the us house armed services committee has approved an amendment to the national defense authorization act. the get this it will automatically register man, no fighting age for a quote possible military draft. now the text is clear, and e mail us citizen from 18 to 26 will be automatically registered. while america has a volunteer army, as it stands, the new system of automatic draft enrollment is claimed to be replacing an older version in which, signing up for a draft was a voluntary choice. oh, if washington it likes to bring back the draft. i move not seen since vietnam, those names will be ready to be pulled up. well, that's learn more with form a pedagogy senior security policy unless michael belief, joining us here on this program. michael. oh my goodness me. i mean, look at the end of the day, if this sounds a bit why reading, i would just start off by asking you why this, why no, as well, thanks for having a i think they're trying to bring more people on because increasingly, more and more american men are not signing up for the draft, even though they have a statutory obligat

adam smith from the us house armed services committee said mr biden wasn't the best person to carry theere's our north america correspondent peter bowes. will it bejoe or will it be kamala fighting the election for the democrats? it's a question being seriously considered by party members in congress. more and more are coming forward to say the president should step down after that disastrous debate performance against donald trump. dealing with everything we have to do with. .. the latest and most senior is adam smith, with this blunt assessment of mr biden's chances. we would be better off with another nominee, 0k? i believe that in my heart, my soul and my brain, i'm100% convinced. the president has continued to insist he won't be dropping out. he sent a letter to fellow democrats saying he's firmly committed to staying in the race. he even called a us breakfast show to hammer home the point. i've not lost and i haven't lost. i beat him last time, i'll beat him this time. adding to the questions swirling around mr biden, it's emerged that an expert in parkinson's disease has visited

house armed services committee. thank you very much for joining us. the house committee has exactly the same jurisdiction as the senate armed services committee except they do the confirmation process, but whoever is the next defense secretary will have to come to your committee, will need credibility with your committee, presumably in many different situations. can you imagine a secretary hegseth on the state of the evidence we know now actually testifying to your committee about any matters? >> not with any credibility. >> yeah. >> that's a key point. there's also the matter of does he have experience at the pentagon or even running an organization similarly? can he handle that level of bureaucracy, the day in and day out of running it? but his credibility now is nowhere. you've mentioned some of the drinking, the sexual assault allegations, but he was in a prominent position in two separate veterans organizations that he ran both of them into the ground. that's where a ton of the allegations come from, from people who worked with him. i forget the n

it's one of the big priorities for those of us in the house armed services committee is to get our pentagonop, acquire, procure advanced technologies more quickly. pentagon moves very slowly. this is going to be a very difficult fight. because technology is moving so rapidly. new technologies are coming on the field. how do they apply to the battlefield? this is going to be a challenge. the other point that i want to make is it also points up why it would be better if we could figure out some way to peacefully coexist with china going forward, understanding all of the challenges there. we don't need another cold war, another arms race, much less stumbling into a global conflict between the two largest superpowers. we need to figure out how to peacefully coexist going forward. >> i also want to ask you what you make of the timing of this kind of debut of these jets. you know, elon musk criticized the f-35 program pretty recently, calling lockheed martin, "idiots." instead, musk said the u.s. should beef up the u.s. drone supply. do you think this revelation by china is going to push the air

us now. the house armed services committee is launching a formal inquiry into austin's hospitalization, as welle communications breakdown. how is the white house responding to that. >> reporter: on the senate side, armed services committee the top republican official is also asking questions and there's a legitimate role for congress to play in oversight of cabinet officials and they want to better understand the time line and to get greater accountability on why the secretary and those around him didn't disclose earlier, if in fact those around him were aware of the specific diagnosis, lot of questions here. white house has clearly been frustrated. at the same time, they're also showing support in terms of the medical issues of everyone wishing the secretary well with a goodprognosis, as you indicated he's still hospitalized. but there are also questions about his ability to give good advice and leadership from his post as secretary of defense while he's dealing with this. today, that kind of question was posed to the white house press secretary and she talked about the interaction currently g

congressman mike waltz of florida joins us right now, house armed services committee, house intelligencettee. genuine war hero and a key player in all of this. congressman, picking up on something the general was mentioning here, our ruling out attacks inside iran and telling them that outright. what do you make of that? >> well, i agree with the general. i completely disagree with it. you should never take options off the table when you're dealing with an adversary like iran. it reminds me in the leadup to the invasion of ukraine. the administration did the same thing. in terms of telling putin what we were not going to do and, therefore, he interprets that as the space that he has, therefore, to push. but i think, you know, also to general keane's point, it is yet another step in a completely failed iran policy, and that's the big picture here. i'm praying, and literally i agree with him, we want this to be successful, that we have to completely rethink the iran policy. but, unfortunately, the people enacting biden's policy; namely, jake sullivan and blinken, were the same ones that pu

us. he's the top democrat on the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. the top white house says spokesman, john kirby told me earlier today that the u.s. is not ruling are taking action against this attack. do you support sanctioning these israeli settlers or even far-right minister, for example, like b'tselem, smoke rich, who oversees west bank settlements i think we i think we have to take action. >> i think what midterm and netanyahu is allowing to happen in the west bank is wrong. first of all, illegal internationally, but also just an incredible danger at this moment, you see hezbollah, iran, hamas, we already have the war in gaza, which we're trying to bring to a conclusion. there is real risk of a reading war in the middle east. and this throws fuel on those flames. so yes, i think sanctions should be imposed personally, i think both ben gvir and smotrich should be kicked out of the cabinet. they should be in the cabinet, they shouldn't be in a position to allow them this type of thing to happen it's dang

house responded saying they support the right to peacefully protest but denounce any and all violent rhetoric. david. david: all right, griff jenkins, thank you very much. joining us for reaction from the house arms services committeeman mark auford. you just returned and is israel getting nervous our alliance is falling apart? >> we met with prime minister netanyahu and herzog and her heh goldburg snapple and captive for 189 days and his arm blown off by the islamic terrorists and the israeli people have a resolve that i've never seen before. is this is video that we took at supernova site where 200 some people were killed and many taken hostage and dragged across the border. the israeli people have a resolve i've never seen before in my life from any nation at any time. they resolve to do two thing and the other media may be telling you the idf is pulling out of gaza. they're regrouping for a surgical strig on the four battalions that remain. four battalions of the terrorists. they're resolved to wipe them out or capture them and totally annihilate hamas and bring them home. the 138 hostages that are held and many pregnant by the rape of the terrorists and 40 of them unaccounted for. they don't know where they ar

. >> joining us now to go deeper into it, republican congressman from nebraska, member of the house armed services committee, don bacon. thank you for joining us, and the white house says they have the authority to do the strikes and don't need congressional approval, but aside from actual approvals, as a member of the house armed services committee is the mission of what president biden is doing, the mission that those three service members who were killed, what they're on, and what the strikes are now doing in the strategy for them, is it clear to the members of your committee what's happening? what the plan is. >> i agree with general kellogg on a lot of the comments that he said that it appears what the president is doing is very underwhelming and it's not going to restore deterrents. we hear what he's saying that he wants to create deterrents and strike back with the death of our three servicemen and women with you actions speak louder than words and going after the proxy forces alone, that's inadequate. telling your opponents what you're going to strike and what you're not going to strike, and when yo

us. now we have the top democrat on the house, armed services committee california congressman john gara, monday, sir, thank you for taking the time to be with us. i do want to ask you about house foreign affairs member gregory meeks, who was asked about the signing f on the sale of f 15 fighter jets to rael. he said he's waiting for assurances i'm going to when i go back to washington, dc, i want to make sure i know the types of weapons and what the weapons would be uzed for. >> do you >> agree with him? >> absolutely. he's absolutely correct. we've seen too much we've sn more than 30,000 ongoing war. it simplyas to stop in the ited states should not be sending 2000 pound bombs to israel as simply have toell israel that the horrible advance not only that we're instituted by hamas againsisrael, t then israel's response. i simply has to stop and israeli intes to invade rafah, then they absoly ha to do it differtly. otherwise, we shou n move forward with the app 15s whh will, not arrive soon >> but nonheless, very song signal and no more 2,500, 2000 pound bondor anything of tha natu? >> a c

house for us. for boron. what's going on? i want to bring in democratic congressman adam smith of washington state. he's the top democrat on the house. armed services committee. congressman. thanks so much. joining us. we get to the dismissal of this impeachment trial in a few moments. but first would you vote for each of these foreign aid policy bills that the speaker, mike johnson, laid out. and then a possible plan to bundle them all together for the senate and the house accomplish all of this by the end of this week. >> yes. and yes, bieve i will certainly vote for the first three ukraine, israel, and taiwan. the fourth bill sn't actual been released yet. >> i think it'suosedo be released like s mites from no so i'll have to take look at that, t i support thislan. i think the house wiass it and it will be out of the rules committee that will be the rule andhen it'll go to the senate and i've heard the senate is prepared to take it ufairly qckly yeah, it looks like you said at's got the votes to pass it very quickly as wl. >> you weren't it could take at least what, two months t ultimately turthis convoluted process into lawand that all of thiis quote, bo

us is democratic congressman of nevada. he is a member of the house armed services committee. thank you for coming in with us to the studio today. we appreciate it. you were just at the capitol around the corner. you were in the chamber tonight, obviously. the congressional black caucus members were there. how do you all think the president did tonight? did he meet your expectations? >> he met the moment. he centered the american people as the reason that we have this incredible comeback from the pandemic. the economic downturn. he talked about the historic job creation that has occurred. the fact that we have historic unemployment in black and latino communities. we have created more than 40 million new small businesses in the last three years. they were led by black women and latinos. this is a historic comeback. he centered the people. that is what i have been asking the administration and this president and vice president to do. we did this. the american people did this. he also talked about the possibilities of what more we can do. i was so pleased that he focused on housi

us now. sits on the house armed services committee. the ranking member. great to have you. where do you think things stand? >> i think we're making progress. the meeting at the white house yesterday was a very constructive conversation. look, there's widespread agreement that we need to do ukraine assistance and we need to do something on the border policy. the senate in particular is having a bipartisan negotiation to get there. so i think we're moving in the right direction. it's still difficult. these are tough issues. like i said, a very constructive conversation with all of the top republican democratic leadership in the house and the senate and the white house team as well. >> neil: how did that go? what was it like behind the scenes? >> it was good. it wasn't as much fun with meetings with trump in that context. but nobody stormed out. nobody yelled at anybody. we had a very constructive conversation. you heard a lot of people emphasizing the importance of supporting ukraine at this moment. we got some stark battlefield updates about how putin is preparing to continu

us now. she's on the house armed services committee. welcome, congresswoman. >> thank you.that yesterday. i want you to listen to what donald trump had to say about winning■ç black and latino vote in virginia. >> every day, more african americans and hispanic americans are joining our movement and that's one of the major reasons we are going to win the commonwealth of virginia this fall. >> what do you say to that pitch being made in the state you represent? >> first of all, that is not the way to win votes from the black community. i think everybody is focused on his demeaning the black community by saying only certain jobs are available to them, but more importantly, his record as president was detrimental to the black community and joe biden has been working to improve the mess he left in office. i think, a majority of■ç black and latino voters will come out, particularly in virginia, but across the country, and vote for joe biden. >> i was struck by the fact the day after the debate you had donald trump in virginia with glenn youngkin, nonetheless, in many ipads and art

of the situation was also felt in the united states, at least by the head of the committee on armed services in the us housecountry's defense minister should a priori be able to make decisions at any moment, because the pentagon aims to work under enemy attack and is not intended for a minister who hides your incapacity. another congressman, matt rosendale, prepared an impeachment resolution for austin. tomorrow i will introduce an impeachment resolution, it is very very scary. about the stormy start of the year in the usa, denis davidov. new year, old habits. biden's holidays dragged on so long that in 3 weeks, journalists barely counted three events with him. if i communicated with the press, it was on the run, running away from awkward questions. what's next for ukraine's support? if my republican colleagues don't fund ukraine, they will pay for it, and a lot. the elderly president speaks in half-naked words; his party comrades are openly frightening. the aid is running out, and this makes putin very happy; every senator should understand that if the senate does not approve more aid to ukraine, the war,

us now. he is the ranking member on the house armed services committee and joins us live from the reagan national defense forum, where those comments by secretary austin were made. congressman, thanks for being here. i first just want to get your reaction to this nearly $1 billion in aid for ukraine well, i think it's an important show of commitment to ukraine. >> and there's a lot of talk around there needing to be a negotiated settlement. >> certainly coming out of president-elect trump's camp, i think that's probably true but you have to negotiate from a position of strength, and you can't do that. if ukraine can't defend itself. they are very dependent upon the u.s. and the 50 plus nation coalition that is supporting them. they need our aid. they need our assistance to stop the russian onslaught and force putin to the negotiating table. so i think it's the right move, and i hope that the trump administration will continue that support for ukraine when they come into office. >> and on that note, as i as i said the president elect meeting with zelenskyy in paris today, zelenskyy called that mee

with us now, adam smith, the house armed services committee ranking member., you might have if heard part of our discussion there, but i did talk to senator crest coons yesterday on this issue -- chris coons yesterday on this issue of whether support for israel is waning particularly among the democratic leaders. i want you to respond to this. this was chris coons yesterday. >> look, i would not abandon israel. i would not abandon the defense of israel against their. enemies in the region. particularly in the face of an imminent strike by iran against israel -- neil: no, with all respect, sir, that's not what i ask. if they go into rafah and do this, would you say, all right, that's a game-changer? we told you not to do it and you did. >> i would be willing to put conditions on the delivery of military munitions for that ongoing campaign. i would not sever ties between the united states and israel. i wouldn't abandon israel, but i would begin to condition the munitions that we provide for an ongoing campaign in rafah. neil: congressman, let me ask you about t

nomination sources say could have wrapped up in coming weeks joining us florida congressman member house oversight help armed services committeehael waltz great to see think morning. thanks very much for being here. thanks, maria. >> i know you endorsed president trump for 2024 white house bid your reaction to what we saw last night. >> well a double-digit victory on top of his his who areic win in iowa we heard chatter ability to persuade independence persuasion argument i think it misses, what really wins elections the turnout piece in the enthusiasm, and i can tell you i haven't seen or experienced negative 30 temperatures like in iowa since i was narin warfae school only him could turn people out if those conditions enthusiasm difference, that we're seeing for him versus others i think the winner at the end of the day people are being enthusiastic are not enthusiastic about joe biden the other piece contrast we are talking theoretically about what progressives would do if in charge now we had three of years of it contrast how people's lives under trump how they are now couldn't be more clear. i think that is going to bode

. >> everyone stay with us, a key democrat on the house armed services committee, pat ryan of new york, a u.s. army veteran who served in iraq, think you for joining us. the pentagon has said they struck more than 85 targets in iraq and syria, the start of what they say will likely be a series of longer-term, perhaps larger skill strikes on these militias backed by iran, what is your reaction to what you have seen so far? >> iran needs to fully understand, and they are beginning to, i think, if you take the lives of u.s. soldiers, there will be swift and strong consequences, and that is what we saw, i think it is important to acknowledge those brave servicemembers who we lost as well as those who conducted the strikes today. >> how effective do you think what we've seen so far will be at detering this mosaic of iran backed groups? figure that is what it is about, too soon to tell for certain, all about reestablishing clear, strong deterrence, and i thought myself, for 27 months in iraq, and i told my fellow soldiers we need to make clear coming after u.s. soldiers and -- is unacceptabl

. >> joining us now from house armed services and foreign affairs committee's congressman cory mills, right. it isn't what he says exactly what would have happened had the senate bill and the border had passed? we would have had more personnel but they would have been doing more processing. >> you would have more personnel but also what i declare as amnesty bill where emergency responses would not be enacted by the secretary unless it were 5000 occurring in the single day you wouldn't have actually seen this take down the numbers, good to see more border patrol processing more people coming in but here's the shocker, while we are focused on the borders thinking about the numbers, 200,000 coming in monthly, he saw in the immigration studies by one of their investigators said there were 326,000 people from migrant areas such as venezuela, honduras, ramallah dumping present loan into our country and thus the number that flew in florida alone so you look at the original numbers reported from eagle pass, el paso and the others now 326,000 coming under this humanitarian parole program, appr

us now. she is a member of the house armed services committee. thank you for joining us this morning.sidential immunity decision but also the need for ethics and term limits for justices. >> i think it is wonderful to see the president taking such a leadership role in this critical area. as you pointed out, this is some of the legislation i helped to lead in the house of representatives where we have been fighting to have ethics reform to give basic ethics training to our supreme court justices and their spouses. to have an independent group that can help with investigations, at the supreme court and make a report to congress. as we have seen, again and again and again, this is a court that is lost the faith of the american people. we see it in these partisan decisions, such as attacking gun safety. give me almost unlimited power to the president of the united states contrary to our view of a democratic form of government. taking away roe v. wade after many of the same justices who overturned that with president trump's leadership, had testified before the senate that they thought it

states of america of international security, celeste wolander, at a hearing in the armed services committee. of the us housesentatives, according to her, agreeing on new us aid to ukraine is critically important, and here's why. let's listen to ms. celesta wallender in direct speech. i believe that there is a false opinion that putin needs territory, he does not need territory, he does not need bakhmut, avdiivka, or even odesa, he needs ukraine. and if at some point negotiations can take place. we must be prepared for what this probably does not mean, that putin will abandon his goal of conquering ukraine, and through ukraine and europe, so we need to support ukraine in negotiations if it decides to go to them, but at the same time not to deceive ourselves into thinking that this will return an era of peace and cooperation to europe , it was ms. wolander who said why... aid is so important for ukraine, but the lack of additional funding that cannot be voted on in the house of representatives can also be extremely dangerous for the united states of america itself. during the speech hearings in the committee

house. >>> joining us to discuss, democratic congressman, former navy helicopter and member of the house armed services committee. we appreciate your time this morning. as we look forward, and we know the administration is weighing options right now for a response, what would you like to see based on the options we know are on the table? >> well, i would really like to see the administration use the tools to ensure that we can add some calm to the region. we do that by gathering our allies. make no mistake, it is the desire of these organizations backed by iran to escalate the situation. and any de-stabilization of the region is bad for the united states. we've already seen the red sea largely shut down by the houthis. that impacts global shipping, that impacts our ability to make our supply chains more resilient. we are working incredibly hard to ensure that we have a calmer, better situation in the region. >> i think the complicating thing to try to understand at this point is the houthis have continued their attacks despite u.s. and coalition strikes over the course of the last several weeks. there have now b

congressman rob whitman is a vice chairman on the house select committee on the ccp and sits on the house armed services committee as well and he joins us. these shockings are finding: sounds like china is giving financial perks to companies who make fentanyl with the expressed purpose of addicting or killing americans. is that a safe summary of what you found? >> carley, it is. it's sobering and staggering what we see in this report. we see that the post release the prc are sellingdirectly on . the ccp essentially formulating and fostering and supporting on amazon for fentanyl sales. the ccp is providing direct tax rebates and grants to' cans that produce fentanyl, fentanyl precursors and fentanyl derives. they know what the outcome of this is leading to the death of americans. the staggering statistic is last year fentanyl poisoning deaths in china were zero. in the united states over 76,000. they are leading to directly the deaths of americans. and we look at things that are happening on the military side, this is a direct assault on america. this is directly killing americans. >> todd: there was a d.e.a. agent who testified on capit

us officials have called the prc a pacing challenge, the house armed services committee zeroing in onefense initiatives to ramp up strategic us military production. among those who will testify today is the director of the defense innovation unit and one initiative expected to prompt questions is called replicator. in artificial intelligence drone program designed to accelerate the delivery of thousands of unmanned watercraft to fighters. it's bold but there's been doubts the pentagon is able to deliver on this. that political article because it confusing and disorganized. on ai, senator mike rounds told jennifer griffin in december the technology has to be prioritized if we want to keep pace with china. >> we will never meet their manpower demands. we have to use artificial intelligence. we are using it today, but there is no way that we can win and keep our country safe if we do not have absolutely the best artificial intelligence capabilities at all times. >> reporter: opening same and still being made, testimony is about to begin and we will keep you posted on that. >> and reports

join us and start watchi the house armed services committee and explain why he never disclosed that he went to the hospital. house representatives slammed austin for not sharing this information with president joe biden. they say biden was told shortly before it became public. austin says he and the president briefly spoke about it, but that numerous concerns of his were not addressed any federal official providing protective services to the president is required to share their health information. the hearing is set for february 14th. hunter biden will appear for a private deposition next month. this is a part of house republicans impeachment inquiry into his father, president joe biden. hunter's testimony comes after negotiations between the house and oversight house judiciary committee and biden. now, republicans say his testimony is a key component of the impeachment inquiry. the closed door deposition is set for february 28th, being late can cost you, according to some madonna fans, the singer is being sued for showing up late to a concerts. >> two ticket holders are suing the pop

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joining us now is congressman adam smith from washington, the ranking member of the house armed services committeehat video from benjamin netanyahu, what he says on it, the way it's filmed? what message do you think he's trying to send there? >> the biggest thing i make of it is that netanyahu is trying to come up with excuses for his failed policies at the moment. and is lashing out in any direction he can to try to distract from that, and what i mean by that, look, we support israel, i agree with the white house, we have been giving them weapons and help them obviously when iran attacked them, protect them against that. president biden has been as supportive of israel as any president in history to date. but at the same time, prime minister netanyahu has not been working with us and saudi arabia and others to build an alternative to hamas, and have a path forward towards peace. i think people are beginning to realize that, so he's lashing out to try and distract from that, is my primary interpretation of why he did that. >> he's lashing out, is it because he fears his position, his hold on power

as an air force bat, a member of the house intelligence and armed services committee. give us your perspective about the importance of finally getting the aid past. >> i will go but on that, actually. in addition to the things you have listed, i am also the daughter of a person who was born in the in 1942 but he was born in poland, what is now ukraine and survived the holocaust and is a very small child and came here and served in the military himself. i was raised up on the history of that area of the world. and the fact that this part of the world is just so incredibly intrinsic to the peace and security, not only of the continent of europe at the world at large. the importance of making sure to keep putin at bay and you believe him at his word was something that i was raised on. it has been an urgent thing to be in congress and ask and plead to for us to take this seriously. as goes ukraine so goes the security of the world, frankly. >> it does appear that everyone listened to you in taking it seriously. there was one thing that we saw on the house floor with supporters, i

joining us is a member of the house armed services committee and former navy pilot, congresswoman mikiepeaceful transfer of power amid the political tension. given what the former president, donald trump, has been saying on truth social, his comments about cheaters as he describes them, even in advance of election day, how concerned are you about violence on and around this election? >> well, of course, we are keeping an eye out. we are watching very carefully what is going on across the country. i think americans have -- understand what is at stake in this election, how necessary it is for people to exercise their right to vote. we are pushing out as much information as possible about how safe and secure our elections are. we are working incredibly hard to make them so, and yet we are facing trump and maga republicans who are trying to sow discord, who are trying to undermine our election system. we know trump has not said he would respect the results of the election. we know he tried to stay in power last time despite losing in the election. so it is a concern, but one we are making s

us involved in international events. adam smith is ranking member of the house armed services committee who joins me now. up where jennifer griffin left off, mentioning this is not the time for isolation and secretary austin said the us should promote and embrace common purpose with our allies. will donald trump embrace common purpose with our allies? >> i hope so. there's a difference between wanting to be engaged in the world and wanting not to be at war, that's the goal of the trump administration. we are at the ronald reagan presidential library. peace through strength is the theme. i think our partners and allies will be crucial. we've heard that throughout the conference and all discussions of national security interests, something we will see. he has been critical of our partners and allies, critical of what benefit the us gets from those relationships and that's worrisome but we need partners and allies in the world and cannot be isolationists and we need to engage. arthel: 57% of americans want to the us engaged and leading an international events, does that surprise you? i know you said you bel

. >> south carolina congresswoman nancy mace is a member of the house armed services committee. and she joins us, too. want to emphasize trey's reporting there about the entrance of the tunnel where the six hostages, the six murdered hostages were being held was the entrance of the tunnel where the children's bedroom and it just is further glaring evidence that hamas uses its own civilians and civilian infrastructure as shields and that appears to be a fact that's been lost in this war. what do you think about that and where all of this is going as donald trump made that daunting prediction last night. >> well, very clearly hamas does use innocent civilians, they do use women. they do use children to advance their terrorism on israel and jewish community overseas. and it's very scary what we are in right now. donald trump is absolutely correct. when you compare back-to-back administrations, donald trump defeated isis. donald trump didn't have the invasions in the wars that were started under the biden-harris administration. and if you look at how weak the white house is, you look at kamala's pos

services and different companies that build those systems. i'm also excited to have ryan tolley here with us. a professional staff member on the house armed services committeend the strategic forces subcommittee. having been in his position i know the terminus amount of work he does. he served as key advisor and staff expert to committee members and house leadership on us missile defense and nuclear weapons policy programs. congratulations for getting the national defense authorization act passed last week. the office served on the national security council deputy assistant to the president and senior director for europe and russia. he's also an intelligence officer in the navy reserve and has extensive knowledge from his time on the intelligence senate committee and senate homeland security and government affairs committee. masao dahlgren needs no introduction, we just heard from masao dahlgren, fellow in the international security program and excellent scholar who is here today. thank you. i would like to turn the floor over to thomas karato. >> thanks for coming out today. we are grateful you joined us to talk about where the department is on this import

. >> reporter: skieser is now working with the house armed services committee to help review the standards for autism usedmining eligibility. >> we need the best intelligence analysts in the world. we need to have the best linguists in the world. we need to have people within our organization that see things differently so that we can think out of the box and continuously outpace the adversary. >> reporter: and thinking out of the box is exactly what tory ridgeway says he had to do. >> i finally rewrote myitety as someone who is smart and loves planes more than anything else rather than somebody who needs to be in a uniform. >> reporter: he about to start an internship with lockheed martin. >> it made me really happy that they thought even with my disabilities, they looked at me and said you can come work with us, no problem. and that was the first time i actually felt accepted truly, 100% in a professional a. way. >> reporter: he is also sharing his personal story with his local easter seals chapter. >> have i been challenged beyond what i thought could i possibly handle. however, these challenges helped

but the biden's campaign tiktok account is still active joining us richard mccormick house of the foreign affairs and armed services committees, good to see you thank you very much for being here, your reaction to the bill, now law the $95 billion foreign aid package with no security at the border. >> that is the biggest charges they of all he's ignoring the will of the people and quite frankly i would love to see hr2 included in this when we had border security codified it was obviously included in the past but if you think about what is not doing. about more about foreign countries in his own country and ignoring the will of the people not securing the wall, not securing our border agents and not processing abridging the men but turn people away that are trying to come here illegally, invaded our country, 20 congressional districts were the people coming here not to pay taxes and not to work but to consume into get voter privileges and even though they can't vote they get representation that's absolutely absurd we need to call him out on it clinton and obama ran on border security and trump did a fantastic job of confine ne

us in tel aviv. jeremy, thank you. brianna? >> we're joined by the ranking member of the house arms service committee, congressman adam smith of congressman, thank you sometime for being with us today. president biden saying he has decided on a response for the drone attack in jordan that killed these three service members. do you expect he will come to congress ahead of time? >> well, he won't come to congress -- heads up two key committee chair and ranking members for the leadership about what they are going to do. they may well do that. but no, he won't make a broad statement to congress, because you certainly don't want to warn iran about or planning on tearing. >> at what point does he need to engage congress more, as you have democrats saying that this is getting to the point where this isn't sort of a one-off thing, this is a more concerted sort of, continued conflict that the president needs to engage congress and more? >> there's two separate questions there. first of all, the president has engaged congress. the president and his national security team has briefed, had conversations with key leaders. certainly, i've ha

gop congresswoman nancy mace sits on the house armed services committee and joins us now.elcome, congresswoman. >> good morning. rachel: we've been trying to break this down and unpack this all morning long trying to figure out why joe biden at this stage in particular would allow american made long range missiles to be used by dwrien go yarby ukraineto go into russia. why do you think g go joe bidenr whoever is running the government would allow them to do this. >> they did this because donald trump won i wasn't just a win, it was a resounding mandate on the issue of ukraine and a lot of other issues like immigration, inflation and government spending and they'll do anything they can to undermine donald trump as he enters office and republicans made very clear last week that this was an escalation of war weeks before trump is to be sworn in and he wants to deescalate the situation and we saw just three days ago putin fire a hypersonic intermediate range ballistic missile into ukraine and it was an immediate escalation of war and that is the last thing the world needs righ

todd: texas congressman ronny jackson is a physician who servings on the house armed services committee and the congressman joins uso have you. in light of this report and your reaction to it, what questions will you be asking lloyd austin on thursday? >> well, i want to know what happened and i wanted to know why he won't take personal accountability for this. this is a big problem we have right now in the department of defense. and honestly a problem we have through our government right now. the people in the upper echelons of authority will not take responsibility for what happened. i think it's time for him to resign at this particular point. the american point have lost trust and confidence in our secretary of defense. it started, you know, with the disastrous withdrawal in afghanistan and the fact that we got 13 americans killed there we turned over countless dlaciousz -- millions of dollars worth of equipment now being used. i talked to an ally of ours not too long ago still fighting with the taliban and isis and they are using our night vision and small weapons against them. this has been a horrible, he has

he's also a member of the house armed services and the house foreign affairs committees. congressman, thanks for joining us and we'll get to the debate in a second. but i do want to ask you about this major missile attack by iran against israel today. a blaring sign that the middle east conflict has moved closer to an all-out war. what is your assessment about where it all stands right now and how oh, if at all, matters can be de-escalated yeah. >> jake, this is spinning completely out of control and i think it stems from a failed middle east policy from this administration at some point, they've got to look at the mirror and say that they're de-escalation approach, that their focus on gaza and a ceasefire and pressuring israel hasn't worked and is not work and what does work is maximum pressure on iran and just a few years ago, their currency was tanking their foreign reserves were tanking, they were exploiting almost zero oil and most importantly, jake, this was a metric it paid attention to hezbollah and hamas and their proxies were all complaining that they were out of cash. this was in 2019. they were

. >> here on earth >> with us now, democratic congresswoman elissa slotkin of michigan. she's a member of the house armed services committee, a congresswoman. thanks for making the time for us this evening. you were of course, in the intelligence community for years how should the public be thinking about this threat of a new russian satellite weapon >> well, look, i mean, i think the way this whole thing came about raise more questions than it was worth, right? i mean, we all got this notice to come and see this intelligence and our scif and are classified spaces. i've been here for five years. i've never had that kind of i'm kind of alert, go out over the wires. we all were thinking this must be something imminent, an imminent threat and as you heard from the white house, it's not i'm sad frankly that we're even talking thinking about it publicly. because when you'd have sensitive classified information like this, that now the whole world is talking about the sources and methods that got us that intelligence are now seriously at risk. so i think that people should, should not be alarmed. i think that you'll have to speak

, we had democratic congressman adam smith, who was the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. >> tell us that he wishes president biden had not gone public with erin burnett threatening to withhold certain weapons if israel veins population centers and rafah, what they shows is a bit of politics surrounding president biden on the issue of israel with us now seen a senior data reporter, harry and i thought that was illustrative. yes. >> of of what you've been looking at in the data of sort of that president biden getting squeezed from both ends here. >> he's getting squeezed from both ends. you know, i think it's important to note, let's look at the choice for president in 2024, among biden's 2020 voters. all right, because i think this sort of illustrates sort of how biden's getting pushed a little bit. so if you'd like by non the israel-gaza war, look at that. he's getting 87% of the vote rfk juniors getting eight donald trump way down here at four. >> but if you dislike biden, if you disapprove of the job, he's doing on the israel-gaza war. >> look at this. he's getting just 50% of tha

us now democratic congressman of massachusetts. he serves on the house armed services and foreign affairs committee. also the ranking member of the subcommittee on europe. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. you've met with some ukrainian officials there on the hill in recent days as the nato summit is in full swing. tell us about those discussions and just the importance of nato to their cause. >> well, jonathan, thank you as the sun comes up in washington. last night i was with the defense ministers for the entire nato alliance in town at a dinner with secretary austin and had a chance to meet not only with the ukrainian officials but also our allies as a whole, the people that make the military decisions, and this was a very important summit. more so than other kind of anniversaries. you look back during time of anniversaries. this one was different i'm sure than the 25th and 50th because we're looking at the present move forward because of ukraine, because of the war vladimir putin, a war criminal is prosecuting against ukraine and the ramifications for what clearly they

us live from video somewhere in northern california i don't know where. and first elected to congress 2009 and now serves on the house armed services committee and the working group that established a couple years ago that the arms control association does its best to support. with that congressman, thank you so much thank you for waking up early this morning to share your perspective on today's policy and arms-control challenges after the remarks we will have time to take questions from the in-house audience if you have a question jotteds down and get to as many as time allows. if you are set we look forward to your comments. [applause] >> thank you very much it's an honor to be with u you and sorry i could not be with you today but the zoom video seems to be one of the most modern ways to communicate. thank you for joining in this critical dialogue times like this are important for honest discussion and for an opportunity to cut through the rhetoric of fear and doomsday all too often to occupy the nuclear policy discussion. called voices are regularly drowned out by the loudest and the most fearful voices. the national security advisor sullivan outlined t

been granted asylum joining us now to discuss what's going on congressman john garamendi, he's a democrat from california, a senior member of the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us as you heard in his remarks, president biden just outlined some of the key u.s. priorities in syria right now including protecting u.s. troops there. i think there are about 900 u.s. troops still based in syria and preventing any resurgence of isis how does the u.s. accomplish that? >> well, first of all, we've got to recognize that syria is right smack in the middle of the most important countries in that area. certainly israel. we just heard about their military preparations. you've got lebanon to the west. you have turkey and you got iraq and jordan. all of those countries have a key, key interest, as does the united states in what's going to happen here. it seems to me that the most important thing here at the moment is for the united states, working with our allies in the area to fill the political international vacuum that has been created as a result of assad russia and iran pulling out of the syrian area. we have an opportunity here,

us. thank you very, very much. and joining me now, representative elissa slotkin, democrat of michigan, and a member of the house armed services committee congresswoman. thanks so much for joining us. i want to get first to this story we've just been reporting this us pier off the coast of gaza has suffered setback after setback and has only delivered a tiny fraction of aid for the palestinians. is it time to call this i failed mission and you look at i don't think people understand is how complicated this is. >> it sounds simple when you say it, but obviously you heard that it's just more complicated than we would have liked i don't know if it's if we're ready ready to give it up. i'm going to leave that to the military, but we need more humanitarian area aid to gaza and the pier was already a stopgap measure to try and get additional aden since overland routes weren't being used the way that i would like them to be used. so we got to figure out a way to get that aid in the pier if it's not the pier we just need more overland to get things into gaza. >> will see if they can get that together and make that peer work. what message congre

dangerous world figure, congressman pat fallon of texas joined us in the house oversight and accountability committee and house armed servicesommittee, what did you make of what lindsey graham was saying that vladimir putin is dangerous and we should treat him as such. >> there is no doubt. neil: we seem to have audio difficult. i think we were just getting you back. continue. that's how these weeks go, what to bring your attention to another development we're going to take a quick break with some news and buyer new jersey plans to cut the dividend which is about the only reason why a lot of investors have been sticking with the stock that is tumbled about 80% in the last few years. it's going to slice the dividend by 95%, we don't know the effective date of this, i do know in the course of saying that we have congressman fallon back with us. i'll pick up on the theme of putin being dangerous, russia being dangerous even though donald trump does not share that view, what do you think? >> clearly putin is very dangerous he invaded the sovereign nation for hundreds of thousands of deaths. the question you have to understand an