the coast guard is a service branch and the department of defense but is a vital part of the department of homeland security. it has intelligence authority, defense responsiveness, customs and border enforcement of law enforcement authority. the coast guard exercises these authorities judiciously and responsibly and enjoys the complement -- conference of the american people. we can solve this problem. we have examples. last years national defense authorization act really cross functional teams to address problems. these teams are composed experts in the functional organizations that rise above the interest of their bureaucracy. the team leads would exercise executive authority delegated by the secretary of defense pick such an approach might be a model for the interagency to address a crosscutting problem like cybersecurity. there is indeed urgency to our task. russian attack our election last year. they attacked multiple european countries, the nato alliance in the european union. the intelligence community assures us russian will attack our upcoming midterm elections. so far we've see

department of defense have had varying levels of input from simply can't find points for authenticity to actually writing parts of script on more than one thousand eight hundred movies and t.v. shows. when it comes to influencing filmmaker shaping the story the pentagon is usually in a stronger negotiating position than the cia because of the hardware at its disposal it can shut down before the scene is ever shot. the department of defense is actually a much more powerful player in the entertainment industry for basically financial reasons the department of defense had. expensive toys they have some marines they have aircraft carriers they have tanks and they have the personnel. to operate things so the filmmaker wants to make a war movie they often will approach the department of defense and basically asked to borrow that equipment and the department of defense will say maybe but can i see your script and they will either say this is great we love the way that the military is portrayed in the us we will go ahead in collaborate with you or they may say we hate the way they were portra

rapuano, to start with, you said that is not department of defense responsibility. suppose at the russians had been able to affect the outcome of the last election. wouldn't that fall under their responsibility and authority to some degree of the department of defense if they're able to destroy the fundamental of democracy which would be to change the outcome of an election? >> mr. chairman, specifically, the issues associated with protecting elections from cyber incursion -- >> so you're saying cyber incursion is not something that requires the department of defense to be engaged in, is that correct. >> was no. i'm simply saying based on the state authorities and the state control of the election process in each state, there are issues associated with federal authority to engage -- >> so those issues could be corrected by legislation. they are not engraved in tablets, okay? so for you to sit there and say well but it's not department of defense responsibility. it is. to defend the nation, the very fundamental, the reason why we're here is because of free and fair el

military symbiotic relationship with hollywood before how the department of defense offers filmmakers access to tell of janick military hardware and personality minimal cost in return for the right to alter story lines and veto scenes the pentagon does not like thanks to a neutral of documents a clearer picture is emerging of the cia's attempts to control its on screen image the intelligence agencies track record of political assassinations coup plotting overseas and occasional support for terror groups offer countless possibilities for potential screenwriters however the agency works with filmmakers to portray version of its activities removing scenes and changing plot lines the cia sees as unflattering the listening posts may not show ravi now in america's military intelligence entertainment complex. much any big budget war movie by taking a spy thriller and you could walk away not knowing just how much your movie expedience was shaped by the pentagon or cia however the truth of official documents obtained under u.s. freedom of information laws and published this year detailed the d

rapuano, you said it wasn't the department of defense's responsibility. suppose the russians were able to effect the outcome of the last election. wouldn't that fall under their responsibility and authority to some degree, the department of defense, if they're able to destroy the fundamental of democracy, which would be to change the outcome of an election? >> mr. chairman, specifically the issues associated with protecting elections from cyber incursion -- so you are saying cyber incursion is not something that requires the department of defense to be engaged in. is that correct? >> no, mr. chairman. i was simply saying that, based on the state of -- the state authorities and the state control of the election process in each state, there are issues associated with federal authorities to engage. >> so those issues could be corrected by legislation. they're not engraved in tablets. okay? so for you to sit there and say, well, but it's not the department of defense's responsibility. it is. to defend the nation, a very fundamental of our -- the reason why we

confusion in the conversation and communication back and forth between the white house and the department of defense of what happened. there was a reporting that there was an incident in niger but the department of defense wasn't forthcoming on the details. there was a statement that the president might give when the details became more clear. overnight and the next morning, the department of defense still said we're not ready to confirm what's going on. the statement drafted late into the night and early in the morning being held until the dod gave confirmation. the department of defense called and noon that said we can confirm the details. go ahead and release the statement. at to point, about noon, the white house said rather than putting something out on paper, let's make it more personal. they drafted a statement for sarah huckabee sanders to read that afternoon. there was a narrative going on that the white house sat on this for a long time. but if it was sat on, it was for a matter of minutes a couple hours. there's a question as to why it took a long time for the president to finally weigh-i

sanders: as we said, as general kelly addressed, the department of defense has initiated a review which occurs anytime there is an american killed in action. we are going through that process. the president, the department of defense, and frankly the entire country and government want to know exactly what happened. the president and the nation are grateful for those american four heroes, and we won't rest until we get some answers and , that is part of this process. that is what we will do when the , time is appropriate, we will talk about the details of the investigation. reporter: "the florida sun sentinel" released a video of congresswoman wilson's speech in 2015. in the speech, it doesn't appear she referenced funding for the fbi building. does general kelly stand by the statement he made yesterday that he felt she was grandstanding? that she was taking credit? press sec. sanders: absolutely. general kelly said he was stunned that representative wilson made comments at a building dedication honoring fbi agents about her own actions in congress, including lobbying former president ob

. >> the department of defense is initiated a review, which occurs any time there's an american killed in action. we're going through that process. the president, the department of defense and frankly the entire country and government want to know exactly what happened. and the president and the nation are grateful for those four american heros. we won't rest until we get some answers. that's part of the process. that's what we'll do. when the time is appropriate, we'll talk about the details of the investigation. >> president trump didn't say anything about the attack for more than a week. the senate's top republican on military matters john mccain said he might have to subpoena the trump administration for answers. today senator mccain is getting a meeting with the defense secretary himself, jim mattis. the meeting happening right now on capitol hill. we have reported the senator has

so would this not make its a little bit more difficult to provide the department of defense the money that it needs to do what it needs to get done?. >> chairman, probably someone and it is to reduce of taxes levied economy and ruth -- and growth but this is not an area of that is my expertise. >> fair enough. in some to say cut taxes dramatically you will wind up with more money. but cutting of from where we're at right now and making a commitment to national security reducing revenue every 10 years is significantly and consistent and that is the point we will return to the other hearings. i yield back. >>. >> mr. thorne barry is going to the floor to vote so we can continue meeting then when he returns we will proceed and that this time we have mr. johnson for north carolina. >> secretary general thank you as well. from july 18th i asked please come to congress and ask us to have a debate on the new aumf. let's get out of afghanistan. and we waste billions there. so that brings me to this in that article this year titled the trouble administration opposes the effort to read in the w

for example, in the department of defense if it managed commissaries more effectively, there is a $2 billion a year opportunity there over the next five years. if the department of defense weapon acquisition program were more effective there is estimated that tens of billions of dollars over the next ten years could be saved in terms of purchasing the same level of equipment and machinery. if it just -- if the d.o.d., department of defense just simply completed an audit, we believe it would identify further opportunities for wise spending of our taxpayers' money. but since coming to the united states senate, i was shocked to understand that the largest line-item on our budget has never been audited, mr. president. it's high time that we complete that audit. by the way, there's a law that was passed in this body in 1991 requiring the department of defense to submit an audit. and here we are in 2017, we still don't have that audit. mr. president, in my opinion, as hard as it is for the american people to earn their salaries and to pay their tax, it's unconscionable that i'm standing her

the coast guard is a service branch and the department of defense but is a vital part of the department of homeland security. it has intelligence authority, defense responsiveness, customs and border enforcement of law enforcement authority. the coast guard exercises these authorities judiciously and responsibly and enjoys the complement -- conference of the american people. we can solve this problem. we have examples. last years national defense authorization act really cross functional teams to address problems. these teams are composed experts in the functional organizations that rise above the interest of their bureaucracy. the team leads would exercise executive authority delegated by the secretary of defense pick such an approach might be a model for the interagency to address a crosscutting problem like cybersecurity. there is indeed urgency to our task. russian attack our election last year. they attacked multiple european countries, the nato alliance in the european union. the intelligence community assures us russian will attack our upcoming midterm elections. so far we've see

sanders: as we said, as general kelly addressed, the department of defense has initiated a review which occurs anytime an american is killed in action. we are going through that process. the president, the department of defense, and frankly the entire country and government want to know exactly what happened. and the president and the nation are grateful to those for won'tican heroes, and we rest until we do, and when it is appropriate, we will talk about the details of the investigation. there is a: reporter: controversy over congresswoman wilson's speech in 2015. in the speech it doesn't appear , she represented funding for the fbi building. does general kelly stand by the statement he made yesterday that he felt he was grants that felt she was grandstanding? ms. sanders: absolutely. general kelly said he was stunned that representative wilson made remarks about her own actions in congress, including lobbying president congress, president obama for funding. general kelly said if you are making it about yourself you are an empty barrel. if you don't understand that, as reference, i wil

we are underway for the department of defense investigation and will answer those questions at the time. reporter: did the president authorizee the operation? ms. sanders: i'm not a get into any details at this point. people at theo department of defense and they can answer anything further. but where we are at the process is, until the review is complete we are not to weigh in any further. given all the reaction to the president's phone call, this president trump intend to make phone calls to the families of the fallen in the future, should other americans die while he is commander-in-chief? ms. sanders: we are hoping and praying those phone calls don't have to take place and that is where we are renowned. the "los angeles times" has reported that military officials in niger requested additional capacity and medical response assistance in the months leading up to the sandwich on october 4. is the president satisfied that that special forces unit that went out that they had all the resources it needed? ms. sanders: as i have said several times, i am not going to get into the details unt

department of defense have had the. reading levels of input from simply can't find points for authenticity to actually writing parts of script on more than a thousand eight hundred movies and t.v. shows. when it comes to influencing filming shaping the story the pentagon is usually in a stronger negotiating position than the cia because of the hardware at its disposal it can shut down a movie before a scene is ever shot. the department of defense is actually a much more powerful player in the entertainment industry for basically financial reasons the department of defense has expensive toys they have some marines they have aircraft carriers they have tanks and they have the person. to operate things so if a filmmaker wants to make a war movie they often will approach the department of defense and basically asked to borrow that equipment and that apartment advance will say maybe can i see your script and they will either say this is great we love the way that the military is portrayed in the us we will go ahead in collabo

thatis is the reality faces our department of defense and our like-minded allies. we must have militaries fit for their purpose and their time in these days of emerging challenges. for these challenges include new domains of conflict, in space and cyberspace. and in ways that involve deniable attacks even on our democratic process. there department of defense is adaptive, because we do not want to be dominant and at the same time irrelevant. i offer this problem statement for what misguided our efforts. how do we maintain a safe and effective nuclear deterrent so that these weapons are never used and our nonproliferation efforts can be recharged? maintain a to decisive conventional force at the same time as the nuclear deterrent? one that includes race, services -- space and cyberspace capabilities to deter war decisively if conflict occurs? and third, we must at the same time maintain a regular capability so that we can find a cross the spectrum of conflict. problem statement, how to maintain a safe and secure nuclear deterrent and maintain a decisive conventional

that the family can request to see those remain, and that is a process handled through the department of defense and the casualty officer and i refer you to the department of defense on specifics for that. >> and one of the last pieces on the subject very fast, beyond the personality, the president's personality, beyond flake, and beyond that, there is a divide in the nation or be it in your own party, and when is there a effort to unifishgs and you have people saying in their own party, in the president's party a that the president is not helping to pave the way in the path th-- and the path that the president has take zen wrong. when is there an effort for the president to unifying and within the party and the country, because of so many divides. >> there is an effort to unify, and you can see it with the policies that the president is pushing, and tax cuts that affect everyone, and particularly the middle-class and that is is something that even should rally around whether you are a democrat or republican, and it should bring everybody together. looking at the defeat of jis and the growth of

this is the reality that bases our department of defense and our like-minded allies and we must have militaries fit for their purpose, but for their times and in these days of emerging challenges. these challenges include new domains of conflict in space and in cyberspace. in ways that involve deniable attacks even on our democratic processes. your department of defense is adapting because we do not want to be dominant at the same time irrelevant and i offer this problem statement for what must guide our efforts. how do we maintain a safe and effective nuclear deterrent so these weapons are never used and are nonproliferation efforts can be recharged. second, how to maintain a decisive conventional force at the same time is that nuclear deterrent. one that will include a space and cyberspace capability to deter war or end it decisively as conflict occurs. third, we must, at the same time maintain any regular capability so we can fight across the spectrum of conflicts. this is our problem statement, how to maintain a safe and secure nuclear deterrent and maintain a decisive conventiona

the house of representatives just passed legislation under the national defense authorization act that would direct the department of defense to create a new space corps the agency will operate under the umbrella of the air force if passed by the senate we may soon see war in space gov the u.s. military depends on space for satellite g.p.s. and weather information but do we really need to militarize it. well in a perfect world i'd like to say no you know i really think that it's detrimental that we can't go out there without militarizing space here's the problem as i see it it's one thing to go out in space like star trek you know we've all seen star trek where you go in from world the world in where no man has gone before because you might run into the clay non-user you might run into some entity out there in space but what i see the problem being is we're going to use space to wage war back out ourselves whoever controls space will control the earth or could likely have that capability that scary weapon should not be taken in space that can fire back towards earth i think that's asinine and insane and as a worl

and i hope the department of defense will have a plan going forward because as of yesterday when i met with fema officials they could not assure me there is a plan for the department of defense involvement and for longer-term recovery on the island. so i thank you for the contribution that has been made so far, and i hope that there will be a plan and a commitment of resources going forward. >> senator, i assure you this is all hands on deck. there is no delay. when a request comes in, it's approved the moment it hits the pentagon. we have over 10,000 troops there. we had two ships prepositioned. there's now six ships. "comfort" will arrive today or tomorrow. we had to reopen the airports themselves, which is part of the restraint on how many aircraft we could get in. there was a logistics effort simply to open the door for them to get in. so you bring in a few people, get things opened up, and keep expanding. but there is no lack of resources, sir. we are ready to go. even to the point that it's going to impact the deployments perhaps of some of these troops overseas next year because

department of defense are working to see what aspects of this approach should be included into our doctrineal, training and of course management systems. and many of our services, my service, the united states arm ein particular are taking measures now to develop services specifically designed for this type of warfare. one of the tasks at hand is to define the overall concept of by, with and through. in more refined language that lends itself to further development and discussion. and it's not just a military problem. by, with and through applies to our economic, diplomat recollect, our law enforcement partners as well. and so it is a comprehensive approach. key to any definition of by, with and through is any understanding we give to pattern forces must be through a legal and diplomatic framework. it is this framework that will form the legal basis for any action and employ the guidelines of not only department forces but our capabilities. additionally we have to define the term partner carefully and continuously. it can spell the difference between success and failure at the strategic level

there's a different perspective when you're coming from the department of defense i. let me take this to a different level. one thing we need to do coming from the perspective of america and being a representative of the american government. we need to be concerned about how best we can win. we can preserve this international system we have built and sustained for a long time. the system will last forever. no system does. eventually states who we don't agree with will prevail. we can maintain it for a longer time. the other thing going on is that our system is a peaceful, stable democratic system only works if we have allies. if we start doing things that makes our allies uncomfortable or unwilling to work with us we will have problems. there's two sides to this even from the perspective of someone like me coming from the department of defense who wants our country to it on the battlefield, we have to take into account what our allies and friends are saying. i'm worried with this technological debate is kind of serious. we have to be really careful about going along wi

>> congressman, what we are doing right now is we are aligning what department of treasury, department of defense, intelligence community, department of state say this is what we must ask pakistan to do to change its behavior. at the same time we are aligning that with nato so we have 39 other nations that will also be reinforcing us. as you know, i just visited new delhi about the situation they face on their border. there are a number of ways, based on a very recent visit by the pakistan chief of army staff to kabul about three days ago that we can help pakistan to see its way forward and do what is in its own best interest. we will do this in a holistic, integrated way. holistic means whole of government, and integrate with our allies. and that's across south asia. this strategy is not exclusive. in other words, any nation that wants to fight back against terrorism and reduce this threat to all nations is more than welcome. it is not exclusive of pakistan. it's inclusive. that's why we started with a regionalized strategy. as we move this forward, we are going to have to fine common ground wit

observed with the sony attack, you know, the critical part of the response, as aaron said, the department of defense had options. i suspect the state department had options. i suspect that treasury and department of justice had options. and others. but at the end of the day, i think it's important for us to elevate our thinking that at the end of the day it's about the political objective and the policy objective and whether, good, bad or indifferent, while there were several options available to the government at that time, the government chose to pursue a legal and diplomatic response. two points. attribution, hard but necessary. second, whole of government interaction to be able to define that which is necessary. >> aaron. >> there is a bunch in your question there, but one of the points i took out was the -- the adequacy of our plans and coordination. one of the things we were able to codify and get president obama's signature on before the end of his term was really formalizing the incident response framework and the cyber response group and the roles and responsibilities of who would be conven

and catherine austin say it's former assistant secretary of housing shows that between the department of defense and the department of housing and urban development nearly twenty. the one trillion dollars has been lost missing or unaccounted for from nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and fifteen and while much of that twenty one trillion dollars has an actual cash but fraudulent unreported accounting it's still enough to wipe out the entire us national debt and still have enough to get everyone a pizza that would be nice i would love it if the government bought us all a slice of pizza for the same wasted over the years just just from you reach into your pocket and take him from you and this is one of the this see this is totally bizarre and goes down bad accounting if you howl what i want to know is what were the democrats doing and what was obama doing for each year when his housing and urban development department was in a shambles shambles well i mean look at look at look at the way the v.a. is but in shambles almost every government agency across the board is but in general look at t

aware that we fight the way we come, that everybody in the world wants to the department of state, not the department of defense and the united states army. [applause] >> you mentioned congress in your remarks, so this question is related to this in the follow-up. how can the republican -- the american follow-up and industry and the u.s. army and like-minded associations, how can those groups influence congress to fulfill its constitutional responsibility to provide for the common defense? ladies and gentlemen, i think what is probably most important right now is wheelie out the problem -- layout the problem in compelling and persuasive terms. going back to einstein's point when asked how he would compose his thoughts if he was given one hour to save the world and he said, i would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and i would save the world in five minutes. there are times when those of us who wear the uniform can be rightly condemned for being overly conservative, wanting more insurance and more boats and planes and guns and tanks and i understand that. general macarthur said when he was chief of staff of

>> general kelly specifically addressed several times yesterday that the department of defense has initiatedcurs anytime there is an american that is killed in action. we're going through that process. the president, the department of defense, and frankly the entire country and government want to know exactly what happened, and the president and the nation are grateful for those four american heroes and we won't rest until we get answers. that is part of this process. that is what they will do. when the time is appropriate we'll talk about the details of the investigation. reporter: sarah, the "south florida sun-sentinel" released a video of congresswoman wilson's speech in 2015. in the speech it doesn't appear she referenced funding for the fbi building in south florida. does general kelly still stand by the statement that he made yesterday that he felt she was grandstanding and that she was taking credit -- >> absolutely. general kelly said he was stunned that representative wilson made comments at a building dedication honoring slain fbi agents about her own actions in congress, including

there was a commercial partnership between the department of defense and the nfl where the dod paid the nfl. this was discovered by republican senators, jeff flake and john mccain. what donald trump says, the nfl is not some progressive, liberal institute of social justice. that is not what the nfl is. they are run by some of the most conservative billionaires in the u.s. what they're trying to do is save their product in the face of a president who seems to have got off the rails. host: dave zirin's books include the history of sports in the united states, ruining the games we love, and the editor and producer of a number of documentaries including, not just a game, race, power, and american sports. let's go to matt. good morning. thank you for waiting. caller: good morning. ever since i got on hold, so many good points were made. for starters, what your guest just said about your owners being republican billionaires, that may or may not be true, but what is true is they bow from intense pressure from the test to intense pressure from the -- bow to intense pressure from the left. they

that includes fema, the army corps of engineers, the department of defense, the coast guard, and many other federal agencies. for getting the first installment of relief to those in need. however, with such massive unprecedented damage, more help is needed. clearly needed to continue to respond to these recovery efforts to rebuild communities with dollars, with resources, with manpower and with our support. this emergency funding legislation, the second installment, addresses urgent short-term immediate priorities. replenishing fema's it's aer relief fund, supporting ongoing federal wildlife suppression effort, providing debt relief for the federal flood insurance program, and other assistance that will help our fellow americans in their time of greatest need. to summarize, $36.5 billion provided in this bill, in total $18.7 billion is provided for the disaster relief fund. this includes $13.77 billion for the most immediate response needs. life-saving missions, emergency protection, repair and restoration of public infrastructure like communications, power, transportation, and yes, s

of defense for homeland defense integration , in this role he is responsible of -- coordination. >> thank you. distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the department of defense support of the federal response to hurricanes harvey, irma, maria. defense is at of fully committed and critical partner in the national response system. dod has a long tradition of anding with federal, state, local partners responding to domestic disasters in emergency. led by fema and administrator supportng, we federal partners and apartments such as health and human services, department of transportation, and department of energy in their role as emergency support function leads. dod is well prepared and has capabilities ready to act livesately to sustain in disasters. we have a high level of preparedness, enhancing integrated planning, improving training, conducting joint exercises between our federal, state and local partners. in advance of each of these hurricanes, the secretary of providedirected dod to support to live sustaining operations. based on this direction, dod postured significant capabilities. teams, and medical logistics. texasist the citizens of florida