the missile defense review makes it clear that no no, no missile defense is stabilizing. to have a robust missile defense system giving the united states an increased confidence that we might be able to defend that which we value most in an initial strike, that we can protect our ability to respond, that gives the united states some elbow room in terms of knowing if they want to go with full offensive retaliation. you know, it gives them decision space. you can see that with the israelis. you can see this every time the israelis are using iron dome, i often say, iron dome has saved palestinian lives because it has given the israelis the option to not respond with overwhelming force because it gives them the ability to intercept the missiles that are headed towards more populated areas or areas they want to protect. the same concept can be with the united states. it gives the united states options in how to respond. this is i think one of the most important things that this missile defense review makes the point now -- and then i'll briefly say i don't think the budget mat

in missile defense don't all go to nor should they go to the missile defense agency. as you listen to ms. atkinson's overview brief we discussed the other services. we are wedded closely to the navy on ballistic missile defense, closely wedded to the army with the terminal of the altitude defense system, the air force when it comes to the operation of large radars around the globe. i would say that the best way to answer your question is that it is a broad dod-wide effort. it's a complex threat and it requires, you know, full up all hands on deck response to it. >> for the space discrimination -- space-based discrimination for hypersonic defense, are there investments being made now outside of mda? >> absolutely. so what i mentioned earlier is that it will be a multi-mission department-wide effort to deployed the system that has more than just the missile defense mission. so we are tucked into that overall architecture and fully supportive of the department's efforts to get a multi-mission capability deployed. >> and why defeat -- why do they have a new name now, defe

on missile defense. i was once a fellow here at fdd and i can't say enough positive things about the organization. so it's my pleasure to be here in this forum. so the trump administration's missile defense review. one of the things to notice right off the bat is its missile defense review not ballistic missile defense review which is what the obama 2011 bmdr was. just looking at the ballistic missile threat. we have opened the scope here. so now we're looking at just the missile threat. and that's because our adversaries have really taken big steps technologically on the kinds of threats they have. and now looking at the cruise missile threat as well as some other more complex threats out of russia and china, the hypersonic glide vehicles and some other things. so that's -- it's a different -- and it falls in line with the -- the new era of great power competition. the national security strategy, the national defense strategy, the nuclear posture review and then now this, the missile defense review. the

mda's priorities for missile defense are nested within the national defense strategies priorities and as follows. first, we must continue to focus on increasing system reliability. we need to increase engagement capability and capacity and also rapidly address the advancing missile threat. our budget request maintains operational missile defense capabilities for existing homeland and regional defense forces, continues to increase inventory, and use investing technologies to improve sensors, battle management, fire control, and kill vehicle capabilities to address the evolving threats. next chart. the current defense, but we require additional capabilities to in order to stay ahead of the evolving threat. the projected missile threat is complex and volatile and includes evolving hyper missile threats. it is critical we continue to develop innovative. this evolving threat demands a globally present and persistent sensor network to track it. next chart. the recently completed missile defense review recognizes the evolving missile threats that we face and under scores that missile defense

i also highlight the section 1524 of the fy 18 defense organization act, direct the defense to update the -- that may be caused by ocio. i hope our witnesses have shed some light on when this will be done and what the d tales are for the space request. i also have serious concerns with the $9.2 billion requested in emergency funding for unspecified military construction projects. $3.6 billion is to replenish funds for military projects that congress already authorized and appropriated to build a wall on the southern border. even if this funding is replenish, these could be delayed or canceled. i would also add that congress has not been yet given a written list of projects whose funding may be diverted. moreover, we are aware an additional $3.6 billion of emergency funding in the defense department budget will be used to build more of a wall. projects that have not been identified in any way. much of our witness testimony today describes the $750 billion for the national defense strategy but the strategy commission, as the chairman sites, noted that copperheads of calendars will requi

we have midcourse defense, terminal defense, but we don't have boost phase defense.aving that capability would be the optimal place to intercept, because you intercept it over its own territory. that is one benefit. you will intercept the missile before it has a chance to release its -- right now we talk about the kill vehicle, one of the reasons is because we want to be able to discriminate between the really nasty part that we want to hit and everything else, and then we have the follow-on to the arcade the. we are doing that so that we have increased reliability to be able to intercept the missile because of all of the stuff they are putting on it. ifis also cheaper because you're using something like lasers to hit the boost phase, you've got an endless magazine of opportunities to shoot at this thing as opposed to the kinetic vehicles we have now. we went to get a boost phase, but it is difficult. you have to be either right on top of the threat or close to it. it is hard to get close enough to it. it's got to be superfast. they are different things we are thinki

and to fully fund defense and implement the national defense strategy.enator reid? sen. reed: thank you very much and let me welcome our witnesses. before we consider the detail of the defense department budget request, i would like to address some of the fiscal challenges. once again we find ourselves in , a situation all-too-familiar, debating how best to fund the government under caps required. there is bipartisan consensus that enforcing budget discipline through the bca and sequestration is ineffective and shortsighted and that the bca caps for fiscal year 2020 the -- 2020 will deprive us of resources needed to sufficiently meet the needs of our nation. last year, because we had passed the bipartisan budget act of 2018, we knew the permitted spending parameters and were able to mark up and passed the -- and pass the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization and appropriations bills before september 30. this gave the funding certainty that it had to lacked. i believe congress should pass another two-year budget leave to -- relief to provide stability fo

anything on defense? >> and i believe it's included in the missile defense portfolio. i don't have the specifics i'll have to get back to you on that. >> thank you. john harper with national defense magazine. the missile defense review called for beefing up existing capabilities and investing in new capabilities. but in this budget it seems that the prokurmtd and rdt and e in the acquisition portfolio would actually see a decrease in missile defense and defendant. can you explain the seeming discrepancy between sort of the new strategy our outlook versus what's in the budget. >> i think two things are probably making it appear that which. the first is that we surged our missile defense and defeat capability in '18 and '19 with reprogramming and budget amendment. we are basically maintaining the tail. we are not continuing to maintain what we surged in the years. that brings the program profile down. what you also see is we invested about $1.3 billion in specifically mdr related technologies that are not inside the missile defense agency budget but are part of the missi

host: defense?st: not in defense, we can balance the budget and get to be $750 billion but look at other areas, i sit down with my colleagues once a week and we go through every area of the budget. we spent an hour last night going through many health-care related ideas, where we can stabilize programs and make cuts in some areas. related to that. last week we dealt with issues related to another area of the budget, as we find programs where we can cut, the american people have figured out already that if you cut $1 million here and $10 million there, soon enough you are talking about hundreds of millions of cuts and that can lead to trillions of cuts and we can begin to drive down the $22 trillion national debt. host: if china is the biggest threat, and according to wikipedia, if they spent $146 billion in 2016 on their defense spending and we are spending $750 billion, why do we need to spend so much if they are the biggest threat and only spending $146 billion? guest: they are not the only threat

the secret defense?ere going to agree with the 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 closing arguments. >> 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, g

and defeat including 9.4 billion for the missile defense agency. it is important to note that we search or investment and we are now sustaining that surge to shift the cost curve and expand new facets of defeat and defend. i would like to take just a couple of minutes to discuss our oko and emergency request which are critical to the budget as a whole that we need to support the nds. we have bent our request into four categories. three categories for oko and one for emergency. our first oko category is direct war requirements. these are costs associated with combat or combat support that we expect would not continue once combat operations cease. the second bin is enduring requirements that have not yet move to the base budget. these are cause for our posture and presence in the middle east, africa and the philippines, along with the european deterrence initiative. taken together, these two bins are consistent with the fy '19 enacted oko level of the third bin is our oko for base which supports things like munition, base operation support, weapons s

down so it's an offense and defense the defense of. yeah you know it's a billion dollars of taxpayer money i thought we had a wall to pay for the. you know it's interesting because this fifteen billion defense system is it's part of an actual the bigger we talked about before as part of the bigger hundred ten billion dollar arms package the trump administration negotiated with the saudi arabian kingdom all the way back in two thousand and seventeen and then that came under fire as well during the jamal khashoggi killing in the war in yemen and then like all of this it's all kind of part about. the system but kickstarted for a long time even before. and then what exactly are we are helping them by or lining their either where we're subsidizing you know like there's any way to put it we're subsidizing it. so that's forty four terminal high altitude area defense or bad launchers also part of the. work will be replacing or repairing their curtain obsolete saudi missile defense infrastructure so they'll have to set up all new system for thi

our policy response at the department of defense is a true and limitation of the national defense strategy which outlines how we will effectively compete with china. the strategy has three major lines of effort. the first is to build a more lethal and resilient joint force and of course this must take into account as a pacing mechanism, china's and russia's ambitions, pace of modernization and their capabilities. a second line of effort is strengthening alliances and partnerships. this is really a core advantage that the united states has. it not only enables our presence but it gives us partners that are more capable themselves of defending their own interest in contributing to upholding regional security. an example of this is the work we are doing with the help of congress through the indo- pacific maritime security initiative. a third line of effort is reforming the department for greater performance and affordability. and accordingly, this focuses on efforts to promote innovation, protect key technologies and to harness and protect the national security innovation base to maintain our

i know very well there chief of defense and ministry defense, who is the chief prior to this, are to him becoming the minister, we have some differences, as you know. you can see in the paper. we have candid and frank conversations, and we've been successful at working through mutual interests to this point. our relationship as it reflects in the deployment of our forces, in my view, has improved over the past year. so that's what i would hope that our work together will continue to do, here, as we look at the tough issues we've got to face within the european command. >> in terms of military to military, rings are better than they were? >> they are. they have improved, and we have a good candid relationship. >> thank you, senator king? thank you mister chairman, general lyons, i noted your concern about the movement of personal items, and want to volunteer as a consultant 50 years ago, i worked for allied lines in this area moving military families. if you need technical assistance, it's better to move a card and pick up a card then it is books, i learned that the hard way. i couldn

information and cyber defense. in the closed hearing i can be more specific about precisely what we're doing. >> just to reassure the american people -- that's the purpose of an open hearing, really to inform the american people -- can you provide some description of what is being done in the cyber domain by your command to bolster the ukrainian defenses? >> i guess i would underscore first of all what we do with the other -- to make sure this is a free and fair election. within the cyber domain, mine is to help them with their defense of their systems. so it's not -- it's not selected by any means. it's primarily defense and help them understand how they ensure that they do, in fact, have a free and fair election. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will tell you, it has been such a pleasure for me to go through this series of hearings with our different commands in your area of responsibility and hear repeatedly from you all some of the needs and stepping up our game, if you will

i routinely get feedback from the chiefs of defense, ministers of defense and others when our congressional delegations visit. i know it has an impact. >> well, i guess we could have a debate about whether there is a crisis in nato. i hope there isn't. but i do hope that the strong statement of wanting to be involved was heard. and i appreciate your comments in that regard. general scaparrotti, you are recommending augmenting our forces in europe. specifically with regard to the sea power, what are your suggestions? for example, there are four destroyers in rota spain right now. do we need six? and what else needs to be done? what specifically can you tell us in an open hearing that would help with regard to our sea power aspect of helping you? >> well, as you know, specifically for the maritime component, what we are looking at is ooh of an evolving and modernizing russian fleets. in a closed hearing, i plan torg through just the changes i've seen in the three years i've been in european command. if we want to remain dominant in the maritime domain, particularly under sea, which we are tod

robert sailors deputy assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense integration and defense of port support. secretary mcmahon your full written testimony will be included in the record, please summarize your testimony in five minutes. you are recognized. >> thank you rep. debbie wasserman schultz , judge carter and ranking member granger, distinguished members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunity to testify today, u.s. customs and border protection it is our mission to secure the southern border of the united states. as i begin i want to ensure you that no currently authorized to military construction projects will be canceled to fund military construction products projects supporting at the southern border. for there further some military construction projects may be deferred to fiscal year 2020 presidents budget request will include a request for funding to replenish funding for these projects. february 15 2019 the president declared that a national emergency requiring use of the armed forces exists along the southern border and invoked title x of the united sta

defense aprops and house senate. for the first time to fund the wall, basically you're shifting money into the drug safety account, whatever it is, drug enforcement account, so that you can then take it out of the cap and put it into the wall. and you are not asking for our permission. now, you understand the result of that likely is that the appropriations committee in particularly would no longer give the pentagon reprogramming authority. i think that's unfortunate because they need it. and i guess my question is what was the discussion like about in deciding to break that rule, and what is your view of the implications for it going forward in terms of the relationship between the pentagon and congress in general. and specifically, how much is it going to hamper you to not have reprogramming authority after this year? >> chairman, what was the second part of that? >> how is it going to hamper the relationship -- sorry. how is it going to hamper your ability to do your job if you don't have any reprogramming authori

was the department of defense asked in advance. what was is going to do to military readiness, to our overall ability? was the department of defense asked is a going to make any difference if we us he do for these projects from one to two years or longer? what kind of consultation occurred in the department of defense over this, you know, raid on funds already available and appropriated for milcon? >> congressman, i don't know. i was not part of that process. happened at aly higher level. that would be my presumption. >> if you're willing to answer it or i will point you a rhetorical question. is there concern over the deferral of the use of these funds for these purposes? you are assuming we will re-appropriate those funds. i have given you my analogy. nonetheless, there will be a delay. which in some cases is crucial and i will give you a quick example. an entire military plan to basically realign for structure in the western pacific. aen outlook, guam -- ok now awa, guam. now you propose to divert funds from guam, which then are

the national defense strategy and the underlying budget. this year the president's budget request is for $450 billion. which is the the highest adju adjusted for inflation. to the pentagon, which is the absolute highest that we have seen since the height of the iraq surge in 2007 and 2008. and this is occurring at the same time that the national defense strategy is talking about a pivot away from the counterterrorism fight. not abandoning that fight but pivoting away as we focus more on great power competition and with china and russia. it's important for congress that we are open and transparent to the american public and the department of defense is as well. that we can demonstrate to the american people we're faithful to the original design and intent is. so a few items to shed some lying on what's being requested in the president's budget request. i'm reading $8 billion for ship level maintenance as we move from the navy-based budget. to my knowledge, this is not a single dollar for maintenance in the base budget. is that accurate? >> i

and for your leadership for our national defense. onppreciate the focus strategic competitors in the national defense strategies. specifically china. i want to start asking some questions about that. as we know they've utilized economics, military and political influence to extend their reach and shift the balance of power across the globe. beijing's whole of government efforts are particularly apparent in places like the indo-pacific, but they can be seen in places like south america, europe, even the arctic. so countering the influence and actions requires a whole of government strategy of our own and so my first question, who is leading the u.s. government response effort, and where does the defense department fit into this plan? >> i would say fundamentally, i feel like the department of defense is leading significantly in the whole of government, that -- but i have strong partnership with the secretary of secretary -- secretary of commerce secretary of treasury and , secretary of state. so, we continuously discussed this subject

our policy response at the department of defense is through implementation of the national defense strategy which outlines how we will effectively compete with china. this strategy has three major lines of effort, the first is to build a more lethal joint force. this must take into account china and russia's ambitions, their pace of morndernization. strengthening alliances and partnerships. it not only enables our presence but it gives us partners who are more cable in defending their own interests. a key example of this is the work we're doing with the help of congress through the indo-pacific maritime security initiative. our third line of effort is reforming the department for greater performance and affordability. this focuses on efforts to promote innovation protect key technologies and protect the national security base to protect us. the sfraj talks about competition not conflict with china. competition does not preclude cooperating with china where our interests align and as we compete with china, we will continue to seek a military relationship with china that aims at reducing risk

sorry. >> valerie defense news. can you talk about the lie detector experiment where that money is coming from and how those experiments might be different? >> we have $35 million. essentially continues the experiment from the past two years. the decision had to make, are we ready to go to a program of record given what we have learned up to this point with the first two experiments. keeping in mind the light attack is all about allies and partners. that is the most important thing. the second line of effort from the secretary of defense and nds is to attract more partners and to support our allies. and light attack aircraft is all about providing the right mix of capability in a weapon system that would be most attractive to those allies and partners. the results of the experiment from the first two phases, we just didn't feel comfortable we had the right mix of capabilities that was going to attract the partners and allies we needed. so we want to look further. as i said in the briefing. potentially look at rotary

the defense had to make certain they didn't. might. >> i think she had invented this story and started to live it and really wanted to believe it. >> so they aimed for the jugular. could this woman be trusted? >> she had a jaded past. theft convictions, stealing. that's not something that an honest, credible person does. >> a one-time bartender at a strip club who managed the dancers, jennifer crew admitted to misdemeanor brushes with the law. >> you were convicted of theft? >> yes, sir. >> also of fraudulent practices, correct? >> i believe that's when my record states. >> she was also in a methadone treatment program for her addiction to painkillers. >> you were using oxycontin for five years. you've used false names to get drugs? >> yes, i did. >> the defense indicated because of her addiction to drugs, her memory was not to be trusted. >> when detectives talked to you, you told them that your memory is not very good, didn't you? >> i don't recall saying that. >> do you remember telling them, i don't remember verbatim the con

without fail defense spending is authorized each year and non-defense spending, however, goes largely unauthorized with more than 300 billion in unauthorized appropriations in 2019 alone. so i urge my colleagues to oppose this and hold defense spending hostage by opposing the amendment. >> mr. chairman -- >> any discussion in opposition? >> i will just respond very quickly that parody means replacing the cuts in defense and non-defense from the sequester capital levels in an equal manner. that was the deal that i reached with chairman paul ryan, and it is in 2013 it worked well and it has been the guiding principle that we have used to reach every budget deal since then and two more beyond that and i think we should recognize that that that is the way that we can move forward in making sure that we get through this and follow up our responsibility to have a budget deal and appropriations process that at least has smooth sailing of a blue print. i suspect there will be a caps deal and i suspect that that will be a requirement for it. >> it would be helpful if this committee supported t

and defense budget? secondly, he has said promises kept but we're cutting medicare. how does that keep his promise to the american people? >> he is not cutting medicare in this budget. we're putting forward reform that lower drug prices, because medicare pay as very large share of drug prices in this country, has impact of finding savings. we're also finding ways fraud and abuse. medicare spending will bo up every year by healthy margins. there are no structural changes for medicare. reporter: why not, at least cut the rate of increase if the deficit is such a concern, in trillions why not cut at least the increase? >> because set commander-in-chief. he think it is important to secure the country. one of his most basic constitutional responsiblities. the military put forward a five-year defense plan. it was done over a series of years about the needs which gets back to john's questions. we are going along with that five-year defense plan n addition we're putting additional dollars towards the military co

argument that the israel should keep the golan has a plane that in the defense of war is rejected by the entire world i mean if this was a rational argument it would have been accepted years and years ago it's not a rational argument it's a political ploy which the israeli right wing is using and it has the man in the white house who will go along with this based partly on his ignorance of the facts and based partly on his reliance on very pro israeli political groups and donors and evangelical groups and people of that sort so this is not a serious argument and the world really should just ignore it and get on with the business of generating a peace agreement that brings peace to both sides really let some retained their original territory and guaranteed security for everybody in the region that's the route to peace using is certainly true isn't it to cherry very little international support for this quite to the contrary i challenge rami to far there's a difference between political support and legal precedent and i challenge rami to identify a single precedent in which it has been

this priority is also consistent with national defense strategy objectives. as power projection platforms, installations remain, foundational readiness concerns for all core army missions and we will continue to diligently and prudently carry out our goals of modernizing facilities and ensuring energy and water resilience, all while being good stewards of environmental resources. the army also is keenly aware of the obligation to provide safe, affordable housing to all men and women in uniform. the lethality of our forces begin in the home where the safety of soldiers and their families promotes peace of mind and mission focus. wherever our men and women are, whether deployed or garrison, we will work every day to ensure soldiers know their loved ones are safe. because high quality housing is a residence -- is a readiness concern essential to our mission, i want to stress the department will not consider any family housing or barracks projects as funding sources for section 2808. the care of our soldiers and their families will always be of the utmost importa

to close, we work at the permit of defense with colleagues in uniform to implement the national defense strategy framework, to ensure we are on trajectory to compete, deter, and win the indo pacific. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, admiral davidson. >> good morning, chairman smith, ranking member thornberry and established members of the committee, thank you for providing assistant secretary shriver, general abrams and myself the chance to appear before you today to discuss the indo pacific region. i joined by command sergeant major tony spiro who is with us today. let me say thank you for the significant support we have received from congress over the last two years, temporarily from the budget control act in fiscal year 2029 budget, help to restore the military readiness necessary to safeguard vital us national interest in the indo pacific but there is more work to do. the defense department's proposed 2020 budget will help the challenges described in the national defense strategy and to remain the most lethal force. the readiness recovery increased joint force lethali

the defense said he told his friends he had a sexual relationship with michele and, said the defense,to be the very man kevin tubbs saw with michele in the early hours of september 12th. >> there was a blonde woman out there and a young gentleman, you know, in his early 20s. >> tubbs identified that man from a photograph. >> his physical appearance, his facial hair, his height, his age and the type of vehicle he drove. >> tubbs said the man he saw was driving beside a black truck, stacy stewart drove a black truck, same kind. >> it's a new model and it's a chevy and it's all coming together. >> stacy stewart denied any involvement in michele's disappearance. he denied he ever had a relationship with michele that he was never even alone with her. still, cal's side was convinced that stewart and a friend of his played some role in michele's disappearance. in 2015, trial number three opened, a change of venue necessary said the defense because the case was too well known. and the defense managed to get some of the prosecution's case thrown out. the state wasn't allowed to suggest, as it

we pay for this defense department. >> yeah. richard painter, i appreciate it as always.ic governor john hickenlooper starts right now. [ applause ] >>> good evening from the cnn center in atlanta and welcome to a cnn democratic presidential town hall with former governor john hickenlooper of colorado. i'm dana bash. he's a former geologist who lost his job and turned his severance check into a multi-million dollar beer business, and he is the second governor to enter this crowded field of democratic candidates. tonight governor hickenlooper will take questions from democrats and independents who say they plan to participate in the democratic primaries and caucuses. please welcome governor john

the budget requests $750 billion for national defense. to be clear, this is not funding for endless wars but for research and development and procurement to fund the most on inspiring the world has ever known. in addition, federal resources and front line defenders are overwhelmed at the southern border. in the fiscal year 2020 budget, provides sizeable funding $8.6 billion for full completion of the wall and other security resources. in terms of other major reforms, the administration is purported thing -- proposing work requirements for medicaid, snap, tanf and certain housing programs. we can help low income families and end dependency by strengthening work requirements. the administration wants to lower drug costs. the budget proposes a drug pricing strategy that promotes generics and reduces out of pocket costs. this administration has identified a number of wasteful inefficient programs. for example, we can save hundreds of millions of dollars by right sizing and reforming the underperforming programs like job corps, a youth trainin

where do we begin. >> defense as well. >> not in defense. i believe we can balance the budget and get to the $750 billion baseline for defense cuts. but look at many other areas. once a week i sit down with my colleagues and we go through every area of the budget. we spent an hour last night going through many health care related ideas where we can stabilize programs and make cuts and in some areas. related to that. last woke we dealt with issues related to another area of the budget. as we go through and find programs where we can cut, it's what the american people have figured out already, that if you cut a million here and 10 million there soon enough you're talking about hundreds and of millions and millions can lead to trillions of cuts and we can begin the process of driving down the $national debt. >> if mcis the biggest threat and they spend according to this -- according to wikipedia -- if they spend 146 billion in 2016 on their defense spending and we are spending 750 billion, why do we need to spend so much if they're the biggest

present defense spending as. the. locals are struggling to cope with addicts sucked into the country's ruthless drugs trade. and the mustache that took the heart of a nation. tribute to their hero. while. it's good to have you with us it has the second largest military on the planet and now it's set to get even bigger with an extra cash infusion the chinese military will now receive a total of one hundred seventy eight billion dollars and this is making its neighbors but you know us the seven point five percent increase in spending will be a. stealth fighters and myside as the announcement came as china opened the annual session of its parliament the national people's congress of the great hall of the people in beijing in his opening speech chinese premier league warned that china would resolutely pulls any separatist schemes what activities seeking the independence of taiwan he went on to say this we will implement the military strategy for the new era strengthen military training under combat conditions and family p

boeing does enormous amounts of business with the defense department.t work or there's some other problem or there's overcharging, it's going to cost taxpayers not billions, but tens of billions, potentially hundreds of billions of dollars. this is a situation that never should have happened to begin with. and the idea that he is not following his ethics agreement, if that is true, he needs to be fired, and we need to find out why this happened. >> how long an investigation do you expect, i mean, in a matter like this? >> well, i would hope they could chase this down quite quickly. if he was running around trashing the competitors of boeing or shilling for boeing products at the defense department and people heard that, they report it to the inspector general, and he may deny that. >> right. >> but that's an investigation that can continue for a week or two. but we deserve answers. the american people deserve answers. we pay for this defense department. >> yeah. richard painter, i appreciate it as always. the news continues. let's go to don lemon. "cnn

is to the minister for defense. will the minister update the house on the rollout australian defense force is playing in operations in the middle east? how might a different approach to border security impact on the adf and australia's national security? >> the minister to for defense? >> thank you mr. speaker and i take the minister for his question. one of the things the minister of defense or for that matter the prime minister or leader of the opposition is the opportunity to visit the troops of the australian defense force overseas and operation. and over the summer break and before christmas, i managed to get to afghanistan, the emirates and iraq to visit our troops in basis to talk to them about the great work they're doing. and every australian, and every member of this house should be very proud of the work that our works are doing overseas. certainly some members of this house have served in the military and we acknowledge their service and we are very proud of them as well. the young men and women and some

what about the defense? how does manafort's defense deal with the fact that all these charges he has just been hit with in new york, these are all things for which he has already admitted guilt. how do you even mount a defense when you've already said yeah, that stuff, ooh, yeah, i did all that. joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. joyce, thank you so much for being here. i'm really looking forward to talking to you about this stuff tonight. >> glad to be here. >> first of all, let me ask you about whether i'm asking the right questions when it comes to this new york indictment. what i see as important about it, other than manafort's fate, is how it really calls the question as to whether or not the president can free him from legal liability in the prospect of prison. that said, it seems to me like the prosecutors have to be careful in how they pursue this, given that he has already been charged in two different federal courts. >> i think you're exactly r