vice president, the department of defense will release our space report to congress reinforcing the specificson how we're going to carry this forward, and that report reflects a clear-eyed view of the future the department takes the steps necessary now to implement president trump's vision for a space force. ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the vice president of the united states, vice president pence. thank you, sir. [applause] >> secretary mattis, deputy secretary shanahan, generals, members of the armed forces of the united states of america, and all of the men and women of the united states department of defense who each and every day oversee the greatest military in the history of the world. thank you for all you do every day for the american people. [applause] >> it is my great honor, mr. secretary, to join you here today at the pentagon, and let me begin by bringing greetings from your commander-in-chief who has from the very earliest days of this administration proved himself to be a great champion of the armed forces of the united states committed to strengthening am

vice president, the department of defense will release our reports to congress reinforcing how we're going to forward and that report reflects a clear-eyed of the future as the department takes the necessary steps now to implement president vision for a space force. ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor to introduce the vice president of the united states. thank you, sir. [applause] >> thank you. secretary mattis, deputy members of his the the rem aed forces of the united states of america. . all the men and women of the united states department of who each and every day military ingreatest the history of the world. all you do every day for the american people. [applause] secretary tor, mr. join you here today at the pentagon. et me begin by bringing greatings from your command -- greetings from your commander in has from the earliest days of this administration to be a great champion of the armed forces of he united states committed to strengthening security here on earth and in space. i bring greetings from the 45th united states e of america, president donald trump. [applause] nation

this report reviews the national security space activities within the department of defense, and it identifies concrete steps that our administration will take to lay the foundation for a new department of the space force. now, to be clear, the space force will not be built from scratch, because the men and women who run and protect our nation's space programs today are already the best in the world. since the dawn of the space age, america has remained the best in space. [applause] over the past 60 years, the united states has assembled the largest and most sophisticated constellation of military and intelligence satellites in the world. we've pioneered the technology to leverage american power in space here on earth and giver our war fighters -- and give our war fight pers the intelligence that they need and give our intelligence community the information they need to maintain a strategic advantage. wherever our war fighters are operating. across this department and our intelligence agency, there are literally tens of thousands of military personnel, civilians and contractors operating and s

the department of defense would not allow that and that american mission board of the southern baptist convention said basically he's not allowed to. my understanding is, defense department policy is that you cannot go against the wishes of your endorsing body. so he made arrangements, bowed out and had someone else handle the retreat. now mikey weinstein who is always going after folks in the military on religious issues as if you are going to be using, couples as a sin against god, you can change her attitude. and he should be charged with dereliction of duty. >> i will tell you i'm very upset over this and it's because this is happening in a command that i have a number of years ago at fort bragg, north carolina. the major general, major general sontag that is committing this command is dead wrong, because he either doesn't know the army regulations and he doesn't know about liberty and he doesn't know what the department of justice just published in the last two weeks as a memorandum on what's expected of executive branch personnel. he apparently doesn't know any of that because he

following your remarks the department of defense will release our space report to the congress reinforcing the specifics on how we will carry this forward. that report reflects a clear view of the steps necessary to implement president trump's vision for a space force. it is my honor to introduce the vice president of the united states. [applause] i think it'snce: all for you. [applause]

this report reviews the national security space activities within the department of defense and identifiescrete steps that our administration will take to lay the foundation for a new department of the space force. to be clear the space force will not be built from scratch because the men and women who run and protect our nation's space programs today are already the best in the world. since the dawn of the space age, america has remained the best in space. [ applause ] >> that's vice president mike pence speaking at the pentagon right now about the administration's plans and the pentagon's plans to unveil the first stages of a strategy to establish a sixth branch of the military, the first time we see a new branch established in more than 70 years, one specifically dedicated to space, the space force. the department of defense is unveiling the details of those first stages today at this event. but this really, guys, marks or speaks to the shift we have seen in terms of warfare and the fact that space is increasingly playing a much more crucial role in the defense and security of the u.s.

early stages of this year's defense authorization bill kind of targeted, for example, the defense technology security administration potentially to be folded into other aspects of the department but abolished as an independent entity. and there is pressure. there's pressure in the system both within the department of defense and the department of state to streamline, to be efficient, to reduce billets in certain areas. and in particular, in the kinds of things that tend to support the export, arms export policy like contracting, like technology security reviews. so how do you, how do you strike that balance? how do you effectively make sure that the resourcing that's required to be proactive rather than reactive -- and i would postulate or argue that may be harder to do, require more staff effort to accomplish than just to be reactive -- in an environment? now, i should add that some of those early proposals in the defense authorization bill were not in the final conference report, but there were still some reductions mandated, so i'd just appreciate thoughts on that. >> is that directed at me? [laughter] >> feel free. >> sure. so resourcing is a concern. it's a concern, i th

spaceeport reviews activities within the department of defense and identifies to lay theeps foundation for a new department of the space force. space force will not be billed from school -- from scratch. since the dawn of the space age, america has remained the best in space. [applause] >> the state department's top official talks about the trump administration's arm control policy. after that come policy experts review the approach and some of the changes. this is hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. >> good morning and thank you for joining us for today's event on the u.s. arms transfer policy. have thecited to ambassador with us to give us remarks on that at a stellar panel after that. doill begin as we always with our obligatory security announcement because we have thought about what to do in case of an emergency. we want to let you know we have plans and if something were to happen, i will be your security guide and let you know where to go, either out the way you came in or in the back, depending on what kind of emergency might arise. what we do not expe

the commission works with the department of defense, state department, usaid, any number of actors, including folks that receive large grants from the state department, like i.r.i., and tracks those programs. when i was referring to programs, i was clear about including the whole inter government agency. he said, well, i did not ask if they understood that. i said, i am pretty sure we have our facts straight. he still asked me to issue a corrective statement, which i did not do. i tell the story, even though -- the story because it shows how focused they are on their own work, even though there is obviously tremendous overlap between bureaus, and outside of state. the challenge is it gets worse as we move forward. the kinds of foreign-policy issues the u.s. government is going to face in 2025, adam mentioned the report on artificial intelligence and the future of public diplomacy. these challenges will get so much more difficult, and the u.s. government has to move quickly and robustly to address threats in real time. my concern about the bureaucracy, having seen how slow we have been to adap

early stages of this year's defense authorization bill, kind of targeting, for example, the defense technology security administration potentially to be folded into other aspects of the department and abolished as an independent entity. there is pressure on the system, on the department of defense, the department of state about to streamline about to be efficient and reduce billets in certain areas. in particular, the kinds of things that tend to support the arms export policy, like contracting, technology security reviews. how do you strike that balance? how do you effectively make sure the resourcing that is required to be proactive rather than reactive, and i would postulate or argue that might be harder to do, require more staff effort to accomplish than just to be reactive in an environment. i should add, some of those defense authorization bills were not in the final conference report, but there were some reductions mandated. is that directed at me? [laughter] ms. cressy: so resourcing is a concern. it is a concern, i think, among all of our agencies. i cannot speak to dod, but they have some concerns, contracting especially is one area that all of us collectively point t

as you know, the united states has four military services within the department of defense plus one more, the coast guard, in the department of homeland security. and so the idea of creating a space force would be to create a sixth military service, and you can see the argument why. space is a huge domain. in fact, be we think of where all of our satellites are just out to what's called geosynchronous orbit, that's already 22,000 miles above the earth's surface. so the space just where satellites roam is far larger than the earth itself or all the other domains of the army, navy, air force and marine corps. so you can see the logic for this on just basic geographical grounds. you can also see the logic on physics ground. objects in space move much differently than objects anywhere else, and even the atmosphere -- which seems close to space in some sense -- is governed by entirely different lawses of movement for airplanes vis-a-vis sat rights in orbit -- satellites in orbit. space is becomeing a very, very important area, so there's nothing hugely different about that except now we plan

doesn't mean the impulse didn't have good things contained within it and now you have the department of defense trying to adjust. i won't try to pull you through the knot hole of d.o.d. organization but there's a column "a" and a column "b" in the department of defense. column "a" are the services, the army, the navy, the air force. they don't fight, they train, organize, equip and provide forces to the combat and commanders, european command, pacific command and in the president's proposal and what the vice president talked about yesterdays was a little of column a and column b and i think kohl bcolumn b, the comba command, the space war fighters, are buried bureaucratically. i think we're behind the curve and there's broad agreement we may want to elevate it in temples of the unified space command. the real question is in column a. do you want to create another service? another military department? that's far more complicated. that's far more top heavy. it creates a bureaucratic layer and you can't do it without congress so i think the real issue isn't emphasizing space more and elevating its

government and department of defense in particular. and i should've said this earlier, we are really the beneficiaries of decades of great work, the bush administration, your contributions, ashley, working through the civil nuclear deal, the obama administration particularly on the defense side. sometimes referred to ash carter as the india desk officer. but the creation of a major defense partner concept under the obama administration. and so this is sort of evolutionary in its nature but i think all that good work amounts to is the creation of the foundation you talk about and asking about. i think we benefit from leadership on both sides that are willing to take some risks. having articulated a vision, talk about how to operationalize the strategy. we are quite bullish as i said. we will be able to navigate some of these challenges i believe and come out the other side with beinthinkable say our administrn continued the momentum that previous one started and some pretty optimistic. >> i wish you and your colleagues all the best of th

we want to state that very clearly, that these will be defined by the department of defense.k, we do think that with the 232's that exist out there, we think we will be able to work through those in short order. david: explain how that is going to get work through in this sense. , and there isowa a theranos of agriculture in your state, last time i checked. there's been some real retaliatory action against the farmers. how will this work out with the steel and aluminum tariffs so the farmers of iowa don't suffer? sen. ernst: we are currently using 232, for example, against canada. fully need to do is making sure we are working out the new trade agreement. i know robert lighthizer, our new trade rep, is working very hard on those deals. when i heard from a number of , from the president and vice president, is that we are very close to having deals done with mexico and canada. i think in the short term we were work -- we will work through that, and knowing in the future if the president was to use 232, he will have to go through the department of defense to have that defined. s

the united states department of defense in the form of cyber command and the development activities that the department undertakes to staff the cyber command with its forces. similarly, on the private sector side, excuse me, on the public sector side, elements of the federal government engage in centers of academic excellence and both university level and high school and grade school outreach programs mike-- make summer jobs available for them. >> thank you, i'd like to work with you on that going forward. thank you for mentioning the million dollars, i and the appropriations committee making sure that money gets out there. most states have received the money. some haven't used it, but have received it. and bill is marked up and i would love to see that risk limiting audit required across the country. what we have right now in the bill is a requirement that simply audits the required and then they have to report back to us. we have the backup paper ballots, 14 states now, nine as you know have partial, have any at all so it would be impossible, so basically, i don't know how you h'd prov

>> i will leave it to the department of defense to get into specifics about tactics on the ground. what i can tell you is that we are committed to finding a solution. we are exploring all avenues. we're going to continue to do that. if we have announcements or changes, we will certainly let you know. reporter: have you guys assessed whether turkey's financial sector is at risk? >> certainly, we are monitoring the situation. areey's economic problems part of a long-term trend, something of its own making, not a result of the united states. reporter: one of the individuals you listed is a current employee of the department of justice. does the president believe he should be fired? >> i don't have any personal announcements on that front. who criticizede , are they at greater risk of losing their clearance? >> we will do an individual or the -- review. reporter: now that they are back, can you lay out the white house strategy for moving forward? daca and other issues, are there -- is there a strategy in place? >> we have continued a number of ongoing conversations. we are happy the he

for decades department of defense has been a key partner in supporting the border security efforts. the brave men and women of dhs have worked tirelessly alongside the dod counterparts in the name of defending a homeland. i want to thank all of you for your service for the dod has and i suspect will continue to play an important role in helping us up for the board in the future. for that reason we need to make sure their certainty about funding and further take a long hard look at the continued assistance with defense activities.though the national guard helps alleviate the staffing shortages at the border, we cannot continue to search citizen soldiers and resources for brief periods of time. and call them shortly after expect them to not deteriorate. we need a post surge plan and sustained operations to increase situational awareness and gain operational control of the board. i'm one of nine numbers of congress who represent a border district. my constituency waited too long for washington to provide all of the resources strategy manpower required to secure the board and stop the ca

los alamos is the center of producing plutonium and we need to ensure that the department of defense meets their requirements with respect to pit production. the conference report contains a number of important provisions relating to turkey. i want to acknowledge the valuable leadership of senators shaheen and tillis. turkey is an important nato ally and it is multifaceted. however turkey's announcement of the intent to buy the russian air defense system threatens the integrity of the nato alliance and would have a negative impact on the alliance between the u.s. and turkey. also the unlawful detention of pastor brunson has raised serious concerns about its commitment of the shared values of the nato alliance and the rule of law. the ndaa calls for the secretary of defense in consultation with the secretary of state to report on the u.s.-turkey relationship including turkey's purchase of the system. should turkey proceed with the s-400 purchase, what the impact would be in turkey's f-35 aircraft program. the assessment must include the steps required to of such a change on the united

at the start of the briefing, the defense department officials gave them up to date on the return of the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean war. this is 35 minutes. ms. sanders: good afternoon. the images from the honorable carry ceremony at joint base pearl harbor this month made us all proud to be americans. president trump is committed to getting the almost 8,000 left behind from the korean war home, and bringing closure to the families who have been waiting for more than 60 years. the process of identifying and verifying the remains is challenging but one that this administration is committed to. overseeing this process is kelly mckeague, the director of the defense for pow and mia accounting agency. leading dod's worldwide operation of research, investigation, recovery, and identification, and supporting functions, director mckeague strives to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel. the director, along with his colleagues, dr. john byrd, the defense pow and mia accounting agency laboratory director, and dr. timothy mcmahon, director of do

tonight, we will hear from historianandowski, a in the secretary of defense -- department of defense. she will talk about how medicine confronted shellshocked during world war i and what lessons we learned or did not learn and how we proceeded from there. i would take to welcome rachel, she does a fabulous job. please save up some good questions for her at the end. thank you for joining us rachel. [applause] thank you, and thank you so much for that warm welcome .verybody i have to say this is by far the coolest place i have ever done a lecture. there is a spine in a jar right there, how cool is that? i have always been really interested in the history of military medicine. me tos a real honor for be here today. i have to start my talk by saying that the research and views i present today are not reflective of the views of the secretary of defense is historical office or the department of defense. i am giving you a summary of my dissertation research, those opinions are my own. i will be discussing world war i, my research looks at the civil war up through vietnam. i chose as it for a

verythink we would hew closely to what the president and also what the department of defense wanted to do. secretary pompeo and secretary mattis speak closely about these sort of things to it and having conversations with the south koreans and our allies as well. if we have any changes to their posture, we will certainly let you know. >> as there been any -- been any indication since those briefs came out? >> out of have the answer to that, but i will see if i can get it for you. the president said he looked forward to seeing kim jong-un soon. prior to this, were there discussions about a meeting between the two? a whitewould be more of house question. >> people were asking about the content of the letter. can you comment on the existence of the letter? >> i cannot confirm the content of any diplomatic conversation. that also encompasses any kind of talks that we would have. >> usually north korea [indiscernible] but this time they are not talking or we've not heard any mention about insulation. >> i'm sorry, have i heard any mentions about -- cancellations, [indiscernible] expect the

that is the way the department of defense thinks about the areas of the world that they have to provide forces, be prepared for forces and those eople in charge, the grand poobahs of those areas to use your term are called the geographic commanders. army, navy, air force, marines and the service chiefs where i served at one type. they provide the forces to go out to those locations and those forces are commanded and are responsible for their well-being and their actions by these global commanders. i call them g.c.c.'s now. in the mid 1980's there was a pretty important law to the department of defense. the goldwater-nichols act. it distinguished between what the global and what the g.c.c.'s do and what the services do. the services organize, train, equip and provide forces to the g.c.c.'s. simple concept if you will. it separates that so that you don't have folks making bad decisions because we don't have enough money. we're not going to do that or we're going to go do that and get away from an oversight and a breakdown between each and every service doing something a little bit differe

the mission of the fleet as a reflection of the mission of the department of defense and the mission of the military in general which is number one to defend the united states and its citizens. number two, it is about the economy, stupid, the global economy and keeping that flow of products of goods in and around the world to keep the global economy going. most of our treaty obligations are out there as i said and meeting the treaty obligations is number two. number three, we need to reassure our allies, work with dissuade or deter and beential adversaries sure not to upset the balance there. -- and humanitarian assistance. that is the predominant crises that occur in the pacific from volcanoes, the ring of fire resides out there. mommies --sue tsunamis and pandemics. why deploy forces? some say this is crazy and too expensive. let us have ready forces and keep them in the continental u.s. and go forward if we need to. it sounds like a good concept. number one, you will be late and number two and perhaps the real the end of world war ii, we emerged as the super poor -- superpower and

but our mission to search for, find, and account for missing department of defense personnel from world war ii through operation iraqi freedom is one not limited to the korean peninsula. today, 186 personnel from dpa and private partners are deployed in seven nations. and yesterday, 50 of those members returned from laos and the philippines. our global mission is humanitarian in every respect, because the impact of a missing american to their family is not constrained by time or generations. and it leaves an enduring pain and void. this is why former enemies, like vietnam, used cooperation on the pow/mia mission as a bridge to normalization in today's thriving bilateral relationship with the united states. the fact that the united states of america vigorously pursues the fullest-possible accounting of our missing reflects our values as a nation. the sacred obligation, if not moral imperative, remains a high priority for the department of defense. inherent to the exceptional teamwork, resources, and resoluteness provided by multiple agencies is a solemn valve that those were sent off in

there is pressure on the system, the department of defense and department of state, to streamline, beefficient, reduce billets in certain areas and in particular the kinds of things that support arms export policy like contracting, technology, security reviews. how do you strike that balance? how do you make sure resourcing that is required to be proactive rather than reactive? i would postulate or argue that may be harder to do. it takes more than a staff effort to be reactive. >> i should add some of the early proposals were not in the final conference report. there were some reductions mandated. >> resourcing is a concern among all of our agencies. i can't necessarily speak to dod that they have concerns, contracting especially as one area we collectively point to as a need for increased resourcing. in the department, the bureau it is well-known, the director is quite understaffed, down considerably. we had vacancies here and there. something we were very much aware of and we will be seeking to try to fill those thoughts. there are stresses on the system where we are asked to do mo

russia or china or india this fact alone raised red flags for the whistleblower since the department of defense as employees tasked with just that while how her was an outsider what made things more suspicious is that helper was paid astronomically more than others. nobody in the office seem to know what hope or was doing for his money is sub contracted out a good chunk of it to other academics he would compile them all and then collect the balance of his fee as a middleman that was very unusual for this type of work the pentagon reimbursed helper with more than a million dollars in the span of just under six years and a stranger doesn't get this kind of money in washington allegations of undercover spy games around help or date back all the way to the reagan years while more recently he was outed as an f.b.i. informant scooping for dirt on the trump campaign working against the current us president makes helper trumps the enemy and anyone who is a trumps enemy is hillary clinton's friend and clinton's name weaves into this story and nother contract or love into a flag the long term strategy gr

and that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you know as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states. well video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries and please be warned what we're about to show is upsetting for some to watch the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels so the arabiya launched an intervention against them in twenty three the latest united nations data ses the majority of people killed in the call of flaked are dead as a result of correlation strikes over ten thousand fatalities the red cross told r.t. the situation in yemen is strong. we have received twenty nine identified children up to fourteen years old and. forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the health system is decimated t

the department of defense saying in a statement that the devices applications and services would geolocationepartment of defense personnel on and off duty and our military operations globally that the new regulation comes after group of researchers were able to find the location of military personnel public officials and even the head of a company by way of a fitness tracking application. what they found was not only could you likely see a users work out retuned but also find their location when they finished which in the case of military personnel overseas can also reveal the location of basis a classified operation. troops in sensitive areas will be allowed to use any trackers or applications. and other areas the military will determine if troops can use the gps function based on local security threat. >>> some incredibly emotional testimony in court today as friends and family of the 36 people killed in the warehouse fire addressed the two men who are about to be sent his. >> this sentence is unfair, it's unbalanced. >> friends and family of the victims told the court that the sentence ag

and that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you know as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of children's injuries and please be warned that the video that we're about to show you. strike hit the north of the country which was under the control of the rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against them in two thousand and fifteen and the latest u.n. data says that the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes more than ten thousand fatalities the red cross told r.t. that the situation in yemen is catastrophic. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the health system is decimate

thee would be part of process with the department of defense and part of the decision-making process in making sure we understand what they are doing and how it may propagate into other things. we have the authorities we need to help defense and we rely on our partners across the interagency and other authorities. we want to connect what is going to make suretion it is less likely that we would be attacked. you, mr.thank chairman, and thanks for having this hearing. let me come back to a point i made at the conclusion of my remarks earlier. rules ofsion that classifying information are strictad, or maybe over and prevent the american people from knowing what we know, what our adversaries know. but they should know. and i understand sources and methods should be spared any risk, but would you agree that making more of this information known, what is classified, in other words, known to the american people, would help to create and raise awareness? >> dhs is certainly working into lanes, one is getting people access to more classified information, but the more we can get contact out th

department of defense for an interview was declined but we did get a statement saying america's partner forces are vetted and that the final use of the weapons this checked. meanwhile u.s. support for rebel groups in syria continues. and to defeat eisel america has chosen a new ally the president authorized the department offense to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over isis in iraq and syria. but kurdish rebel forces have their own territorial interests and a new front has opened in a region already fractured by war. in a recent escalation to u.s. allies turkey and the kurds have been pointing guns at one another. and more lives are taken every single day. the spread of weapons is a global problem and even more so if exporting countries avoid accountability. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the wild side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was desi

my amendment would simply reduce the department of defense's budget by $475 million to align with the navy's request. now, i understand that senators are trying to protect jobs in their states by forcing the navy to procure more of these unwanted ships. sailors are going on longer and longer deployments because the ships that are actually needed to rotate them on are not ready to sail. it's important to remember the priority of this bill is not the parochial interest of members of congress, but rather the needs of the armed forces. i am proposing an amendment to keep the cost also under this bill of the military parade that the president would like to put on next year at a reasonable amount. recent reports have indicated that local d.c. officials claim the parade would cost up to $92 million, which is significantly higher than the $10 million to $30 million originally estimated by the white house office of management and budget director mitch mulvaney. the last military parade, i should point out, was held in 1991 to celebrate the end of the gulf war. that cost about $8 million. the f

. >> we're told that the white house is now twice rejected drafts because of the defense department doesn'tt a space force, rather create a space command under the existing military structure. in view of this, how is it the president going to force the creation of a space force? >> we're continuing to work with the department of defense to fact ure out and determine the best way forward something the president feels strongly about and we're going do work with the team there and figure out the best solution. >> continue to work with the department of defense, not exactly the immediate direction the president seems to imply. he can't just unilaterally order this t them to create a mu military service. a new draft report reveals the pentagon is preparing for the in you space force, preparing three of the four components that are actually needed. first and foremost creating a new combatant command. that's the structure that carries out the mission in an area of assigned responsibility. it's either a geographic location, say, the u.s. africa command in a debrgeographical a. the pentagon also pla

fort campbell in tennessee and kentucky. $2.8 billion is provided for basic research at the department of defense. this is the largest defense department research and development budget in history. it's hard to think of a major technological development since world war ii in this country that wasn't supported in some way by federally sponsored research. funding basic research at the defense department will give the united states an advantage over our adversaries and allow us to maintain the strongest military in the world. i've suggested to president trump that he make science and research a part of his america first agenda. we need to do that. since 2007, over the last ten years, china has increased its spending on basic science by a factor of four and may surpass the united states in total spending on research and development this year, according to norm augustine who during the george w. bush administration chaired the bipartisan committee rising above the gathering storm that made recommendations to the congress on how to retain america's competitive advantage. our country needs to continue t

clear-eyed view of the future as the department takes the steps necessary now to implement president trump's vision for a space force. >> president trump directed the department of defensemediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch the armed forces. the time has come to establish the united states space force. [ laughter ] >> seth: you know, one of the -- [ laughter ] one of the byproducts of the whole trump presidency is nowadays you walk by a tv tuned to cable news and you constantly see headlines you just would never even imagid only a few years ago. but that was on tv today and that takes the cake. [ light laughter ] that is an adult man talng about building a space force. [ light laughter ] i mean, seriously, are we allowed to be surprised by any headline anymore? is it really so crazy if we saw this one day? [ laughter ] "did you tell them about the space force, mike? how did it go? when do they think?hey'll have is it going to be done this week?" [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] but, i will say, it makes sense that trump wants the focus on space, because what's happening here on earth is really bumming him out. [ light

coverage of the senate as they continue work on an $857 billion spending package for the departments of defense, labor, hhs, and education. announcer: sunday night on after discusseseconomist her book "edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth and how to fix it." she is interviewed by the former chairman of the council of economic advisers during the obama administration. >> you wrote a book which is a lot about politics and political science. why did you do that? >> the most important thing in terms of motivation of writing the book is born out of frustration. i talked about this in the book. and my academic background are in economics, but if you think about the global economy today, there are a host of deeply structural long-term problems that the global economy has to contend with. i imagine we will get to them in a moment. demographic shifts, the impact of technology for the jobless underclass, concerns around productivity and debt overhang. income inequality is something that when i was doing my phd was never discussed and now it is in the top three big issues. th

through congress numerous defense authorization acts that have substantially reformed the department of defense, improved care for service members and increased the capacity of our military to immediate the myriad national security challenges we face. throughout his life, senator mccain was a steady force in turbulent times in global afarmers the threats to our national security and the stability of the global order are more numerous and diverse now than way any point in our recent history. we should remain john's guidance that we live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. we are the custodians of those ideals, at home and their champion abroad. he believed in an america that is united by its values, not divided by manufactured distrust and animus. most importantly, he emphasized a moral obstacles that we as americans carry to provide leadership in the world and serve as the beacon of hope, opportunity, and justice -- both here and across the globe. as a further reflection, i was always impressed by john's respect for colleagues who were committed to principle but who sought principled

not reflective of the opinions and views of the office of the secretary of defense historical office or the views of the department of defense. what i am giving you is a summary of my dissertation research. those opinions are my own. today i will be discussing world war i. my research looks at the civil war up through vietnam, but i chose this particular instance for a couple of reasons. one because it is the 100 year anniversary of the war. this is a time we are reflecting on what happened 100 years ago and the american role in it. from a historical perspective, world war i also offers interesting insights. the war came about just as the field of psychiatry was becoming professionalized in the united states. world war i represented the first large-scale attempt at organized military psychiatry and organized military medicine. finally, it was the first time that medical professionals in the public accepted that psychological trauma caused by war could be as devastating to a man as any physical wound. the goals of this talk are, how did psychiatrists and soldiers talk about psychological trauma before world war i?

, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for being here this morning. , thenuary of this year department of defense released its national strategy, the first of its kind in a decade. in it, we outline the department strategic ironies and the guidance that we wanted to give our department below us for the budget request. time the budget to the strategy itself. today, thanks to strong bipartisan support in congress, it has resulted in $717 billion budget authorization for 2019. our military continues to go stronger, more lethal, more agile, and certainly more deployable than a year ago. without thank congress expressing of my respect for his courage and his service, and my deepest condolences to his family for the loss of a man who represented all of the ideals america stood for. john mccain was a man who served as aountry honorably, defiant prisoner of war, standing with his brothers in arms until all returned home together, and is a leader in congress, including the senator -- chairman of the senate armed services committee. in all he did, senator mccain never lost sight of our shared purpose of de

department of defense on this military john isject, on the other hand it willing to help the chinese sor information from its own citizens. that is a little bit of a hard sell in some corners of congress . the politics will be very interesting, given the trade tensions or trade and beyond tensions between the united states and china. it is not even clear to me that google would be permitted by the chinese government to reenter the country with search or its other commercial services. emily: that is certainly another question. bob: i would agree with that. one of the things we have to look at very closely is uncertainty, both in terms of what the chinese government will allow and in terms of what google wants to do. people are treating this as a done deal and it is by no means a done deal. the fact that just a beginning of a story about this has outraged so many should be taken as a pretty serious thing by google. emily: it is anything but a done deal, you are right. it also sets the standard potentially for a country specific internet. alibaba or ask tencent or baidu executives about

s, e department of defense's, more regimented mindset. >> we have strong relationship with v.c.'s acroll the silicon ecosystem and we leverage a lot of their portfolio compies to solve dod problem >> reporter: for small tech start-ups, the military's beauracracy and lengthy procurement requirements can consume more time and resources than they can afford. that's especially true for new technolo projects that could be obsolete before they getit through the trnal contracting process. fch entrepreneur raj shah feared that with hst start-up . >> and after my 10th meeting with some senior general realizing how long things were taking wstopped pursuing that market. >> reporter: shah, a former air force f-16 pilot, a mckinsey consultant and entrepreneur, went back on active duty to orn diux for two years befe recently returning to the startup world. >> there is a civil military divide. that manycause o companies don't look to d.o.d. as a customer and so what diux is trying to do is bridge that gap bridge of understanding and bridge the gap of process. t >> reporte military has been clos