the dod component insider threat hubs provide reporting to a central dod insider threat center led by our defense counterintelligence and security agency. finish presently, all dod personnel are covered by at least one of the 43 insider threat hubs distributed across the department and reporting of suspicious or alerting behaviors is steadily increase aring. any behavior that crosses an established threshold is assessed and acted upon by insider threat hubs, the chain of command or security managers within the owning component. in addition to monitoring for insider threat behaviors at the component level, the department also conducts a continue toous evaluation -- continuous evaluation program at the dod level. presently, 1.9 people are enrolled in our continue toous evaluation system, and the department has plans to enroll the full population by october 2021. continuous evaluation complements insider threat reporting by providing data from outside the department with automated monitoring of multiple government, commercial and public data sources for indicators of behavior that violat

the dod is not the epa and it will not be shouldered by the responsibility by the dod but what do you do to keep up the inner sure? >> it is a nationwide problem and dod has been leading on it for the first 24 or 48 hours of being sworn in as secretary of defense i chartered a dod task force. they have been working on giving me updates. i hope to submit a report in the next couple weeks. we've been closely engaged with epa and a couple things we need to do, we need to replace the firefighting them and make sure we understand the impact on people and communities, people outside our gate and keep moving forward with regard to understanding how to mitigate it going forward. you will get my report soon in terms of where we stand on this.. >> continuing on the issue of michigan going after each other, thank you for setting up the task force. that was a great thing and i'm pleased that on a bipartisan basis inin last year's pentago budget we passed the first six provisions into law, doing more than studying the problem including laying down the market that you have to be off by 2024 which i

dod civilian workforce are some of the greatest employees in the world. we know what they do day in and day out. ultimately, our national security is bolstered by those employees. we talk about that. do you plan to exercise this authority to provide the president to exclude the defense of civilians? >> first of all we do have a great dod workforce in my multiple iterations to the pentagon i had to work with them and i am one of them, integrate workforce, we rely for the continuity and expertise that are critical to sustaining our military. you are right, the executive order was issued late january and working its way through the system right now, it has not come to me with any recommendation or analysis and i know it's in the process, that is all i have right now. >> did you request somebody on your behalf -- >> i did not request that. >> you have any idea why they came up. >> i do not. >> can you point to our time in the recent history where that might be employed? i was going back through labor history, i did not see any issues, i have never heard of it

the dod component insider threat hubs provide reporting to a central dod insider threat center led by our defense counterintelligence and security agency. finish presently, all dod personnel are covered by at least one of the 43 insider threat hubs distributed across the department and reporting of suspicious or alerting behaviors is steadily increase aring. any behavior that crosses an established threshold is assessed and acted upon by insider threat hubs, the chain of command or security managers within the owning component. in addition to monitoring for insider threat behaviors at the component level, the department also conducts a continue toous evaluation -- continuous evaluation program at the dod level. presently, 1.9 people are enrolled in our continue toous evaluation system, and the department has plans to enroll the full population by october 2021. continuous evaluation complements insider threat reporting by providing data from outside the department with automated monitoring of multiple government, commercial and public data sources for indicators of behavior that violat

tonight the dod told mr. duffy directly that dod, the department of defense could no longer support the office of management and budget claims that the hold would not preclude timely execution of the aid to ukraine. our vulnerable ally at work russian back. as mr. duff of the reportedly told mr. custer at the department of defense on august 30, there was a clear direction to continue the hold. a clear direction from the president of the united states to continue the hold. so how did mr. duffy understand the clear direction to continue the hold? a person claiming that this was not unlawful. when dod, the department of defense, repeatedly worn his administration that i was. when we all like to ask mr. duffy these questions? finally, there's another reason why we know this was not business as usual. on jul july 29, mr. duffy a political appointee with 0 relevant experience, abruptly sees responsibility for withholding the aid from mark zandi. a career office of management and budget official. sees the responsibi

duffy, they can testify about the concerns raised by dod for omb and the illegality of the whole. and why that remained in place even after dod warned the olministration that it would violate empowerment control act now the president of course has disputed this fact. but we have demonstrated repeatedly to things that first continuing to withhold the aid would to - - prevent the department of defense before the end of the fiscal yearea and second the hold was potentially illegal has turned out to be the case by august 9th told mr. jeff lee - - duffy directly could no longer support the omb claims the hold would not preclude timely execution for the ally at war for russian backed separatist but yet he reported the told the department of defense on august 30th there was a clear direction from potus to continue to hold. a clear direction from the president of the united states to continue the hold. so how does mr. duffy understand the direction to continueon the hold? why is the president claiming that with dod this was not unlawful to warn the administration that i was. wouldn't they

dod meaning the services as part of dod. i believe that people, i heard chuck was there, from the data working group, and he said the deck ipad gets their information that this refers to the response office. and of the department of defense the sentences true where we get our information from. it is my understanding that the proposal was change dod to chabrol and if there was more that is where we get our information from. >> i'm not sure that is where we get all of our information from. >> wasn't there an issue about also not collecting that data was your mark it should be clarified also the family advocacy program. >> they would have to go to services and have them pull through. >> i just want to make sure we are clarifying. >> for those years, 2012-2014, we don't have that information. we do have it for the following years. >> that is correct. in the methodology of the data working, how the data came out. that is just explaining how the data is not as accurate as the rest of the data that is collected for the case of adju

i realize that dod is not the epa. this is not going to be shouldered by the responsibility totally by the dod. but what are you doing to keep up the ineneertia in the pfas cleanup? >> within the first 24 to 48 hours of being sworn as secretary of defense i chartered a task force, they've been working for some time now, giving me updates. i hope to submit a report to the congress, this committee, in a couple of weeks. we've been closely engaged with the epa, we'll abide by whatever stand they set. we'll get a replacement for the firefighting, we make sure we understand the impacts on our people, our communities, people outside our gate. and number three, we need to keep moving forward with regard to understanding how to mitigate it going forward. and that's kind of the commitment we've made. and you'll get my report soon in terms of where we stand on this. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. ms. slotkin. >> just conditioning on the issue of pfos, since you have two michiganders one after the other.

when dod repeatedly warned his administration that it was? wouldn't we all like to ask mr.ffy these questions? finally another reason if it's not business as usual. july 29, mr. duffy, a political appointee with zero ntrelevant experience abruptly seizespo responsibility for withholding the aid from mark sandy a career official. and to provide no credible explanation for that decision. mr. sandy testified that nothing like that have ever happened in his entire governmental career. let's think about that. if this is as routine as the president claims, why is a career official saying he never has seen anything like that? mr. duffy knows why. shouldn't we just take the time to ask him? the american people deserve a fair trial. the constitution deserves a fair trial. the president deserves a fair trial. a fair trial means witnesses. a fair trial means documents. a fair trial means evidence. no one is above the law. and i yield to my distinguished colleague manager lofgren. >>. >> mr. chief justice and ssenators, it's not just about hearing fromom witnesses you need documents. t

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the way the dod works is a lot how i work.i buy something off amazon, and i have to trust it works. i don't have a lot of ability to check it myself. that's how dod works. it's not from amazon, but they're buying a jet. how do we give them the ability to check that? >> i have tv. we were talking about it earlier. i just assumed it was going to be a huge defense network with computers talking to each other. you are talking about somebody hacking a tank. >> yep. >> which is very similar to an iot. that had never occurred to me. >> yes. >> i mean, are you seeing instances of them trying to probe on the infrastructure? we always hear about that. has that remained somewhat stable? or is it increasing? >> i think it's escalating. five years ago, the u.s. always talked about deterrence. today we're seeing leaders of the nsa. they're saying, no, it is persistent engagement now. >> and defend forward and all these difference phrases for basically already being in the enemy network. so maybe a neutral network where the enemy might come

the dod ig reflected his findings in 2017, 2018 report you are referring to. there is a lot of work still to be done. sen. kaine: to your written testimony, there is a goal of 85% readiness, but the current measurement is 59%. vessel material condition and age are the primary factors. those continue to degrade readiness. you have some additional testimony about the sealift, which will lose capacity each year as the ships reach the end of their useful life. tell the committee in my remaining minute about, what are the plans to restore that readiness and hopefully get more near the 85% goal? it is a significant issue. it is a top priority for transcom. we are going to work with the navy on this. we have a fleet that is about 43 years old average. if you compare that to the ships 15 toustry, 25 depending on the business case. when you maintain a facility like our largest sealift platforms, it becomes more expensive. what we would like to see is less in terms of service life extension, extending these ships beyond 50 to 60 years. that is not returning the investme

we have nobody from dod. that's very disappointing because i'm concerned that rather than implementing a coherent afghanistan strategy, u.s. policy in the region is instead being driven by the latest impulse of the commander in chief. for example, in september 2019, just days after ambassador announced the u.s. was nearing an agreement with the taliban, president trump abruptly and publicly canceled the meeting with the taliban leadership at camp david. he subsequently declared negotiations with the taliban, quote, dead, only to restart them months later. president trump and officials in this administration have also publicly acknowledged the united states' intent to withdraw from afghanistan with or without a deal from the taliban, which undermines our diplomats' leverage at the bargaining table. earlier this month, national security adviser robert o'brien said in an interview, and i quote, i think we'll be in a position at some point soon, whether it's with a deal or without a deal, to reduce our military f

again in 2008 and 2009, we wrote letters to the dod urging investigations.oday, the splc offers the following recommendations. adopt and rigorously enforce a zero-tolerance policy on white nationalists activity across all branches of the military. require an annual report for military leadership that includes an audit of all investigations of white nationalists and white three,cist activity offer support services that work to do radicalize service members and veterans exposed. we urge the committee and congress to break from the rank those who would mark the reputation and courageous work of dedicated service members. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for your testimony. it is jarring, to say the very least. it is an important wake-up call for all of us. you have offered a number of recommendations. i would like to maybe use -- to there is public what, was their social media -- maybe i should ask this at the next panel. let me ask you this. we have got the dark web. to theuals can gravitate dark web to engage in their social media if they are so inclined. h

the 2021 budget requests $700 billion for dod. this represents 3 tents of one% over the current fiscal year. in other words the proposed budget buys us less resources than the current year considering inflation. am i correct? >> yes, senator. >> let me ask you this. do we need less security resources in the european command less than we did this year? >> we need more. >> in addition to that, the secretary of defense, the joint chiefs of staff and national defense strategy commission have all endorsed 3.5% real growth. is that your opinion, general walters? >> yes. >> general lyons, is that your opinion? >> yes. >> i appreciate the distinguished chairman mentioning earlier on in his questioning, i am glad he and his team visited there, bipartisan delegation visited there just the other day. the workhorse of the navy, general walters, in european command, how does a mere 3 tents of one% increase occur over -- affect what we do over there? >> those will allow us the opportunity to continue to improve to get indications and potential

i will tear this dod policy. it's dated 2009 with revisions from 2012. this rapidly evolving in the use of social media and a means for spreading information rated their specific needs to two policy being almost a decade old. that you think merit updating or revisions by deity. to make this policy in fort enforceable or relevant. >> yes. i think you also referenced herein testimony from the survey of military. >> i think you bring up a key issue that extremism constantly evolves. they must take to deal with it from the military side. a regulation, dates back to 1960s. anywhere appended in the 80s and 90s and again when you mentioned it. but there are some specific things that we may want to look at. for example, white supremacy today group in part because of the internet, you can be very active in the white supremacist movement without necessarily belonging to a specific group. if you look at our regulations, one of them refers to specific specifically to organize groups rather than abroad. it may be something that needs to be addressed. may also want to

our army-to-army partnerships build valuable relationships for the dod at large. these are more than simply steadfast partners. these are key decision makers and influencers in their respective countries. furthermore, shared equipment builds inter-operability and makes operating together easier while creating strategic depth. our operations in the indo-pacific include training with army forces, helping thailand stand up their new striker units as their striker vehicles -- 15 in fact -- are arriving right now. the philippines has asked for more help in training 72 infantry battalions as they up great their equipment and evolve their doctrine. while we continue to do traditional security operation, we are also employing new capability it and using the indo-pacific as grounds to test our new concept known as multi-domain operations or mdo. if conflict with a great power competitor occurred, the united states would be unable to easily bomb strategic locations and safely fly in forces. seeking to regain overmatch and a solution for converging all domains, mdo creates a

relationship between the dod -- the military, more generally, and tech. can you talk about the efforts the bridgederway, tech brings a lot to bear on the hardware and software side. are you finding receptive either -- receptivity there? a firm inthy: we have austin, texas. they do not wear suits, they , we area high-rise doing everything we can do to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of the country and get rid of the flagpoles and tanks outside. some of it is the business practices, embracing the authorities that in particular, the leadership gave us over the last three or four years -- it started with mccain and reed, and followed through with being able to get things on contract quickly, reducing the cash flow pinch that small business has when they tried to engage with the department of defense. culture is us getting our contracting officers to understand these authorities and being able to take the risk to do that. i think the air force and navy had success with this. we are getting some success with this, but it is a big cultural shift where us -- s

esper has hinted or -- kathleen: secretary esper has hinted or implied that there is a desire from dod to be a higher top line at the end of this budget deal, the fy 21 budget is -- topline is constrained by, so presumably he means going into fy 22 and a second trump administration, or a new administration might want more top line. but the history is not supportive of that. even in the reagan administration, there was a strong effort to constrain defense spending in the second term, and the debates going on right now on the democrat side seem to be indicating stable or less versus more. let me assume for the moment that plan a is get more top line. my question is, is there a plan b, and are you allowing more -- allowing or ensuring that your teams are thinking through what those backup approaches might be? sec. modly: i'm not moving out with any assumption of an increase in topline. i think that is too presumptuous, and that is one of the reasons why we are doing this review, to see how we can fund this internally. we have a pretty big mandate to grow the fleet by 30% to 40% from where

the law prevents federal immigration officials from accessing any dod information without a court orderagents rely on dod information for most of their arrests in new york, like that applicants for travel programs. >> they built cases investigating committal networks using personal data from the database. >> donald trump blamed sanctuary laws for the rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman in queens. >> if they honored isis, his victim would still be alive today. >> the suspect was arraigned. he was in the us illegally from guyana. before the murder he was elected -- arrested for assaulting his father but released. >> back to the campaign. 2020 hopefuls will face off on the debate stage just days before the new hampshire primary. the democratic candidates include iowa front runner pete buttigieg and bernie sanders, andrew yang changing of the campaign, dozens of staffers, that was the plan after iowa. elizabeth warren with her own staffing issues. what they are calling a toxic working environment. >> i believe these women without any equivocation and i apologize personally. >> six staffe

one of the services they are happy to provide to the dod and to serve a long time we have about 2,000 coast guard men and women in support of the combatant commanders you mentioned in the middle east, bahrain and elsewhere when we had issues flare up in iraq and iran at the beginning of the year we had coast guard men and women deployed in support as well. it's a balance they certainly have to do the maritime mission here in the states and homeland. the drug interdiction capabilities they have many missions that we are happy to support this would've alongside the professionals overseas as well. >> thank you and it's clear that it's a balance. thank you for what you do in addressing that. thank you madam chair. we've completed so we will go to ground too. i would like to make a comment on the opioid detection and how important it is with the office of drug control policy. he announced at the graduation because what we are seeing is the drug problem morphing from opioid prescription drugs and synthetic methamphetamine but he announced at the border you interdicted a 432 packages with $1

and i think it is because they see him more as the dod guy, as a take commander. but he always says to them, that he is delivering diplomacy with a little bit of a twist. so let's cocktail party banter and more straightforward talk. [applause]. here's the really big one. in high school, he worked a baskin-robbins. he received the employee of the month award, but there is a future families funeral it is because he said he got it two months in a cistern rather say, one month. so i don't know how to clear it up. for years, mike has practiced what he has told our sons so many times, that is never give an edge. and when it comes to big things in life, which he has often explained, to when he comes to our commander-in-chief, our country, don't ever given an inch. [laughter]. back in 2009, when remained a family decision that might was going to run for congress to michael to get a big family with lots of cousins in kansas. so he decided he should write them a note and forewarn them that he was going to indeed run the running. i loved aligning put in that letter. he said

i got john to get it to me when i got to dod in august of 2005. then his book on counterinsurgency came out and he briefed cheney on that. workof us were trying to within the system to try and get but weeas percolating had to abide by the secretary's view. the other view he had was the one that doug was just talking about which was about the health of the force and rotation base. he had his own good and sufficient reasons for the positions he took. weust came to the conclusion were beyond the point where those views were going to get us a successful outcome. >> one of the themes that has come up in a number of remarks is the question of whether the search head2head -- surge had to happen or whether it could have come about at a different time? i think one of the points of consensus is that it came about quite late in the game. after 3.5 years of war and quite a lot of cost had been incurred. would it have been possible to come to a similar policy with a similar outcome six months or a year earlier or did the surge depend on a convergence of circum

what's been created commercially adopt it to this high security, highly sensitive abilities within the dod. it took 18 months. you had a pre-award bid protest of oracle and saw controversy there. >> right. >> now seeing the protest with amazon and not unsurprising because this happens when it comes to procurement and government contracting. >> the former employees are over at the dod, too, right >> that's not the case. >> there was the whole -- a whole reason, one of the reasons for oracle suing in the middle of this before the competition was actually awarded was because of the conflicts of interest and very dramatic, continues to be dramatic not the first time of seeing a dramatic process - >> i got a scene at oscars ch s flying to space. >> any competition is good not putting all the eggs in one basket is good and amazon was front-runner for a while they do cloud services basically and -- >> saw the joke -- writes a check and the bank bounces >> microsoft was -- you agree that amazon is political in the rhetoric. >> yes >> i think you have to keep -- >> it was an easy contention to make

insults dod trump's not bother me. i have never run away from a fight. and i can tell you, he does not -- he is not going to bully me. and i will not let him bully you either. [cheers and applause] fmr. mayor bloomberg: i have been blessed there is nothing donald can do or say that can hurt me. but he has hurt a lot of other people. that is why i am running. americanup for every who has lost his or her job, or lost their insurance, who cannot pay the college tuition. my whole career i have been a doer. i believe we need less talk, less partisanship, less division, and less tweeting. [cheers and applause] in fact, how about a commitment from me that when i'm in the oval office, no tweeting evermore? [cheers and applause] that is easy for me to say. since i cannot spell. [laughter] then again, neither can donald. even though donald and i are both from new york, the truth is, we could not be more different. in fact, i am the on trump. un-trump. just think about it. he breaks promises, i keep them. he divides people, i'd unite them. he is a climate denier, i

from my viewpoint, in dod speak, we frequently talk about supported and supporting. in the context of defending elections the department of defense is principally in a supporting role. that was why it was important for you to hear from my colleague from the fbi first. so in that, i want to just jump right in and try to get to the gist. the national defense strategy concludes that for the past decade, to offset our military superiority, our adversaries are increasingly using actions below the use of force to undermine our national security and national interests. nowhere is this more true than in and through cyberspace where we see adversaries using coordinated, long term campaigns of malicious cyber activity to harm the united states, our allies and partners, and to undermine international order. their objective is within -- is to win without war. and in the event of conflict, to leverage their accesses and capabilities priority hostilities in order to achieve strategic advantageous. china, russia, iran, and north korea are using and will continue to use cyber to ste

amendments for witnesses and documents to subpoena mulvaney, bolton, duffy, blair, and white house omd dodpartment documents require the chief justice to rule on motions to assess peanut documents and witnesses but senate republicans just kept voting for a cover-up ". earlier tonight there was an exchange between senator schumer and chief justice john roberts. >>. >> mr. chief justice, i have parliamentary inquiry. >> the democratic leader will state inquiry. >> is the chief justice aware that in the impeachment trial of president johnson chief justice chase as presiding officer cast tie-breaking votes on both march 31 and april 2, 1868? >> i am, mr. leader, the one concerned a motion to adjourn the other concerned a motion to close deliberations. i do not regard those isolated episodes 150 years ago as sufficient to support a general authority to break ties. if the members of this body elected by the people and accountable to them divided equally on a motion, the normal rule is that the motion fails. i think it would be inappropriate for me and unelected official from a different branch o

president trump spoke to reporters yesterday in the oval office and said he was not involved in the dod's- >> i didn't speak to the justice -- i'd be able to do it if i wanted. i have the absolute right to do it. i stay out of the things to a degree that people wouldn't believe but i didn't speak to them. i thought the recommendation was ridiculous. i thought the whole prosecution was ridiculous. i look at others that haven't been prosecuted, i don't know where it is now, when you see that, i thought it was an an insult to our country and it shouldn't happen. we'll see what goes on there. that was a horrible aberration, these are the, i guess, the same mueller people that put everybody through hell. and i think it's a disgrace. no i have not been involved with it at all. >> the dod said the decision to override the sentencing recommendation was made before the president's tweet. later last night, the president lash out on the four prosecutors. who are the four prosecutors, mueller people, question mark, who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous nine-year prison sen

the dod ig reflected his findings in 2017, 2018 report you are referring to. there is a lot of work still to be done. sen. kaine: to your written testimony, there is a goal of 85% readiness, but the current measurement is 59%. vessel material condition and age are the primary factors. those continue to degrade readiness. you have some additional testimony about the sealift, which will lose capacity each year as the ships reach the end of their useful life. tell the committee in my remaining minute about, what are the plans to restore that readiness and hopefully get more near the 85% goal? it is a significant issue. it is a top priority for transcom. we are going to work with the navy on this. we have a fleet that is about 43 years old average. if you compare that to the ships 15 toustry, 25 depending on the business case. when you maintain a facility like our largest sealift platforms, it becomes more expensive. what we would like to see is less in terms of service life extension, extending these ships beyond 50 to 60 years. that is not returning the investme

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the dod seems to have the opposite position. dod -- i amknow the asking if you do know. positions seem completely at odds with each other and dod is not commenting and you are not commenting on facebook. if you are familiar with the contradiction, would you comment? director wray: i don't think there is a contradiction between the steps we take to protect the country's most sensitive national security and defense information and having individual manufacturers design their systems in a way knowingly to blind law enforcement all over this country. chairman nadler: there has been a lot of confusion about the bureau's role in conducting background checks for senate confirmed appointments, including judicial nominees. when conducting these background checks, the fbi is restricted to the scope and subject matter. in the case of justice kavanaugh's appointment, i understand the agency was the white house. the white house counsel's office. yes or no, if the white house had directed the fbi to interview some witnesses but not others, or if they had told you to complete the proce

all dod personnel are covered by one of the 43 hubs distributed across the department and reporting of behavior is increasing. -- suspicious behavior is increasing. any behavior that crosses the threshold is assessed by insider threat hubs, the chain of command, or security managers. in addition to monitoring for insider threat behaviors, the department also conducts a continuous evaluation program at the d.o.d. level. presently, 1.9 million d.o.d. personnel are enrolled in this system. the department has plans to enroll the full population by october 2021. continuous evaluation provides data by outside the department with monitoring of commercial and public data services for indicators of behavior that violates the standard of conduct. when alerts indicate unacceptable behavior, an incident report is submitted that is reviewed by the chain of command and dod facility. if appropriate, the incident can be referred to law enforcement. if indicated, the subject can be removed from eligibility to hold a position and processed for separation from military service. madam chair, i'll close by

so, we have both ths money as well as dod money.other 200 under construction. and we will be at 450 by the end of the calendar year. steve: okay. so when the president of the united states goes out on the campaign trail between now and november and he says, look, you know, i tried to get $25 billion to build the wall. the democrats wouldn't give it to me in the house; however, i have been able to do some creative bookkeeping in washington, d.c. to find the money to get this thing started, right? >> that's correct. i think what we would say is a border wall system for many years under previous administrations was very bipartisan. nonpolitical. it's only in this administration that a number of democrats and others choose not to secure our border. so the president has made the decision that if he is not going to get the funding and resources from congress then is he going to use existing resources and existing authority not only from the department of homeland security but also from dod. dod has been a great partner in this. we are sec

because in the dod, indo-pacific strategy of last year, you talk about, you collectively talk about the asia pacific or the indo-pacific region as the most important in the entire world for american defense policy. and yet as you said in your remarks, historically we worry a lot about russia, soviet union, the threat to europe. and it looks to me as if for the army, europe remains a comparable important priority. and of course the middle east remains the area greatest activity. so how do we understand the role of the army in the indo-pacific and to what extent is it your priority compared to twrees oth these other two. so give us a context and then we can move on. >> sure. i guess i'll start with the indo-pacific. secretary mattis when he assumed the role was looking more comprehensively how to look at that problem set. in recognizing that, you know, you have to go all the way through southwest asia and have a comprehensive view of allies and partners and how it influences the region. so that's how historically the pacific command would basically end roughly just shy of going west of th

and the dod to document for every service member, if overseas and put in place, exposed to these pits is in their medical record. there is more we need to do. we are working with a coalition of veteran organizations, toxics exposure in the middle of the military, to make sure it is documented in every service record but they need to get care. the v.a. and the government does not want to acknowledge many of these problems that come. cancers, lung problems, breathing problems are a direct result from burn pits. burn pits is a short and to the many other types of toxic exposure often achieved in the military, just by nature of serving. host: scott, iraq war veteran, st. cloud, minnesota, good morning. go ahead, scott. caller: i apologize. [indiscernible] please talk to them. ask questions. [indiscernible] not: sounds like scott is going to be asking a question this morning. charles, merchant bill, new jersey. caller: good morning. navy in 1956. a few things to say about veterans. all hospitals should be run by veterans. all medical centers should be run by veterans. this way, we get the

dod equities and interest, we're going to have to continue to build that up. and i certainly agree, it's a defining feature about what the contest is, certainly in the nations on the periphery of china. >> in the philippines, i can't talk necessarily about to necessarily the nature of that discussion, that's really not in my area, how it is in my area, there's a very clear recognition that china is putting pressure and using every tool within its disposal to try to draw those countries off, to provide incentives or disincentives to them to take actions even in the worst case would be having them be more, you know, to sit on the fence and not to be as collaborative. that's a condition we're taking head-on that's very serious for us. >> can you comment at all on the philippines aspect? were we surprised what they did and how it will affect our relations with them in the future? >> i think it's probably better to let the others responsibility for that specific defense relationship, but in terms of our understanding of how china pursues this is not a surprise. thi

because much of our health care products come from overseas, and we are working actively with nih and our dod colleagues and private industry to develop better diagnostics, possible therapeutics, as well as vaccines. what i woulding say is a cautious but deliberate and methodical approach to ensure we are prepared. i am going to call last question. reporter: any concerns about legal challenges? international travel in general to the region, what is the message to people who need to travel to the region? and what benchmark do you have for when that gets fixed. let me ask dr. redfield to talk about travel generally and then dr. fauchi will be looking at factors, temporary measures to keep a pause on the situation. thank you. right now there are a lot of unknowns. almost every day we are learning something we didn't know the day before about this, and we will continue to do that. probably the most important thing from our perspective is whether there is expansion of what i call sustained community human to human transmission. right now that is limited in area ofrt to the hubei broader china. we

where does 5g fit into that infrastructure having been a dod for 34 years and ran the joint service provider i know the capacity of the limitations to a lot of our infrastructure. how are you going to process -- process that information a dad secure it? >> this is one of the biggest challenges are facing right now the department and the writers we are doing business with will be one that we can trust. there's a lot of energy related to that end we are trying to put solutions forward. that i'm not in a position to discuss the liberty at where we are heading at this point but we are working with 5g right now. >> everyone please join me in thanking the secretary for his time today. stay in your seats until they depart and we'd be grateful for that. thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] campaign 2020s in nevada friday live at 3:00 p.m. eastern and president trump speaks in las vegas ahead of the state's caucus gridlike coverage on c-span. watch on-demand at c-span.org and listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. >> we don't say this is the grea

the dod portion is probably closer to about 8%, so it's key. we recognize the global challenges and we do the best we can with what we have. i think there's some advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence that we can use and should pursue, and we're going to work that. with respect to space force, we have excellent coordination with general raymond and his team. it's a key interest like cyber in every nation that we deal with. fundamental to this is information sharing into the space realm and space agreements that we're working with nations like brazil, chile and other countries that will help counter china's efforts in that realm and continue to ensure that we have positional advantage. we can't work fast enough in that arena, senator, but we're working as hard as we can. >> senator, on your question about resources, i would say that my command is with one exception is pretty adequately resourced for what we're -- the task we're given to do today. as small as those resources are, i think it's adequate with the exception of isr t

dod is tracking investigation sboos white supremacy as well as other extremist activities and sharing this information with fbi. this is a step in the right direction on the law enforcement side but i think data is a huge key to unpacking the issue. we needed to find the problem and get reliable data on how prevalent it is in the military. on panel one i'd like to understand the magnitude of white supremacy activity and what data is being tracked outside of the military. i'm also interested in your recommendations specifically as they pertain to training and data collection for the military. on panel two, i'd like to hear about the department skreepi is processes and ongoing monitoring of activities. there may be a gap in the reporting of the non-criminal cases that have been handled administratively that resulted in an administrative discharge. i'd like to understand dod's way forward on this issue and whether we need to have standardized training across the services. i want to thank our witnesses and our chairwoman. thank you for being here and i yields back. >> thank you ranking me

people didn't have time to send the protective vest so my friend and colleague at the time worked for dod and put a gun in between us and then he is an egyptian american and took me to the shooting range and you feel why it happens that you feel the danger and then always hiding under my bed. you become a soldier. that you don't understand diplomats. and you don't have the training because they need permission and you can't be spontaneous and then to have that appointment and security first and without having an armed guard. and in yemen and with the yemen security card i had to take my own security and say i just want to go out and meet people. they don't know where i am. and heard some stories about that and then to go in her car when you exit that somehow and there is something special about the american diplomats because of the brits in the chinese because they are not attacked and surrounded like we are. so one has to ask partly it is the region but it is the image that we project and usually it is arrogance to rub people the wrong way. why not the chinese or the french. and that att