the department of defense has a very bad record. they stand out as the only department of government. it's impossible to know how much things cost or what is being bought when nobody is keeping good track of the money being shuttled out the door. for nearly 30 years we've been pushing the pentagon to earn a clean opinion on any of their audits. way back in 1990 congress passed a chief financial officers act which required all departments of the government to present a financial statement to an inspector general for audit by march 1992. all departments have complied and earned clean opinions except one, that's the department of defense. instead of clean opinions, the department of defense has earned a long string of failing opinion, and these happen to go by the name of disclaimers. but it boils down to the fact that the books at the department of defense are unaudittable. now 20 years later after that 1990 congressional action, so now 2010, congress finally got fed up and passed a new law requiring the pentagon to be ready for audit

the department of defense has a very bad record. they stand out as the only department of government. it's impossible to know how much things cost or what is being bought when nobody is keeping good track of the money being shuttled out the door. for nearly 30 years we've been pushing the pentagon to earn a clean opinion on any of their audits. way back in 1990 congress passed a chief financial officers act which required all departments of the government to present a financial statement to an inspector general for audit by march 1992. all departments have complied and earned clean opinions except one, that's the department of defense. instead of clean opinions, the department of defense has earned a long string of failing opinion, and these happen to go by the name of disclaimers. but it boils down to the fact that the books at the department of defense are unaudittable. now 20 years later after that 1990 congressional action, so now 2010, congress finally got fed up and passed a new law requiring the pentagon to be ready for audit

most of it comes from the department of defense. we will ship that into multiple places and people can use that data to produce better products. i think if we do it right we will get benefit out of that from the department of defense for the folks that do that business will learn from others doing it as well and we will apply the best practices like we do in the military. >> oh, i see the clock is working now. i guess a better hurry. administrator, i know we've touched on this already with other questions but do you believe utilization of commercial processing software for enhanced foundational ssa for nasa to avoid a potential catastrophic with the international space station is the best way to go or where should that software come from? >> that's a great question. the answer is to the extent, and of course this is in the future, we are not there yet, to the extent that we have a regime to do space situational awareness and space traffic management that is outside the department of defense and in a civil entity, there are different

when we had the big fights, the president was involved, the leadership, the defense department was involved. we were all in on all of that. within the department, secretary wineberger undertook a rigorous oversight for the strategic modernization programs in a manner that has been commended to secretary mattis today, to ensure those programs remained on track. and in the mid 80s, secretary wineberger authorized a complete overhaul of the nuclear war plans and recast all of those war plans to be can consistent with policy, because the floor plans had become inconsistent. there were two big surprises. i'm going to stop speaking so i can give my colleague some time. happy to speak with them. two big surprises that i was involved in. the first, of course, was the strategic defense initiative, which we wrote the speech, which is supposed to be a speech about mx. turned out different. and then the summit, with gorbichof. those are things we can save for q and a. thank you very much. >>> becky and peter, thanks very much for hosting this and thank you all for coming and taking time to learn about

after that, they are going to try to move funding for the defense department and funding for health and human services together. they are going to marry them together. they are normally controversial bills, lightning rods for controversial amendments. they are going to hope they start to nullify the controversy on both sides. the question out there is what do they do about border wall funding? the senate appropriations committee passed a funding bill that included $1.6 billion for border barriers. the house appropriations committee would include more like $5 billion for barriers. they will have to work out the difference and hope president trump doesn't threaten to shut down the government if he doesn't get more money. he wants $25 billion in total. >> supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is continuing his capitol hill meetings next week. his first meeting with a democratic senator is monday, senator joe manchin. that will be followed by indiana senator joe donnelly august 15. what senate democratic leadership said, and how does that play into the strategy in opposing the nominee, whic

but the twenty one trillion number comes from the department of defense's office of inspector general the oh-i g. although as forbes magazine pointed out after mark skidmore began inquiring about the report the zero ideas web page was mysteriously taken down but luckily people had already grabbed copies of that report before it was taken down my favorite part is they have all fraud and ways top line. that you can call. you imagine could type of fraud and waste that they must hear on that hotline. hi i work here in the pentagon my name's patti lu and i mainly in charge a refill in the nk in the copy years because generals do not know how to use the copiers it's you know they can handle war but i don't know a copier and i wanted to report that someone here in my department gave taken the plans hold which are clearly partment plans and then. we must go through seven or eight times a week and it's ridiculous ok thank you patty ya'll write down the seven pens right below the section as to how you do. this. anyway here's more from the forbes article this past december the inspector general

we operate, we the department of defense operate in support of our national diplomatic in foreign policy agenda, not the other way around. when we sit at a table with secretary pompeo and our colleagues from the state department our job is to listen to what the strategic objectives of the nation are and apply our military power in the pursuit of those objectives and that does lead to the question that we got american leadership matters in american leadership in the policy matters an american leader ship in development matters because if those two legs of this new security still fail us i am all that is left. i don't like that world. i would much prefer the world we are equal partners in getting this done right and that is why i think our leadership is important in organizations like this matter to help us talk that very story. when you go to hell tomorrow i will not ask you to be advocates for taking away from the defense department budget to build up the state permit budget or usaid budget but what you can do is talk about balance and what is the right balance and where is the place we

why is it the justice department, why isn't the defense department reacting to that's very open questionhy in the hell did the president of the united states permit that? ed: we found out hillary clinton was never under real investigation in those hearings. we found out today that the justice department and defense department basically are not -- the president needs to get back here and grab hold of these people and straighten them out. he's doing a great job but he's getting undercut and his story is being stepped on to some extent. lou: the white house spokesman talking like he was work for an h.r. department saying we were not accused of anything by the special counsel or department of justice. who the hell cares? it's about national security. ed: i agree totally. i have spent 50 years of my life in politics and white house politics. i'm appalled by the lack of communication. lou: what can the president do with the department of justice and the fbi? ed: he has to sit down with the attorney general and everybody else over there and say i want this straightened out. lou: do you think th

strategic systems, when we had the fights on the mx, the president was involved, leadership and defense department were involved, we were all in on all of that. within the department, secretary wineburger undertook a rigorous oversight for the modernization program in a matter commended to secretary mattis today to insure the programs negativeatives remained on track. -- initiatives remained on track, authorized a complete overhaul of a war plans, we cast them consistent with policy because the war plans would become inconsistent with presidential policy. there were two big surprises and i will give my colleagues some time, happy to talk about them. two big surprises i was involved in, the first, of course, strategic defense initiative, wrote the speech, supposed to be about mx, turned out a little different. and the summit with gorg chaufb, proposed to eliminate all nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles, those are things we can save for q&a. thanks very much. >>> thanks very much for hosting this and thank you all for coming and taking time to learn about some history, and some future conditions,

around the country did all that you should care about a lot look at the state department in defense department computers were both hacked in president obama's second term by both russia and china and chinese did it to get the intelligence to weapon nine sour policies but this should really bother you because just about anything that works a lot --em-dash electronically can be hacked and we try to describe what could happen in a worst-case scenario but i don't think our country has done enough 20 years ago i issued the first executive order with richard clark he was working into counterterrorism then we thank him in the book but i read his book and looked in three or four others and talk to a bunch of people to figure out how to put this together and we had a lot of help because we did not want to screw up the technology. well over $700 billion so according to the government figures i could get 15 billion in cybersecurity mac and we really did a lot of research and the president read a lot and reach out to some people who really know what they are doing in one of the viewer said we don't know w

we had the big fights in congress on the mx, the president was involved, the leadership, the defense department was involved. we were all in on all of that. within the department, secretary weinberger overtook rig yous oversight for modernization programs in a manner that has been commended to secretary mattis today to ensure those programs and initiatives remained on track. in mid-'80s secretary weinberger authorized a complete overhaul of nuclear war plans and to be consistent with nuclear policy because the war plans had become inconsistent with presidential policy. there were two big surprises, and i'm going to stop speaking now so i can give my colleague some time. happy to talk about them in the q&as. two big surprises that i was involved in. the first was the strategic defense initiative for which the k.t. mcfarland and i wrote the speech, which was supposed to be a speech about mx. turned out a little different. and then the summit with gorbachev where there was a proposal to eliminate either all nuclear weapons or all ballistic missiles. those are things we can save for q&a. thanks ver

washington think tanks who like to talk about this there are some in the pentagon as well in the defense department who see it as a last ditch attempt by the united states to be able to continue to sell the hundreds of billions of dollars in hardware and our missile defense systems particularly in light of the recent competition we're facing from russia in its s four hundred defense system but those those pieces are not i think they're not going to come together with any kind of real summit or real organization for an air of nato that is focused on saudi arabia and the united arab emirates flight how does iran view the creation or the possible creation of this alliance is iran view this as a pretext by the u.s. to take military action against iran. foreign policy. american foreign policy magazine. piece few weeks ago trying to answer this question that the united states takes many military action against iran and as that that i don't know and i think it's a collective notices is that u.s. military is going to have serious difficulties if they engage iran militarily iran's. reach and military abilit

so it's not just the department of defense. if we're going to address the uncertainty, if we're going to address the problems with dealing with our national security strategy, we have to address fiscal policy. and for going on eight years now we have been having this conversation in the armed services committee, and most times my republican colleagues sternly rebuke me for raising issues that are supposedly not directly related to the armed services. we're the armed services committee. we're not here to talk about the debt or deficit or infrastructure or any of that other stuff. well, it all goes together. what we as a congressional body have to do is come up with a plan that actually makes sense. that actually there is money for. if we do that, then we can have the stability for the department of defense. i will well, it tell you if we're $22 trillion in debt, and the testifies is projected to be pretty close to $1 trillion this year and quickly north of $1 trillion going forward, we're going to have to deal with that problem

i instigated exhaustive inquiries through the department and tried andairs through the defense departmentf the u.s. and south korean i responded to the relative of flying offer courtesy of your office. in october 2016, to confirm that been ther information had made available. is, the only uth authority that would have more information, could have more the north korean regime. nd we have very limited diplomatic engagement with north korea and that's been the case for some time. our embassy in seoul has continued to make representations to the north korean government about our in action, as recently as march of this year. the summit meeting between president trump and kim jung-un declaration that was signed that specifically refers to the repatriation of the p.o.w.s and missing in action, does give us some there will be a final of the on of the status australian defense service men. in defense personnel remain constant contact with or counterparts in the united states, and i permanently raise issue with the acting ambassador of the united states week. the course of this >> australia once ag

but the twenty one trillion number comes from the department of defense's office of inspector general the oh-i g. although as forbes magazine pointed out after mark skidmore began inquiring about the report the zero i.d.'s web page was mysteriously taken down but luckily people had already grabbed copies of that report before it was taken down my favorite part is they have all fraud and ways taught lie. that you can call. it was bachchan good type of fraud and waste that they must hear on that hotline. hi i work here in the pentagon my name's patti lu and i made me a charger refill in nk in the copy years because generals do not know how to use the copiers it's good you know they can handle war but i don't know a copy or any i want to report then someone here in my department gave taken the plans hold which are clearly partment plans and then. we must go through seven or eight pens away it's ridiculous ok thank you patty ya'll write down the seven pens right below the section i have to tell your dad. yeah. anyway here's more from the forbes article this past december the inspector gen

so we, we are suing the cia, the fbi, the defense department, to release classified files that have beeneld for over 65 years and there are 7,000 of us or more waiting, families, to hear what's in those classified files. that's where the answers will be. trish: any sense when you will get them? >> well, it is going through the federal courts right now. we hope that president trump will take an active part on this, demand these files be declassified. they have been held for 6 5. the law says they must be released after 25 years. they have been not been released. they keep stonewalling and hiding covering it up. we want the answers to those files. trish: i don't blame you. bob, lois, thank you so much. good to have you guys here. we hope you fet answers very soon. >> thank you very much. trish: busy week for commodities between president trump promising $12 billion of aid to farmers hurt by the tariffs and the trade promise to the eu we'll head to the to the markets. markets are off 125 points despite fabulous news of 4.1% growth. why are investors talking about this. >>> president trump i

. >> there is a development overnight in the defense department has been asked to house as many as 12,000 12,000nt families -- immigrants on three different bases. what do you think is the appropriate level of congressional oversight and press access for these and speaking of , how dosecretary mattis you think it is being received at the pentagon that they're being asked to pitch in? pres. trump: we should not be -- >> we should not be incarcerating women and children. there is a better way to do this , to handle asylum-seekers then to lock them up. bases isitary particularly troubling. we should not be incarcerating them. second of all, we want our military bases to be preparing to defend the country. this undermines their ability and their readiness. when president obama speculated about doing this in 2014, the republicans were outraged that he would use the military. it would undermine the core mission of the military. i think it is troubling in that respect. second, there has not been much transparency about the conditions within the facilities in which these people are being held. th

you know, people say the department of defense took 40 years to actually become the department of defense, and they had far fewer departments -- army, navy, marines, etc. -- to merge. so that work continues, but i will say that the work of my two pred access sr.s, tom ridge and michael chertoff, you know, laid the foundation. we made progress, a lot of progress when i was secretary. my successor, jeh johnson, made progress. i can't report on it now. it's hard to tell. >> host: do you know kirsten nielsen at all? >> guest: i have not met her, no. >> host: what were your successes when you were there? >> guest: two that i will mention. one is tsa precheck which anyone who flies a lot will appreciate, and the other is daca. 700,000 young people brought to this country as children, the average age of 6, grew up here, know only this country as home, we were able to create a program where they could remain in the country, not be fearful of being picked up for immigration enforcement and get a work permit. >> host: what was your expertise coming in? you had been governor of arizona. >> guest: so

you brought up, christine, google google's relationship ontracting with the defense department. is this something we should be concerned about? explore that more and the marriage of big tech and big government? and no. one of the interesting things bout that contract is that it actually showed that a lot of that siliconshowed valley itself these companies need to come up with a code and of ethics which they have not done despite they are uilding killer robots and artificial intelligence allege rhythms. revealed that google has this project, a lot of the employees of google, thousands actually, wrote a letter and say we don't work for defense department. we are not in the business of making weapons. of course i think has every right to have defense contracts. i have no problem with that. best they have the technology and this contract was artificial intelligence to improve our technologies.ance i have no problem with that if that is going to keep us safer. do have a problem with is f you look back at how nuclear weapons were developed and devised and the way scientists in and coo

when we had the big fight in congress, the president was involved, the leadership with the defense department was involved. we were all involved with that. within the department, secretary weinberger undertook a rigorous oversight for the strategic modernization -- modernization that has beenway committed to secretary mattis today to make sure those initiatives remain on track. in the mid-1980's, secretary weinberger authorized a complete overhaul of the nuclear war ast all ofre-c those war plans to be consistent with policy, because they had all become inconsistent with presidential policy. there were two big surprises -- and i will stop speaking now i want to give my colleagues sometime. there were two big surprises that i was involved in, the first being a strategic defense initiative in which we wrote a speech that was supposed to be about mx. it turned out a little different. and then a summit with gorbachev , where there was a proposal to either eliminate all nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles. but those are things we can [applause] >> thank you very much for coming and taking time t

defense department and the russian defense department. on that, they're bound by law not to have a whole lot of interaction, craig. >> hans nichols for us at the white house, thank you, sir. former white house press secretary sean spicer was on the "today" show as part of his book tour. the man once paid to defend the president carefully dancing around this issue of trump's comments about russia. >> do you think the president blew it with vladimir putin this week? >> i'm glad that he clarified his comments, put it that way. >> is that a yes? >> no, i think it's very important to be clear that russia meddled in our elections. >> kimberly atkins, for the boston herald. and natasha bertrand, she covered the trump/russia scandal for the atlantic. she's at the aspen security reform there. that is not a green screen. it is postcard pretty there in aspen, colorado. so, consequently, we're going to start with kimberly here this afternoon. kimberly, president trump, he says, now, that there could be another summit. why would president trump have a

but the twenty one trillion number comes from the department of defense's office of inspector general the oh-i g. although as forbes magazine pointed out after mark skidmore began inquiring about the report the zero i.d.'s web page was mysteriously taken down but luckily people had already grabbed copies of that report before it was taken down my favorite part is they have all fraud and ways taught lie. that you can. you imagine could type of fraud and waste that they must hear on that hotline how high i worked here in the pentagon my name's patti lu i'm mainly in charge a refill in the nk in the copy years because generals do not know how to use the copiers it's good you know they can handle war but i don't know a copy or any i wanted to report that someone here in my department gave taken the plans hold which are clearly partment plans they. really must go through seven or eight pens away it's ridiculous ok thank you patty ya'll write down the seven pens right below the section i have to tell your dad. anyway here's more from the forbes article this past december the inspector gener

mattis has reor yepted the entire defense department to look towards a high intensity conflict. that means conflict with either russia or china. everywhere he go, he talks about russia, the threat it posed, and also the importance of alliances. just recently we had the presidential comments about montenegro, wondering why we would fight for montenegro. when mattis was on the plane flying to croatia after that summit in brussels, what did he do, he welcomed montenegro, celebrating their coming into nato. stephanie, if you were to juxtapose that with what the president says, you'd almost think they were from different administrations. as you well know tomorrow is the anniversary of that july 20th meeting where the president went to the pentagon, had that two-hour global forces lay down. as you reported at the time, secretary of state rex tillerson came out of that meeting saying the president was a moron. >> wouldn't it be the moment for rex tillerson to take to twitter and own up to saying that? i want to bring in my panel. eli stockles. malcolm nance, author of "the plat to atta

have expressed concerns in the past about the program, which is currently under review by the defense department dana: all right. thank you, jennifer. and here now with more on this is pete hegseth an iraq and afghanistan combat war veteran and co-host of "fox & friends weekend." so you will see him this weekend and jose, deputy press secretary and founder of now strategies llc. pete, i just want to go to you first. i assume when you were serving in the armed forces that you did serve with some immigrants who had become citizens through a program in order to serve the country and they got through the system because they could pass it. >> absolutely. no better merit based system than an imgrant here legally who joins the military for a pathway to citizenship. everyone loves it anyone who has served under that program believes in it this a.p. headline could not be more deceptive. saying the trump administration is pushing out immigrants poorly sourced terrible headline and and as president electronystagmography has pentas pointed out. not affecting hispanics south of the border. any country coming

not sure and until we have that answer i don't believe that the agencies the states farm the defense department the intelligence community will know what to do and i don't think our congress will know how to react so we need transparency right now from that two hour meeting now be very interesting to see if we guess his own not will many thanks very much for joining us today joel rubin. and matters of. and thank you to very much for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting a website that's al-jazeera dot com and for this question to go to all facebook pace that's facebook dot com a.j. inside story because it's on the conversation on twitter at inside story from me laura kyle and the whole team hand it's by and. i. now. counting the cost. you know it's a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to pl

says there is another meeting set for july 2we12th not between state department officials but defense department. what would you hope would be discussed in that meeting? >> i think that meeting is entirely about the return of the 200 sets of p.o.w. mia remains from the korean war which president trump said that he had already gotten but hasn't gotten yet. and i think the holdup there is that generally the north koreans want us to pay to get those remains back. and i'm sure from the u.s. perspective we don't want to pay for sets of remains that the north koreans have already promised us. >> all right. victor, always good to get your insights. thank you so much. >>> the shift of michael cohen from potential target to potential witness. a reporter tells us what to expect next. alright guys let's go! let's do this. (♪) okay you gotta be kidding me. hold on, don't worry, there's another way. directions to the greek theater. (beep) ♪can i get a connection? ♪can i get can i get a connection?♪ ♪ohhh can i get a connection? ♪trying find the old me your hair is so soft! did you use head and shoulders two

american forces network operated by the defense department broadcast that visit live. up next, a 90-minute portion of live coverage from june 12th, 19 1987 courtesy of the archives. and president reagan delivers his tear down this wall speech. >> this is a special report. live coverage of president reagan's visit to berlin. now here's your host army sergeant brian hart. >> good morning it is just moments now until president ronald reagan officially greets the people of berlin. air force one touched down moments ago in west berlin. president reagan is visiting berlin to help t

and so it's pretty significant amount of funding for the defense department. host: can you talk about some of the particulars in the bill, the increases in some of the particular items? john: sure. well, the defense authorization bill, one of the things that by law the authorizers, the armed services committees, alone can do is, one, the size of the military, and another is the pay for the military. and whatever they say is what appropriators have to fund. and the end strength, the total number of people in the military, the active duty military will go up by 15,600 people in the coming fiscal year. and that is more than twice what the senate had wanted. it's equal to the administration's request. so that's a big thing and that's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars of additional money. the senate appropriators cut about $1.4 billion from their personnel accounts thinking they were going to have a lower level of so-called end strength. but because they're going to now have to go to a higher level, they'll have to find that money. that's one thing, the

block party that turned into three days of rioting, and a fatal bombing ofn office devoted to defense departmentearch. >> it really was aor trantive experience. >> reporter: david maraniss, hrose book, "they marched into sunlight," cicled what happened here as the war in vietnam escalated half a world away. >> madison and probably berkeley and ann arbor and a few other college towns were exaggerated representations of what was o happening generation during that period where there was a sensibility that le was changing every day. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: so what has brought nearly 1,000 veterans of campuse upheaval back o madison to sample dozens of panels, screenings, and musical performances, including one from a luminary classmate: boz scaggs. >> madison in the '60s was not just a time and a place, it was a ste of mind. >> reporter: the reunion was organized by noted jazzia mus and lifelong madison resident ben sidran and his wife, lt g time activdy sidran. >> i think anybody who came through here in the '60sot spun a little bit, because of this culture, the ecology of what madison was. >> reporter: i

just before his trip to this upcoming nato meeting is announced at least at some level the defense department review of the cost of withdrawing all of its thirty five thousand troops out of germany not all of them but a. significant well it's an important demon again is much is that he's surrounded by these neo cons which we've talked about on this program many times before he still comes out and says these things ok i don't know if it's his own idea if it's part of a concerted strategy that he has but he will not let the payment of. each member of nato he won't let that go he just hanging onto it i mean it's a real competition in absurdity because actually the stockholm institute for peace for a show called too late that that russia spends on its defense twenty seven percent of all what nato european allies spend on their decenter defense russia's defense budget is ten times smaller than the american one but still. actually. one of the bunch of one of the fears. and i think you know the record was made by their household who commented on the visit by john bolton trumps national security advi

the secretary of defense awarded kathy the department of defense metal for distinguished public service. she did this throughout her career. while i was the one in uniform, she served two. mr. chairman, i come from the community were service above self is expected. there is no greater honor than to be asked to leave. given the opportunity to return, there is no other answer, but yes. i'm honored by the trust and confidence of the president and director of national intelligence. few americans have had the privilege i've had. i want to thank you for considering my nomination to be the next director. if confirmed, to be transparent, collaborative with this committee and members of congress. it was my distinct privilege to serve as the deputy director when it was led by doctor scott and mike. from my experience working in the inner agency i'm convinced that through a coordinated and synchronize government approach i like to the example of my friend during the raid on the osama bin laden's compound. this operation was not only an intelligence community but defense department campaign and the

just before his trip to this upcoming nato meeting is announced at least at some level the defense department review of the cost of withdrawing all of its thirty five thousand troops out of germany not all of them but a. significant well it's an important demon and again i mean it is much is that he's surrounded by these neo cons which we've talked about on this program many times before he still comes out and says these things ok i don't know if it's his own idea if it's part of a concerted strategy that he has but he will not let the payment of. each member of nato he won't let that go he just hanging onto it well i mean it's a real competition in absurdity because actually the stockholm institute for peace for a show called too late that russia spends on its defense twenty seven percent of all what nato european allies spend on their decenter defense russia's defense budget is ten times smaller than the american one but still without. the fears. and i think the record was made by their sauce a lot who commented on the visit by john bolton trumps national security advisor to law school oswa

into a war they don't want i often say that to russian friends and to american friends at the defense department we should understand both americans and russians in. either president decides to kill everybody in the other country he can do it that's a hard fact so mr putin if he decides can erase the u.s. from the map of course in doing that he'll be committing suicide for russia so if somebody was to choose that that's a sad fact but they can do it but what they shouldn't do is stumble into a war and i think a lot of americans misunderstand the extent to which the ways in which failures to communicate for example where there are military operations in syria or even about the baltics could lead as they did in one nine hundred fourteen to a bunch of misunderstandings at the end of which you could be in a catastrophic war which would be crazy for russia would be crazy for the us well absolutely anything on that exact point both britain and trump agree they both stress that it would be wrong to make the us russia relationship hostage to domestic politics in the united states but i think the argumen

he goes to the highest levels of the defense department, and basically, the relief stood. basically took a backseat for the rest of the war. i think his generals basically lost his command, too, almost like a tie. then we get to the heart of the talk, the unification crisis. how many people familiar with this? probably not many. -- some positive things, the chief of staff and the full representatives of the services, not the marine corps. so, starting in december 1943. during the war, marshall has a plan. guess who is in the white house? not truman, roosevelt. he loves the marine corps. his son enlisted. he basically was the marine corps commandant. one of his jobs was to take care of the marine corps. this caused a truman to say, when he took over the presidency, this is like the navy. we'll get rid of those guys. comment aboutur's the 1932 plan. summer of 1944 is when the release happens. increase after the war. the marine commandant has a statement for the senate naval affairs committee. following this up this is taking , the marine corps away. we will no longer have th