be bad for the , chinese navy. the japanese will be a significant player. i think the question that eli made -- the point that eli made earlier, people see that it has changed drastically. i think you will see the security relationships that we have built up in the philippines in the first instance, which you can see already. south korea, i suspect will be an extremely stressful alliance, and ultimately, even japan. >> i think we will follow the rules and finish on time. i thank you all for coming and i hope you will join me in thanking our terrific panel. [applause] >> this year, c-span's studentcam competition asks what is the most urgent issue for the president and congress to address? we will show you the top winning votes ond get your facebook and twitter. tune in just after 1:00 p.m. on c-span. on sunday, author and journalist matt tidy be will be our guest on in-depth. >> if you grow up looking at thousands and thousands of faces until you see that one that you feel was put on earth just for you, you fall in

be bad for the , chinese navy. the japanese will be a significant player. i think the question that eli made -- the point that eli made earlier, people see that it has changed drastically. i think you will see the security relationships that we have built up in the philippines in the first instance, which you can see already. south korea, i suspect will be an extremely stressful alliance, and ultimately, even japan. >> i think we will follow the rules and finish on time. i thank you all for coming and i hope you will join me in thanking our terrific panel. [applause] >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up, reuters white house correspondent and the usa today white house correspondent talks about the week ahead in washington. and the author anthony clark talks about the tax players role -- taxpayers role in the president's library. join the discussion. >> james comey testifies thursday before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activiti

the chinese navy.so japan will be a significant player but the question and i think this is what eli point he made earlier, the economic gravity has shifted so dramatically that i have no alternative to deal with you as main market, main investor, you as the person who i'm dependent upon. i think you'll see the security relationships that we built up there in the philippines in the first instance and south korea, i predict it's extremely stressful alliance and ultimately perhaps even japan. >> i think we are going to follow the rules here today and finish on time. i want to thank all of you for coming and i hope you'll join me in thanking our terrific panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this morning we will have coverage of former fbi director james comey testimony before the senate intelligence committee. see it live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 or c-span.org where you could also read the former director's opening statements now ahead of the hearing. and if you're on the go, yo

rise of the chinese navy the return of the russian navy because of the tactical consequences we see in places like syria in the baltic sea in the black sea. sea power continues to be absolutely central to how nations control their destiny even in this twenty first century you spent eleven years of your life at sea is the u. s. maybe still the back him off the walls in. the days of world war two. in terms of numbers of ships we've come down a long way and let's start from the cold war we had about six hundred ships under president reagan. we declined and now to about two hundred and seventy five ships to less than half of what we had in the cold war. the good news is russia reduced their own fleet china had not yet really risen. what's changed now laura is the fact that. is china adds ships in russia adds ships the united states navy needs to get back up to about three hundred fifty ships. i'm hopeful this administration will do so because american power will depend on sea power in this century. among james to radius thank you so much for joining us. thanks laura always a pleasure. you'

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navy, architecture. these guys were zooming in all dimensions. in the chinese case, and we are seeing china in our face everywhere in every domain. harvardg i give to my classes 26 indicators on when will china become number one. maybeudents say in 2040, 2050. the second chart says, already. already biggest automobile producer, cell phone producer, biggest economy. they say, well. -- wow. the proposition is that the impact on the ruling power is not just military, it is economic, cultural, everywhere that we see. eli's point which is absolutely correct, some trap andterpret the proposition that the only to get -- the only way to avoid war is to concede. wait was trying to avoid the trap to avoid war basically going with the flow and letting things happen the way that they did. i think this proposition is not in terms of what to do, concede in every setting. story, iok at the wrote a piece for memorial day about what should be the big what wey anything about owe to people that gave our lives so that we can have our debate and decide what we want to decide. it, i

just this past weekend, we saw iran undertake naval exercises with the chinese navy who says that theyonflict over syria were to expand. >> john, then is that the only way the oil price moves up if there's an outbreak of conflict in the middle east >> that seems to be the only lever at the moment. >> let me follow-up. are you saying it's an incentive for middle eastern oil producers that there be a conflict >> i guess, and i know michael, to suggest this seems a little bit insane, but my point is simply, if you are are one of these countries now, and you desperately -- i don't care what solomon does to modernize the economy, they had to backtrack on some of the stuff to keep the payouts going and so forth, they need the revenue, so if the only way for them to get an increase now is for there to be a conflict, skirmish, issue, is there not in a way in their interest to have one >> it's a question of a price versus volume. i mean, if they believe they'll able to maintain the production at a higher price, who knows, that's the calculous cartel economics always fall apart over these things

we're seeing russian navy rise, chinese navy rise. >> do we know where every ship is right now?there are 50,000 ships at sea. we have a pretty good sense of the vast majority of them. 50,000 of 100 dead weight tons or more. we contract them but we don't know what's going on inside each of them. in the end, though, andrew, it will be a surveillance game. >> we are already looking at, and since 9/11 they've been talking about the cargo that comes in to every port. >> yeah. >> we only surveil like 1% or 2% of those that are -- >> less. and we are going to have to increase that. and it's not going to be just a manpower thing. it's going to be a technology piece. to be able to do that more effectively. and it's got to be at sources, we've got to use big data to get at it as well as combining that with the kind of overhead surveillance that andrew was referring to. >> when you look at wikipedia or google and you look up our navy it says we're a powerhouse, 430 ships, 170,000 reserve personnel, and that sounds like a pretty amazing force. what's wrong with that picture? >> that doesn't

person from combatant commanders about the fact they are playing zone defense out there against the chinese navy and the russian navy, and that's really just not an acceptable state of affairs, particularly given the fact that we're going to see legacy ships coming offline in greater numbers than the replacement volume that a nine-ship budget calls for. that is a 308-ship navy budget that was sent over here, not a 350-ship budget. and, again, i have the highest respect for all of you, and i think you understand, you know, what's going on out there and the need to grow the fleet, but we've got to do better than what was sent over. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> mr. wittman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. tharm dunford, secretary mattis, mr. norquist, again, thank you so much for your commitment and service to our nation. i do want to continue along the lines of questions about shipbuilding. secretary mattis, you stated and i think is extraordinarily important the need for us to understand we have been marking time, at best, here in the last several years and that our adversaries are advancing. that'

he had gotten out of the american navy and had gone and sold his services to the chinese.e was at that special that you see. the american government wasn't providing any direct support that i'm aware of to the japanese. the japanese and british were very tight. they were buying the ships from the british, learning how to operate to them from the british . >> [inaudible] then they thought the japanese between china and korea. you have just explained more about that than i know. [laughter] some years ago, [inaudible] can you elaborate on that a little bit? from my a student seminar that wrote a paper on this that he just turned and two weeks ago. development of terrorists. things,lem was two having the mechanisms to train them, so they were steam at first which was unwieldy. then, the other was weight. they were massively heavy. this gets back to the centerline discussion. where you put these massive heavy things that they want how to be top-heavy? they decided to put it on the sides of the ship to make it a stable as possible. beyond that, i'm not an expert on ship construc

said it quickly dispatched rescue teams to the area. ,wo aircraft, for navy ships who found debris of the military aircraft. a chinese made bought last year. for the time being, authorities have not identified the cause of the accident but seem to think it was due to technical failure, as visibility was good when it took off. even though it is monsoon currently in burma, this accident involving over 100 passengers has raised concerns over safety. with the recent history of plane crashes in burma, one of the poorest countries in southeast asia. in recent months, there were two other accidents involving military aircraft that caused the death of several people. brazil's president is facing a defining moment in his presidency as the country superior electoral or investigate irregularities in the 2014 presidential campaign. dilmalection was won by rousseff, who has since been impeached. her running mate could now suffer the consequences of those 2014 election results if they prove invalid. a political career hanging in balancece -- in the come under the spotlight of the electoral court to rule on whether the 2014 preside

navy. and then projected in 2030, and really that's only 13 short years. hard to believe. there will be more chinese ballistic missile submarines than american ballistic missile submarines unless we take the navy's requirement to heart and take action beginning this year to rectify that situation. with regard to small surface ships, as you can see, a 79-62 advantage in sheer numbers in 2000. a 103-23 advantage of the chinese in 2016 and in 2030. still, a mismatch in terms of numbers of 123 small surface ships compared to only 40 for the united states of america. with large surface ships, it was 20-79. then 19-84. by the year 2030, as you can see, the chinese are projected to have 34 large surface ships. and with regard to aircraft carriers, as i have pointed out, they were not in that game at all, mr. president, in 2000. they delivered their first last year, and they are projected to go to four by the year 2030. it all adds up to 260-ship fleer china and only 199 for the united states unless we act and act responsibly in response to what the navy and the marine corps and what the best military minds

they are going to deliver 100 ships into their navy in the next three or four years. the chineseue water navy. and the oceans are not an american lake anymore. that's what i write about in sea power. we have got to rebuild our fleet. brian: why do we care? >> the oceans carry 95% of the world's commerce. it's where our allies connect with us. above all, brine, it's where we are going to have the big geopolitical confrontations of the 21st century. brian: we do not have a secretary of the navy confirmed right now. >> no. brian: they have to go in and go to battle for part of this budget to rebuild this. >> yes. brian: the president in the 1980s mitt romney called they want their foreign policy back when he called for building more ships. admiral, what's your message. >> first of all, i think president obama would like to have that line back because he is going to be hearing it for the rest of his levee. mitt romney was exactly right. russia threatens us. we only have 275 ships in the u.s. navy, brian. we need a minimum of 350 that's got to get done over the next 10 years. we need

wreckage found by a navy ship 22 miles, 35 kilometres, from the southern coastal town of yangon. it was a chinese the start of a statement by james also been found. —— plane. and the start of a statement byjames comey has been published online, in which he says the donald trump did tell him to lay off investigating general michael flynn. he has given details of five conversations with the president. mr trump repeatedly sought his loyalty, while mr comey underlined the impartiality of his role. hi there. most of us at least saw some sunshine yesterday. but for today sunshine is going to be a little bit harder to come by. for most of us it's going to be quite cloudy. and that cloud thick enough to bring some rain for some of us. now, the relatively clear weather we had yesterday working out into the north sea, replaced by this big lump of cloud. the area of low pressure still well out in the mid—atlantic. the low spinning around there, throwing south—westerly winds across the uk. so it is going to be a mild day coming up. but that cloud will be thick enough for some of us to get pretty wet weather.

can either have russian or chinese naval vessels in the harbor or have royal caribbean, kacarnival and nor wej cruiseships. i think we want to invade them with the velvet navyinue with what we know works. >> speaking of tourism, i had the pleasure of speaking to steve wynn he said the trump administration has been fantastic for business. businesses feel more confident in terms of having conferences, et cetera, feel more confident to travel. are you seeing that sort of impact on the miami beach area in terms of president trump bringing about that willingness to spend >> unfortunately, i can't tell you i attribute anything to president trump. i attribute it to this amazing place we have, this low tax state, this incredible city. we're dealing with sea level rise he has mar-a-lago on the ocean getting out of that paris climate agreement didn't make a lot of sense we need help, federal help unfortunately, he's ignored it and seems to be going in the opposite direction we hope he continues to go forward for once >> brian, back to you. >> melissa, thank you very much. you know that bitcoin has been on a tear, but here's a question could you actually live off -- n