in a lettersi to congressional meetings last friday the comptroller for the department of defense wrote the department of defense has exhausted nearly all available security assistance planning for ukraine. mr. secretary mccord at the without additional funding now they would have to delay or curtail o assistance to lead ukraine's urgent requirements including for air defense and ammunition that are critical and urgent now as russia prepares to conduct winter offensives and continues itsti bombardment of ukrainian citizens. we cannot let that happen. mr. president i would ask at this point consent that the text of this report be included in the record. >> without overt -- without objection. >> going to need for our support i must point out that our support is the leading edge of worldwide support. our nato allies have stepped forward. countries around the globe understand that this battle is between democracy and freedom and autocracy and inhumanity must be one. president zelensky came to this very building two weeks ago to ask for our support.il he received overwhelming bipartisan promises from members of the s

uh now though, the defense department of defense secretary lloyd austin is confirming that the final destination for this freight group is going to be alongside the usf ford. so in other words, the us, us eisenhower, which is the carriers crate groups now going to be alongside the us us board, which is already in the eastern mediterranean. and the purpose of this 2nd carrier strike group is deterrence. it's deterrence to make sure that there is no non state or state actor that is looking to broaden this conflict, can be how could, thanks so much indeed, it will stay with us here on al jazeera as we continue our special coverage, including conflict, has a good thousands of people to take to the streets in many parts of the world. we'll have those details coming up next, the colors, whether it's looking pretty quad, because a good positive charter, lots of items on the shopping, around the grassy se ultimate on the show and making his way into what japan high pressure and child shaping see the civil area the cloud, just to the south of japan, that's what i'm organized there. we have li

the department of defense has always relied upon to come in when civil authorities are overwhelmed and all of that on an unspoken scale. and that is fundamentally something that the department of defense will always do. you know, we may gripe and groan and say, somebody else's job, this and that, but at the end of the day, the department of defense is there for the u.s. public and it will support the u.s. public. but this was really an opportunity to say, given the responsibility from a war fighting perspective abroad and in partnership with our allies in a war fighting scenario, what is it that we need for them to be prepared for to be able to detect early on what is in the environment, to be able to continue their mission, and that was the particular focus that we had throughout the bpr review. >> if i could bring it back just a second to the formation of the bpr and the council, if you could expand a little bit on how the council was put together, who is on it, and why. the perception, as dr. george brought up, is the dod has incredible skills in just about any area you want to mention, in biological world and medical education, and epidemiology, and nuclear proliferation, you name

a letter to congressional leaders last friday, the comptroller for the department of defense wrote that the department of defense has exhausted nearly all available security assistance funding for ukraine. under secretary -- under secretary mccord added, without additional funding now, we'll have to delay or curtail assistance to meet ukraine's urgent requirements, including for air defense and ammunition that are critical and urgent now as russia perhaps to conduct a winter offensive and continues its bombardment of ukrainian cities. we cannot let that happen. mr. president, i would ask at this point unanimous consent that the text of ms. mccord's letter be recorded in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: knowing the need for our support, and i must point out our support is the leading edge of worldwide support, our nato allies have stepped forward, countries around the globe understand that this battle between democracy and freedom and atoc raisi -- atoc raisi and inhumanity must be won. president zelenskyy came to this building two weeks ago and asked for our support, he received bi

department of defense and the nation are at a pivotal moment in biodefense. as we face a unprecedented number of complex threats, as outlined in the national defense strategy and the national biodefense strategy. the secretary of defense charge the department -- charged the department with being prepared to operate in a biological threat environment and to support the national bio -- biodefense enterprise both at home as well as abroad. dod must implement the significant reforms outlined in the bioposture review to enable an resilient -- a resilient total force that determines the use of bio weapons, response nafta -- rapidly to natural outbreaks and maximizes biosafety and bio security for laboratories globally. we have no choice if we are to effectively government the national security strategy and the national defense strategy. the national defense strategy speaks of the growing risks of chemical and biological threats in the context of the strategic competition with near peer competitors but we are not only concerned with china and russia. he must remain focused on the potential impact of existing and emerging biotechnologies that could be incorporated int

the secretary of defense announced the u.s. department of defense plan to further bolster deterrence efforts in the middle east amid the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas, reiterating the departments depends -- defense of israel. following detailed discussions of president joe biden. the secretary said the u.s. -- uss dwight d. eisenhower combat strike group will join the gerald ford group which has recently moved into the eastern mediterranean following the unprecedented assault on the israel hamas area. it's out that we are sending people to the region. even though they are not particularly going to be involved in the actual fighting. >> as i mentioned before even as israel concentrates on the ground operations in gaza there is the concern of this escalating into a broader conflict with -- conflict. would iran, the country that backs both hamas and hezbollah get directly involved. the show force from the united states with the aircraft carriers is meant more as a deterrent message, reminding them the united states is a military power with

department of defense. the department of defense. now, that's not -- i'm not saying that's the fault of the inspector general there now. but he needs to start with his own department. and let senator sinema and i pass this bill. we're trying to help him, not hurt him. we're trying to give him some help. so that's what our bill will do. i'm not giving up. i'll be back as i said the other day, just like the terminator on another issue. this is something that all senators can agree on, regardless of our position on ukraine that this money shouldn't be wasted. i'm going to say it again. nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, strong set of values and witnesses, and senator sinema's bill and my bill will provide those witnesses, those auditors, those inspectors general that we need. thank you, mr. president. with that i yield the floor. mr. kennedy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. kennedy: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk

grants or loans to help partner countries in the purchase of weapons and defense equipment. according to information from the department of defensee united states of america, joe biden's administration can also potentially ask congress to redirect part of the defense budget to support ukraine departments but this, too, will require the approval of legislators. another pentagon official said that no final decision has been made yet. that is, i will try to explain to you now what is happening. that is, there is money in the american budget that is not specifically intended to help ukraine, but which can be operated by, for example, the ministry of defense of the united states of america, but they can, they can. ask to allocate exactly non -ukrainian, let's call it that, this money for the needs of providing assistance to ukraine, well, let's see what will happen in this, but the us administration has such options for continuing funding, military support to ukraine, even if congress, given the turbulence that is happening there now, does not approve the allocation of the aid requested by the white house , bloomberg reported with ref

of each device in defense? what is the role of the defense department in relation to him and what should be done. efore, defining these roles and setting relationships is called operational system. we have defined a system for biological defense, cyber defense, and chemical defense . in fact, we are now in a relationship with a chemical factory, for example, with materials. risky or it was made by mistake, it was made next to the people, or it was made later, people came to sit next to it, but the reality is that if this company publishes it for any technical or other reasons. the first harm will be done to the people here, well, here is the task of the factory, the duty of the municipality, the governorship, their duty, the duty of the people, it should be known who should do what to do to defend them and for example, how far is the factory responsible, how far outside there, they should be limited to where the people are. who is responsible for educating people, who is responsible for treating people? and for the first time in the country, we designed the treatment of the chemical field for the

either ad hoc or evergreen that will help shape that environment across the department of defense and the enterprise of bio defense within the department. so, that is going to be part of this level of effort. >> just by way of example, to take a little deeper dive on this, let's use research and development acquisition, for example. there is a lot of research going on in dod for lots of reasons, sensors and biologic, how does the council look at that or how do you decide where the gaps are, where the overlaps are? can you just dive a little bit into that to show us how this works? >> first of all, what i was saying from the bpr standpoint, we intentionally do not take a specific view on developing an s&p or r&d pipeline. we touch it from a very broad sense, to say that these organizations, primarily the defense health program needs to make sure that we are pivoting to looking at not just the current threat, but what is the threat of the future and how do we get after that ultimate resilience, protection, and understanding the domain of the next 10, 15 years? and we will continue to have to do that. but we also rec

either ad hoc or evergreen that will help shape that environment across the department of defense in the enterprise of bio defense. that will be part of this effort. >> just by way of example, a little deeper dive on this gaps in seams and research that dod, and protective stuff, and centers and biologics. how does the council look at that. how do you decide where the gaps are, where the overlaps are. can you dive into choice how this works? >> first of all, what i will say from a bpr standpoint is we did not intentionally take a specific view on developing an rda pipeline or plan. we touch from a very broad sense to say that organizations primarily, the bio defense program and defense health program's need to make sure that we are pivoting to looking at not just a current threat, but the threat of the future and how we after the ultimate resilience to action and understanding in the domain of the next 10 or 15 years. we will continue to have to do that. but we also recognize that multiple of those organizations are developing their own rda strategy. their own development pipeline, so we want to highlight all of

defense policy. we have the board director at the atlantic council and the former under secretary of defense policy at the department of defenseen we have the vice president or global nuclear policy program at the nuclear threat initiative. thank you all for being here today to share your own thoughts, and i would like to kick it up with a very broad question. we just heard about the findings, recommendations, the buildup, but i want to ask you when you read through it did you think that the commission met its mark and come up with a solid red ford, and what recommendations did you not see that you would have liked to have seen in there? >> i guess i will go first. i think they did meet. you have to understand why the commission was created. when congress created a commission it means there is an issue that congress cannot resolve it, so nuclear weapons is one of those. there was a previous commission chaired by two former secretaries of defense in the 2000 nine time frame, and at that point congress was arguing over whether to build a reliable replacement warhead, nuclear systems. our really divisive debate they could not res

now, importantly, the secretary of defense said that the department of defense is over the coming days going to work to ensure that israel has what it needs to defend itself and protect civilians, wolf, from these indiscriminate, this indiscriminate violence and terrorism. that rises questions about whether the u.s. is going to allow israel to tap into the u.s. stockpiles that exist in israel to potentially replenish their supplies and equipment, if this war does continue, and if it escalates even further. the u.s. has one of the biggest war reserves in israel, so the israelis could certainly take advantage of that. so much uncertainty right now, wolf, the national security team around president biden huddling now, to figure out what comes next, wolf. >> natasha, we will see what happens. thanks very much. natasha bertrand reporting. >>> we are following all of the late-breaking developments out of israel. our special coverage will continue right after this quick break. >>> we're following the breaking news out of israel, there is a war going on right now, the u.s. defense secretary ll

obviously the ministry of defense in the uk, the department of defense in the u.s., have a set strategy for ukraine. and so it is coming in that country and there are plans afoot to try to resist the russian defensive push and to push back in that way. so these things can be separated defensively. in terms of political time, biden's time, macron's time, that is a different story. they will have to focus heavily on trying to solve this problem that has broken out between israel and palestinians, they will have to try to come to some sort of negotiated solution, not now, but in the future, and that does divert attention away from zelenskyy and the ukrainian cause, no doubt about it. i was even just talking to somebody in the region today about an hour ago who said isn't it interesting that we've stopped talking about ukraine. i think in terms of political attention, yes, we probably have. and this conflict in palestinian and israel will take all the news headlines for a while. but strategically, the position on ukraine stands. i think the big challenge there is about the u.s. presidential

of defense. the head of the defense department , sergei shaigu, announced this at a conference call with the leadershipthe armed forces. in addition to the topic , they discussed the issues of the autumn call for field medicine to help russian peacekeepers in karabakh. alexey golovko will tell you everything in detail. the minister of defense begins the conference call by discussing the situation in the special military operation zone. the russian army is actively defending itself, so thereby weakening the enemy’s combat potential and causing damage to him. the units of the southern group repelled all attacks in the solidar-bakhmut direction; military personnel of the fourth metrrifle, eleventh air assault and seventeenth artillery brigades especially distinguished themselves. the enemy's attempts to break through our defenses in the area of ​​verbovoy and rabotin, in the zaporozhye direction, failed. our soldiers act boldly and decisively, showing true heroism. 4 months, honorary guards titles were assigned to 57 formations and military units, in more than 50% of military personnel were awarded to par

actively implementing an emergency supply of weapons to israel , including ammunition from the air defense system, as stated by the head of the us department of defenseloyd osin, who promised support to tel aviv and us secretary of state blinken, who arrived in israel the day before. when you look at this in proportion to israel's population, this is equivalent to ten 9/11 attacks. that's how big and destructive this attack was. the number of victims of the escalation of the conflict. on both sides there were more than 2,800 people, about 10,000 were injured. three immigrants from belarus died in israel under tragic circumstances. this was reported at the embassy of our country. another belarusian has gone missing. in connection with the current emergency situation in the state of israel, the embassy continues to actively work to ensure the interests of belarusian citizens, both in israel and in the gas sector. in recent days , our diplomats have been contacted by emergency telephone number. more than 500 people. in the context of gas, we are in close cooperation with our russian colleagues, the belarusian embassy in egypt, and all other interested i

of all senior u.s. military officers, four-star generals and the like. this is really hurting the defense department, hurting the ability of the defense department to move its most senior military officers into the positions that they need to be in. and it's an example of partisan politics impeding national security. host: chris in georgia, republican. caller: yes, chris. from georgia. high hi, chris from georgia. go ahead. caller: first of all i want to follow-up on the previous caller. the appropriations for israel has already been passed. they are already getting money. on the -- on the news, on the bombing of the hospital, are we going to crack down on the news with the early calling of saying israel attacked? then they found out the truth it wasn't? are we going to crack down on the news? guest: i don't think the united states as a government should crack down on the news. that's one of the defining qualities of american democracy and political institutions is that we have freedom of the media. certainly when the media misreports something, other outlets should call that out. and highlight for the american people that something has been prevented i

of those defensive capabilities. we do know that the department of defense and the department of justice has been working for some time to try and get weapons that were sees from a ron to the ukrainians. and the problem has been, but there was the legal justification and that was the big hurdle. but eventually what we understand is that that was overcome using something known as civil forfeiture of 40. and that is what is being utilized right now. so what we know is being transferred is roughly 1000000 rounds of ammunition, 9000 rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers. we understand this was seized back in july of last year. and we know that this is uh, being sent legally through something that is rarely utilized. but certainly what the department of defense is considering a useful tool in light of this pathway that has been provided by the us department of justice. i think so much. we'll leave it that. kimberly how could so heading out this era 3 times, this are a lot of the chemistry nobel prize. so they work on tiny particles known as quantum dogs. that bunk beds of them in paris, french sizes, look to keep the pos,

of oman but, one set up and headed to the united states. as you mentioned, this defense department pulled their defense batteries out of the middle east and out of saudi arabia ron's other proxy army, they have hamas and they have others as well. firing missiles at our allies, saudi arabia, and this defense department to nothing about it. >> could interpret what the president said today? i heard 3 things. i heard yes cease-fire, no, cease-fire, let's get the hostages out and then talk. what is that mean? it's clear as mud. we stop a policy of not negotiating with terrorists. it wasn't even working to pay tarasoff. were not going to talk to them. to talk to them and to pay them is to encourage them to take more americans hostage. this is a president who traded a serious russian arms dealer for britney greiner. i'm glad she's home but, 5 americans held hostage in iraq, whether home. for $6 billion and is now presumably talking hamas to get people out. i hope we get them out. hamas will want something in return. the question is what is this administration offering? it's not good. the way to end boards humanely is to fight them decisively and agg

the department of defense buys more goods, services and software than all other federal government agencies combined. the department of defense employs about 2.2 million people, uniform and civilians. that is substantially more than all the other executive branch agencies combined. and something i learned in prepping for this, one third of all civilian federal employees are employed by the department of defense. of fact, some people say we spend more on defense than the, or as much as the next 10 countries combined, china, russia, india, saudi arabia, uk, germany, and so forth, but mike tells me that calculation may understate how much the chinese spend on defense. they don't have a table to tell us about functional. but another way to look at the defense budget is to look at what we spent over history. this is a cbo chart that shows historical funding for defense in real terms, inflation- adjusted terms. it shows what cbo projects it will spend based on the department of defense base budget. that greenline is wh congress does. they say we have so much for the base budg, and if we have war like in afghanistan or ukraine, they

of all senior u.s. military officers, four-star generals and the like. this is really hurting the defense department, hurting the ability of the defense department to move its most senior military officers into the positions that they need to be in. and it's an example of partisan politics impeding national security. host: chris in georgia, republican. caller: yes, chris. from georgia. high hi, chris from georgia. go ahead. caller: first of all i want to follow-up on the previous caller. the appropriations for israel has already been passed. they are already getting money. on the -- on the news, on the bombing of the hospital, are we going to crack down on the news with the early calling of saying israel attacked? then they found out the truth it wasn't? are we going to crack down on the news? guest: i don't think the united states as a government should crack down on the news. that's one of the defining qualities of american democracy and political institutions is that we have freedom of the media. certainly when the media misreports something, other outlets should call that out. and highlight for the american people that something has been prevented i

that volodymyr zelenskyy, in my opinion , strengthened the new minister of defense, whom few of the heads of defense departmentsame to ramshtein have yet met. it is clear that this political support had to somehow affect the general perception of what was said, and that, of course, our partners should think about how we can still help, it is clear that the situation related to israel, it is somewhat informative now overshadows what is happening on the ukrainian -russian front, but at the same time, we understand that no one is removing from the agenda those requests that ukraine needs, and in this case, we should not talk about being satisfied or complacent, we must to ask our guys on the front lines, whether they will be satisfied if we have the expected weapons that we are promised, moreover, we want to have more real results from the promises, so that what we are promised to be transmitted not with such large time intervals and as soon as possible, mr. viktor, but in fact, we, we take it as a litmus test , things like this, all this has passed, passed, and by the consequences, by the consequences, the minist

of defense has simplified the procedure for concluding contracts for their production, about this at a meeting at the national defense control center, said sergei shaigo. the head of the russian defense departmentsized the prompt production of projectiles for them, now one of the most important tasks; for this, the ministry of defense has reduced a number of requirements for manufacturers, for example, the volume of tests has been reduced. already proven systems, the requirements for components have been simplified, while the main condition remains maintaining the high quality of defense industry products, shaigu added, in the conditions of a special military operation, it is especially important to quickly replenish stocks of weapons, the solution to this problem directly depends on the ability of enterprises to increase the production of free-flowing artillery systems, multiple launch rocket systems, and also to minimize the time required for their delivery to the troops. federal executive authorities took measures to increase their production. the government of the russian federation has granted the defense industry the right to use all reserves. one of the hottest areas is still the norther

of defense, also, for example, well, we now receive in three main such directions, this is presidential authority, and this is precisely what is being withdrawn from the united states department of defensefunds are allocated to replenish the reserves of the us ministry of defense. next, the second is the ucla security assistance initiative to prevent the security of ukraine, and what without, let's say, funds are allocated directly to manufacturers , as part of the signing of long-term contracts for the supply of certain weapons in ukraine, and the third main one is... the main direction is the foreign military financing program, in which also, let's say, in the main, it money is allocated. grants and loans to help the country to purchase american weapons, so i predict that such a package can also be purely aimed at military purposes, because the supply plans may include precisely systems aimed at ensuring the security and defense of ukraine in the long term, and we already know these systems, which are quite expensive, such as the same, for example, aviation systems, which, in addition to those that were, it was decided to allocate, within the framework of the fighter coalition, in ukr

minister defense shaigu, it just became known that an off-site meeting of the federation was held at the russian ministry of defense, valentin matvienko, senators met with the head of the defense department

followed by a scandal with the purchase of rations for the ministry of defense. hryvnia or 326 million euros the department of defenseitary units in the poltava, sumy, kiev, zhytomyr, chernihiv and cherkasy regions were to receive food products at prices two to three times higher than their market value. at the same time, the deputy head of the ministry of infrastructure of ukraine, vasily lazinsky, was accused of embezzlement, with the difference in his pocket, $4,000 in his pocket, this is only for a cursory transfer, in other words, war is a profitable business and all echelons of power are profiting, we are furious that some of our leaders choose to cheat and steal, when we die on the battlefield, we believe that zelensky should change his camouflage to a tie and suit and what is going on around him with his team. ukraine today is fully subsidized by the united states, dollars go to all structures. according to the congressional research service, ukraine has received more than $23 billion in direct budget support since the start of the cbo. this money is allocated separately from military assistance by the us age

defense minister shaigu, it has just become known that an offsite meeting with the federation was held at the russian ministry of defense, valentin matvienko, the senators met with the head of the defense department, asked all the questions, here are the details. well, a provocation, monstrous in its absurdity, is now unfolding around russia and the baltic sea. and this is absurd because in fact there are no grounds, this is just an unfounded statement, absurd, because from the point of view in terms of the global situation in the world, there are two open hot conflicts , several more points are heating up, why out of the blue, let's listen to rinkevis, he is threatening us to close the baltic for the third or fourth time. ja mēs redzam šāda veida incidentus. incidents, then, in my understanding, nato should simply really close the baltic sea to shipping. it can be done. of course, this is also a question of a whole series of international maritime rights, but if it is clearly proven that this is russia, that’s not bad, that is, it turns out that in the current situation, create an even additional threat of a direct military clash between nato and russia in the baltic sea. unfortunately, this cor

of $850 billion in total u.s. national defense budgeting, $100 billion is the intelligence budget within the defense department, hidden in plain sight. because it is now public and unclassified. every other detail about the intelligence budget is classified. about $100 billion of that is about defense spending. much of it is to put up satellites and maintain technical capability. the navy budget includes the marine corps. the department of the air force includes the space force, which is tiny but still expensive given the satellites. the army used to be our biggest budget service when it was bigger and very active in iraq and afghanistan. it has now become the smallest of the big three departments and a lot of activities have been shared across the defense space and represent almost $150 billion worth of spending. finally, if you are wondering, how do we spend, this is the breakdown on the -- title. we spent about three to $30 billion on operations and maintenance. the reason the 23 number is higher is that it included a lot of ukraine money. 3:30 is closer to what it was next year. there has been a valuation acquirin

defense forces and israeli people. the department of defense will continue to support, plan and undertake these critical migs and with the inherent right to protect our force. and with that, i'll start with your questions. reporter: could you talk about the new round of attacks that is occurring now or happened today? >> i have seen some reporting on that. i don't have any details, but certainly has more information comes available we'll pass it on. reporter: the violent uptick since the hospital bombings, what are you doing to protect the forces where there has been so much activity over the years as they try to move weapons and people. >> we take force protection extremely seriously and we will continue to do so not to get in specific force protection measures other than when we have forces in harm's way we will ensure they remain safe and able to stay focused on their mission. this is something we will continue to monitor. but again, we are going to take force protection very seriously. >> will you take additional force protection measures and more drone activity in the last couple of days than we have? >> we are taking appropriate force protection measures to ensure the safety of our troops. i'm not going to get in specifics. this is an uptick in terms of the types of drone activity we have seen in iraq and syria. but again -- i'll leave it at that. reporter: do you have a sense that's the case here? >> we are continuing to assess the nature of these attacks and something that we will continue to look very closely at. we have seen iranian backed militia conduct these types of things. right now, i don't have any specification. reporter: do you have any update on iran directly tied to the attack on october 7? >> no. at this point, the information we have does not show a direct connection to the hamas attacks on october 7 as it relates to iran. iran has a significant relationship with hamas in terms of funding, training and support. and so, again in that regard, they certainly bear some responsibility. but no direct linkage to these attacks. >> uss carney. can you say that you do believe they were targeting the carney? >> what i provided at the top is what we know. we'll continue to assess this. reporter: can you talk how many you have in total in red sea -- [indiscernible] how many ships do you have in total in the region? >> i'm not going to provide a laydown of all of our forces in the region other than to say the uss gerald ford strike group is underway in the eastern meed tear indiana. the mesa verdict -- verde in. and and they are in the gulf of hayden and i'm going to leave it at that right now. reporter: given talking about these attacks and other facilities, any other blanket warnings for servicemembers and their families and these would be towards servicemembers and worldwide? >> i'm not tracking any specific threats in that regard. as i mentioned before, we take force protection no matter where we are serving. two separate things in terms of state department and its responsibility to warn u.s. citizens, the mission. we are going to take appropriate force protection measures. i don't have any specific threats against u.s. servicemembers and their families, which i think is what you are asking. let me go to the phone here real quick. "wall street journal." reporter: is there nip reason to think that the perpetrators are not what they have been in the past. and any reason to think there is anything different. and two just to clarify, is there any american aircraft damaged in any of these attacks. i can't remember if you said that. >> thanks, gordon. in terms of the attribution for these attacks, this is something we are continuing to look at and i'm not going to have any information to provide right now in terms of those attacks beyond what i provided. rebecca from bbc. [indiscernible question] >> i have seen the press reports on that. i'm not sure what that means as it relates to i.d.f. operations, i would refer you to them to talk about their operations. courtney. [indiscernible question] >> i will get back to you on that. >> how many drones were shot down? >> so i don't have any information to provide on the specifics in terms of what system the carney used to take down. if we are able to make that information available, we will. in terms of the number of drones, i laid that outright. reporter: do you see any connection of what has happened after october 7. the israelis are talking about a massive ground invasion. >> the reality is and fill in the gaps. there are tensions in the region which is why you see us working hard to make sure we keep lines of communication open to make sure we are sharing information and also for actors in the region to understand our message loud and clear about deterrents to prevent potential miscalculation. as we continue to look at this and analyze the nature of these attacks and attribute these attacks we'll no more. our focus and and also to work closing with israel and make sure they have what they need to defend themselves against future terrorist attacks. reporter: you said this is a demonstration -- [indiscernible] >> we obviously, the united states works with a lot of partners in the region and have air defense capabilities and so in this particular case, the uss carney was able to take the threat out. reporter: in partnership with other -- >> i don't have any other information. [indiscernible] to say israel wasn't responsible. and investigative report. and intercepted, seven minutes before the hospital was targeted. channel 4, u.k., saying this was not -- >> don't mind, get to the question. reporter: questioning of what the president claimed and the israelis are saying, many hospitals have been targeted and facilities by israel, are you willing to share the data that you have that the president used? >> first of all, i don't con flat other other reporting where we are getting our information from. we have our own we have other capabilities and the white house put out a statement yesterday. we are using our own information. and israel was not responsible for that explosion. and continuing to assess that. initial indications are from an errant rocket that was launched by the islamic jihad and

of defense for strategy plans and capabilities dr. marla colin. dr. colin is now working for her sixth secretary of defense. where she has advised the department on policy spending and strategic planning and defense policy and budgeting, future conflicts, and regional security affairs. she has previously performed the duties of deputy undersecretary of defense for policy from august of 2021 to february 2022. and prior to that, served as acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. lastly we're pleased to welcome ken moi who has been the principal deputy assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs. since june 15th of 2021. mr. moy has been in the foreign service for 29 years. and his diplomatic stops included stops in beijing and taipei and seoul. he was the acting assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research prior to this role. welcome to you all and thank the witnesses for their participation in today's hearing for their service to our country. your full statements will be included in the record. without objection. it ask you to summarize them in about five minut

of defense by michael mccord to the speaker of the house as well as to the senate majority and minority leaders. it is addressed to leader jeffries. i would like to express the department of defense's keep concern with the absence of security assistance funding for ukraine in the continuing resolution being considered in the house. or any similar continuing resolution proposed. the department of defense is anxious to avoid a lapse in appropriations but it is important that a c.r. support our security interests and uphold our commitments and values. the department has been providing security assistance to ukraine since russia's invasion in 2022. thanks to the bipartisan support of congress, it is just as vital today that we continue that support. today the dod has exhausted nearly all available security systems funding for ukraine. we are already out of funding for the ukraine security assistance initiative, one of the two tools we have. the other tool we need are those funds provided to replenish our military inventory for the weapons and supplies we provided to support ukraine in their fight. we have only one point $6 billion remaining of the $25.9 billion congress provided. we ha

defensive. us companies. we have seen positive feedback. i met with the secretary of defense, with president biden, with representatives of the state department, and with a dozen companies from the defense industry. and i saw that they consider ukraine as a destination for launching their production. it is about license production, assembly, and the first steps, but i am sure that the more steps they take, the more they will see the opportunities that my country gives them. i am happy that we can move on from the model give us, to the model let's do it together, i am sure that the integration of the defense industries of ukraine and the usa would be mutually beneficial, both for ukraine. so do american companies, and that's how we can build the arsenal of the free world together. so far, ukraine is really asking for more than it is giving, and ukraine's needs are much greater than all partners can provide together. what is the current state of national production, ammunition, missiles and weapons in ukraine? we are now living in a great war, and no country alone, and surely all the countries of the free world together, will be able to achieve such production capacities to meet the curre

of cities and infrastructure, ukraine will continue to need additional air defense systems, heavy weapons, and ammunition. 11 countries have announced their future support for the ukrainian army, says the minister of defense. the departmentsays that ukraine has taken the initiative to create... a coalition for the development of the defense industry, which should include already formed working groups, such as the anti-tank or f16 coalition or the mine clearance coalition and others. ukrainian president zelenskyi is aware of the threat of a reduction in western aid against the background of escalating confrontations in the middle east, the coming to power of forces more loyal to russia in slovakia, and other factors. he said this in brussels, where he participated in a meeting of ministers in the ramstein format. the details of this meeting of this meeting will be told by the korean. radio liberty in brussels olena abramovich. at nato headquarters, the ukrainian president was greeted with applause. diplomats and employees of the alliance lined up in the corridor around. this is not the first visit of volodymyr zelenskyi to brussels, but he has not been to nato since the full-scale invasion of russia, as well as to the mee

defense. the main ally of the jewish state, the united states, announced its strong support for israel at the level of the national security council of the defense department. the pentagon intends to provide israel with everything necessary for self-defense. the head of the white house discussed the situation by telephone with benjamin netanyahu. there is no excuse for terrorism. israel has every right to defend itself and its people. the united states is ready to oppose any hostile side. towards the jewish state, my administration expresses firm and unwavering support for israel's security. hamas' actions were supported by israel's main enemy in the region , iran. the adviser to the supreme leader of the islamic republic promised that tehran will stand with palestine. quote, until her complete release. the saudi arabian foreign ministry, calling on both sides to put an end to the escalation, also recalled. riyadh has repeatedly drawn attention to provocations against sacred sites for palestinians and argued that this is fraught with aggravation of the situation. new york times notes: escalation could nullify the biden administration's efforts to normalize relations between saudi arabia and israel. riyadh's position is shared by qatar. t

defense forces and israeli people. the department of defense will continue to support, plan and undertake these critical missions professionally and it is with the inherent right to protect our fours. with that, i will be happy to take your question. >> could you also talk about -- apparently there's a new round of attacks that is occurring now or has happened today. do you have any information on that? >> i have seen some reporting on that. i don't have details right now. but certainly, as more information becomes available, we will pass that along. >> as the silence has uptick since the hospital bombing, what protection measures are you taking for the forces where there has been so much activity over the years as they have tried to move weapons and people? >> certainly we take force protection extremely seriously and we will continue to do so. we don't have to get into specific force protection measures other than when we have forces in harm's way, we will look and with all possible efforts to ensure that they remain safe and are able to stay focused on their mission. this is something we will continue to monitor. but, we are going to take force protection very seriously. >> can you say you have taken additional force protection measures, and are you seeing more activity in the last couple of days then you have? >> we are taking appropriate force protection measures to ensure the safety of our troops. i'm not going to get into specifics. clearly this is an uptick in the types of drone activity we've seen in iraq and syria. but again. i will leave it at that. >> this is a sensitive question. there's a lot of talk amongst special operations veterans that when president biden went israel, he had a picture taken with service members who look special operators. can the defense department confirmed the white house took this picture down that these were special operators, and if so, is there a policy against having special operators have their picture taken? >> i would have to refer you to the white house, i have no information to provide. let me go to dan. >> the attacks in syria and iraq, the pentagon describes the blame on those two iranian backed malaysians with similar descriptions. you have the sense that's the case? >> we continue to assess the nature of these attacks. and that is something that we will continue to look very closely at, as you mentioned. in the past we have seen iranian backed militia conduct these types of things, but as of now, i have no specifics. >> do you have any update on if iran is directly tied to the hamas attack? >> no, at this point, the information that we have does not show a direct connection to the hamas attack on october 7. as a relates to iran. again, that something we will continue to look closely at. all that to say

today, i directed a series of additional steps to further strengthen the department of defense posture in the region. now, the defenseant naval power into the middle and readied thousands of troops. so far no additional soldiers u.s. on the ground in the israel. u.s. also sending the high altitude missile defense system to israel, in addition more patriot missile system, all an escalation in the military show of support. the president posting on x video of his conversation that he had with two american hostages that were released. there are still 10 more americans unaccounted for, held possibly by hamas. meanwhile, the white house cleaning up answers by president biden about a possible ground invasion. listen to this. >> reporter: are you encouraging the israelis to delay invasion? >> [inaudible] >> reporter: have you any word on any additional hostage releases, sir? >> reporter: so white house communications director quickly saying the president didn't kuwait hear the question. yes -- quite hear the question. yes, was the answer he wanted more americans to get out of gaza saw should they be there, no, he was not ans

of the $850 billion in total u.s. national defense budgeting now, $100 billion is the intelligence budgeting, hidden within the defense department, hidden in plain sight because of the number $100 billion is now public and unclassified. every other detail about the intelligence budget more or less is clsified. but about $100 billion of that is overall defense spending. much of it is in the air force to put up satellites and otherwise maintain technical capeicts. the navy bunl t includes the marine corps because the department of the navy includes the marine corps. the department of navy includes the space force which is tiny but still expensive. the army used to be the biggest budget service back when it was bigger and very active in iraq and afghanistan. it is now the smallest of the big three departments. and then a lot of activities have been essentially shared across the whole defense base and represent almost $150 billion worth of total spending. if i can go to the next chart? and then finally, if you are wondering functionally how do we spend, this is the breakdown by appropriations title. we spend almost $200 billion a yo

israel will need more defensive capabilities, including temir interceptors for its iron come to defense system is the backbone of its missile defense architecture. i support the department of defense's current plans to send our two iron dome batteries to israel to bolster their security. my colleagues and i introduced a bill to reallocate aid funding to israel's irondome that could have ended up in hamas' pocket. this legislation would be an important first step in defending israel against future attacks. we know israel will need more offensive capabilities, including precision-guided munitions to hit specific ground targets. we know israel will need our intelligence on the middle east so it can eliminate the hamas threat completely, and we know standing with israel against terror will buttress and fortify our own national defense and our own national security. our support for israel will help it triumph over terrorism, and our support for israel will help us show strength and deter our adversaries. by protecting israeli interests, we will promote american interests as well. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from north car

to the department of defense because he has an individual was uncomfortable intervening with the request by the ukraine and moving forward with that, that he sold it to the department of defense. i was asking for clarity on that. host: james jacoby? guest: i hate to say this but the focus of my reporting announcer: leaving this program here, going over to president biden talking about the hamas attack in israel. pres. biden: there are moments in this life, literally, when the pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world. the people of israel live through one such moment this weekend. bloody hands of the terrorist organization hamas, a group whose stated purpose of being is to kill jews. it is an act of sheer evil. more than 1000 civilians slaughtered. that just killed, slaughtered, in israel. among them, at least 14 american citizens killed. parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. reports of babies being killed. entire families slain. young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace. to celebrate peace. raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies. families, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid draw