the former secretary of defense chuck hagel warned that unless the next u.s. president makes it a priority to sit down with a vladimir putin, the two nations could find themselves drawn to a cold war style buildup. the next u.s. leader needs to swallow their pride and personally sit down to deescalate tensions. the minister of defense announced the first buildup of personnel since the cold war ended 25 years ago. the increase in troop strength comes amid a new russian threat and political military turmoil. and now joining us to speak about antiterrorist efforts in israel is defense news israel bureau we happy to have you here. bithave reported quite a about the discovery of tunnels extending into israel from southern gaza. >> the tunnels were built by how maas, the designated terror organization. they were built as strategic weapons to be used against israel. it is important to note that these sunil's are not new. they use them to strategic affect a decade ago when they crossed underneath the border into israel. tank, they took captive an israeli soldier. the

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. >> chuck hagel served as president obama's secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. >> it reversed aery comprehensive, complete decision that had just been made a few hours prior to that and the president had made the final decision and a few hours later we're pulling that down. we're reversing that. >> secretary hagel told us the president's decision damaged america's credibility. >> it was all over the world, our allies would ask me, how can we have confidence in whatever else he says? >> it's an old principle that the president should be very careful about drawing lines. but once he drew that line, then the united states is obligated to enforce that red line. >> for a lot of people in washington, a bunch of other places around the world, this is a weak moment for the united states. a weak moment in his presidency. what he told me was not only was it not a weak moment, it was a, quote, proud moment for him because it's the moment that he broke with the washington playbook. >> so he doesn't see it as weakness at all? >> he sees it as a moment of great prudence. he sees it as the app

when, suddenly, as chuck hagel says in our film, suddenly this group comes in.e, and they take over ramadi, mosul, fallujah, and they're in place. and where were we? we're no wrp. >> in realtime today, in terms of dealing with isis and syria and that whole region, we showed a clip, massive number of people sitting on the national security council meeting. in terms of marrying intelligence to decision making, is the group just too big today to come up with a specific set of decisions to deal with isis? >> well, we're degrading. since 2014, obama kind of wakes up and says, okay -- >> 2014? >> 2014. summer of 2014, says, okay, here we go. america, russia, iran, saudi, lots of people tried to degrade them, right? the shia in baghdad. they are degrading some of the territory, but the problem is isis, a is holding on to lots of land in syria and in northern iraq. and they've also declared a kind of worldwide war, a global war, in paris, in brussels, in 40 affiliates, 90 attacks over the last couple of years. so even though we're degrading, even though there is now a p

. >>> plus, two former secretaries of defense joining us this morning, william cohen and chuck hagel.sitting down to talk to them about what they are expecting in terms of defense, what some of the biggest issues are facing the country this time around. what they think the huge security issues are. so all of those things are coming up. and it's going to be starting in just about ten minutes' time. >> that's a power duo. >> yes, exactly. >> all right. thank you. becky quick. meantime, u.s. future equities pointing to a higher start. dow futures up 54. the s&p futures up 7. joining us to discuss the day and week ahead from boston is jeff kleintop, chief investment strategist at charles schwab. excuse me, jeff, good morning. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> so as far as data, we're a little light this week, but we do come off of last week with serious questions about whether u.s. growth is yet again slowing down as evidence by the latest sort of weaker jobs report. what say you? >> well, the world does seem to look for a global growth to be led by the u.s. and some of the dat

. >> chuck hagel and now ash carter have made this a high priority. 250,000 service members are leaving the service this year. we have created a program called transition assistance program where we push that upstream. it starts about 120 days before the person gets out. i have attended the programs and spoken at them where the ommanding officer of that unit actually gets up and says it's my responsibility to help you transition successfully to the private sector. i even did a session with noncommissioned officers, the hard-core of the hard-core, saying we will take responsibility for your successful transition. we give them their medical exam, we get them their benefits, we get them signed up for everything they deserve and then we have a job fair. hopefully, they can even get a job before they actually leave the service. it's very different than my left the military. >> i'm so glad to hear that. >> we are working hard at this. >> we are coming into a transition of government which is scary. it worries me when this happens because you get tremendous momentum growing up around a talente

the new secretary of defense, chuck hagel, attended meeting after meeting, hoping one would emerge. >> in those meetings, there were too many people there. i'd go into these meetings and every chair was filled in the situation room. you'd have 30 people in there sometimes. what were they doing in there? and everybody had a chance to talk. we rarely got to a conclusion or a decision, and too many people talking, and i think that always leads to an ineffective process. >> narrator: the president himself resisted authorizing military intervention. >> the notion that the way to solve every one of these problems is to deploy our military, that hasn't been true in the past and it won't be true now. >> narrator: the threat of isis seemed distant. >> president obama doesn't see this emerging group as an existential threat. he doesn't even see it as equivalent to al-qaeda in any real way. "don't inflate these guys into something that they're not. don't make them eight-foot giants." >> narrator: we asked the white house for an interview; they declined. back in raqqa, baghdadi was pursuing a new

amendment builds upon the policy guidance issued by a former defense secretary and vietnam veteran chuck hagel. the 2004 hagel memo instructed liberal consideration to be given when reviewing discharge status upgrade petitions for ptsd-related cases at the military department boards for correction of military and naval records. the peters amendment would codify the commonsense principles of the hagel memo, ensuring liberal consideration will be given to petitions for changes of character-related service conditions related to ptsd or t.b.i. before review discharge boards. the peters amendment clarifies that ptsd or t.b.i. claims that are related to military sexual trauma are also included. our bipartisan amendment is supported by a number of veterans service organizations, including iraq and afghan veterans of america, disabled veterans of america, military officers association of america, the american legion, paralyzed veterans of america and the vietnam veterans of america. we also have bipartisan support in the house of representatives, and i appreciate the work being done by representatives

on bloomberg radio today, chuck hagel.o him on "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ show me top new artist. ah, ha ha. show me top male artist. my whole belieber fan group. it's not a competition, but if it was i won. xfinity x1 lets you access the greatest library of billboard music awards moments, simply by using your voice. the billboard music awards, live sunday may 22nd, 8/5 pacific, only on abc. tom: good morning. futures under five. from london, new york, tom keene and friends look -- and francine lacqua. nejra: bernie sanders is not making it easy for hillary clinton. he won the democratic primary in west virginia and faust to keep battling for the nomination. bernie sanders: tonight it appears we have won a big victory in west virginia. with your help, we are going to win in oregon next week. nejra: still, clinton has a big lead in delegates, closing in on the number she needs for the nomination. meanwhile, presumptive republican nominee donald trump won in both west virginia and nebraska. he faced voters for the first tim

we should have a higher priority to -- >> well, i have to tell you, chuck hagel and now ash carter have made this a very high priority. 250,000 service members are leaving the service this year. and we've create a program called t.a.p., transition assistance program, where actually we've pushed that upstream. so it starts about 120 days before the person gets out. i've attended t.a.p. programs and i've spoke at them, where the commanding officer of that unit actually gets up and says, it's my responsibility to help you transition successfully to the private sector. >> that's great. >> i even did a section with noncommissioned officers, you know, the hard core of the hardcores saying we're going to take responsibility for your successful transition. we give them their medical exam. we get them their benefits. we get them signed up for everything that they deserve and then we have a job fair so hopefully they can even get a job before they actually leave the service. very different than when i left the military in 1980. >> well, that's splendid. i'm so glad to hear that. >> we're working

reached an understanding when chuck hagel and the minister of defense signed two confidence-building measures. the rules of behavior for safety of air and maritime encounters and the notification of major military activities. in 2015, they spended on the m.o.u.'s with annexes. these confidence-building measures are enhanced efforts to reduce risk and misunderstanding. we have included these documents in this report. continue to make progress with the p.l.a. in developing the capacity to cooperate including humanitarian assistance, counterpiracy, search and rescue and military medicine. in short, this report illustrates the complexities. despite its capacity, this is the military that china ties building. with that, i would be happy to take a few questions. reporter: i was wonder if you could bring us up to date on the infrastructure development -- the report mentions that the reclamation has been completed but in terms of the building of air strikes, have they been completed yet? and just on the defense spending , as i understand it, figure announced in march this year was actually a