dod will say go all the way back, although dod didn't catch that one. the reason they found out about it is because i let them know when i was out of government. how far back to you go? so defining foreign control and certainly foreign influence is not straightforward as ivan says. in fact, it's awfully complicated, and particularly when you're dealing with a china, but not just with a china, because that's what governments are going to start to do. if they see that you're going after sovereign wealth investments, they'll just start creating dummy companies and doing like the folks do who put their money in panama. it will be the same kind of idea. again, it calls for a degree of sophistication that i just don't think the government has. >> i agree the degree of sophistication is a little difficult in terms of nuance. definitely with the complexity of investment and where sovereign wealth funds come from. i think you have to take a step back and say what is the governing principle that you want to operate on? i think one of the governing principles of t

and only the dod should have. we will have to think through how we got information gets passed on to nassau or commerce or department of transportation and, as you think through this, do you have any thoughts on what we should be thinking about as a deliberate body? >> a couple of thoughts. i think the largest perspective we have to make sure that as we go forward on the future we always have the ability to make sure we understand what our adversaries are doing. that means we have to have exquisite situational awareness of exactly what is happening on real-time basis. that is why you have authorized significant amounts of text dollars to be put against this problem. as we go into this different sharing arrangement i think the personal that comes to mind is the first rule of wing walking which is don't let go of the strut until you have a good of the next strut which means we can't let loose of what we have now and what were doing until we know what is on the other side. for the future they say the department of de

from the strap, perspective and dod -- stratcom perspective and dod perspective, it doesn't matter. this is a political decision. i think secretary ross has made a good argument today of why commerce is properly situated to do that. i will work with whatever element our nation decides is the right place to do it and std three -- 3 makes it clear that commerce is the lead. we will work closely with commerce and if it changes, i will work with whoever it takes . >> other any comments from the panel? >> can you repeat the question one more time? >> the question i posed was about the program, pilot program, that had started with the faa being the lead and i asked if any information was transferable. >> i think some of the arguments are that, especially commercial industry, would like a one-stop shop. one of the challenges we have right now is that from my perspective, it looks difficult to find a one-stop shop. you have the fcc which is civil war spectrum. you have noaa which is responsible for remote sensing and imaging. the faa is responsible for launch and reentry. of course, nasa is

has and only the dod should have. we'll have to think through how that information gets passed on to nasa or to commerce or the department of transportation. as you're thinking through this, do you have any thoughts of what we should be thinking about as a deliberative body? >> a couple of thoughts. so, i think that from the largest perspective we have to make sure that as we go forward in the future we always have the ability to make sure we understand what our adversaries are doing. that means we have to have an exquisite situational awareness, that's why you have taxpayers dollars to be put against this problem. as we go into this different sharing arrangement, though, i think the first rule that comes to mind is the first rule, you don't let go of the strut until you have a good hold of the next strut. which means we can't let loose of what we have now and what we're doing until we know what is on the other side. sdp 3 says the department of defense is responsible for providing the authoritative catalog for our co

working with dod we will >> working with dod we will achieve the architecture that currently support u.s. strategic command to be even more respons response. we look forward to working with congress to protect a safe space and for future commercial growth. the space traffic coordination will ensure the growing space industry remains open for business. and america will be the flag of choice and i will answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> now i recognize myself the first set of questions. general hyten with the space management policy ever to make sure i'm clear that now that faces recognizes a war fighting domain you don't think these unique ssa can only be met by the military? >> i really need to be specific because we have the face situational awareness for the missions we have to do. that will not change. i finally start doing this during the cold war days to begin with that we don't have to be the public face to thel world. that is thehe new decision for the department of commerce. >> i appreciate that. mr. secretary you arere right in addition to the 620,000 pieces of

that's the kind of the most direct implication issue for dod and dod has not wavered for many years on the need to have mitigations in place for climate. it's worked hard to stay below the political elements of climate which should not be political for purposes. it's just a fact we have encroachments and issues that are happening due to climate. that's the very direct piece. the second order of piece in terms of implications on dod come from disaster to which the u.s. military is likely to be called upon to respond. those can be domestic. you saw the huge call-up for forces in houston and much less for puerto rico. so you can think about how as climate changes and i think most people know it's happening significantly in urban areas. think of manhattan, these sorts of mass disasters are much, much more severe disasters that are climate amplified, are going to create demands for the u.s. military. that's just domestic. overseas you can look at places like tokyo, a lot of areas of the world where the united states might decide it has interests. then you get to the tertiary which is the bi

did it feel -- when you came back to dod, did dod feel the difference in america? >> no. i don't think so. i think there -- because it's such a mission-focused organization, it's a bit heads down on these kinds of cross-cutting winds of public viewpoint in general. right? that's why you put in political civilians and others who are there to kinda connect it to the -- >> and that was your role when you came back. >> a part of our role. michelle used to say, we were the ball bearings, there to keep everybody talking to eemp other, and there's a lot of translation function and smoothing that you're doing from the military to the civilian. so that's a big piece of how you have to think of that kind of job. what i would say is that there was a, you know, they felt the same frustration with the seeming inability to achieve outcomes, mixed with that mission orientation of, let's just go push harder, go do more. and that was similar to when i left in 2006. the biggest change was the political change. because when i left in sdi2006, left just before rumsfeld left. so we were still

it is in spite of what the air force and dod did. innovated using private capital, and managed to win these government contracts, even though the military was resistant to it at first. now, it is bringing down the cost of launch for the military. there are a lot of things in the culture that need to change if you need to leverage the innovation happening in the private sector for the military. host: oregon, democrats line. caller: can you hear me? i did not hear the other collar. i meant to hear him to talk about the budget. just talkedat trump about the fact that we need to reorganize government, that we are doing too much spending, and now we cannot spend money. i guess no one realizes he is going to cut basic services like social security, medicare. health insurance. retirement. disability. these tax cuts -- you are foring all this self-defense, and money that is not even needed. there is/funds. it is ridiculous. what about basic services you are going to lose that people need to live? guest: i will put on my budget had for a seco

dod is just getting on the cusp of that. so, yes, i think dod is moving in the direction that va has moved in. and it's absolutely vital that we stop it there. >> yes, sir. and my final question is going to be, since 1998 the va's budget has quadrupled from $42.38 billion to $188.65 billion. a the lo of these factors can be pointed to the vietnam veterans are getting older. the fact that combat medicine improved and therefore that, v. more complex injuries and illnesses than ever before, costs of healthcare in the united states have become more expensive and we've extended with good intentions a lot of benefits. people are going to ask, you know, are we making sure we get our best service and best care for our veterans with the bucks that we're spending, so my question is what steps do you plan to taken to sure both the high quality services are available for veterans and families but are also looking out for the american taxpayers to make sure that we're spending their money wisely and given the care that's needed? >> yes,

the dod is just getting on the cusp of data so yes i think the dod is moving in the direction the va has moved and it's absolutely vital that we stop it there. >> my final question will be since 98 the budget has quadrupled from $42.38 billion to 188.65. a lot of these factors can be pointed to them getting older,, conduct that has been improved and therefore dealing with more complex injuries and illnesses than ever before, cost of health care is becoming more expensive and we've expanded. and i say we've expanded with good intentions. a lot of benefits. people are going to ask are we making sure we are getting our best service and care with what we are spending so my question is what do you plan on taking to ensure the high quality services are available for the veterans and families of our american taxpayers also to make sure we are spending their money wisely and getting the care that is needed. >> i will start by saying there are not any more excuses because the infusion of money the committee has given. i do believe we have to make sure that the world-class health services are

hundreds of billions of dollars are spent through dod programs and so they do have the largest number ofecommeations and the largest number of open regulations, which is one of the reasons we focus on them in this year's report. how much for the department of defense savihe unlimited all of your recommendations? guest: i was was possible to put all the different estimates together and give a big number because i'm sure would be huge. we conservatively say tens of billions of dollars by implementing the open actions that could be saved. but really, even some of the individual actions byhemselves could have tens of billions of dollars in benefits. host: we want to get to fewer calls and the phone lines, republicans, call (202) 8001 . democrats, call (202) 748-8000. independents, call (202) 748-8002. if you have questions about your vocations d goveme or ho the gao does its job to find the duat did want to ask about one of the specific dod recommendations and how that you point at saving potentially $527 million over the next five years , defense distribution centers. what is that? of de

or dod wanted. that money is a little fungible, dod and many cases, out of my own budget i supplied to generators for communities to get them jumpstarted with electricity for some of the schools. or build a well or then really relied on the usaid people that that became the conduit through which we addressed and engaged the ngo community. in most cases we didn't need the u.s. government but they didn't keep track of who is doing what. so you had everybody a little bit like kid soccer, this is what we'll do today and i we have that one. we got to get more coordinated so that we can leverage the money and the roles and situations where we are trying to prevent conflict and number two, back into the community for solidifying both security with the basic human necessities and leverage the dod, leverage them. that got all kinds of powerpoint we provided medical care, schoolteachers, agricultural people. to help enhance the soil. so that crops could be reintroduced. i also worked a lot with the colombian

>> the dod has spent time looking at this issue. when i say there is going to the conflict over water, there will be wars over water. it is forgettable. we already see the beginnings of the infrastructure for a serious conflict being laid between -- over theis rea nile because the nile is not flooding the way it used to. egypt is attempting to keep more of the nile that it is "entitl ed" to. jordan is not getting access to the water it used to. it is difficult to get locally because water in jordan other people are taking it. there are places where dod is watching as we predict that conflict in africa over mineral resources. it is not commonly known but there is oil and gas in afghanistan and there will be a fight over who gets that when it gets -- when it becomes more public information. problem is that that make your own al qaeda resurgence or taliban and that is a real issue. , becausehead of those the first indications for the humanitarian crises, people being forced out, migrants being forced out, and people coming in and takin

we'll collect more. >> sean carburyit the dod office. end state and how that affects what you're stabilizing toward. what's the end state in afghanistan? what's being stabilized towards? is it realistic? how do you walk back promises and expectations that are unrealistic and unachievable? >>hank tyou. >> doug brooks from the afgn american dreamer, contractors who work support these missions. you want an earful sit down with a contractor if you're not the government and will fdut a lot of the problems. going back to what the colonel mentioned in terms of vietnam, we did have a staublization czar, if you will, there. i wonder if that could ever be repeated because in many ways that was successful. >> thank you. and let's take one more on the aisle right here. >> thank you. my name is edward resim, retired vice president. i know nothing at all about afghanistan. i wouldn't have been surprised if i heard these statements 10, 12 years ago. what i'm very surprised is that these lessons in year 15, 16 or 17. that's really surprising. what sort

emily: what are the security concerns that emerge with the dod that is in the cloud?when you look at, there is always been a debate on security. the cloud brings a set of standard capabilities around security to upgrade patches and new protecting capabilities that are harder to do in distributed environments. i can speak from personal experience. we often hear equifax was blamed on one patch not being applied. when you hear about tens of thousands of servers connected, this is a larger problem. the cloud allows us to do it from a central location. the cloud brings security, improvement in general. there may be more perceived weaknesses because we are putting a lot of things in one place but in reality it is a more secure infrastructure. move in departments these areas, like utilities, we will find we will find people have a more secure environment. emily: thank you. coming up, as the competition for your living room heats up, amazon doubles down. we will bring you the next alexa-incorporated products. and several big tech companies are hovering at all-time highs, but

but we watched the world become more dangerous, and what we're doing now with the dod appropriation bill that is moving through, we are rebuilding it. as she talked about, it is a pay raise 2.6%, the highest pace -- highest pay increase in more than nine years. looking at the readiedness, restoration and modernization programs. we have to be innovative in this process and a continually changing world. we want to make sure we are protected the world is safe and our troops have every protection they need as we move forward. one thing i found also that we're doing this week is modernizing a 30-year-old bill that also ties in to our military making sure from theft but also for the future that we're keeping innovation here in america and protecting that innovation at the same time. as the whip talked about, we will deal with immigration as well this week as we're continuing to move forward. each week that we continue to progress, just as our conference chair talked about, you see economics improvement. i think it is very important that we think about that for one moment. i've told you once be

it's obviously a dod issue. i'm not going to speak to that today. can say is this: -- i've been the secretary of state for 30 odd days, i think. there's no daylight between the south koreans, the japanese, and the united states with respect to our approach to how we re this issue with respect to north korea. i've spoken to my counterparts there. spoken to president muin. we understand their concerns. we understand the risks that can to them.ed an achievement will provide an outcome that each of those can sign on to as well. >> there's a potential for the creation for lack of a better term that the chinese could then orrn if it was political economic? >> chinese are moving all around the world today. let's be clear. realisk of that is everywhere not just in the particular space. of it.eenly aware >> it is necessary. to make you aing great writer. then, you sit down. you discover that actually, they could all do it. there is nothing about learning to do it. watch our special series with an "in depth: fiction edition" on sundayr gish jen onn-three cloc

dod has mandated to do two different studies. one is for the near term in terms of reorganizing and doing acquisition for space better. that is due in august to congress. the other is due in december and it says you will come back with a roadmap for how to create a separate department for space. that roadmap is due in december. i think that will set this up to be hotly debated in congress next year as part of the fiscal year 2020 national defense authorization act. i fully expect that we will see the house move forward with legislation to create something like a space core or a space force. the senate is, like senator nelson there are a number of people in the senate who have come out and openly oppose this. a lot of the opposition has been backstopped by the air force telling them that they don't want it. now that the president has ordered the military to get on board with this and start preparing for it, that is what his statement said. he said don't create it, he said begin the preparations for it. it will be very difficult fo

have a good appreciation for the importance of the partnership that we have with both state and the dod. we currently have 23 staff who are in the combat and command's very close partnership. this goes back to how you started this conversation. so many of the crises that we are facing, so much of the humanitarian work that we are doing and the need that's out there is either conflict driven or otherwise man-made driven. in order for us to get our arms around any of that, if we are not partnering closely with the military, we simply are not going to be able to achieve our goals and our mission. with respect to syria, you are right. i travel with general motell of centcom, went into morocco. i have seen a lot of prop places in the world. i don't think that i have ever seen the scale of destruction that i saw in raqa. when general botel and i were driving together, we stopped at an intersection and we could see damage as far as we could see. one thing that general botel told me about riaqua, is that syrian, want to go home. they are tied to camps. we met with a number of young riaccans and

structure oft the the way the dod works, the money comes at much lower levels.uspect there will be standards more around how we integrate and interoperate among all the providers. how do we enable and encourage more innovation and competition? ultimately that is what needs to happen. emily: one of the biggest this part of moving of the government to the cloud? cloud is anl the technologies,any they enable something. it needs to be married to a need. how we bring that use case to the customer but how we innovate even further from there. hasdepartment of defense acquired capabilities for a long time and standard ways that date back decades. part of this is creating acquisition paths that make it easier for them to reach out and get it. we are seeing that already. talking in a few years, we will have significant movement here. eight working with six to customers working on initiatives right now. they are not waiting for a grand acquisition. in 2009, the cio of the federal government pronounced that we were looking at cloud first and we are seeing that now. emily: w

hundreds of billions of dollars are spent through dod programs. they have the largest numbers of recommendations, so that is one of the reasons we focus on them in this report. could -- how much could the defense department save? guest: id gi a number,, which is huge. we could say tends of billions -- tens of billions of dollars could saved, but individual actions could have tens of ionsllf dollars in benefits. host: i want to get to viewer calls in a second. if you have questions about to gernment, before get the calls, i wanted to ask about one of those specific regulations you had that you could point at saving potentially 527 going dollars over the next five years, defense distribution centers. guest: defense has the centers across the country to help provide supplies in its operations. some of those are runs -- are run by the logistic ageies, some are run by the services. what we found when we looked at it, and this is the department of defense's own study that found they had application, overlap in their distribution centers. some of them we

, did dod feel the difference in america? >> no. i don't think so. i think because it is such a mission-focused organization, it's a bit heads down on these kinds of cross-cutting winds of public viewpoint in general, right? that's why you put in political civilians and others who are there to kind of connect it to the interagency, a part of our role, yeah. michelle use today say we were the ballbearings, we were there to keep everybody and functions that you're doing from the military to civilian. that's a big piece of how you have to think of that kind of job. what i would say is that there was a -- they felt the same frustration with the seeming inability to achieve outcomes, mixed with that orientation of let's just go push harder, you know, do more, and that was similar to when i left in 2006. the biggest change was the political change because when i left in 2006 i left just before rumsfeld left. so, you know, we were still, you know, the politics were very different. it was right before bush had kind of swung over to p

why is the money that is missing from the army and dod? where is it and why is nobody addressing this issue? if we get that $21 trillion back that was stolen we would not be in this mess that is the issue. >> i don't know anything it couldn't be trillions of dollars there are billions of dollars with dod that has gone missingi . i am not knowledgeable on that that with medicare fraud over the last decade the justice department it has improved greatly with medicaid fraud as well to be quite substantial recoveries they are big and complicated and we have tried not to encumber them with the doctor sentences the bill and it is almost automatically but it is only later intel they go back so there is the advantage that the government is doing an okay job going after this. >> so what impacted the passage of the affordable care act have on the projection of the completion date and did that change from the efforts topa hold back on -- rollback? >> the second part of the question is yes. one part was the creation of the independent payment commissio

in january 2017 it seems that dod in the u.s. is also taken this position they issued a statement saying autonomous and semi at thomas weapon system should allow commanders to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment. major ford describes how i think dod is projecting the role for humans in this area within an accountability context. he says we will now start thki about how we can hold a human being somewhere in or near the loop, as he says for joint enterprise liability with the robot. obviously for the revolutionaries this is much too little, quite inappropriate. they want real and meaningful human control. at the first meeting of t ccw, monsignor of the holy see's delegation s inherentlyorl humanndth quality such as compassion and insight to be present. while imperfect human beings may not perfectly apply such qualities in the heat of war, these qualities are neither replaceable nor programmable. they see support of a ban on autonomous weapons is the only way forward and they are joined in that effort by such powerful hum

a spokesperson for the pentagon told dod will federal partners, health and human services visited migrantng options, three in texas and one in arkansas. the spokesperson says it does not necessarily mean any or all children will be put there. washington, d.c., i'm ellison barber, fox news. >> so many unanswered questions, add to go confusion republican leaders are delaying vote on compromise immigration bill. vote was supposed to take place last night and delayed till friday and now next week. leaders decided to punt. >> we are going put the vote off until next week and this will give us time to work out differences. but this is one of the better if not best conferences i've been to where everybody is trying to come together as a team so we can get to 218 and get us across the finish loin. >> the xrmize would provide path to dealership while keeping migrant families at the border and provide for more security there. we will have more on all of this later in the program. tracee: house did accomplish one thing yesterday, narrowly passing farm bill, controversial work requirements for food s

the book was very much informed my my time working at dod, i thought i could go in and write a book on the threat side and while i was working on policy i was really struck by the ways in which our combinations can be critical to what we're trying to accomplish but also for us , which iy frustrating think it is understandable when talking about countries like pakistan. that was informative for me to writing this. diving in, in terms of how we've seen direct action involved and what the implications might be, when we are talking about direct action, we're talking about counterterrorism strikes, airstrikes, drone strikes. we will not be talking about what is happening in places like iraq or afghanistan. going back to the bush administration, there was use of special operation forces for counterterrorism raids. there is one in yemen in 2002. 14 in pakistan from 2004 2 2008. in june 2008, bush is informed and shown pakistani intelligence and the network fighting u.s. forces in afghanistan. there's a large uptick and we get over 30 drone strikes from june 2008 through the end of the year. t

>> it couldn't be $22 trillionn or billion in the dod that has gone missing. i haven't seen the figure anywhere but i'm not knowledgeable on those things.dg with respect to medicareso frau, i would point out the justice department offering medicare services has improved greatly after going after medicare and medicaid fraud and there've been quite substantial recoveries. these programs are big and complicated and wee try to not encumber them so the doctor sends in a bill and payment is made almost automatically through the computer it's only later that they go back and check these things. so there is an advantage to the way that we administer these programs which allows for some fraud, but the government is doing an okay job. >> host: staying on medicare for a second, what did the affordable care act have on theseti trustee corrections on e depletion date and has it changed at all from the effort to roll back parts? >> guest: certainly yes there was the independent commission. it served as a safety valve that was never appointed but if medicare spending went up

there are a number of places where dod is watching as we predict that conflict. in africa over mineral resources, it's not commonly known, but there's oil and gas in afghanistan, and there will be a fight over who gets that and where when it becomes more public information, and the problem of that will be fueling something like an al qaeda resurgence or -- or the taliban is a real issue. so getting ahead of those because the first indications will be humanitarian crises. people being forced out. migrants being forced out and people coming in and taking over, and there's a lot more that we could do at what phase zero avoidance of conflict through the humanitarian, through the ngos and through the private sector that dod can facilitate with authorities and pre-planning. >> excellent. >> sure. >> jacqueline, dealers choice. there were three questions, and i can repeat them if you need, but what are your responses to the dod and development and humanitarian issue, climate environment or the question about what can we do with the u.n.? >> yeah. thank you very much for

now kids will likely go to dod or i.c.e. facilities with their parents. the order does not over vied the federal court settlement known as the plor ris agreement that says migrant children cannot be jailed for more than 20 days. the president is expected to instruct the department to not follow the law while the white house challenges it in court in order to keep families together while the parent is in custody. health and human services say they are, quote, awaiting further guidance on how to implement the executive order. the families that had been separated, the 2,300 kids will not be immediately reunited. live from washington, stephanie ramos, abc 7 news. >>> the facebook campaign to help reunite undocumented immigrant parents separated from their children has now raised almost $16 million. three of facebook's earlier employees started that company on sunday. for information about the immigration debate, you can go to our website, abc7news.com. >>> a non-partisan survey concludes that voter influence in the midterm election is at an all-time high beca

i believe dod is more organized than justice is in terms of labor relations. it also reports that va, the department of veterans' affairs is almost three times as much as as dod or doj, but yet va has less than half of the number of employees of the department of defense. va's numbers are probably closer to the truth, but are also unreliable. based upon my 44 years representing agencies and interacting with program managers, i bet opm's gross total is low by a factor of 5 or 10, and that's not a percentage figure. no one knows. by the way, labor relations official time is not the only official time representatives get. in 2009, president obama issued executive order 13-522 requiring agencies to engage in predecisional involvement on agency decisions and other activities. the unions complained that agencies would hold them to official time in labor agreements. they were advised by opm that since they were complying with the presidential order, duty time, not official time, would be appropriate for union involvement and order activities. many thousands of hours

the dod attorneys will be appointed a special assistant u.s. attorneys and will work full time assisting and prosecuting reactive border immigration cases, with a focus on misdemeanor improper entry and felony illegal reentry cases. >> so there was no advanced notice that the military was doing this before they put this into effect. only after we asked about it tonight did they confirm that it is happening. now, i should tell you what this means from a -- from like a civilian perspective, a citizenship perspective. what this means, among other things, is that the military budget, the defense budget, which pays for, you know, bombs and guns and ammo and all that stuff and the salaries of active duty military personnel, the military budget is, by this program, effectively being repurposed and diverted into jeff sessions' department of justice to help him handle this new huge backlog of immigration prosecutions that they've just created because of the trump administration policy, for which they apparently made no plans in terms of how they were ac

and my understanding is, dod has since indicated it plans to put out that figure by june 1, which is fast approaching, but i think it would be great to press on where that is. because i think these requirements, they're law. so that in and of itself makes them important, but i also think they serve a value in democratic accountability and giving people a sense of what their government, or giving the world a sense of what the u.s. government is doing in these various theaters. [ inaudible ] >> i'm happy to start with that. the sort of operations that come to the public's attention sometimes in the tragic aftermath, or in the aftermath of a tragic event like the one in niger, they of course are going on around the world. in fact, they are often indicated in the report that the executive branch provides to the congress every six months on where we have troops doing certain things, and even the unclassified portion of that. and when they go as wrong and as -- when they become as tragic a moment as that is, where you lose service members' lives, it becomes -- you sort of zoom in on it and

from the army and -- from the dod and hud. why is that money missing? where is it? and why is nobody addressing this issue? we should be cutting no programs. if we got the $21 trillion back that was stolen, okay, we would not be in this mess. that's the issue, really, is it not? >> well, i don't know anything about the -- it couldn't be $22 trillion. billion dollars in dod and hud that has gone missing, i haven't seen that figure anywhere. but you know, i'm not knowledgeable on those sorts of things. with respect to medicare fraud, i would point out that over the last decade or so, the justice department, the office of medicare and medicare services has improved greatly going after medicare fraud and medicaid fraud as well, and there have been quite substantial recoveries. these programs are big, they're complicated. we try not to incumber them with lots of regulations and lots of intrusion. so, doctor sends in a bill. the payment is made almost automatically with a computer. it's only later that they go back and check these things. and you know, so, there's an adva

in the meantime, the dod is repairing -- preparing to house 20,000 migrants at four military bases in texas and arkansas. a bill was voted down in the house today, in part because it did not offer a path to citizenship for dreamers. a vote on a moderate republican bill is expected to happen next week. democrats are opposed. >>> it is not a compromise. it may be a compromise with the devil but it's not a compromise with the democrats. in terms of what they have. >> melania trump made an unexpected visit to southern texas today, she toured one of the facilities currently housing migrant children. >>> some people are questioning the jacket that the first lady was wearing when she got on the plane to head to texas. on the back of her coat it said i really don't care, do you? a spokeswoman for her said there is no hidden message. she took off the jacket before she arrived at the texas detention center. she was wearing it again when she arrived back at andrews air force base outside of washington. >>> a group of women are gathering donations to bring the children or being held in detention

system that is worthy of the sacrifice that these men and women make every day and, unfortunately, the dodhange how they prosecute these cases, and one of the things that all of us believe in is that it should be given to trained military prosecutors to make the decision about whether there are crimewht commanders who are not even lawyers and not trained and may have biases because right now the system is failing our service members. >> trevor: there are people who have come out against your proposal and said the military handles military issues, why are si civilians trying to get involved? you don't know best for the military, why would you step in with this legislation that aims to bring in a foreign body to try and in some way influence what's happening in the military? >> so you're not. you're actually telling someone like commander christensen who was the prosecutor that he gets to look at the evidence because he's a prosecutor, decide whether a crime has been committed and decide whether to move that case to trial to court martial. right now, when a commander makes that decision, the

fact that anti-trust enforcement was a concurrent jurisdiction in the states in the ags along with dod, ftc. i was out talking about protecting old people and bussing meth labs. so it was kind of a new thing for me. so it's really interesting the role that attorneys general really have always taken and continue to take. and so i'm hoping that we'll get to talk about that a little bit today. you know, starting off with kind of a soft ball, i mean, the city of washington d.c. has been so welcoming to tech companies and consistently is listed as one of the top ten tech cities in america outside of silicon valley. what's it mean that a company like yelp chooses to come here and employ people and make a physical presence here in the nation's capital? >> well, i think you hit it on the head. it's further confirmation that the world's best companies know that the district of columbia is a good place to do business. primarily because we have extremely talented folks who live and work here. you know, really robust colleges. and it's pretty fun to live in d.c. it's a friendly city with a bunch o

dod's nowonsidering taking in, i should sayhhs made a request beds at various military usand facilities. so we'll see if that comes to fruition, if they end up needing that. the summer monthsere in mccown, v rio grandealley has the highestat apprehension r in the country, far greater than the nine other b pderrol secretaryors. so certainly if the numbers continue to stay up high this summer, peoplo are going be coming to ma gown and rio grands and a lot o pressure on this sector to take care of these people and see them t (inaudible. >> immigration are nothing new in that part of the country for sure right there along t boarder. before we go, how long re you going to be there for and what else isn your agenda over o the next couf days as you try to get some answers. >> yeah. so i'm going tgh be here t wednesday. i got in last night. and first wt down to ma gown to see what was going on and monday i'm going toe doing a land aor and sea of the boarder with borde patrol. 'll be meeting with officials, lking to them,rs getting a from bem, theif charge. so i think come monday we'll have aan