defense department.already been reported about ukraine's attempt to adapt turkish attack drones. for the dispersal of biological weapons , the fact that march 9 in the territory of the kherson region is of concern. reconnaissance by units of the russian troops found three sterile aircraft equipped with 30-liter containers and equipped for spraying formulations. according to available data, in january 2022, ukraine purchased more than 50 similar devices through intermediary organizations that can be used for biological formulations and toxic chemicals with the help of ukraine, the united states entered the convention on the prohibition of biological weapons and hid their developments from international control bodies, which were not very effective anyway. yes, and practical americans preferred to keep dangerous drugs away from their borders on the territory of ukraine, for example, roman soboleva natalia barshchevskaya ntv television company jake sullivan, speaking at a conference organized by the washing

the department seeks to modernize and strengthen the u.s. deterrent and defensive capabilities to ensure the joint force can fight and win in wmd contested environments. as the department proposes a significant increase in chemical and defensive -- biological defense across the set up i would like share three examples of how the department will seek to deliver novel capabilities for the war fighter. first, because emerging biologic threats can circumvent traditional concepts of detection, we need to change the paradigm by integrating all available sensors and data collection as a network of networks to identify changes within the environment rather than waiting for the onset of symptoms in our war fighter. second, we must explore the concept of defending from within through preventive and post exposure countermeasures. third, we are working to enhance protection while reducing the burden to our war fighter by replacing heavy, bulky, and extremely hot individual protective equipment with novel types of material and responsive technologies to create a next-generation

we used a, in my work when i was at the defense department, use them all the time. but that wasn't the full extent of the intelligence. it's just one tool of many in the, in the tool box for of intelligence that you use. now they can use this on classified information to verify.

child i read a book talking about how some of the money was for defense was not even taking the defense department, there were important projects built in a districtor important contributions from defense contractors . i think we're nacve to think that practice has ended. i think we're spending a lot of money on things, aircraft carriers for example that i think are very expensive. that a real war wouldn't last long and i think having a separate audit particularly on building munitions, across the border. would be a very good thing and an impartial person look to see where we can spend a little less and it'snot just a matter of spending less. we're spending inappropriately . we have to be ready right now for cyber attacks, that sort of thing that building weapons that may have been more appropriate. >> about nine more minutes with our guests which is from can in tampa florida, independent line, high. >> good morning pedro, how are you? >> your own with our guests. >> what's the rest of this program if you go to our website c-span.org or we take you live now to remarks by president biden on the aff

the department of defense has not delivered the ship study to congress. again, when will we get that? yet, even without these two documents, the department is proposing to end the lpd construction line after lpd 32. now by contrast, the marine corps has been clear. the math is simple. if you end the line after 32, you cannot reach the 31 traditional amphibious ships the marine corp. even included funding for an entire lpd 33 as its number one unfunded priority in fy '23. secretary austin, why did you not include funding for lpd 33 in the fy '23 budget? how do you propose filling the operational gap this is going to cause? and do you think we should take note of the fact that the marine corp. chose lpd 33 as its top choice for additional funding? >> thank you, senator. let me also thank you for what you have done to continue to support us and continue to support our navy and our marine corp. there'sthere are 2.8 billion in the '23 budget focused on am fibs. they will be important to us going forward. there's $5 billion allocated across it. as you know, we'r

the report again is from the defense department but what does this all mean?ified ontsd balls of lights suspended over the ocean. ufos chasing warships all part of a growing body of sightings of uaaps. >> they are going against the wind 120 miles to the west. >> now comes something each more explosive a 1500 page pentagon report of previously classified documents cataloging accounts from witnesses claiming radiation burns, brain damage, even paralysis after close encounters with uaps. >> this is the most a punt haunting of all the reports from my perspective because it shows immunological deficiency. shows altering human d.n.a. it showed degradation on a cellular level. >> 2010 pentagon secret weapons program the report was released only after a freedom of information request. it found sufficient incidents, accidents have been accurately reported. and medical data acquired as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed and owe payinged to full u.s. understanding. >> this is within the documents themselves. >> humans have been sexual

department of defense. bloodd is a demographics consultant for the defense department to do? >> same thing i do in the book which is try to show people with influence how to read the world. basically how do we use population trends to help us better understand the questions that motivate the department of defense into businesses and things like where might the next war break out or how can we try to encourage more peace, better democracy and even what's the difference between poverty and prosperity. what are theat influences on tht and what role does the population have to play. >> one of the questions you answered for dod? >> we looked a lot at risk analysis. so you lookou over the globe and try toot understand where the hotspots might be so that you can pre- position your forces and material. so you can look at an underlying demographic trend like how you get the population and understand where those hotspots might be. >> what is the importance of an old population were youthful population? >> it's kind of changing which is the interesting thing. to this point it's been the

this was mitch mcconnell last week talking about a budget as from the defense department. >> the administration proposed a defense increase of 4% before inflation which does not come anywhere near meeting the military requirements to compete with china and preserve peace well into the future. the same budget has a gigantic, 14% increase on discretionary spending. as our collie chairman senators wrote a budget gave congress zero input or involved, they would look not much different than the actual product. china, russia, iran, north korea that they -- our commander-in-chief needs to get with row graham. host:host: a perspective from the los angeles times others are rest. -- on this request. only to use a when president biden was running for president, progressive's look for engagement from iraq and afghanistan, you might think it was the russian invasion of ukraine that saying that prospect. we'll hear from you now. joe in panama city, florida. i am so sorry for what is going on in ukraine. i did spend time in the military, so i would do it in a heartbeat. not like we should spend any more money

. >> you said because of marines providing security, the defense department would not be part of any of these discussions and that no decisions have been made. yes, there are discussions about how to reopen the embassy? >> i would refer you to my colleagues at the state department. >> can you tell us if you are discussing it? >> i would refer you to the state department. >> you also said that russia would start moving weapons to join nato and i would -- i was wondering if you had any updates on moving weaponry for that. request to follow-up on your answer yesterday was that they are not at unsafe levels. can you share the metric for that? >> we have to be careful about that. i would just tell you this is something we are watching every single day. it is one of the reasons we wanted to have that roundtable. we will not get into specific metrics but i can assure you we are not at the point where our inventories of these systems have or will imminently affect our readiness. we don't want to get to a point where that is an issue. we are comfortable that our stocks are in keeping with our

this was mitch mcconnell last week talking about a budget as from the defense department. >> the administrationas proposed a defense increase of 4% before inflation which does not come anywhere near meeting the military requirements to compete with china and preserve peace well into the future. the same budget has a gigantic, 14% increase on discretionary spending. as our collie chairman senators wrote a budget gave congress zero input or involved, they would look not much different than the actual product. china, russia, iran, north korea that they -- our commander-in-chief needs to get with row graham. host:host: a perspective from the los angeles times others are rest. -- on this request. only to use a when president biden was running for president, progressive's look for engagement from iraq and afghanistan, you might think it was the russian invasion of ukraine that saying that prospect. we'll hear from you now. joe in panama city, florida. i am so sorry for what is going on in ukraine. i did spend time in the military, so i would do it in a heartbeat. not like we should spend any more mon

and i'm asking the defense department to put together what they think we need. thank you. >> house speaker nanci met with the ukraine prime minister. this is about five minutes. speaker pelosi: good morning, everyone. it is a great honor to welcome the prime minister of ukraine to the capitol of the united states. i do so with great admiration and respect for the people of ukraine, for their courage, for their commitment to democracy, for their love of their country. i do so on behalf of bipartisan support in the congress of the united states to help with those aspirations, because the fight of ukrainian people for democracy is a fight for democracy even beyond the borders of ukraine -- the fight against dictatorship and autocracy. we're very proud to be working with our president, president biden, who has been a unifier. a unifier within nato, a unifier in terms of the u.s. government and now unifier with the ukrainian people in so many ways. he announced this morning some expanded sanctions as well as some opportunities to help meet the needs of the ukrainian

seven caliber cruise missiles at ground targets on the territory of ukraine, as reported by the defense department with precision weapons. in the ochakovo area the training center of the ukrainian special operations forces, which was also used to house mercenaries, was destroyed. and today, our ministry of defense reported that the ukrainian special services are preparing new information provocations against the russian military, they want to blame them for the death of civilians, there are facts about filming in konotop and other cities. this was announced by the official representative of the defense department. igor konoshenko. he also spoke about the progress of the special operation to protect donbass for last night, aviation and missile forces destroyed 134 ground targets of the armed forces of ukraine, including command posts, warehouses, ammunition and fuel, as well as a complex point near air-launched high-precision missiles destroyed four fuel storage facilities for supplying groups of ukrainian troops in areas of settlements, kremenets cherkasy zaporozhye and novomoskovsk during the nig

but she's also a former demographics consultant to the us department of defense professor shuba. what is a demographics consultant for the defense department do same thing that i do in the book, which is try to show people with influence how to read the world. basically. how do we use population trends to help us better understand those big questions that motivate the department of defense that motivate businesses things like where might the next war break out or how can we try to encourage more peace spread of democracy and even what's the difference between poverty and prosperity? what are the the influences on that? and what role does population have to play in that? so what are one of the questions that you answered for dod? we looked a lot at risk analysis. so basically as you look at over the globe and you try to understand where hotspots might be so that you can pre-position your forces or your material so you can really look at an underlying demographic trends like age structure. for example, how young is the population and to decide where those hot spots might be? what i

celeste wallander who's the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the department of defense, and general tod wolters who is the u.s. air force commander for the u.s.-european command. welcome both of you. before we get started with that, tomorrow will be the last day of working this committee for paul who i think most of you know who is our staff director, has been our staff director for 12 years i think now, has been on the committee for 18. and i really want to thank paul for his service to this committee as most of us know he's also a veteran of the u.s. army, didid bomb disposal in the army before the coming to work for thee government. and we're all going to miss him terribly, me more so than anybody else. he has done a fantastic job for this committee but mostly i'm very happy for him. it's a good move. it's been ever so slightly stressful job for the last few years, so it's a terrific move. also paul is recently married, some big time for him. and very happy. i can't say enough about the job that is done for this committee. we -- [applause] [applause] >> we

about today is more than 40 countries that have gathered, or rather, representatives of the defense departmentsthese countries in ramstein. this is not a musical group in this case. but this is a city in germany. we understand that there is a military base of the united states of america, one of the largest, or rather the largest in europe. that is why the same strategic meeting is taking place there 40 countries participate in the advisory group on the defense of ukraine, as we have already said, we can now see a video of how it all happens at the meeting , our minister of defense oleksiy reznikov is also present, but in his speech at the beginning, the minister of defense of the states of lloyd called this historic, noting that its purpose is to help ukraine win in wars started by the invasion of russia and to prepare the defense forces of ukraine for future challenges ah-ah mrs. hanna explain to us how to read these news, how to treat them or the truth this meeting is historic and well, in fact, the victory of ukraine will be historic, and these meetings are important elements in that the we

defense contracts. and that one of its top customers is the united states department of defense max or enables the u. s. department of defense and its allies to better monitor, understand and respond to global events, deter threats and ensure global security. together the many elements of macs are can help the d o. d needed far reaching modernization goals, maintain decision advantage, and rapidly identify and predict change. one of the main investors in macs are, is black rock incorporated, the largest investment management firm on wall street and 3 of its former executives are now top members of president jo biden's cabinet as really intelligent, provided by max car is actually quite substantial. in fact, 90 percent of the satellite images collected by the us government worldwide in the name of national security are created using math or technology. as a result, there was partnership can allow for southern ship on behalf of the u. s. government . similar to what we saw back in 2001, when the department of defense ordered another company, not just those satellite images of afghanistan to anyone, but

two top leaders at the defense department, dispense secretary -- the defense secretary and the general, talking issues of defense but also addressing issues coming out of ukraine. you can see that live at 9:30 this morning on c-span3, c-span.org, and our c-span now app. jake sullivan, national security advisor, at the white house talking about the issue and what is expected in the following days when it comes to investigating. [video clip] >> the ukrainian people have held firm. a key and other cities still stand. the ukrainian military has performed exceptionally well. many ukrainian civilians have joined local militias, in addition to using nonviolent means to resist. valda -- vladimir putin also believed the west would not hold together in support of ukraine. russia was surprised that president biden and the united states were so effective in rallying the world to prepare for and respond to the invasion. and after president biden reinforced and reinvigorated in a series of summits and brussels just 11 days ago, the russians have now realized that the west will not break. at this jun

in one chat, as they worked on cracking a secret defense department password, assange commented, "noou know, we had a chat room. naturally, you can see there was lots of chat going on, and today, if i read the chat logs, if these are real chat logs--and, you know, i would guess they are--then the conversations between julian and chelsea certainly didn't help anybody. michael: assange's dealings with manning would latebe one of the factors that lead to a bitter split in wikileaks. daniel: this is where i think on the next level, this was an abuse of responsibility, maybe, where you were milking a source. that's how i read that, and this is not something we should've been doing or julian shoulde been doing. michael: over a period of months, manning and assamanning uploadedgh theithousands of files.ons. sange was keen for more. at one-point, manning said, "after this upload, that's all i really have got left." assange replied, "curious eyes never run dry in my experience." daniel: there's little to nothing about, you know, "be careful." there's just a lot about, you know, "what else can

department of defense, professor, what is a crystalline for the defense department to?me thing i do in the book try to show people with influence r how to read the flo, how do we use trends to better understand those questions that motivate department of defense, where the floor might break out or how could we encourage spread of democracy and was the difference betweenwh prosperity, the influences on that? we looked at risk analysis, as you look at the globe try to understand where hotspots might be to pre-position your forces or age structure for example, how young the population is or where the whole hotspots might be. [inaudible question] >> it's changing which is interesting. the old populations have a greater chance of being more peaceful and democratic arinternally. there are exceptions but you would have a greater chance of outbreak of civil conflict with the younger age structure which sense, hard to govern a country where half the population is under the age of 20 for example the youngest country in the world, the region in africa and nigeria are very young, h

how much pressure lori is the defense department under to deliver? well, i don't think they're under a lot of pressure. i draw the line between what they're saying publicly and what they're actually do. you don't see them rushing to bring their top flight. you know, patriot batteries, for example, into ukraine. up to this point, russia's been able to hit military bases and key warehouse installations at will. and there's been nothing done to stop there. instead, talking about sandy lockets and cindy stay or missiles again 41 year old technology is, is not bringing out your best. so we're sending the 2nd, right, so, but we're pretending that we're making it 1st rate up. it's very cynical actually, and that's, and the weaponry that gets sent, laurie if it goes into the wrong hands, which it has dawn on occasion before this, do they care? well, they may not cure now, but the care of the future if you have some, some radical islamic, say, and syria who manages to get his hands on a stinger and takes out some airport in the least. so that is definitely, y

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in the distance, they quickly pick up speed, as reported in our defense department and a strike withigh-precision weapons was inflicted on ground facilities located on the territory of ukraine; five storage bases for hot lubricants were destroyed in the areas of settlements of redekhov kazatin professional nikolaev iskovsk, as an official representative of the defense department said. igor konoshenkov , military equipment of afu groupings was supplied with fuel from these facilities, including our aviation successfully worked in the donbass that night. during the night of operational-tactical aviation aerospace forces of russia and missile forces hit 24 military facilities of ukraine, including the zenit missile system osa km, five warehouses of logistics, as well as 11 strong points and areas of concentration of military equipment of ukrainian troops russian air defense systems shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles in the air apparatus in the areas of settlements, berdyansk gornyak uivanskaya and chernobaevka. our military valiantly carry out combat missions to protect the donbass

we are increasing the department of defense budget by 4%. it is in line with the national defense strategy. last year the administration was new, still working on how we saw the military of the future. but we are investing more ai and we're investing in hypersonics. in addition to legacy equipment, f-35s, submarines that many, many of you are interested in. so, we have to do both. we have to invest in our traditional capability, as well as look to the future including our cyber threats. >> it's often been said that congress gets in the way of the cuts we need to make to invest in the future. would you agree with that? >> out of deference to my former place of employment, i'm just going to say this is the beginning of a process and i look forward to working with you throughout it. >> if you won't agree to my statement, i will. i think we have a lot of work to do here to make sure that we're not just protecting parochial interest at the expense of our national security. china is also trying to outcompete us in foreign aid by attacking one of o

the defense department also told how a group of our servicemen, with the help of drones, discovered thequipment all the information about the location of the convoy was reported by experts to the command post. after that, the enemy vehicles were hit with high-precision weapons. the ministry of defense spoke about the new exploits of the russian military during a special operation in the donbass and ukraine, a group under the command of daniil postnikov discovered ukrainian saboteurs. the major decided to engage in battle with the enemy. as a result, some of the nationalists destroyed the rest, surrendered, laid down their arms, reported the coordinates of the artillery battalion of militants, who later liquidated the group major ruslan mansurov entered into battle with the enemy. the battles lasted more than four hours ; our military destroyed over 35 units of military equipment, militants. the nationalists suffered significant losses and retreated, while there were no losses in the mansurov group. arseniy pavlov, together with his subordinates, attacked ukrainian saboteurs during the b

defense budget has to be strategy based. you have been a longtime advocate here on getting rid of waste and abuse in the department of defense, that is accurate. but we have heard from the other side of the aisle who believe our number is not large enough. that is why we believe the right thing to do here is use the long-term dissent strategy to build our budget. parks director young, i assume that the other side also would agree that we don't want waste fraud and abuse in our pentagon budget. i rumor last year or last term under a republican president we actually had a republican budget director testify that the pentagon should pass an audit. what work is going on to make sure that the pentagon passes a budget before we continue to increase military spending indiscriminately to some of the patriotic banner and say that somehow because we are increasing military spending, even though we can't pay for veterans at home, we can invest in education in ways that we want, even though we are having debates around whether or not we have enough money for childcare, something the president has advocated for the way, more childcare, bu