the not just for defense. it's for a lot of -- it's not just for defense. it's for a lot of domestic priorities as well. the way this bill is set up, it creates the possibility that we'll take an additional $18 billion for defense and how does that balance against our other priorities? we have to figure out how to make our budget balance. and meet the priorities domestically, while also meeting the national security priorities. because our infrastructure is critical to our national security as well. we have to remain strong economically as a country. and in addition to, that it's not just the department of defense that provides for our security. the department of homeland security, certainly in the intelligence budget, the department of treasury, department of justice, a lot of pieces to that puzzle are necessary and they all get short changed if we don't take into account their needs as well. with that i will yield the balance of our time. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: mr.

>> this week on "defense news," public opinion on defense spending, talk with the defects experts on the possibility of restarting the assembly line, and how commercial satellites can support the military. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> welcome to "defense news." here is a look at this week's top headlines the army plans to design and sealed the future vertical lift aircraft beginning in 2019 with land to field a new aircraft in the early 20 30's. to helpfully define requirements for the program, the army plans to demonstrate joint multirole airasia capability in 2017. the demonstration the life effort of companies teaming with her. martin.ding lockheed design beat out a german competitor indsnf plans to build 12 submarines for an spacex has snagged his first air force contract. gps3ontract to deliver the satellite is a time for spacex, which last year succeeded in certifying the rocket to compete for military space launches. competitiony withdrew after congress banned the use

you are watching defense news. "defense back to news." defense secretary ash carter launched his innovation strategy new american security just released a report looking at his drawing more innovation inside the pentagon. editor news" associate spoke with the authors of the repo report. this whole innovation topic is very hot in washington circles right now. a lot of the discussion is led by the secretary himself. months after k 12 the nitial unleashing innovation base, what worked and what hasn't worked and what that into a n as we get transition time to a new administration. to en, carter talked a lot the external audience. silicon valley and groups like that. one thing you focused on is he needs to look internal. can you explain your thinking on that? >> sure. carter's first step was to start silicon valley and he has done that exceptionally well. next is make the commitments and setting them up for success. to look at whether or not he was age to get an buy-in which is critical to take it from a legacy item to last beyond his administ

under missile defense the mark more than funds missile defense. on nuclear weapons the mark more than provides enough money to provide a safe secure reliable arsenal. on no proliferation the mark funds the programs. and finally on nuclear cleanup the mark authorizes nearly full funding for defense environmental cleanup. on the whole that's a very good record. i know the section of the mark is still an amendment magnet. so i hope we can get through those in an expeditious fashion. but we tried to work at the subcommittee level to clean up much of the debris. at the subcommittee level we had some five amendments largely report related. relatively minor issues in comparison to the larger ones. but thank you. i look forward to getting through the amendment process. >> i thank the gentleman. i look forward to that as well. any further discussion on this portion of the subcommittee's mark? if not, we will turn to amendments to this portion of the mark. i will note just because an amendment has been filed does not mean it has to be offered. the gentleman

but the way the defense got it in, they kept saying there was consent to all this and the defense was very strong in their argument and during testimony. bill cosby's statement saying bill cosby admitted to the things but said it was consensu consensual. she was given some pills but wasn't woozy. wasn't unconscious. she didn't object. she never said no and she was able to say no. she was able to talk. in the closing argument, the defense actually started screaming at the top of their lungs in the courtroom and i have a quote here, they said, no one should be brought to an american courtroom to undergo this, screaming at the judge, directly at the judge. the judge obviously ruled that the case will go on. but the prosecution really focused on the elements and that they had proven that prima fascia case and i feel a bump and i looked up and right there was bill cosby, right above me. he was being led into the courtroom on the other side but he had bumped into my court bench really hard and the defense had said his eyesight is impaired. he is actually blind and can't see, and he went wal

as we wrap up, john donnelly, the senate defense authorization bill.f you could give us a snapshot on the different measures? john: i have been covering this a long time and this is one of the widest discrepancies i've seen the between btw and is because of that $18 billion armed servicese committee did. the senate did not go along. they will stay at the resident for level. they will not provide have the year, sevenhalf the months, for the war effort. thethe fighter jets in house bill, they are not in the senate bill. that will be a huge lobbying planeso get -- that many with that much money, to try to get them authorized. but the real fight will be in the appropriations committee. there is no money in these authorization bills. at the real money is in the appropriations bills. and the house appropriations bill does the same thing the house armed services committee does. that is where the real fight is going to occur. lots of debate ad. you can follow it all with john donnelly at cq.com. he is also on twitter. thanks for that update. john: my pleasure.

the defense team was up next. to lay out a head-spinning theory of the crime from seemingly another universe. no one saw it coming. >>> coming up, the defense drops a bombshell. >> one of the things that was always a question of ours was, was charlie covering up for someone else? >> reporter: and then, the prosecution's stunning reaction. >> he picked up the shotgun. he moved quickly across the room. >> reporter: when dateline continues. continues. back on everything you buy. that's 1.5% cash back on whatever these billboards are selling. what are they selling? the products not so subtly placed in this movie - 1.5% cash back. shhhh! all the stuff promoted in your social feed - 1.5% cash back. the cash back is unlimited and you can spend it on anything. like, whatever the next ad is selling. get the new chase freedom unlimited card. ugh, celebrity endorsements are the worst. unless you have allergies. flonase is the first and only nasal spray approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasa

this was clearly an act of self defense. just listen to cindy's sister describe the time she saw nissim talking to cindy right after her husband was murdered to understand why she was so afraid. >> then the next thing i see is him lifting up his shirt and he had a gun i saw my sister looking a little frightened about it. one of the detectives, had told her, "this person has a long rap sheet and that she should arm herself." >> reporter: and after cindy shot nissim, her sister said she saw proof that cindy had been attacked. >> she had bruises on her arm and she had like scratches or bruises on her neck. >> reporter: and that "shot him in the back" thing? the defense called a medical expert of its own who said the first bullet was in nissim's side, when he turned his body as if to reach for a gun. >> within a fraction of a second he would fall forward and during that period of time he gets all the rest of the gun shot wounds. >> reporter: the defense wanted to ask the lead detective, diana roman, just what she told cindy afte

defense industry and internationally?st: this is a cross to the boards -- the first technology being driven so quickly. we want to leverage from the commercial industry. the trick is to try to get an match between those two, so we can get to our war fighter , for the u.s. and our allies, capability as quickly as possible. to do that, you have to have modular systems. systems with plug and play capability. and to use that aegis capability -- we could not do that if we were not building architectures that were open and enable us to bring capabilities back and forth. you are seeing this as a theme across lockheed martin. those forces are present in pretty much any of our markets. technology rate and threats are evolving and our ability to match them in a cost-effective way. see the is nice to pentagon coming forward with that approach. i do want to talk about the f-35 . the air force is preparing to declare the f-35 ages operationa , which to a l system could be up to 60 days. can you talk a little bit about where that stand

since 2010, we have cut the defense budget 22%. in real terms.he world is not 23% safer than it was then. yet, we have not fixed the problem. we've got to. moderator: you have the only one that is wondering if the rising cost a mishaps can be attributed to the budget cuts. cognizant senate have been thinking the same. they are looking into it. when you look at the generate crash that killed 212 marines, can you draw a direct line between budget cuts in that bill crash. guest: i haven't been briefed. if they finished the investigation on the exact causes of the crash. the list to say, there been a number of mishaps, crashes, some of which have been fatal. they cause enormous concern. certainly, i think it is important to say that military training is inherently dangerous to some extent. but what is disturbing is, i look at the 10 year trends, with a tenure averages plus the more recent trends, and something is drastically going wrong. i do think that it is up to the leadership in the pentagon and the military and to us to find out what it is an to

the purpose was to understand missile defense technology rather than deploy a missile defense system. because this concern is based on the chinese security paradigm. so, in the u.s./china nuclear dialogues, we do not have much discussion on this concern. i think i should stop here and very much look forward to the comments from my colleagues. >> well, thank you. that was a fantastic presentation. i sort of think of both the presentation and the article as a rosetta stone of sorts. i mean, you're highlighting chinese conceptions of security and safety, the difference between nuclear deterrence and compell compellence. the focus on security situations, that's all fascinating. i would encourage folks to read the article because there's an additional point in the article that we ran out of time to raise which is the way in which chinese strategists give equal weight to both security concerns and economic concerns as they make national security decisions which i found to be a very, very fascinating insight. so, i think what we saw in l li bin's presentation is sort of the best of what an i

response and homeland defense. it has improved the readiness. d.o.d. is the largest consumer of energy in the world. 117 million barrels of oil. every 25-cent increase costs $1 billion to the american taxpayers and $1 billion less to the troops. the costs went from 4.5 billion to $17.3 billion. an example of this, u.s. pacific fleet in 2012 faced a $200 million budget gap that had to be filled by taking money from elsewhere. this willingness to not look at all american home grown energy and security is simply wrong headed and the idea that it costs more to do this, it costs $83 billion to protect shipping lanes of oil coming from overseas. i ask my colleagues to resist this amendment. . the gentleman is recognized. mr. buck: i agree with my colleagues, all of whom, two of whom -- mr. smith: i agree with my colleagues, all of whom, two of whom served in the military. this is an investment in alternatives. if we are tied to oil, tied to fossil fuels and have no alternative, now, right now, they're cheap. but then the

the other defense lawyer, brian decarolis. >> i think most people that only defense is self-defense,"w, a battered child syndrome. >> reporter: but as the trial progressed, that wasn't the tack charlie's defense team planned. >> our strategy was to keep our strategic defense in our back pocket, hidden from the prosecution as long as we possibly could. >> reporter: so what was the secret defense? they were going to agree with the prosecution on one point -- that when jean called 911 to report her husband dead, the murder was days old. >> shots. i heard it. >> that call is 100% fake. there's no question about it. >> reporter: not only was the mom lying to 911 about when the murder occurred. no, argued the defense, she was lying about something much, much bigger. who the true killer was. the defense attorney saved his surprise for closing arguments. >> it was an unusual moment. because certy of jean tan in the courtroom, and i was going to basically suggest to these jurors that she had pulled the trigger. >> reporter: jean tan, the mom, the wife, the true killer. the defense said the sho

ongoing site of republicans adding more for defense and democrats saying if defense, add more for domestic spending as well. good morning, from missouri, democrats line. caller: good morning. i have a question. this defense department stuff that's going on, how much from us beingm is at war for 15 years, and having redo all of this, to find out where we're really standing on the situation. i mean, how many trillions of dollars under george w. bush was wasted? uest: so a lot of the underlying defense issues here do have to do with the wars in iraq and afghanistan, less so with going back in now. that's some issues being dealt supplemental, but we are still in afghanistan, which is something when i talk and troops, roups they would like the american public to remember there are there 0,000 troops over fighting and risking their lives. but when you're looking at some of the problems and the equipment run down that needs to be replaced, when you're looking at the pressure being put on families and some of the stresses, it does go back to more than a decade of war and how does the and military

one of the senate committees will take up the defense bill. they have said we will stay within the budget caps. senator mccain said he will go to the floor and argue that needs to be a $17 billion plus on the floor. all this goes back to the issue of the 2011 budget control act, sequestration, spending caps, and the fact congress has not been able to find a way to get around that and find a long-term fix. we have seen short-term deals. when democrats and the white house are pointing out is if they go ahead with this house spending plan, next year when the budget caps go back into effect, we will see defense spending come down and there will be a giant cliff the military falls off of. host: how does this budget compared to previous budgets for in obama administration terms of priorities? this is what we have seen. there is not a dramatic shift. most of the things that are unusual are coming from congress. the has been talk about reforming the military health system. the senate and house have broad ranging plans on that that would mean new hours

speaker, if that's necessary for the promotion of national defense?s it necessary to discriminate against gays and lesbians and transgendered americans? mr. sessions: i will reclaim my time, mr. chairman. i appreciate the gentleman. i am not without an understanding that there are ople who do have ideas which override other bigger ideas. i am simply saying to you, mr. chairman, i stand in opposition to what the gentleman is attempting to do here the next day in a separate bill to limit what we did last night when this body did understand that many people have a strong viewpoint that supports the gentleman and many people have a viewpoint that's against that. that's not my point. my point is we need to transcend that as a body and we did last night and we spoke very clearly, we need to support the men and women of the united states military, and we do not believe this is a stumbling block because we don't view what the gentleman's saying is the critical and key issue. that is why -- mr. maloney: if the gentleman will yield? mr. sessions: i appreciate h

defense budget. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to submit this article into the record. thank you. the article lists program after program, many of which are general -- our generals did not ask for, that has cost taxpayers billions without making us any safer. clearly we also need to audit the pentagon. that's why i'm pleased the house adopted the burgess-lee amendment yesterday to require report on auditability and keep moving toward auditing the pentagon. while we're working on that, we should take every opportunity to address pentagon spending this article in the "new york times" sets forth, it says the waste in budget games continue with the royce armed service committees approving a $583 billion authorization. the chair: the gentlelady is yieldsed for 30 seconds, the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, mr. wittman. the chair: the gentleman

welcome to defense news. here is a look at this week's top headlines. ashcroft or is rebooting the silicon valley outpost. will now report directly to carter, sidestepping an internal pentagon bureaucracy that storage -- sources say are outright hostile to the silicon valley group. , although the secretary did not offer specifics. 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. >>

a lot of new defense .echnologies and new ideas they may not be missile defense. they may be something else but they are new technologies. china worries that china would fall behind again. aboutis is a concern technical lagging. 1980's when we began to ,o research on missile defense the goal was to understand missile defense technology rather than deploy the system. because this concern is based on the chinese understanding of the paradigm. in the u.s.-china nuclear dialogue, we do not have much discussion on these concerns. here and ihould stop very much look forward to the comments of my colleagues. thank you. -- >> thank you. chinesehighlighting conceptions of security and safety, the difference between nuclear deterrence and compellance. -- the focus on security situations. that is fascinating. i would encourage folks to read the article. there is an additional issue in that there is a way that chinese equal weightiven to security concerns and economic concerns as they make national security decisions which i found to be a very fascinating insight. what we saw

these are the questions we should be debating in the defense bill. instead of foe us -- focusing on these real questions, the general debate we'll see under this rule will dedicate a large portion to debate on the budget and the looting of this overseas contingency fund which congress will have to come back and backfill in april, therefore mortgaging our future and anne increasing our national debt to fund the next several months of defefpblets instead of passing a budget, instead this congress is having a backdoor budget debate. debating it now. and it's the wrong way to do things. mr. speaker, if we defeat the previous question i'll offer an amendment to the rule to bring up legislation to shed light on the secret money in politics. it would require outside groups to disclose source of contributions. i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the is a request for recorded vote on along with extraneous material. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: i urge my colleagues to vote no and defeat the previous question

another big issue for the defense was if you are going to admit that statement, the defense felt they should be able to cross-examine the witnesses about each and every aspect of that statement that was taken at least a decade ago. >> danny, stand by. paul, let's bring you in to look forward to the trial and important to take a couple steps back. can you just remind us, we mentioned that she had settled in a civil case out of court a number of years ago. how did we arrive where we are today with this, you know, preliminary hearing and now trial? >> it's been a long journey. the original incident allegedly happened in 2004. she didn't report it until 2005. district attorney initially looked at the case and decided that he couldn't prove a case and essentially walked away from proceeding and there was talk that he was doing this in part so that she could pursue a civil case against cosby which was, in fact, filed in 2005. that case resulted in a settlement and a confidentiality agreement and so cosby's attorneys figured this -- >> over, done. >> -- case is over. she can't talk and been

there is a defense for this. it's called the large aircraft infrared countermeasure defense system. and it's one of the unfunded requests that the air force has made of us. this amendment would fund at least part of that request and provide a higher level of safety to the men and women in the air force that fly these large aircraft into harm's way. i don't think there's one of us here on the floor, in the house, or even in the senate, that would deny flying these ares craft into the airfields of i have a began stan or even into bagram and certainly into baghdad is always safe. it is not. there's a proliveuation of these shoulder fired manpads. and they're increasingly available to the bad guys. who are men and women -- who our men and women are trying to take out system of we're looking here to move 17-plus million dollars from an account that is not needed, at least the money is not needed at this time, over to something that is desperately needed a defensive system for our large ares aircraft. moving the money from the new minuteman four intercontinental ballistic missile program

that this is an unnecessary burden put on defense spending.

testifying in front of our defense appropriation -ps subcommittee, secretary of defense carter called this house approach -- quote -- "gambling with war fighting money at a time of war. proposing to cut off troop funding in places like afghanistan, iraq and syria in the middle of the year." i'm glad we refrained those tactics. the bill authorizes a well deserved pay increase for uniform and defense civilian workforce. it rejects a request by the department of defense to authorize a future base realignment and closure, or brac, commission. many of us have lived through a lot of these brac commissions, and i'm not optimistic that if we embark on another one it will have positive results. like many of my colleagues, i strongly oppose president vladimir putin of russia's reckless invasion of ukraine, so i also appreciate this bill's authorization for additional military assistance for ukraine. there are several issues not addressed in this bill which i hope we can address on a bipartisan basis. unlike previous years, the bill contains no extension for the afghanistan special immigrant vis

it isn't just the department of defense. there are member and women who worked with the state department work usaid, which are important part of our activities in those countries. and those foreign nationals are every bit as risk as somebody who is guiding our troops in the field. i appreciate your willingness to put in the en bloc amendment a little bit of flexibility. i hope it's not the last word because we need to think seriously about what we do for the people who are on base, people who work for the state department. people who work for usaid. that we're able to make sure that we have an adequate number of visas, that we don't have an arbitrarily short period of time because the pipeline has been hopelessly complex and flaw. we've been working with the bureaucracy trying to make it work better but that's an ongoing struggle. and the fact is, there are different people with different committees who have different orientation. i hope that this en bloc amendment is just the start. that we can continue working with you, mr

president, over the next few weeks, the senate will be voting on both the defense authorization and defense appropriation bills. these are two very important pieces of legislation. we need to take the time to understand them and of course to read these bills and to make sure we're doing the right thing. just reading the defense authorization bill is not going to be a -- an hour-long deal. it's not going to be done while you're watching the ballgame or watching a television program. why? it's a very big piece of legislation. this is it. try reading that. 664 pages. chairman o'keen, he may have understood every line in it. wee have a better chance than most of us because he's the one that conducted the hearings behind closed doors. secret sessions, few outside the committee probably know what's in this monstrous bill, this big, big bill. you want to get an idea how the bill was hastily put together even though the chairman of the committee came here and started complaining about this legislation, consider this. the bill was put together behind closed doors. at 5:00 p.m. last night, 5:00 p.m.

defense? >> sir, from what i read, they're in the process of talking about what they're going to do with that. if confirmed early on, i engage with my canadian counterparts and see where they're going. >> if they do join our efforts, would that reduce our missile defensive responsibilities to the north or only be reenforcing our current defenses? how would the that play towards what we're doing now? >> sir, i don't have that now, but if confirmed, that's something i will look into rlly on. >> okay. i had one more i think real quick for general. the russia, the whole thing i think senator donnelly talked to you about the russia flyover. would our ships r, were we in the right to shoot down if we desired to do so with their aggression. >> sir, not knowing the complete circumstances, i really can't answer that this morning. >> so, as far as the justification that we could have taken action, i know turkey's taken action on russia before and i think russia understands turkey would continue to take

i do not russia was deport missile defense.but, rose and linton emphasized the importance of transparency and measures. i agree they're important to reduce the incentives of arms race and nuclear weapons use but i would like to add one more approach. that is to commit use. if you commit no use you would have to talk clear force according to the no use commitment. and you would have to send signals to your rivals at that you would not use nuclear weapons first. for your question, china and russia have a bilateral on no first use. and china and india both have universal no first use commitment. so our relations with india, with russia, we try to remove the inference of nuclear weapons. we try, not to exercise the, using of nuclear weapons. i believe that is the nature of our nuclear relations with india and russia. that is not to suggest that we have good relations with two countries. but even if we have problems we do not want nuclear use would matter in our relations. >> my my name is singh. i'm from tech firm. i want to make a

lead themr economies to spend less on defense because they cannot afford it or more on defense that they can have pride to offset the slowing economy? traditionally, the tie between growth and defense withing is ironclad, and i wouldt is explicit. say, knowing the south korean defense spending traditions, i see that as a very tight relationship still. i do not -- looking at their white papers and strategic discourse, i do not see them toing a strategic reason necessarily increase more spending as the economy slows. china, because of the fact that its defense industry is essentially state run, even the private firms, might actually ism, to a military keynes depending on the way it deals with its more drastic economic slowdown. studying the chinese defense industry is very difficult. i do not pretend to have any real insight on it. whatvery uncertain about would happen. i suspect, still, to this day, japan and korea's would be tightly collated to their growth. bob: let's get a couple of questions. we have won over here and one down here. we will take two questions back-to-back. yoyo from h

why are we not taking up the defense authorization bill at this time? why is the minority leader moving forward with a filibuster on this important bill that was voted out of committee almost complete bipartisan basis? we have an enormous obligation to our troops and to the national defense of our country, and that's what this bill is all about. we can debate it, but we need to begin. my colleague and friend from arkansas was on the floor here a little bit ago expressing his frustration of why we're delaying this. and i share that frustration. i share the chairman's frustration. why? why are we filibustering? why is the minority leader filibustering this important bill? i'd like to remind my colleagues on the floor here, this is as pattern. this is actually a pattern. if you remember, at this time last year the minority leader led a filibuster of the defense appropriations bill, the bill that funds our troops who, by the way, are overseas in combat despite the fact that the president and others in the white house want to tell the american people they're

affect the legal defense.my: i remember this interview very well that hillary clinton did in 2014 because i learned about it just as i was walking up the steps of the ecuadoran embassy in london to interview julian assange, who was holed up there in june 19 will be his fourth year in captivity. he has gotten solomon of wood or brick vis-a-vis steps outside he will be arrested and ultimately extradited to the united dates because you could be charged with treason. but what hillary clinton said, john crane, about him coming back to this country and you can launch a vigorous legal and public defense. john snowden. i'm in, edward snowden. of whennk that in terms you think whether or not you should be a whistleblower that you are concerned about whether or not the system works and there are very -- very intistics out there that regard to the way the ig even investigates senior officials over a 2.5 year period regarding senior officials in the army, 482 the ig dod received allegations, accepted 10 allegations, subst

their defense is going to be better. i think talking about the safety, i think he is right on.y will really be the bellweather of the backfield. we don't know about row, don't know who will play the other side. how the linebacker configuration will work. whether they can play every down, and i think schwartz is a good decision but it needs to play out on the field. >> they are trying to learn a new defense, and fletcher cox has not been around all season. he wants a new contract. how much of an issue is it, the fact your best defensive player has been not been around a lot. >> it is not an issue for the voluntary camp, but it is an issue when the mandatory camp. and i have been told by some people he is not going to show up for the mandatory camp as well, to make that kind of statement. and people say why wouldn't sne why risk injury if you want a new contract? he still has it in the back of his mind. that's why he is not there at the voluntary camp. we will see what happens with this am i think he will hold out. >> defensive coordinator jim schwartz says he does not think it i

, but internal defenses. >> when you defend countries that don't have a lot of money to spend on defense, you open up them to trade and economic commerce with the united states. >> there's the money these days, that's what he's getting at, and coming from the business, world, eric, trying to negotiate in a public way. think about these takeover kings like carl icahn who puts pressure on, maybe he's not willing to do something, but he wants to communicate something. i think that's in part what we saw from trump. you're on notice, and all the europeans i talk to are nervous about this. >> what is this? is this the one thing -- >> i have to laugh. >> one thing with trump that you agree with? >> john, now, i have to laugh, eric, i mean, when i hear "fair share," that term is straight up obama. i mean, that's straight out of obama's mouth. that's his whole thing. trump is really not being truthful on this one. it's not trouthful the u.s. funs nato, befund 22%, less than a quarter, and it's not too much more than what england funds in terms of nato. because trump is ideological, he doesn't see

he was led up to the defense table, he sat with his defense attorneys.t stood out, and danny was in the courtroom also, was the aggressiveness of the defense, yes, the defense screamed during closing arguments. not specifically at the judge but just that no one in america should have to sit in a courtroom like this as a defendant but they began the hearing by being very angry that andrea constand, the accuser in this case, wasn't there to take the stand so the defense could cross-examine her. pennsylvania at this point, it doesn't have to happen. to the prosecution put the detective on that had taken her statement where she alleged one night when she went to her mentor's home, bill cosby, that he plied her with alcohol, gave her three blue pills and she was not able to say no and he sexually assaulted her. >> what was cosby's defense at the pretrial hearing? what do you think is going to be going forward? >> reporter: at any preliminary hearing because the prosecution's burden is so light, the real defense angle is not the forlorn hope you're going to ge

the disagreement is over how to best get the united states off defense of russian-made rocket engines for the launching of national security payloads into space. the proposal coming out of the committee and from the chairman last year and again this year continues to suggest a rash and abrupt halt to the purchase of these russian-made engines. let me make it clear. i want to move away from these russian-made engines quickly. i want american engines built by americans to propel these payloads into space. but it takes time. for two years we have been appropriating money to achieve this goal. it'll take two or three more years at least to reach that goal of having an american-made engine. this chairman of this committee ignores that reality and says we will just stop when it comes this these russian engines and take the consequences. well, the consequences sadly are going to be an extraordinary expense for american taxpayers. as chairman and now vice-chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, i'm committing to american-made engine. we've ppropriated more funds for this effort t

even scrapping a missile defense system in europe as a conciliatory gesture.fter his re-election, he pulled america's main battle tanks out of germany, tanks that had been there since world war ii. all eyes were on vladimir putin to see how he'd respond. and, in february 2014, putin sent in troops to seize ukraine's crimean peninsula. >> in europe, we envisioned a different kind of relationship than what has actually emerged. we didn't anticipate that russia would illegally annex crimea. we didn't see that kind of destabilizing activity. >> next, putin's forces began menacing ukraine itself. >> the fundamental point of dealing with a bully like putin is you cannot allow bullies to get away with what they want to do. >> but the president rejected calls for a muscular response, instead announcing limited sanctions. >> i believe there's a path to resolve the situation diplomatically in a way that addresses the issues of russia and the ukraine. >> i think the president should have taken some very strong steps to make very clear to putin that this was unacceptable.

we'll see you next week. >> the defense department has released its yearly report on china's military operations. abraham denmark the deputy assistant defense secretary for east asia briefed reporters about some of the details of the report including china's mayor time activities, it is a growing global presence and insurance military personnel are politically loyal. this is about 30 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am the deputy secular denmark for east asia. today the department of defense made the 2016 report to congress on the valve in the people's republic of china. this annual report mandated by congress highlights china's defense strategy of military developments. the report is intended to be factual, descriptive, and analytical. let the facts speak for themselves. the report describes such china continues to invest in programs and weapons to improve power productions, operations in emergent domain such as cyberspace, space and electromagnetic spectrum. china continues to focus on preparing for potential conflict in the taiwan strait, additional missions such as contingencies in t

defensive coordinator now coaching new defensive schemes to try and get defense better than the one thatt the eagles last season. jim schwartz getting defense ready and hopes to get them ready down the road. >> if we're on the right track we'll put the players in the best position to best use their talents. what we did in buffalo is a little different than what we did in detroit which is a little different than what we did in tennessee. >> just attack, you know, part of it. we going to be coming and flying around especially d line i feel like it always starts up front and that's where we preach every day. turn and run to the ball. making sure that we strong group out there. >> it's all about speed. speed. phillies manager pete mackanin has a tough job with his team even though the phillies they're not expected to really within anything this year. he obviously has to play ryan howard at times even with the worst batting average in baseball at .156. howard is in the starting lineup against do night as designated hitter and he's batting fifth dropped down a spot. no team wants him in a trad

this is another big part of the cosby defense.n aggravated sexual assault on you occurred, would you continue to go to the home of the man who had assaulted you? so there's going to be a real attack on her credibility during the course of this entire trial, and we're getting a little bit of a taste of it now. >> so, okay, so her credibility will clearly be a focus for the defense, but what about all these other women, more than 50-plus now have come forward to accuse bill cosby of sexual assault or rape. how will that play into all of this? >> well, the first question is, does it get into court in this trial? and if you have prior crimes that you've committed, generally that's not admissible in a criminal prosecution. now, the reason for that is that when we hear that somebody did something before, you immediately make up your mind, they must be guilty, and the court system has always had this idea that we're just looking at the facts of an individual case. however, there's an exception to this rule, and that is if you have sort o

instead, it was their previous statements to police picked apart by the prosecution and defense. it's up to a jury to decide whether the once beloved comedian took advantage of the career advice, and it was said there was a understood sexual relationship and what happened in the night of question was nothing more than an intimate evening between two adults. defense claimed before the incident she was alone with cosby at a casino in connecticut laying in his hotel bed with him. the defense said after the allege assault, they continued to talk by phone and meet in person, and at one point, constand asked cosby for tickets to a show. the prosecution focused on constand's initial report to police, going over in detail telling detectives she was parolized, could not speak, and before she knew it, cosby put her hands up her shirt, down her pants, and placed her hands on him. constand claims before she was income pass at a timed, she was urged to take pills and drink wine to relax. >> the point of this is was that it was intoxicating to her. she was unable to cob concept. you know, that

inside the courtroom defense attorneys argued sandusky refused ineffective counsel from his past defense attorneys, joey amen dole a they believe theyer ordinary in waving the penn state football coach's preliminary hearing which would have given the attorneys then an opportunity, to hear from the victims. the defense also criticized his attorney for allowing sandusky's infamous interview by bob costas. when he suggested that he liked young boys, for sexual gratification, and, paused when he asked if he was sexually attracted to boys. judge reiterated though that he had problems with a new defense's argument saying that he had questioned factual evidence that would compel him to provide an appeals hearing. defense attorneys did hold a press conference just a short time ago, during one of the defense attorneys actually read a statement from jerry sandusky, and sandusky, maintains his innocence and will have more details about the read statement, and other aspects on later additions of "action news". live, chad pradelli, channel six "action news". >> chad, thank you. >>> jury selection has

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>> do they have a strong defense? i don't think so. they do what defense lawyer do, their job is to get the judge, not the jury, to look everywhere, the evidence against their clients, the evidence is pretty compelling, he told his wife i will kill you and make you disappear. low and behold she disappeared. he had motive, opportunity, and interestingly this whole thing about this defense theory these two of the guys did it, the problem is he can argue that but hasn't produced two witnesses and without them the judge is smart enough to understand what the evidence is that supports the defense so in this instance it is a gutsy move. a defendant could not waive his right to a jury trial unless the prosecution agreed. in this case in new york, defendant can do that. from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and -- heather: third-party pop ability case. explain a little more, what do you think these two individuals would refuse to testify? >> very simple why they would refuse to testify. the fingers pointed at them. they have a right to be silent