defense trade.but all of this ultimately means and what the initiative makes clear is that under this administration there will be no active advocate for u.s. sales than the u.s. government itself thus top priority of my bureau, bureau of military affairs at state department is maintaining the united states as a security partner of choice for many friends and allies overseas. that's just one example of this effort, not even a month ago i attended air show in the uk where i met with defense industry representatives from u.s. companies of all sizes to discuss the cat policy implementation plan and to seek feedback in real-time. let me say, again, those companies were both small and medium as well as large so we tried to hit on array of companies that were represented all of which were present. i also met with counterparts of strategic partners and allies, some from europe and other parts of the world to brief them on the president's new policy and advocate strongly for ongoing and perspective defense

satellites and nearly a billion dollars for our space defense programs.and today, we renew the president's call on the congress of the united states to invest an additional 8 billion dollars in our space security systems over the next five years. the men and women of this department have also taken historic steps to secure american leadership in space. at the direction of secretary mattis, the department of defense is fielding a new generation of jam resistant gps and communication satellites. and new missile warning satellites that are smaller, tougher, and more maneuverable than ever before. while these steps have been vital to our national defense, they are really only a beginning. they are only a beginning of meeting the rising security threats our nation faces in space today and in the future. as president trump has said in his words, it is not enough to merely have an american presence in space, we must have american dominance in space. and so we will. [applause] >> that's precisely why we are beginning the process of establishing the space force as

defense policy in the middle east. i'and prior to joining in 2014, she served in the department of defense and the office of the under secretary for policy. to her left isç jeff abramson who rejoined the arms control and conventional arms transfers. he manages the landmine and organizes the form on arms trad trade. prior to these duties he served as a policy advisor and is the former deputy director and managing editor of the publication arms control today.t( his primary response abilities include international defense, space trade and export control issues, he oversees ai role in bilateral and multilateral trade relationships in key regions, trade advocacy relations and international cooperative programs. before joining he was at the harris corporation where he was responsible for working with the u.s. government and international officials to ensure timely access to products. he began his career at the headquarters marine corps and preparations of the budget analyst. everyone, thank you for joining us. as i mentione

that's not just in terms of defense of the continent, but in terms of defense of other nato operations. you see a lot of benefits of that. whether it is in iraq, the increasing role that nato plays and the fact that we often act as one of those nations that encourages other nations to take part, but also in afghanistan, where there are so many nato partners and nations, they understand the importance that afghanistan plays not just to the region, but to the whole world, we can play a vital role in doing that. also in leading by example, investing in the military, making sure we have the best if abilities. not just in terms of massive numbers, but just as importantly the right technology and equipment in order to be able to fight. >> that is a great segue to the second topic. >> this wasn't planned. >> no. i wanted to ask you about your modernizing defense program, which of course has strategy elements and budget implications but this is essentially your roadmap for the future of how you would invest against the various threats that we collectively face. so, my question to you is -- und

we see from the defense perspective joint projects, collaboration between defense industry creates better opportunities for interoperability which is enabling for training and exercising so on and so forth but there's a domestic benefit for india if we're involved in that kind of collaboration. from the defense department, i can only appreciate your comment and say that i agree it's important but i will leave that to my colleagues elsewhere in government to really focus on that dialogue. .. will that be on the agenda and the upcoming talks thank you for raising this. this is an issue of concern. and as you say, it's still simmering so i don't want to go into great detail or specificity about potential responses it is a dynamic situation to some extent. i think we will, we have been discussing this in terms of india and very well, and we come up with 2+2 but i think a number of things you can count on. we need to shine a light on what's happening there because i don't think it's well understood or well-known outside of small circles who deal withthese issues but there should be broader con

and then since the defense put on no defense it hasn't been contradicted at all.hat was about the disclosure of foreign bank accounts. a treasury official testified who's an investigator of these kinds of matters, a prosecution asked did you conduct a search of whether paul manafort filed an f bar 4 the tax years 20112012, 2013 and 2014. these were reports there were no foreign bank accounts. the witness says there were none filed, absolutely none. prosecution, thank you, they're done. no contradiction of that from the defense. what can possibly be in the final argument that a juror could cling to, something in the defense final argument, that could lead to a not guilty on that count? >> excuse me. the argument that the defense will have to make here, lawrence, is that mr. manafort lacked the intent to fail to report these foreign bank accounts, meaning he sure didn't, he sure had them, but the reason it's not a crime, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is that there was an omission, it was a mistake. the government has to show that when he failed to report those a

defense items. sum, what we are trying to do in this whole of government effort, looking at the arms transfer process really from soup to nuts, is trying to ensure that once we have decided of a defenseer capability to a partner is in the national security interests of the united states that we are able to effectively compete and efficiently deliver the equipment to our partner as quickly as possible. will close by underlining the fact that while some of the aspects of arms transfer processes will change under the new cat policy, as ambassador kaidanow said, the state department will continue to evaluate each arms transfer or potential sale on a case-by-case basis. we will also continue to work very closely with our committees of jurisdiction on the hill to help them carry out their oversight responsibilities. the cat policy provides a framework for under which u.s. arms transfers, whether they are commercially licensed sales are government to government transfers will be reviewed. it does not chang

we are looking at ways to expand of defense and industrial can betion so that we seen on the defense side as contributing, possibly, to the development in india. from the defense respect to --e, we see joint projects, from the defense perspective, we see that joint projects, collaboration between the defense industry better , creates better opportunities for interoperability which is enabling for training and exercising so on and so forth , but there is a domestic benefit for india if we're involved in that kind of collaboration. from the defense department, i can only appreciate your comment and say that i agree it's important, but i would leave that to my colleagues elsewhere in government, to really focus on that dialogue. yes, sir? i am with lenny's agency in hong kong -- in terms of the wouldpment in india, how you compare government operations in specific strategy? of the obama administrations rebalancing strategy? how would you compare the two? are there any differences, or randall:? when i was part of the loyal opposition in the obama administration, i was very supportive of

i would say from a defense i would say from a defense perspective the economic and tribulation can be supportive, additives, conflict and what we can do on the defense and -- supportive, additives, complimentary to what we do on the defense and security side, and that is optimal environment. we certainly have history and are able to walk and chew gum at the same time. i'm old enough to remember the difficulties we had with japan in the 1980s when we had members of congress smashing toshiba products on the steps of the capitol, and credible trade irritants and disputes with japan. all the while, our security relationship was evolving at a very good pace, driven by our security interests. we are able to compartmentalize if we have to. i think the realities of the security environment will create a national convergence and give us opportunities to respectable it's happening on side. i'm not saying that's what we want, but i think our interests are very compelling and persuasive on the defense and security side that i think we will be able to continue that comment to him and environment.

sometimes he said hemispheric defense but never about war butt national defense. f thos so talking about major decisions and announcements during that period.. also one of the presentations today and related to the exhibit at the museum building are posters of the period. and robert horton served in 4242 was one of the producers of posters. with that division of information office for emergency management so the first time ita became a a concept in american government.pt in the now it falls off the tongue. every city has a director.ing with the founding of emergency management the division of information in the office for w emergencyth management was thep. executive office of the president part of the official family and the officer emerged a management on behalf of the mobilization. it isn't a scary concept thath r persuasive information.ir and to have on air competition that they will get the propaganda packet. or sometimes they say the proptt packet with a coffee mug or a magnet so that has lost thehefen scary feeling that it had had in the 30s and 40s to the 3

on defense. in just two years' time, that number will increase to at least 150 billion dollars. four years ago, only three allies spent 2% of their gdp on defense. by the end of this year, eight will meet that target, and increasingly we are seeing more partners pull their weight realizing that they have got to spend more because of the increasing threats that the world faces. they are investing in capabilities essential and relevant to modern warfare, making sure that they have the best equipment and the very best technology. so the u.k. is ready. we're willing. but what makes us reliable partners for the long-term is the fact that we are able, able to act now and far in the future. thanks to our world class defense technology and industrial base, some mistakenly believe that only america can develop cutting-edge technologies or capabilities. that has never been and never will be the case. the u.k. has always brought something special to the table. from the perilous days of the second world war,

that has had the effect of revitalizing ally to defense -- revitalizing allied defense spending, military modernization and readiness. what is still the most important alliance in the world and that is the north atlantic treaty organization. the nato summit that recently concluded, despite the headlines, was in fact a very good summit that delivered quite a few important conclusions and set the alliance on a good path toward combating the threats. -- the threats that face us. the u.k. of course has been at the desired defense spending level for quite a while. and i think we should pay tribute to the europeans for kicking in over $40 billion towards revitalizing the economic strength of our defense agreements. the u.k. has troops in estonia, and poland. it forms a core of the nato defense in northern europe. it provides leadership in the region, troops in afghanistan for many years, and so on. the u.s. and the u.k. have been shoulder to shoulder for many years, sharing these defense and security priorities. so we are very pleased today to welcome the secretary of state williamson, who was

the defense lawyer. your honor, i have no idea how you think we'll be able to be prepared to go on trial for september 17th with all of this. are you asking for a continuance? let's talk about that before -- your honor, the judge -- >> i will ask you at the end of this hearing. you have to make a proposal to me. you made one in writing and it said yesterday. now you're telling me tomorrow is impossible. what am i supposed to do? i told you when i wanted it. now i'm asking you, when do you want it and you won't even tell me. you need to tell me. manafort's defense lawyer. >> well, i would like the confer with counsel this. and the judge says all right. and then manafort's defense lawyer says, he interrupts and says we'll talk about this at the end of the hearing. the judge says, we need a schedule. defense lawyer, yet. the judge says, and i'm very reluctant to move the trial. i think we need to move these jurors in here. we need to pick them. so this is judge who is about to their second federal felony tr

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome secretary of defense james m. mattis and the vice president of the united states, michael pence. [applause] >> well, good morning. [applause] good morning. please grab a seat. [applause] i assure you, mr. vice president, that is for you, not for me. [laughter] [applause] please, please. thank you for welcoming the vice president, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] they usually don't do anything like that when i'm talking alone, sir, i assure you. but, mr. vice president, deputy secretary shanahan, judge silva, all the members of the defense community here today, thank you for joining us. it's a great day for the pentagon when we have our vice president here, of course. i will just tell you, mr. vice president, it's a pleasure to have you back here at the pentagon today, and it's with a great deal of gratitude on many issues, but specifically this issue, for your leadership and what you've done to remove any obstacles in our path as only a vice president can do. space is one of our vital national interests in the sen

it is the one to all defense workers not to the public at large but the defense workers. january 41 before pearl harbor and what i think is important here is that he talks about i appeal to you the defense workers in defense of what you are doing. if you drop to the first headline after the text, let's get squarely behind our presidents. in other words he is dairying isolationist and daring isolationist and daring the conservative coalition to say that's propaganda. that's bureaucratic propaganda i i think he was stepping up to the line when he said our president to identify roosevelt not as a a politician but a leader of this nation. if if you flip to the second page it is something he distributed may 41 again after pearl harbor. it was a prepackaged material sent to newspapers they could slap on to their press machines. i don't know the term correctly but here was a way to a way to disseminate to the mass public more than just words because sometimes pictures or photos or short explanation for more effective with mass information. if you flip to the next page, it is the

the secret defense? prosecution on one point, that when jean called 911 to report her husband dead, the murder was days old. >> that call is 100% fake, there's no question about it. >> not only was the mom lying to 911 about when the murder occurred. no, argued the defense, she was lying about something much bigger, who the true killer was. the defense attorney saved his surprise for a closing argument. >> it was an unusual moment, because certainly, i knew there were many friends and supporters of jean tan in the courtroom, and i was going to basically suggest to these jurors that she had pulled the trigger. >> jean tan, the mom, the wife, the true killer. the defense said the shotgun was in her hand. she pulled the trigger. she solved her own problem, not her son. that was the story the defense saved for the 11th hour. >> not an easy thing to do in a packed courtroom. >> according to the defense, it was jean tan who had the motive, the motive to get rid of her bully husband, get the house, the business

defense technology. these restrictions are intended to let the government of turkey know that the waiver is not a get out of jail card for section 231's mandatory sanctions if turkey goes ahead and purchases the s-400. fourth, the conference outcome allows the continued defense cooperation with countries transitioning away from russia. sanctions may be waived only if the country is reducing its dependence on russian weapons systems or cooperating with the united states on security matters critical to our strategic interests. this restriction should be narrowly understood to mean that the country involved is cooperating with the united states and the strategic competition with russia or china consistent with the administration's national defense strategy. as set out in the national defense strategy, the central -- the security today is the reemergence of long-term competition by revisionist powers, specifically russia and china. fifth, the conference outcome.s for congressional review under a 30-day notic

the judge then turns back to manafort's defense lawyers and she once again gives paul manafort's defense lawyers a little bit of a hard time about one of their decisions which has been a real mystery in this case so far which is why paul manafort and his defense team elected to go on trial twice. once in virginia and once in washington, d.c. prosecutors from the special counsel's office had offered to consolidate the two cases so he would go on trial once. his legal team said no. this judge in the d.c. case has previously proclaimed herself in court to be basically bewildered by that decision and here today she once again goes back to it. the judge, quote, now i the judge, quote, now i understand, wasn't my decision to move another trial in front of this. wasn't my decision on push that trial up to accommodate that judge's schedule. and you know, it was your decision to push it further. so you're under extraordinary time pressures that don't happen on a daily basis. but we have a pretrial conference scheduled on september 5th and i need to know what objections have you to the prosecutors

have revolutionize our national defense in times of need. from the creation of the the stic missile to development of the navy's nuclear enterprise. do our part to make boled break throughs. strengthen america's industrial the cutting ver edge war fighting capabilities aster than our adversaries could ever imagine. that's exactly what americans will do. [applause] calls for report clear lines of responsibility and accountability. the process of scaling up the united states department of the space force. creating a new branch of the military is not a simple process. collaboration, diligence, and leadership. deadlines arise, approach. there must be someone in charge who can hold others accountable results. we'll create a single civilian position reporting to the defense to oversee the growth and expansion of this new branch of the service. a new sition will be assistant secretary of defense for space and this leader will key to the critical transition to a fully ndependent secretary of the space force in the years ahead. president trump and i

for defense well what does that mean and what does that mean for nato. mr mas has four elements to his strategy and i think they're all very cool headed one in that response to the mark on point on capabilities is to finally invest in our own capabilities germany has been falling short on on that especially on the military front for a for a while now and we need reading need to shape up that's the that's the first element and response to also what mr macaws saying the second is to have a counterbalance to the us soft balancing if you will where they cross red lines or do things that really harm european interests that means this financial autonomy that we've been talking about technological and talk autonomy in some issues is also part of the puzzle the third is and that comes to your multilateralism point mr mr macaw has talked about new alliances mr moss has been a little bit more specific he called foreign airlines of multilateral lists he teamed up with canada with japan other middle powers who are committed to multilateralism who are you know shocke

we are doing a major upgrade of our missile defense.are spending a tremendous amount of money on our nuclear arsenal. nobody will have close. we will hopefully never, ever have to use it. but nobody will be close. more than $11 billion for the construction, including family housing, and we are proudly giving our troops the biggest pay increase and a decade. i know you don't want it because you are very patriotic. you will say, save the money, we need to pay down debt. --s anybody would not been does anybody not want it? razor hands. what is going on? are these patriots? i don't know, general. the biggest increase in a decade. a strong military requires a strong economy, and our economy is setting records like never before. we have the greatest economy we have ever had. i think that will help us a lot in a lot of ways. it also helps us a lot in funding and doing all the things we are doing for our great military. we have created almost 4 million new jobs since the election, a number that the media in the back would never have said was po

as to the defense's decision, it is not that surprising in a case where the defense has set up the main culprit and most of their defense around the cooperating witness. if the defense decides to put on its own case, they lose a little bit of the luster of their argument that this was all the government's witness and that the government did not meet its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. so in cases like this, they may call character witnesses to say that paul manafort was a good guy, they may call other sort of technical witnesses. but the thrust of those witnesses does not really support what their theory of the case is, so it's really not too much of a surprise that they are not calling any witnesses. >> and before i move on, i wanted to just ask you also about what we thought was a defense motion to dismiss some of the charges, some of the bank fraud charges based on the argument that the head of the bank, steven calk, understood and agreed with this bank loan request so that it was not a defrauding of the bank. has that materialized or been resolved? >> yes, the judge

we were not funding defense.emember the biggest payoff from the defense in maintaining good equipment, and right numbers of soldiers, the right numbers of ships, the right numbers of airplanes is deterrents. it stops our adversaries from taking advantage of us. it stops bad things happening. from happening the muscle there that we may have to use it, the fact we got it. i tell you what, putin is paying more attention to defense budget than he is in sanctions. when he sees the defense budget growing like it is, reminds him to the reagan defense budget we contributed to the collapse of the soviet union, back in the '80s, collapsed by the end of that decade in 1989. that is what he is watching. he sees the united states coming back. the president is right on here. trish: i say you're spot on, deterrents, you should be ready, equipped to go, hopefully if needed but hoping it's not. knowing your adversaries just how powerful you are and what you could do to them. >> exactly. trish: walk softly by carry a big stick. >>

for defense well what does that mean and what does that mean for nato. mr mas has four elements to his strategy and i think they're all very cool headed one in that response to the mark on point on capabilities is to finally invest in our own capabilities germany has been falling short on on that especially on the military front for a for a while now and we need reading need to shape up that's the that's the first element and response to also what mr macaws saying the second is to have a counterbalance to the us soft balancing if you will where they cross red lines or do things that really harm european interests that means this financial autonomy that we've been talking about technological a top autonomy in some issues is also part of the puzzle the third is and that comes to your multilateralism point mr ms the macaws talked about new alliances mr moss has been a little bit more specific he called for in the lines of multilateral lists he teamed up with canada with japan other middle powers who are committed to multilateralism who are you know shocked

after manafort's defense team rested without calling any witnesses the defense team gave a short statement to the press. one of manafort's defense lawyers said "mr. manafort just rested his case because they believe the government has not met its burden of proof." basically just a short statement from the lawyer saying here's what you should read into the fact we didn't call any witne witnesses up to the stand. after he made that statement, reporters chased the defense lawyer once he walked away to try to ask him follow-up questions including one from nbc's julia ansley that did not get a response. this is a reporter's audio recording of that exchange. listen. >> what do you say to to those who say this makes your client look guilty? >> we live in the united states of america. you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. >> is there a problem with the jury in this case? >> are you confident going into closing argues tomorrow? >> we are very confident. thank you. >> so three clear questions there. he answered the first one, skips the second one and answers the third one. the one he skipped

the defense forces are operating high. because of that rising military capability and presence of the chinese maritime forces, it is not the same kind of threat as north korea. it is not a direct threat to japanese safety but it does shift perceptions of their own needs. it does worry people, prime and mr. shinzo abe of course but others in japan because a -- the chinese have been hesitant on the diplomatic side. they are normal -- in normal day-to-day government discussions but what we are hoping is shinzo abe could take a visit to china, that there could be a restoration of high-level summitry so important in that relationship. i do not know if there is a decision but i am hoping that comes to fruition because it is an important part of stabilizing the region, but also critical to japanese security. the larger picture of the many states in japan is what kind of indo pacific region are we compared -- repaired to help support? i do not say that as bilateral relationships are not important. they are important. all three of

his own defense.y're thinking about that? >> we don't, lawrence. but i think you're absolutely right. and i would be stunned if paul manafort took the stand in this case. particularly because of the mountain of evidence, paper, document evidence that the government has against him. you said it could come down to sort of a contest of who do you believe, paul manafort or rick gates. but the government does not see it that way. he made a point of saying today this case doesn't rest on any one witness. this is a case where we have two dozen witnesses, many of whom don't know one another, some of whom worked for manafort, some didn't, and we have more than 100 documents that we're going to show you and some of those were introduced into evidence today. and the prosecution really painted an astonishing portrait of greed and deceit, lawrence. you went through some of it. but there are really two parts to this fraud that they're alleging. manafort was working for this ukrainian politician backed by russia, an

, a defense lawyer said mr. manafort rested his case because they believe the government has not met its burden of proof. it's a short statement saying here's what you should read into the fact that we didn't call witnesses to stand up for paul manafort. after he made that statement, they chased the defense lawyer to try to ask him follow-up questions, including from julia ansly that did not get a response. this is a reporter's audio recording that was exchange. >> what do you say to those who say this makes your client look gui guilty? >> we live in the united states of america. you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. >> sorry there a problem with the jury in this case? >>> you confident going into the closing arguments tomorrow? >> very confident. thank you. >> three clear questions there. he answers the first one. skips the second, answers the third one. the one he skip side from julia ansly. is there a problem with the jury in this case. kevin downs paused and looked at julia when he asked that questio

defense strategy. it was the first of its kind in a decade, and we outlined the departments priorities and the guidance we wanted to give our departments below us for the budget requests, tying the budget to the strategy itself. defense strategy. it was the first of its kind in a decade, and we outlined the departments priorities and the guidance we wanted to give our departments below us for the budget requests, tying the tying the budget to the strategy itself. thanks to strong bipartisan support in congress, which resulted in $717 billion authorization for 2019, and our military continues to grow stronger, more lethal, more agile, certainly more deployable than a year ago. i cannot think congress without also supporting senator mccain. my deepest condolences to his family for the loss of a man who represented all the ideals america stands for. senator john mccain was a man who served his country honorably as a naval officer, as a defiant prisoner of war, standing with his brothers in arms until all

the defense lawyer. your honor, i have no idea how you think we'll be able to be prepared to go on trial for september 17th with all of this. are you asking for a continuance? let's talk about that before -- your honor, the judge -- >> i will ask you at the end of this hearing. you have to make a proposal to me. you made one in writing and it said yesterday. now you're telling me tomorrow is impossible. what am i supposed to do? i told you when i wanted it. now i'm asking you, when do you want it and you won't even tell me. you need to tell me. manafort's defense lawyer. >> well, i would like the confer with counsel this. and the judge says all right. and then manafort's defense lawyer says, he interrupts and says we'll talk about this at the end of the hearing. the judge says, we need a schedule. defense lawyer, yet. the judge says, and i'm very reluctant to move the trial. i think we need to move these jurors in here. we need to pick them. so this is judge who is about to their second federal felony tr

this is hearsay in the defense part. i can tell you -- >> a lot. >> it's in the millions. >> billing aside, it's all the -- any experts they've used, all the document review. everything. it's a heavily document intensive case. these white collar cases -- >> how much they spent on all these experts, they couldn't put a single one of them on the stand. thank you. >>> decline in dignity. the president just called his former staffer omarosa a dog. now his campaign is taking legal action against her to keep omarosa from spreading stories of racism and lying in the white house. >>> plus, lady's night. in the year of the woman running for office, most of the women running are democrats. where are the republicans? why they're hearing from key advisers to wait it out. >>> and struck out. a top fbi agent fired after anti-trump text messages surfaced. will he sue, though, to get his job back? attention homeowners age sixty-two and older. one reverse mortgage has a great way for you to live a better retirement... it's called a rever

it is good for the defense. it tells the defense that the jury is not thinking this is a slam dunk and that they understand everything to the point where they could reach a quick verdict. sure, it is good for the defense to have questions out there, but i'm not sure they should be reading too much into that. >> i want to go to our other legal analyst now from alexandria, dan goldman, former attorney for the seventh district of new york. what do you make of the question that the jury asked? greg said, look, this is not unusual. do you agree with the assessment? >> certainly as it relates to reasonable doubt. i think what is more noteworthy about the questions is that they were very smart, technical questions. which in a case where the defense was pretty technical, and the prosecution's theory is just, manafort was a liar, liar, liar, it is all about lies, those kinds of questions generally mean that they're engaging with some of the defense arguments. in particular, where in a situation that they're engaging with

i'm supporting the point of view that wanted comes to japanese defenses, defense capability and the use of force against aggression, i think they are in the driver seat. they may not be able to do it depending on who the attacker is, and i think that's where things have changed. the minute you start using the chinese government send government forces, you started to see this question of real concern about a military engagement with china. as always been an existential question about the potential of chinese abilities, but in terms of threat perception, i think you really see a shift around that 2010 defense plan. but absolutely accelerated thereafter. and of course there's the north korean belligerence that has been a very specific threat to japan. i think you are going to see conor mcgregor this year is there will be international defense plan and a new five-year procurement plan, and we will see just how far it goes. i tend to agree it's less about being in the front or the back seat, it's about how fast and how far the government can pull the japanese people and how much money they'r

i have visited 57 countries as secretary of defense. our goal is to improve consultation, cooperation, and burden sharing so we can best deter the threats and competition i mentioned earlier because we are stronger alongside like-minded nations. i recently returned from south america, where i let with leaders in so, argentina, chile, and despite the fear -- problems we face, we're fortunate to see increasingly an island of democratic stability and growing prosperity in an unstable world from ottawa to santiago to buenos aires. there are exceptions, venezuela, cuba, nicaragua, even castro knows the cuban model does not work even for cuba anymore or for anyone else, as venezuela's president darrell is finding -- maduro is finding out. cooperation is critical for realizing the shared vision of democracy, prosperity, and security. we are working with the lumia, ecuador and others to schedule -- columbia, ecuador, and others democracy is working and we will continue to work with our friends from ottawa to the tothern tip of south america rea

for defense well what does that mean and what does that mean for nato. mr mas has four elements to his strategy and i think they're all very cool headed one in that response to the mark on point on capabilities is to finally invest in our own capabilities germany has been falling short on on that especially on the military front for a for a while now and we need reading need to shape up that's the that's the first element and response to also what mr macaws saying the second is to have a counterbalance to the us soft balancing if you will where they cross red lines or do things that really harm european interests that means this financial autonomy that we've been talking about technological a top autonomy in some issues is also part of the puzzle the third is and that comes to your multilateralism point mr mr macaws talked about new alliances mr moss has been a little bit more specific he called foreign airlines of multilateral lists he teamed up with canada with japan other middle powers who are committed to multilateralism who are you know shocked by t

defense secretary james mattis is making comments to the press assistant news chairman of the senate armed service committee in all he did senator mccain never lost sight of our shared purpose in defense of freedom for in his words and i quote a shared purpose does not claim our identity it in a largish on the contrary it enlarges your sense of self so our nation is lost a great patriot and our military has lost one of our most ardent supporters the fiscal year nineteen national defense authorization act is named for senator mccain and it meets all of d.o.d.'s critical needs the earliest passage in the legislative calendar this marks the first time since one nine hundred seventy seven we had this x.i.i. and surely we had eighty seven percent of the members of the house of representatives in the senate voting in favor of it this demonstrates that the defense of our republican joy is overwhelming bipartisan support and now that congress has done our its part and we are grateful to the american taxpayers it's now d.o.d.'s duty to spend the fund responsibly as we rebuild readiness to inv

the defense attorney said this is a big win for manafort. >> the defense is confident.ny witnesses. that tells me they believe the prosecution has not met their burden of proof. if the burden is on the prosecution to prove their claims beyond a reasonable doubt. the defense said weave done enough through cross examination to say we don't need to put on witnesses. that's a powerful message to send to a jury. >> trace: they talked about the different documents. the judge said no, the prosecution came in and said this is what you need to focus on, the documents. forget about rick gates. he fell apart in court. don't count on gates. count on the documents. these people are in the jury room saying i don't know which documents go for which couldn't. that is not good. >> and if prosecution should have laid that out for the jury, this is a complex case. you're talking about 18 criminal counts, hundreds and hundreds of pages of exhibits, financial documents, tax documents. as an attorney, i might be confused. they sent a message to the court that they're confused. the prosecutio

so they're going ahead and giving a rebuttal to what the defense will say when the defense will arguably try to make the point that the prosecution is putting everything on rick gates and he's not a reliable witness. they also went through, as dan pointed out, lots of different documents. one thing that they pointed out we think the defense might do is say it wasn't actually paul manafort who was signing some of these documents with the bank fraud and with the tax evasion, that perhaps it was someone else, perhaps he was actually directing rick gates to do this. but then of course the prosecution says, gosh, could it really be, does it make sense that rick gates would have been the one moving all this money around and it just so happens that paul manafort benefitted by millions from these millions put into foreign bank accounts? and he says, if we could only be so lucky, which got a little chuckle from the jury. the defense isn't going to call any witnesses, they expect an attack on each piece of evidence, particularly the testimony of rick gates. and andrea, i'll point out, it's the ful

these countries on to be investing in their own defense sharer collective defense. this is something we forget to often -- nato is not about winning a war. nato, like the u.s. military, is about keeping of peace. every penny you spend on defense is money that is if there is no if there is no war, incredibly well spent. host: with all of the issues and concerns you laid out, as far as a roadmap to resolve these things, what is the chief priority for all parties involved? guest: it is a different a set of priorities. upig part of this is manning and saying, these are problems. we were talking about this after the recent nato summit. the president got a lot of flack for beating on our nato allies for their failure to spend on defense. we agreed. if president trump had used a language that he had use which privately, we all would have said, it is about time somebody talk to them that way because we have been talking conversations about this for a quarter century. andeed first to man up admit, nato has problems. we have issues within the alliance whether it is turkey, th

and we were digging defense after defense after defense. and i could not imagine somebody trying to charge one of these things and plan on living through this thing. the marine corps will try to conduct an infibbous operation against the japanese defense. there will be 2,000 fewer marines in the process of trying to do this thing. they had a two hour prep for this thing, two hour prep. in normandy they are going to have 30 to 40 minute preparation for this thing. by the time you get to iow a.j. ima the marine corps are requiring three to four days before they conduct the assaults. again in normandy you are going to have 30 to 40 minutes of this thing. so you ask yourself why you do it this way. they have conducted a few of these. they have landed in north africa, they landed in sicily. both times they went in at night under the cover of darkness. they went in under conditions that limited the effectiveness of any fire. at normandy they didn't have that either. they went in just as daylight was breaking. they went in at0 6:30 in the morning.

in egypt with the facts on the table through the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of defense we gave a clear and tough warning to our western partners not to play with fire but it could have huge ramifications this let's get the latest go to a correspondent double quarter why all this gearing up now the. while the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he says that the preparations for a staged chemical attack are going to be an attempt to maintain al nusra as a force in the region to be used as a counterbalance against the assad government now the u.s. is ignoring these warnings that terrorists are gathering for a chemical attack and the state department said that they just flat out don't buy into it. the russians are claiming now and this one another group stockpiling chemical weapons and planning an attack and you know i think that's more false flag reporting any time going to be as a seen that before when you try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into that. but that's still comes as a bit of a surprise because the u.n. special envo

all 29 members now are spending more on defense in nato. no longer is the question one of reducing defense budgets as it was the fall of the berlin wall until into the 2000's. question of the whether to spend more, the only question is now whether to increase and by when all are committed to spending 2% of gdp by 2024. unity on thed a needed command structure that we have to reform. our two new headquarters, one hosted by germany, and one hosted by norfork. we also gain full commitment to what we call the four 30's, 30 air squadrons, 30 naval ships, 30 combat battalions, all available to fight within 30 days. that is a well-established and quantifiable goal now. we also received commitment of over 1000 non-us coalition allied forces to the nato-led afghanistan mission. looking to the indo pacific, we are bolstering alliances while forging new partnerships amongst like-minded nations. 25 participated in the rim pack exercise. hosted by the u.s. pacific fleet. it was the largest naval exercise in the world. it was emblematic of the refreshed