the navy had a marine corps. it was not until 1947 until we had a new service and that was the air force. it did not happen right away. as we started to develop aviation capabilities in the 1930's,rough the we started to realize airpower was more than supporting ground forces. it could be used for other purposes. thed war ii really proved utility of strategic airpower. was after world war ii that the nation basically came to the conclusion that this is a separate war fighting domain. it is not just something that supports ground forces. it is a separate and distinct war fighting domain and it needs a separate military service. we did that. how the air force broke up from the army. the question now is are we at the same point when it comes to our space forces? point where to the it is a separate war fighting domain and we need to break it out as an independent service? host: the debate later today will be on the defense authorization bill. it lays out pentagon programs and policies for the next fiscal year and set

he's a former marine corps helicopter pilot and an investment banker. his nomination has received support from both democrats and republicans. the senate arms services committee hearing ran about two hours. >>> the services committee meets today to dollar the nomination of mr. richard v. spencer to be secretary of the navy. to begin, i would like to acknowledge the tragedy in mississippi yesterday, the 16 service members who lost their lives in a crash of a marine corps kc-130 from cherry point, north carolina, reminds us that the brave men and women put themselves in harm's way every day at home and abroad in training and in combat in service to our nation. we're all keeping their families in our hearts and prayers. mr. spencer, we thank you for joining us this morning. we also welcome your family and friends with us today as is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony, we invite you to introduce those who are joining you. it's standard for this committee to ask certain questions in order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibiliti

they're called b-corps. in tonight's signature segment, "newshour weekend"'s christopher booker explains how they work. >> reporter: a tour through the new belgium brewing company in fort collins, colorado, passes through the bottling facility and brewhouse, before ending at the bar. new belgium is one the largest craft breweries in the country, distributing beer to all 50 states. when you buy its best known brand, fat tire belgian style ale, that "b" on the label doesn't stand for beer, it's stands for b corp, a designation given to businesses dedicated to more than profit. >> i think when you get together with people you realize you have a lot of the same values. >> reporter: katie wallace is new belgium's assistant director of sustainability. >> if you're running a business that's not considering the impact that you have on the environment and society, or the impact that those things have upon your business, then you're not operating a business that's really going to be in existence in the future. >> repo

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>> senator, the navy marine corps team is bias for action. is a tough word to pull out of the vocabulary. in my opening comments, we talked about how they have been continuely engaged and stretched thin. they will never let us down. that being said, we need to make sure we are paying attention to their needs, whether it be changing the pcs move notification time out to where it was at six months versus one month to more sweeping needs and benefits and compensation to deliver a better product. as i view my job, defined biotite l x, if confirmed, this is a focus that has to be addressed. moral is the barometer. >> as of yesterday, the navy reported they have 276 deployable battleships. with a third of them under way for deployment or training. do you believe we currently have sufficient capacity to meet the strategic requirements we placed on the navy? >> there might be two answers to that, senator. let me say that with the assets that we have right now, we are managing the best, in my overview that we can. it comes down to risk management. are

host: that is quite an indictment of the washington press corps, or the white house press corps. what do you think? guest: i would be slightly more generous about it. i think he is correct about some of the performance art involved. i think one of the developments i have found distressing, at least in my tenure in my career is there are certain journalists who do take it upon themselves to be the public adversaries of any given president. whether dan rather during the next and presidency -- it is usually television people. sam donaldson during the reagan years. cnnently, jim acosta at thinks his job is to stand up and challenge the press secretary. i don't think in the long run, and it was an interesting piece in the post the other day by one of their press analysts saying in the long run this is not necessarily good for the press corps. it is a function they really should not be pursuing. confidencees public in their ability to do their job as journalists. host: we have jerry coming from new jersey. he is a democrat. good morning. caller: get money to everybody. host: forgive me

he loved the marine corps. he loved the military life. he looked forward to that day when he might be able to return and become more active. this is one of the most interesting and wonderful positions in our entire federal government. secretary of the navy. so i would like to say that i am not a stranger to the proceedings you are undertaking. but there is an aspect of this particular confirmation proceeding that i have never encountered before. on his own initiative, he reached out and counseled with 10 secretaries of navy to ask of of theat they thought challenges of today, how best he might be able to fulfill those challenges, and we have with us , others johnthem lehman, sean o'keefe, john stafford who is acting as secretary. jim webb. don winter. and yours truly. i want to be very careful in my summary, having talked to all of them about this moment where i sort of represent the gang. we do not wish to be presumptuous so we couch our words in the following sentence and that is, we believe this are man and his lovely wife most worthy

i am a very active member of under designing the space corps. on the space corps before we legislatively command. with respect to mr. rogers statements about the air force and air dominance, you can't accomplish without space and everything we do that includes space and the question is whether it can do it or not. it's the same organization. my only concern is there is a whole lot more information we should have before we go to that level and that is why i offered the amendment and ipod appreciate your attention on the needs we have in space. but i think we should be well informed of both the negatives of doing this and the positives before we undertake in posing this. >> if i could reclaim my time i think all of us are saying the same thing. we need to move into space significantly. we all want to do that. with a little bit more input coming from the air force i would feel much more comfortable with that, so either with the turner amendment we are still going to move in the direction i'm assuming. but how far we go into that kind of commitment

corps. but stunning violence and crime happening on site tell a different story about the program run by the department paid by taxpayers and designed to help the young people work toward a better life. >> most people they want to make the case that the job corps is the last option. that it's only for f-up. no, it's not. reporter: former students know job corps can be a life-changer. >> i'll my high school. it could be other people's college. reporter: but watchdogs say the program has problems. almost 50,000 safety and the security incidents in a nearly ten-year span. >> job corps students should feel secure and should be safe in this educational environment they are in. we look at that. that was a cause for concern for us. >> if that wasn't bad enough, the violence in the crime is likely worse with the audits pointing to unreported incidents. >> you can see the kids beat up. you can see the kids murdered. both with guns and with something isn't right. reporter: the labor department says it

army corps of engineers. this amendment would prevent the administration from expend manager funds to further delay the release of this study for public comment. my colleagues should know that this study is already completed after working on it for years at a cost of nearly $7 million it now sitz on a shelf at the corps and they are unwilling to release it for reasons we do not understand. asian carp represent a serious economic and environmental threat to the entire great lakes and these mean critters are voracious eaters. they destroy native species and overwhelm their new ecosystem. they've got intoon the ohio river, they've gotten into rivers near peoria, they eat up everything in their sight. they completely upend native ecosystems. it is truly terrifying what they will do to our lakes as you can see in this photograph. they're prolific, they're large, and they are predatory. we should be aggressively pursuing action to prevent the spread of the asian carp to the great lakes yet the road map to getting t

. >> 16 people reported that after a marine corps refueling plane spiraled out of control crashing into a field in mississippi. kelly wright joins us with the latest on a terrible story this morning. >> reporter: a horrible tragedy especially for the marine corps. military plane experienced a mishap before going down. no other details at this time are being released but here is what we know right now about this tragic crash taking place at 4:00 pm monday. one person on the ground reported hearing a loud boom, then looking up to the sky to see a large plume of smoke and the plane began corkscrew into the ground, 16 people confirmed that after the plane crashed in mississippi, about 100 miles north of jackson. the marine corps has the incident on its twitter account but did not provide details in the circumstances of the crash, officials are warning residents to avoid the area. >> we don't want nobody out there, fuel everywhere. we don't want anybody in the area. >> reporter: the marine aircraft was a kt 130, the plane has multiple uses in the military like carrying cargo and troops or in

spencer: senator, the navy marine corps team is biased for action. no is a tough word to pull out of the vocabulary. in my opening comment, i talked about how they've been cobblely engaged and stretched then -- continually engaged and stretched then. they will never let us down. that being said, we need to pay attention their needs, whether it be change the p.c.s. move to notification time out to where it was at six months versus one month to more sweeping needs in benefits and compensation to better product. morale is a barometer. senator ted: the navy reported it had 2726 deployed battle war ships with over a third, 103 underway for deployment or training. do you believe we currently have sufficient capacity to meet the strategic requirements we've played on the navy? mr. spencer: there might be two answers to that, senator. let me say that with the assets that we have right now, we are managing the best in my overview that we can. it comes down to risk management. are we addressing every risk? no, we're prioritizing them with more asset, more capa

until the army corps follow the policy, i'll keep fighting to support u.s. manufacturers and their workers. and i hope the whole chamber will join me in this effort. my amendment strengthens the existing language in this bill to better protect a critical production capability, support our manufacturing industry, and put american workers first. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. mr. simpson: mr. chairman. i claim time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: mr. chairman, i rise to claim opposition to this amendment. the underlying bill has language on this issue. but i understand that the requirement may not be as comprehensive as my colleague purports. i'm concerned that the amendment before us may have unintended consequences. if my colleague would withdraw the amendment today, i will commit to working together as this bill moves through the legislative process to see if we can address her concerns in a manner accept

corps is in charge of overseeing. projects like modernizing the which connects lake superior through the st. mary's river. this is a project that has been round for a long time on the books. projects like this that have more than 4,500 vessels and 80 million tons of cargo moving through the lochs each year, is plays a critical row in transporting goods through the great lakes region through ports around the entire country. and currentry, the construction which is integral not only to my district but the entire united states is caught in a meyer of uncertainty and it all comes down to one thing, funding. i think it's appropriate that we are considering this amendment in the context of making america secure. because it might be a surprise to some to learn that lohs is a the sioux matter of national security. an unexpected interruption to the largest lo crmphmp in the system would have disastrous impacts across the nation to in ude $1.1 trillion fall gross domestic national product and spike in national unemployment to a

cassidy: i will check with the corps on that and post it. my understanding is that process should have already begun. in terms of dredging, that's a little bit more complicated because the dredging, you need army corps of engineers permits. your kid is born in going to college sometimes by the time you get the permit. we have to have an extradited permit process so it doesn't take forever to get that done. lastly, regarding zoning laws, those laws are not federal, although you do have to get army corps permit for some things. those are typically more local and state. ma'am, you had your arm up. just a second. >> for community development, he said if you have one feet of water at least. i know i had one feet of water, but when fema came out they said i had six inches of water. i sent photographs. i had another contractor come out, and they still denied me an appeal. they said that was their final answer. but i know i had more than six inches of water. how do you go against that? >> if you have photos, that becomes a question of fact. dale or

the army and ma enlean corps got ahead of everybody -- marine corps got ahead of everybody. and in many ways, became a substitute for national security strategy and filled a national security vacuum. it really never was designed to do that. this was an operational-level manual. coin is a way, it is not a strategy. and it got oversold. and that'sing with accurate. coin was oversold. coin is a way to achieve an end, and somebody else has to set up what the ends are. and as i say on here, the most important decisions in counterinsurgency are made by politicians and voters, not generals. they set the ends. the military had no say in iraq or afghanistan on the form of government or who was going to lead it. we also failed in the manual to provide alternatives to clear, hold and build. it takes a lot of time, a lot of resources. we needed to provide some lower-resource ways to successfully execute coin, and we did not. maybe the biggest mistake we made in the manual, we made an assumption that the goals of the host nation leaders we're supporting are the same as ours, and we found

headstart, the job corps, neighborhood youth corps, ps, manpower development and training, and many, many more acts too numerous to mention on television tonight. we will continue to press the laws which would protect our citizens from violence, like the city streets and crime control act now under consideration in congress, and the gun control act. and our work has just begun. yet there are those who feel that even this beginning is too much. there are those who would have us turned back even now at the -- would have us turn back even now at the beginning of this journey. last week in congress, a small but important plan of action in the cities was voted down in the house of representatives. the members of that body rejected my request for $20 million to fight the pestilence of rats. rats which prowl in dark alleys and tenements and attack thousands of city children. the passage of this legislation would've meant much to the children of the slums. a strong government that has spent millions to protect 80's from worms -- millions to protect babies from worms could surely afford to sh

katie. >> reporter: ama, dan, it is a partnership, and between the army corps of engineers and the water district, the idea is to avoid, to prevent another devastating flood like the city saw last winter. frightening images from the february flood. the water so deep some families had to be rescued from their homes in boats. left behind, total destruction. >> it was just devastating, you know, just to realize how much we lost. >> reporter: anna heckman and her family marked the spot where the water reached in their yard. the flood claimed furniture, tools and mementos. >> we don't ever want to experience this again. >> reporter: a new partnership is aimed at preventing another major flood of coyote creek. >> coyote creek has been a disaster for years. we have tried very hard, but now we have a partner. >> reporter: the santa clara water district is paying the army corps of engineers to help with a study of the creek, a study to show how to reduce flood risks. it is the first step in securing state and federal funds for a flood protection project. >> which just helps us. we hope to get thi

katie. >> reporter: ama, dan, it is a partnership, and between the army corps of engineers and the wateristrict, the idea is to avoid, to prevent another devastating flood like the city saw last winter. frightening images from the february flood. the water so deep some families had to be rescued from their homes in boats. left behind, total destruction. >> it was just devastating, you know, just to realize how much we lost. >> reporter: anna heckman and her family marked the spot where the water reached in their yard. the flood claimed furniture, tools and mementos. >> we don't ever want to experience this again. >> reporter: a new partnership is aimed at preventing another major flood of coyote creek. >> coyote creek has been a disaster for years. we have tried very hard, but now we have a partner. >> reporter: the santa clara water district is paying the army corps of engineers to help with a study of the creek, a study to show how to reduce flood risks. it is the first step in securing state and federal funds for a flood protection project. >> which just helps us. we hope to get this

adviser he's a new york times bestselling author political commentator and president of the dream corps his latest venture is we rise tours launches this week that initiative will be fueled by something he calls the love army. we'll find out what he means by that later in the program then jones joins me here on set ok before we get to your fabulous new idea tell me your assessment of trump six months in as expected better or worse i think that donald trump has done worse than i thought when it comes to his own base in other words i expected to be outraged by his policy when it comes to muslims or mexicans or whatever i thought he would do more for those forgotten americans though i thought he would get infrastructure bill going put those folks to work i thought he would figure out some way to make sure that he did something that they could then feel like they were no longer forgotten i look at a guy that puts a bunch of zillionaires exist in there in the cabinet tweets about all kinds of stuff seems to be more worried about whether or not he's going to get in trouble with the law enforc

he withheld one entire union corps of about 30,000 troops. the reason was because he was afraid not enough had been left behind to protect washington dc from attack. lincoln's purpose is to make sure the national capital does not risk capture by the confederacy, so mcclellan launches his crusade and lincoln things he has not left enough troops behind and he withholds 30,000 troops. mcclellan has enough troops to get the job done, although he does not think so, nonetheless those 30,000 are held back. but then they are released and they head toward richmond. they get the fredericksburg, and those troops are going to richmond. they are under the command of a guy, general irvin mcdowell. what we know about him? [indiscernible] professor browning: at what battle? the first attleboro were run -- the first battle of bull run. remember, lincoln was putting pressure on him to move the confederate army away. he launched the attack and the battle turned out badly. mcdowell is relieved of command after bull run and mcclellan replaces him. then he is put

army corps of engineers, a federal agency in charge of maintaining navigation channels to the united states, and without that, we would have no maritime commerce. it isn't something most people see or experience or know much .bout that it is vital rivers like the mississippi and the columbia river could not function without dredging. that is infrastructure. you are building a navigation channel. we are 107 miles from the pacific ocean. without that, we would be in big trouble. rail infrastructure is incredibly important. so many of the commodities we are exporting here could not arrive without rail infrastructure. railroads themselves make billions of dollars of investments, and they are continuing to do that. there are investments that need to be made it railroad related infrastructure, that are not as much a benefit to the railroads as they are two other forms or modes of transportation, who are presently impeded by rail operations, so overpasses and under crossings and all kinds of related infrastructure, particularly in complex urban areas like this, where the government itself h

meade also did not have enough corps commanders that were competent to command army corps. he felt reducing the number of army corps. he also, i think, looked at lee's army and how maneuverable it was with a larger corps and thought it was a better model. he is never going to admit that. that the confederate organization was better than what they had. even those that -- even though later on, andrew humphries, who would become chief of staff of the army, he felt that having more army corps in certain circumstances worked better because it gave you more maneuver elements. the other argument is that when you reduce the number, you have less people to give orders to. he was a big part of that reorganization. >> dennis, hagerstown, maryland. during the retreat from gettysburg, the claim was that all meade had to do was reach out and the confederates were his. the confederates had an south of set up gettysburg. it says it -- it is said it makes fredericksburg look like a speed bump. how much did this line of earthworks affect meade's pursuit? that area.cons at first the weather i

let's talk about job corps. there are 125 job corps certains in the united states. three of them are in missouri, and i think in the budget and bill that the congress voted on in april we increased job corps by about $15 million this proposal cuts it by $256 million with expressed intension that the department that some of the job corps sites would be closed and many as many as 20. so i have three questions there. what methodology would you use to decide what centers to close and how would you relocate any students in those senators and are you committed to keeping at least one senator in every state? >> senator, thank you for those questions. let me take them in order. first, methodology. i think it's very important to have -- if depending on where the budget ends up we need to have a methodology because these are very sensitive centers. the methodology should be based on outcomes and it shouldn't be based on the number of participants, but rather on whether they're getting jobs and that outcome measure should be sensitive to differences in regions. and so a region

is matthew hoh he is a marine corps veteran and diplomat who resigned his state department post in afghanistan in protest over the war which he says cannot be won and has devastated the civilian population of the country he warns that the conflict won't end until the u.s. announces a withdrawal and the go shiites with the taleban so let's go back and look at the history of the sixteen longest foreign war in u.s. history at one point we had one hundred thousand troops there. the tal i think it's fair to say as been completely resurgent afghanistan unlike iraq most people live in rural areas someone talk about the taliban. controlling sixty to seventy percent and we see of course attacks in kabul lay out for us this kind of debacle how it happened sure i mean. you can go back further we can go back into the seventy's i mean these conflicts been going on for that long i mean for the afghans it has been going out long and suffer it's been going on that long for americans we want history to start on september eleventh which is not fair. but for us the way i view this for american policy makers in t

fortunately, the general had given extensive oral histories to the marine corps museum in quantico. i was able to hear him talk about his experiences in hue and vietnam without getting a chance to interview him myself. host: in 1968 here is jack lawrence talking to lieutenant colonel. >> what kind of fighting is it going to be? >> house to house and room to room. >> inch by inch? >> that is what it is. >> did you expect to experience this kind of street fighting in vietnam? this is my first crack at streetfighting. this is the first time marine corps hush street fought since soul -- seoul. >> what will happen to the civilians? >> we are hoping we do not run into any civilians. if they are -- i them pretty sure the civilians are what we would consider the back guys. we have certain areas that we have walked off. we know there are friendly civilians. the others, if there is somebody in there right now, they are charlie, as far as we are concerned. host: how long did it take the marines to get the city of hue back after that initial battle? days. actually, probably longer than 24 days.

i had been at the peace corps. even lyndon johnson who had been in many of those meetings with president kennedy, what did he know about them? and suddenly decisions were being made about issues for which there was very little time to collect the evidence. you know lyndon johnson kept saying to me, in all those years, "a man is no better, a man's judgement is no better than his information." and i really believed that, and that has guided me in my journalism career the last 44 years. my opinion isn't worth a pig's ass if you don't mind my saying so, unless i can back it up with evidence. - you said in a couple of places, in some of the books that you have written more than a dozen books. and the thousands of hours of television that you produced. i found three references to the word atonement. where you talked about a personal need to atone. when you said to william sloane coffin in one of the very last conversations you had with reverend coffin. you were saying you were glad that you had grown old enough to begin

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> vice president pence was also present for the swearing in of william haggerty to be sworn in as the u.s. ambassador to japan. he was confirmed by the senate two weeks ago by a vote of 86-12. the swearing-in ceremony ran 15 minute. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests. it is my pleasure as the acting chief of protocol to welcome you in to the swearing-in ceremony of bill hagerty as the u.s. ambassador to japan. the honorable mike pence will do the oath of office. it is my great pleasure to introduce the vice president of the united states, mr. mike pence. [applause] vice president pence: good afternoon. and on behalf of the first family, welcome to the white house. it's going to be my great honor today and in fact a privilege to administer the oath of office to the 42nd united states ambassador to japan, bill hagerty. cheers and applause] we're joined today by some very distinguished guests. senator alexander and senator corker both from bill hagerty's home state of tennessee. will you

this is from a woman who was in the united states signal corps telephone operator. these were women who volunteered for service with the signal corps to operate the telephone exchanges in france and in other places, and women were especially wanted for this duty because in the states most of the operators were women, and a lot of the young women who were asked to volunteer for this service, they also spoke french. so they communicated between the french and the american units. even though they served in the united states signal corps and were basically in the army, they did not receive veteran status until 1977. it is one of the black eyes really of american activity during world war i, is that these women served and served this country honorably but were not accorded full veteran status until 1977. while we're looking at uniforms, we're going to go look at two uniforms that were worn by the same individual for two countries at war during world war i. one of the interesting things about world war i is that sometimes the lines were blurred about country allegiances a

the army corps of engineers were moving pipes and other materials into the margate after the army corps of engineers did a sudden about face decided that margate much jump in line for millions of dollars in beach building. the contractors equipment was late getting here because of construction delays in florida. >> there will be about a weeks that will disrupt someone at a certain location. margate or any town we work in. >> margate spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting the project calling it a waste of federal dollars and disruptive and now lands here in the heart of the tourist season. >> we have bulk heads for 60 years and we maintain from day one that our bulk heads give us equal protection to the dunes it's a waste of money. >> a band-aid not something that will help for a long time. >> any storm flooding they say comes from the bay side and not the ocean. but they are throwing in the towel. >> not happy with the way this went down and last minute changes we had no participation. >> they believe that ventnor has more powerful friends in trenton, but they believe

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] president trump: this is what we call made in america right here. they're all here. some of the great business minds, business geniuses. congratulations, fellas. that's not bad. but they're right here with us. i'll tell you, it's an honor to have them. we're continuing our celebration of american manufacturing and american manufacturing and it's been something very important to us. made in the u.s.a. made in america. and our tribute to the skill, dedication and grit of the american worker. we're showcasing products from all around the country that are stamped with the beautiful letters, made in the u.s.a. today i'm proud to welcome three more great companies. we've had quite a few wonderful companies, a little bit smaller generally speaking than yours. but every company is smaller than yours when you get right down to it. to the white house for really a major announcement. you'll be hearing maerk, pfizer and corning. these three companies are announcing that pharmaceuticals packaging will now be made in america. t

offering up a distraction to all of it, tweeting, so why aren't the committees and investigators and of corps ourse our