how bad it is from contractors to the banks to all this sort of interchange of military industrial complex is another great question you know that and i'm glad that we're having these conversations because they're important conversations when you think about the size of the military you know gulf war one eight hundred thousand and change troops in the army today word forty five around five hundred so the scaling of the army very intentional by the framers of the constitution by the way that's raise an army but maintain a navy and a very very much project power but always be wary of a large standing federal army and the r

when housing and urban development had a reporter covering it from the new york times and the defense department are the only agencies that have reporters even though those actions affect your pocketbook everyet single month. >>host: overland park kansas. >> caller: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudi] >>host: i'm so sorry i will interrupt you we are having difficulties with getting a connection and i apologize. the producers said he wants to know about the debates sell with the campaign the way they were structured. >> guest: i'm sorry we are having the technical difficulty. we need to blow out the way we do debates we havele personalities doing questions i would rather see the two candidates dukeuk it out and to see serious print journalist if i were one of those questioning donald trump i would say you are talking about running for president since 1985 you have studied the job description so with specificity and where is it written down what are the limits to the president? he could not have answered that asking about family values and the last time they had seen their grandchildren mondale blows

stuart: amazon is doing a lot of business with defense department and occurs to me to ask is that whyering putting second headquarters in the dc area? >> i would say that's probably a big part of the consideration, the defense department is moving towards -- they announced this on march seventh, a big ten-year, 10 billion-dollar contract for a single provider. right now amazon is at the forefront, kind of most likely winner. you have microsoft gutting hard for it and ibm and even potentially google, all want to be the single cloud provider to give cloud services to the defense department over the course of ten years, it'll be a huge contract, it's like the mother load of all it contracts for the defense department, but as you pointed out there are real risks there because you're talking about a huge modernization project where you're going trust one company to kind of handle all of the defense department's data on its computers over course of ten years and once all of that information from, again, the central command operations in the middle east to europe, to south pacific starts tra

just hours after the defense department announced the u.s. needs to stay in syria for the immediate future, trump declared the opposite. dana white says more needs to be done to ensure lasting defeat of extremists in syria. later, the president said this at the event in ohio. >> we'll be coming out of syria soon. let the other people take care of it now. we'll have 100% of the caliphate as they call it. sometimes referred to as land. we have taken it back quickly. we will come out of there real soon. >> it is not just land, but ideology that matters in syria. one official telling cnn it is not clear what the president meant and the u.s. still needs to decide on a policy regarding the future of bashar al assad. >>> james mattis trying a little comedy to break the ice with john bolton. we think it was comedy. listen. >> thank you for coming and it's good to finally meet you. absolutely. i heard you are the devil incarnate. >> he has been concerned about working with the former ambassador to the u.n. he and bolton said different things about ira

as the department of defense developing more launched sites. in support a rapid responsive and resilient launch capability. i'm a representative from guam. and i will say here that there has been inquiries about space capabilities in our territories from commercial investors very reset where these visits and they are very ambitious to begin operations. could any of you comment on this. there are commercial launch sites that are available today. we have commercial sites. different space ports in new mexico and alaska into florida there are multiple space once. i think resiliency is important. one of the big things that has happened over the course of the last year is significant. that is in the move to autonomous ranges. every time space x doesn't launch. they do it autonomously. you have to have the ability to load up a rocket. we had raters implement tree. and a bunch of contractors working there. that's help to reduce of the range of structure a more resilient capability going forward. are you aware of the inquiries that have been made to gua

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. now voice operated electronic assistants like siri or alexa are getting ever better at their jobs but also at the creepy as the ai inside gets a little too human for example just out of the blue it decides to stop laughing at you. are we really that desperate for approval that we need the machine to laugh at us election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh i'm like live. lives i live. thanks for sharing your friday with us here on the international my colleague here to bring you more news in half an hour. i've done some of the knots is not a quick place because golf is a good country and. true just to administer to live but some of us were focused on. a visit to the s

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. the winter paralympics get underway in south korea today at the event in pealing chang will last for ten days a record number of competitors are participating at this time around we understand five hundred sixty seven athletes from forty nine teams paralympians from russia though have been banned from competing under their national flag over allegations of state sponsored doping. expects him to be barred from the qualification rounds if they'd let us take part it would have been a miracle but the fact we're not going well it's like a. system which cannot approach and where coaches i have mixed feelings because our boys and going it feels like we've been dropped. when you will is one who had the news i

what's strange about this is whenever we go to briefings at the state or defense department, they talkut the two things that are necessary for stability. one is some continued level of american presence and training. and secondly is some continued american funding. and they just announced several hundred million dollars for syria that will build up those areas, keep them from being useful to isis, and "the wall street journal" reported yesterday that in fact the president's frozen that as well. >> exactly. real quick, ryan, because you brought up scaramucci, we saw hope hicks, another communications director of this white house, leave this week. is there anybody who could be an effective communications director? >> well, i mean, the issue is that trump is his own communications director. his whole life has been handling his own press. famously in the '80s, he used to call reporters and pretend to be his own spokesperson, assuming an identity. so it's an impossible job, because just like chief of staff, he wants to run things on his own. hicks, you know, she had the title of communicati

please tell me that doesn't happen in the department of defense. >> knows, it does not. we are all under one roof. and dhs independent agencies brought together in dhs are still operating differently. but we have for years had a single adjudication facility within the department. and external to the department -- >> so the clearances are portable within the department of defense? >> absolutely, sir. >> and is this -- is the port reinvention that's going on? >> the portability -- the interesting part is that mostly today a singular investigation in the agency can use the investigation that we do to conduct an adjudication but it's up to that agency to do the adjudication and the example you heard earlier within dhs with the same set of facts they may decide to ask for more information, ask for a readjudication. >> so portability isn't a part of the overall structure of the new system. it's an agency-by-agency decision whether they will accept -- whether they will do reciprocity? >> i would say it's less about structure and more about both empowering them and encouraging th

he was joined by two other defense department officials for about 40 minutes. chairman rogers: good afternoon, this is -- welcome, everybody. this hearing of the subcommittee on strategic forces. and our hearing on the 2019 budget request for national security space programs. unfortunately, as everybody in the room now knows, we were interrupted by votes and we're an hour behind starting off. so for the sake of not keeping you all here all night, i'm going to submit my opening statement for the record and the ranking members told me that he's going to submit his opening statement for the record, too, so we'll go straight to your opening statements and ask each of you have five minutes. your entire statement will be accepted into the record. if you summarize it, we'll get to questions and answers and finish this session and go to the classified section immediately after that. with that, thank you for being here, i know it takes a lot of time and energy to prepare for these things but it really helps us, we need to hear your thoughts at this time of year. i'll re

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. voice operated electronic assistance like siri or alexa are getting ever better jobs but also creepy as the ai inside gets a little too human for example out of the blue just randomly laughing at you. are we really that desperate for approval that we need the machine to laugh at this election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh i'm like that. but i'm. also joining us on this friday here on international way back soon with mall. but you go shoot what you want order your street number so i know what morning and one million people died and i. killed people they'd be even vague you. know no one's going to worry too much you everybody's around them and that's. i very well

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. now as artificial intelligence improves so do voice operated electronic assistance such as siri or alexa but they are also acting out of character it seems of reports of these units laughing at random. are you really that desperate for approval that we need the machine to laugh at us election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh i'm. like that. but i. believe. pre-show you joining us this evening go about with the latest news in half an hour . i'm done some is not is not i can quit places called a good country. trip just to get the minister. among us well before the storm. because that's what that as a father is. just a part of the culture. of the culture let's share

defense department budget request washington now has to increase that number to sixty five thousand despite the crushing failure the previous train and equip program. one key element of the strategy to defeat isis is to train equip sustain and enable elements of the vetted syrian opposition these forces are projected to total approximately sixty to sixty five thousand sixty five thousand these pet army would be bigger than the canadian or straightly and militaries and don't forget there are already three warring armies in syria the pentagon is planning on equipping and providing this puppet force with everything but there are underwear tens of thousands of new rifles machine guns mortars millions of rounds of ammunition thousand vehicles and don't forget this seemingly going to pay their salaries two to four hundred dollars a month it's all in the new counterterrorism fund request it says clearly once isis is the straw it this new army will stabilize and patrol the territory it holds near enough a third of syria which measures well with washington's plans to stay in syria indefinitely keep

dan payne, director of defense security services at the department of defense. they'll provide the government's perspective on this issue and update us on their efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the current system. the purpose of this hearing is to explore the process for granting secret and top secret clearances to both government and industry personnel and to consider potential better ways forward. the government's approach to issuing national security clearances is largely unchanged since it was established in 1947. and the net result is a growing backlog of investigations which now reached 547,000 and inefficiencies that could result in our missing information necessary to thwart insider threats or workplace violence. we should also consider new technologies that could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our vetting process while also providing greater realtime situational awareness of potential threats to sensitive information. furthermore, the system of reciprocity whereby a clearance granted by one agency is also recognized b

while it's evolved, the three mission areas the first priority is the defense of the department of defense information network. second, enable other commanders by delivering effects in and through cyberspace. finally, defend against cyber threats who support others when directed to do so by the secretary defense and in concert with the national defense strategy we are churning the path to sustain cyberspace superiority and give up her operational advantage and increased options for combatant commanders and policy makers. without cyberspace we are into n today'are intothese battles thek commission increase across all domains that endanger the security. since my last update almost a year ago they've achieved a number of significant mileston milestones. first joint force headquarters are responsible for securing them operating at defending the complex infrastructure as the chief operational capability. second, the joint task force organization that we created to lead the fight against cyber and isis into the broad military campaign. we will continue to pursue isis in support of the objectives

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. it is not international now and are one hundred days to go until the world cup kicks off here in russia and the latest edition of his program a stan collymore looks at how fans will be able to enter the country without a visa and travel around for free that's leg of this hour but for now a quick preview. we went to some shit you can't. explain the finally d.t.c. system the freeze of free access to the ocean. we free travel much to make you want to start the process of finally joining your vocal is your present and if possible to free travel around russia we all know the congress and the social issues she shan't go to school here to get all of the information that i need to head for the faithful will c

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them so that brings you up to date that's high things that i can say that i hear not say more from us in about half of. the you global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education alone higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you know most of the regime you can look at this also kind of finally could i mean. want is the place of students in this business model for college i was born now i'm running stream or higher education for the new global economic war. level blog selling you on the idea that dropping bomb

today was some kind of chaos going on in the white house at the moment i mean i know that the defense department told the commerce department actually we're fine we're getting enough u.s. steel we don't need these tariffs to be put into place so already these internal this internal wrangling that's going on within the administration is clear and also what they're saying is a blanket tariff of for example above twenty four percent as one of the options could do more damage than it would good for the united states and i know donald trump he's always going the extreme angle one way or another he tweeted as usual doing something quite strong a lot like to show you this if i can he said we must not let our country companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer we want free fair and smart trade whether the above twenty four percent tariff would be the smart move is another matter entirely ok so while they still have to discuss that among themselves let's say they will be terrorists what would that mean for europe well for europe it actually be good news at least when we're talking just about s

to provide testimony on the department of defense strategy, policy programs and preparedness for countering weapons of mass destruction in the fiscal year 2019 budget request. in 2014 the department released its strategy for wmd which announced three and states that no new actors possess the m.d. that there would be no wmd use and should wmd be used -- the strategy notes fiscal constraints require the dod make strategic choices and accept some risk. however increasingly old rogue actors and technological advances are challenging the strategies goals of maturing that the u.s. and its allies and partners are not attacked or coerced by adversaries possessing wmd. for example earlier this month we witnessed a peacetime chemical attack in the united kingdom and an assassination attempt of one of russia's former military intelligence officers. this attack on one of our closest allies trotted by russian president vladimir putin demanded a strong response which is why i introduce bipartisan house resolution 786 last week in condemnation of this attack in support of our allies. in syria, consider th

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. as artificial intelligence has improved so to voice operated electronic assistants like siri or alexa but they're also acting out of character apparently with reports of units laughing at random. are we really that desperate for approval that we need the machine the lap of the election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh i'm like that. but i. believe. so that's how the news is looking so i thought i hear a nazi on three fama i'll be back with more news feed at the top of the. bad guys are financial survival guide liquid out to those that you can convert music as quite easily. to keep in mind though out of the me into a place of. record. done some as not so as not i can q

the department must accelerate and is accelerating its response to the changing dynamics of space. the deputy secretary of defense has heard congress' concerns and consistent with the ndaa for fy 2018 has already taken action through interim implementation guidance and looks forward to completing the directed studies and changes that may be required. the department's partnership with congress is and will remain absolutely critical to our success. to that end, i remain grateful for this subcommittee's strong support and interest in this vital area and its advocacy to dissuade aggression and establish a lethal force with the unmatched ability to prevail in, from and through the ultimate high ground of space. i look forward to your questions. thank you. >> i thank you. and now recognize myself for questions. general raymond, the space launch industry is innovating in some pretty incredible ways that could increase capability and reduce costs like moving toward reusable launch vehicles. given all of this, how does the air force plan to integrate reusability into the launch program? and does lsa contemplate reuseabili

of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. the winter paralympics getting underway in south korea today the event in punk chang will last for ten days a wreck or number of competitors are participating this time around we're talking about five hundred and sixty seven athletes for forty nine teams paralympians from russia though have been banned from competing under very national flag over allegations of state sponsored don't. dahmus you got to. expect some to be barred from the qualification rounds if they'd let us take pass it would have been a miracle but the fact we're not going well it's ok. because it's too much canada coaching to a a coach's i have mixed feelings because our poison of going it feels like we've been dropped. the love it w

with this aggressive policy announcement and no one is aware of it, not john kelly, not the defense department, not the treasury department and not the state department, of course there's a loss of trust. they don't trust the president. >> well, it's an extremely unsettling situation. the president is impulsive. he does not have a staff process yet. general kelly has been incapable of really pulling that together. we ought to thank god we have mattis. he's been able to recruit sensible people to work with him. one of the most humiliating photos i've seen was jared kushner head of delegation to the iraqi government on one side was the former bodyguard and on the other side, the chairman of the jcs. a 37 year old in charge of transformation of government and middle foreign policy with no experience at all helping lead our government. this is folly. i think the president is getting unsettled and lashing out and is making bad judgments. >> okay. let's remind you no experience that 37 year old. he also no longer has top secret clearance and is a businessman. he wasn't out there working in corporate