general dunford, thank you for coming. i want to begin with an area that you have focused on with the chiefs, with the administration and that is at our." editor scum of the countries that would challenge us in a renewed competition. russia and china. i want to take them each in turn and start with russia and the events of several weeks ago that got all of our attention in which the russians intercepted and captured three ukrainian vessels in the kerch straits in an area off the ukraine coast, crimea. wereu watch the tapes that disseminated of that, you heard a russian captain of one of the boats screaming and cursing as he drove his vessel right into an ukrainian tug with anonymous crash. i could not help but worry watching that about the russian willingness to take risks. i want to ask you from a military standpoint, how did you read what happened in that incident? what did that tell you about the russian military? about vladimir putin's willingness to use power? gen. dunford: it says a lot about russia's respect of inte

so, general dunford, thank you. gen. dunford: thanks. david: i want to begin with an area that you have focused on with the chiefs, with the administration, and that's looking anew at our peer competitors. the countries who would challenge us in renewed great power competition. obviously, russia and china. and i want to take each of those in turn and start with russia and the events of several weeks ago that got all of our attention in which the russians intercepted and captured three ukrainian vessels in the kerch strait in the area off the ukraine coast, off crimea. if you watched the tapes that were disseminated of that, you heard the russian captain of one of these boats screaming and cursing as he drove his vessel right into the ukrainian tug with an enormous crash. and i couldn't help but worry watching that about russia's willingness to take risks. so i want to ask you from a military standpoint, how did you read what happened in that instant? what did it tell you about the russian military, about president putin's willingness to

you talk to general dunford just a little bit ago about ai. ai is one of those areas we need to win. and i believe today we are still in the lead. certainly in the foundations of artificial intelligence darpa has had a long history, about 50 years of investing in artificial intelligence. some of the first language translation work that came out was all darpa's sponsored work. of course the last decade we focused on self driving cars. some of the self driving car challenges we did out in the desert, looking at how to do that and some of those are coming to fruition. so we have had a long history in investing in it. when we think about ai and what's relevant today, we think about three waves of ai, three generations. the first being very rules- based artificial intelligence so you can think of turbotax, it is a rules-based , if this happens you do this, it's pretty simple. the second wave is what books are really talking about today which is machine learning. so machines winning games like go and being able to do better than humans at recognizin

kelly had been an ally of secretary mattis and also of general joe dunford.dent took the unprecedented decision to announce the successor to general joe dunford who was not supposed to leave as chairman of the joint chiefs until next october, when he announced that at the army-navy game, that was something that also raised a lot of eyebrows in the building because there was a feeling that by announcing that general mark milley would be taking over as chairman of the joint chiefs, the effect fact i would be undermining general dunford in that position in that general dunford, having been a longtime friend of john kelly's, that that was somehow related to perhaps kelly leaving his position. >> juan: jennifer, we have a question. >> dana: it's a quick one. i'm curious because -- it's great reporting the context. then the next question in washington is always who next? could it be mick mulvaney? chief of staff, omb director. i kid. any clues as to who? >> i think there have been some names floated in the past. senator tom cotton is a name that has appeared at tim

[applause] . >> it is a great pleasure at "the washington post" to have general dunford with us today for this conversation as all conversations hear we invite the audience in the room and streaming to send us any questions so just to say a word about general dunford. he has been a symbol of continuity in our country in two ways that i want to mention. first appointed as chairman in 2015 from president obama and then reenlisted in may by president trump with the second two-year term so with that continuity that is a symbol of what is enduring in our country. so every few days were general dunford is talking with his counterparts around the world from allied countries and the continuity that reminds me of what is continuous with the daily ups and downs with newspapers so thank you for coming. we began with an area you are focused on with the chiefs and the administration. and that is looking new ad our competitors from the countries that challenge us and renew great power like russia and china but i want to take each of those in turn to start with russia in advance of several weeks ago

this hour-long conversation happened before president trump announced his pick to replace general dunford sometime next year.

asking you about general dunford, the chinese threat of dominance in this area. i have heard it said that china is the opec of data. the chinese government captures everything that human beings do, every time they move, by anything, say anything, communicate anything, that data is being captured. vast reserve of structured data for machines to learn on. our ai companies, as brilliant r scientists and you at darpa, as brilliant as you are, don't have that same structure of data available to your machines to learn on. people argue that we are in a race that we are going to lose because the other guy has the raw material that we will never hope to match. how would you answer that? inphen: we have programs place to not require so much data. we have a program called .earning classes labels the military doesn't have as much data as the commercial sector about what is going on in the military environment. we train a machine with less labels come up with less data? another one is because machine learning is so fragile and requires so much data, we want to make sure that

he has joseph dunford whose term does not expire until october 1st.ome pressured him to quit early which told he will not but did it on the morning of the annual nav navy/army football gaime. general, i can't think of anyone i would prefer to talk to right now. tell people why this is so unusual, why it's a slap at jim mattis, the defense secretary and why it was unusual to let joe dunford know it was so shoved aside without any warning? >> certainly is an unusual way of going about your business, as you've mentioned, general dunford is a highly respected four star marine. former marine corps, a lot of combat experience and widely respected and not just in the united states but the international defense community and trusted by secretary mattis. so to announce it this early, ten months out does diminish his ability to be viewed as the voice of military advice under the goldwater nickles act and it's very unusual. >> and it's also unusual because this was not the first choice, general milley was not the person that the defense secretary wanted. doesn't

>> no, they don't have the gravitas except for general dunford, but his role is more operational role in many ways, though he is very blunt. general dunford if you ask him bt, and months ago we did if we should stay in the iran deal or exit, and he said my military judgment is to stay there, but we have lost general mcmaster who spoke truth to power, and now secretary mattis, because he is going to speak truth to power, but he is no longer willing to have his name associated with policy to appeasing the adversaries and kicking around the allies. >> in fact, president trump ignored secretary mattis's recommendation to replace joint chiefs dunford when his term expires in october, and in fact, insulted joe dunford ten months e earlier to make him a lame duck, and doing it in a very inappropriate way. >> and a cascades set of these this week. the announcement of syria took everybody by surprise, and are reporters said that you are on armed services and foreign relations and were you aware of this and i said, no, the administration was telling me the opposite two days ago, but ask the rep

. >> reporter: joint chiefs chairman general joseph dunford explained what that would take. >> we estimatefor example, that about 35,000 to 40,000 local forces have to be trained and equipped in order to provide stability. we're probably somewhere along the line of 20% through the training of those forces. ( explosion ) rd reporter: but, to dunford, that meant u.s. troops wouldn't be leaving anytime soon. but the president's mind appears to have been made up since march. >> we're going to be coming out of there real soon. we're going to get back to our country, where we belong. re reporter: so after four years r d the loss of four american servicemen, senior military leaders are scrambling to get all u.s. troops out of syria in 30 days or as soon after as possible. they're also wondering what comes next, since president trump has said his instincts tell him to pull out of afghanistan as well. jeff? >> glor: david martin at the pentagon for us. david, thank you. okay, holly williams has reported extensively on syria, having visited the country ten times now, holly joins us from istanbul ton

dunford is supposed to serve until next fall. the president saying the transition date is to be determined. >>> heading overseas now, to the tense streets of paris, landmarks on lockdown. angry protesters torching vehicles and ripping down barricades. in a fourth weekend of violent clashes. riot police firing water canons and tear gas into the crowd. abcs foreign correspondent james longman is right in the middle of the chaos. >> reporter: a continuing crisis for france tonight. cars on fire, clashes police near some of paris' most famous landmarks, and for the first time, armored trucks with water canons deployed in the french capital. this, the fourth straight saturday of nationwide protests. an estimated 120,000 out on french streets tonight, nearly 1,400 arrests, more than 130 including police injured. there's been this endless back and forth between police, and now there's tear gas in the air and it is very, very strong. some protesters throwing tear gas canisters back at police. celebrated tourists destinations, like the ei

we do not know if joe dunford will work out for the rest of his term, which would run until october 1st of next year, or if we might be leaving early. we're trying to run that track down. we do know tomorrow the president will announce the current army chief of staff to succeed the current chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joe dunford. now on to the news that by now is really old because it happened all about four hours ago. the president doesn't know a whole lot about william barr, who he has nominated to be his next attorney general. there are some people who advised the president from outside the white house, who were cautioning him against it. just a few minutes ago in kansas city speaking to law enforcement officers, the president had high praise for his nominee. listen here. >> bill previously led the justice department with distinction under george h.w. bush following his unanimous confirmation by the united states senate. during his tenure, he demonstrated an unwaivering adherence to the rule of law. no one more capable or more qualified for this role. he deserves o

then you have joseph dunford, general joseph dunford, america's top general, who just two weeks ago,ave this warning. >> leaving afghanistan not only would create instability in south asia, but in my judgment, would give terrorist groups the space within which to plan and conduct operations against the american people, the homeland, and our allies. >> wow. so now what? >> now what indeed. look, first of all, you should look out to see there are some thought that perhaps general dunford might follow secretary mattis out the door, and so that's one question, is whether he's even going to remain in the trump administration. he was excluded, according to reporting in "the washington post" yesterday, he was excluded from the decision-making meeting at which the president decided to abruptly leave syria. and again, you know, this is not just some process foul on the part of president trump. it's been clear for a long time that his inclination was to leave syria, was to leave afghanistan. he said so publicly. you have this insane, and it is an insane situation, by the way, where the preside

trained and equipped in order to provide stabi wee probably somre along forces. >> reporter: but dunfordoops wouldn't be leaving any time soon, but president's mind appears to have been made up since march. >> we're going to be coming out ever there real soon, going to get back to our country where we belong. >> reporter: so after four years and the loss of four american servicemen, senior military leaders are scrambling to get all u.s. troops out of syria in 30 days or as soon after as possible. they are also wondering what comes next since president trump has said his instincts tell him to pull out of afghanistan as well. >> you know our colleague holly williams has been covering the war in syria from the very beginning. she hats view now from istanbul, turkey. >> reporter: a local official from the region in syria where the u.s. has its bases warned us tonight that the american withdrawal could give isis an opportunity to regroup and come back. now america's partners on the ground are the syrian democratic forces or sdf, and they now control around a quarter of syria, and we have witn

dunford will be gone. stories that the chief of naval operations will leave, the general of the air force will leave, a major tunover inta mi leaderships. >> a lot of change. david? >> barr is a big one for me. a great pedigree, a lot of respect around this town. h he is a republican. there are a lot of democrats complaining he has views. the herring thing is does he become elliott richardson. elliott richason resigned rather than fire the special counsel and after that it's curtains for richard nixon. and here is someone with integrity, credibility, loyaltyh to somethiher than donald trump. and if trump asks him to o something immoral it's possible he would resign and you would see a sort of saturday night massacre again. >> woodruff: wow. in the fewv minutes we hae left i want both of you to reflect on the life of preesident geo h.w. bush. we spent several days this week remembering him, remembering hit admition, mark. not a perfect man, everybody said that, but someone who stood out for his decency, for

the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, joseph dunford said he was recommending against a drawdownly as december 6th. president trump's own appointee to run u.s. central command said two days before that that if you drew down u.s. troops precipitously in afghanistan, the afghan government did not have the wiherewithal to defend itself against the taliban. dave. >> ivan watson, thank you. >>> about 19 hours to go and a cold harsh reality on the first day of winter. a partial government shutdown is looking likely over christmas. it looked like democrats and republicans were coming together on a short-term plan to fund the federal government through early february until president trump derailed the deal. he says if there are not billions for his border wall, he's not on board. >> i made my position very clear. any measure that funds the government must include border security. has to. not for political purposes, but for our country. for the safety. >> house and senate republicans assured the president would sign a stop-gap funding measure. then mr. trump received his morning briefing

. >> he went against the recommendations of mattis, mcgurk, dunford and pompeo and bolton. who is he listening to? >> a bunch of people. including the people -- >> that's his national security team. >> -- including the people that live here. the people he promised when he ran for office. we recognize the fact this is unpopular within the beltway. we recognize it is unpopular with the defense department. >> do they know what the stakes are of pulling u.s. troops out and leaving the syrian defense force to the turkish slaughter and the impact on iran? really? >> ordinary americans have no idea about those things. they elect the president so he does. >> the one thing the president did not immediately recognize was that mattis was resigning in protest. once that became clear, aides say the president remarked that mattis was portrayed as the smartest guy in the world because he was leaving the trump administration. now sources tell us, senior military officials are worried about the uncertainty that the upheaval is causing with mattis on the way out. who is in charge for now? he

after discussions with the president and general dunford, i am never better on where we are headed. the goal is the same. to leave syria and make sure isis never comes back. our partners are taken care of and iran is contained. i think that is possible. >> those partners that graham is referring to is the kurds in northern syria. they could be attacked by turkey if they leave. the kurds invited assad regime to take back the territory they held with the hope of avoiding the slaughter at the hands of the turks. >> general maittis will make a phone call to his replacement as the head of the pentagon. mattis was supposed to leave at the end of february, but president trump moved his departure date up two months. >>> the government shutdown. day ten and counting. expect to count for some time to come. according to sources, president trump is privately telling lawmakers he will not agree to a deal if it allocates $1.3 billion for border security. democrats take control of the house this week and there's no sign that they are willing to budge. it is 800,000 federal workers and families fee

cheers and applause ] >> coming up shortly, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general joseph dunford talks about how the pentagon is modernizing the military and how new technologies can change the nature of warfare. that's hosted by the washington post, and it starts live at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> outgoing congressman steve ross, is representing southwest pennsylvania and he was defeated a month ago today by democratic congressman connor lamb. yours was one of 40 seats, what lessons should republicans take from a shift that large? >> i think number one, you have to take a look at the general nature of the midterms particularly when you have a party in power and the american people do like to have a balance out there. they see one party getting all of the attention and they might say it's time to make a

you just quoted general dunford. i think secretary mattis was also surprised by this, as well as general botell in central command, general thomas in central operations command as well as all of our allies. this is more than just a wake up and tweet moment. this is really affecting not only our strategy in the region, which is not that strong in the first place, but it certainly contributes to the strategies of others successfully being accomplished, like russia, iran, turkey and the syrian government. so, yeah, this was a surprise, and i think it's unfortunate because as senator graham also pointed out, the key principlal in the u.s. government didn't know about this. brent mcguirk was just talking about how we needed to have forces there for several years just two days ago. >> how do you think, arwa, that's the u.s. military responding, what we're hearing, the u.s. allies in the region were blindsided, this was a total surprise. how do you think this is playing out in the region there? >> i think the key players in

>> coming up shortly, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general joseph dunford talks about how the pentagon is modernizing the military and how new technologies can change the nature of warfare. that's hosted by the washington post, and it starts live at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> outgoing congressman steve ross, is representing southwest pennsylvania and he was defeated a month ago today by democratic congressman connor lamb. yours was one of 40 seats, what lessons should republicans take from a shift that large? >> i think number one, you have to take a look at the general nature of the midterms particularly when you have a party in power and the american people do like to have a balance out there. they see one party getting all of the attention and they might say it's time to make a mid-term check and that's what they saw. in pennsylvania we have a different situation in my district which was a completely new district with the pennsylvania supreme court deciding to impose a map outside of normal constitutional procedures and substantially changed my district. i think y

and, in fact, that's also acknowledged by chairman dunford.and the only path to peace in afghanistan is a diplomatic path. general mckenzie, and your response to questions from this committee you said that there is a role for pakistan in reaching this kind of settlement. so why did you say that courts are there any indications that pakistan wishes to play that kind of the role with regard to afghanistan? >> senator, i do believe that any solution in afghanistan is going to require the assistance of pakistan. it has to be original solution, such as a solution centered in afghanistan. it is in pakistan's long-term interests to have a government in afghanistan that is stable, that they can do business with. i think pakistan has not shown indications i and part over the last few years of being a serious partner in this regard. ambassador has had a meeting with the pakistanis seem to see if we can find some way forward. it will be hard to reach the sun without some form of assistance from pakistan. >> and he said that pakistan is still not acknowle

. >> to ask about what we were discussing with general dunford, the chinese threat if you will of dominance in this amazing new area i've heard it said that china is the opec of data because the chinese government captures everything human beings do, every time they move, anytime they buy anything or say anything, communicate anything the data is being captured and so there is a vast reserve of structured data for the machines to learn on and our ai companies as brilliant as they are in your side is as brilliant as all of you are don't have that same resource of structured data that's available to you to learn on so people argue we are in a race we are going to lose because the other guy has the material from the machine learning part of this puppy would never hope to match. how would you answer that? >> we have programs in place to not require so much data and desist from a military standpoint the military doesn't have as much data as the commercial sector about what's going on in the environment so can we learn and train a machine with less labels and less data. because it is fragile and

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and those two things start to collide so in march 2015 i went to my husbands retirement general dunford was the presiding officer and we were sitting in his office with my in-laws he said how is everything going at parris island? i was briefed without knowing it and i start to say it's amazing you should see what you're doing at the rifle range you should wait when you see that band is lifted he leaned forward and said oh no kate. we are not ready for that. the alarm started to go off i think we are ahead of the power curve. >> one of your chapters you can read it if you would like flat out you say they did not want women in infantry and according to that leadership that was the most elite branch could not be trained in the high standards of workmanship and leadership as i was showing that they could the marine corps put studies together showing that they could not this is why i was fired. >> i do believe that is true it is a combination of that convergence of events and bad timing but also the way that women are perceived as strong and aggressive leaders with every segment of the econo

it is authoritative ly reported by all of us that he is ignoring the military team of mattis and dunford as the diplomatic advisers including the kurds who are fighting alongside us, and empow empowers turkey to go alongside the allies and russia and iran. >> and he has every right to do it, and it is president, and i said it when he pulled out of iraq, and i vehementtally disagree. i think it is the president not listening to the advisers, and in syria and fighting isis and it is not politics. when it comes to policy issues, and issues of war, you have to be not sensitive to the politics at home, but the future of what it means for country. and fighting terrorism is not a choice that the united states make, but it is a choice that is made for us. the question and the choice we make is where do we fight them? do we fight them in syria or in iraq or do we ultimately fight them here at home or on the streets in europe? they have made the decision to fight us, and in the era of transportation, and airplanes and technology and communication, they can choose the ground. right now, we can figh

take the post of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff it's clearly being held by general joseph dunford who's teacher of time. and he is now serving as the army's chief of staff. to europe now where a protest in four x. four saturdays for massive demonstrations across france what began as protests against increase in fuel tanks has spread to wider resentment against president crawl the streets of paris and other french cities are relatively calm now as the groups of so-called yellow vested protesters returned home for the night but throughout the day some one hundred twenty five thousand demonstrators descended on the streets breaking barricades burning cars and vandalizing shops they were met by large numbers of riot police armed with tear gas and water cannon more than one thousand three hundred people were arrested the government is calling for calm if you will because you're good you quickly ducks no tax is that important to threaten national unity we must continue with dialogue with coming together the president will propose measures to bring together the french nation and to deal

the president getting briefing by general dunford. chris: here is the question, if he went against the recommendations of mattis, mcgurk, dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs. apparently pompeo or bolton, who he is listening to? >> the president listens to a bunch of different people that. >> is the national security team. >> including people who live here and ordinary americans the people he promised when he ran for office he was going to lead. we recognize this is unpopular within the beltway. we recognize it is unpopular with the defense department. it is very popular with ordinary american pe, the people who ran when donald trump -- chris: with all due respect to democracy, i agree with you about that, do they really know, do they really know what the stakes are of pulling u.s. troops out and leaving the syrian defense force to the turkish, turkish slaughter and what the impact will be in iran? we'll make this a plebiscite. >> ordinary americans have no idea about those things. they elect a president so he does. the decision

milley is replacing marine general joe dunford, who will be retiring. >>> now to that major winter storm, affecting a big part of the country. it's moving across the south from texas to the east coast. and 25 million people are under winter weather alerts. the weather expected to have big impacts on the south that could last until the beginning of the workweek. nbc's joe fryar has more. >> reporter: the mammoth storm now parading across the lubbock texas with more than 10 inches of snow. only the sixth double-digit snowfall here since 1911, leaving drivers to maneuver around slick roads, while the houston area wrestled with a winter washout. relentless rain up to half a foot in spots, triggered flash floods that submerged several cars, catching some drivers off guard. the soggy system now on the move. states of emergency have been declared in north carolina and virginia, which are bracing for snow and ice. >> this is a snowstorm, not a snowfall. it's serious. >> reporter: the storm is snarling air traffic with american airlines alone canceling more than 1,000 weekend flights. in bristol,

general dunford said we were in a stalemate. how is that stalemate going to affect our operation with generals mckenzie and clarke, and in addition, with the general on the ground, what position does he play? >> i believe the operational military situation is largely stalemated so i agree with the chairman and his assessment of what's happening on the ground. i believe, however, what has changed and what is new is the efforts of general helzebad. that is something we have not had before, working to come to some reconciliation and a position in the conflict that we have been unable to approach before. there are multiple lines that are working. the diplomatic line of effort is alive and being vigorously pursued now by he and other actors in the region. >> general clarke in particular, since most outcomes still remaining on the battleground field are terrorist elements. in fact, there was a number of them, i think, a long, long list. so that special operations would be concerned going forward with these threats, even if there was s

. >> for dunford, that meant u.s. troops wouldn't be leaving anytime soon. but the president's mind appears to have been made up since march. >> we're going to be coming out of there real soon. going to get back to our country where we belong. >> reporter: so after four years and the loss of four american servicemen, senior military leaders are scrambling to get all u.s. troops out of syria in 30 days or as soon after as possible. they are also wondering what comes next since president trump has said his instincts tell him to pull out of afghanistan as well. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> the federal reserve raised its key interest rate by a quarter point. it's the fourth rate increase this year. the fed also projected 2 more rate hikes next year instead of three. yesterday's increase came despite complaints by president trump that the moves are threatening the economy. the increase sent stocks plunging. the dow jones was down thirty fifty 1 points, the s&p 500 fell 39 points, and the nasdaq composite lost 137 points. the s&p and the dow are on tr

take the point of the post rather joint chiefs of staff that is currently held by general joseph dunford l.-e. as the army's chief of staff to significant legal developments are putting pressure on us president documents released by prosecutors in new york. after the first time directly linked the president to financial crimes allegedly committed during his two thousand and sixteen white house campaign separately robert muller stane which is investigating suspected russian interference in that campaign says that moscow contacted donald trump their personal lawyer michael cohen as far back as two thousand and fifteen dollars team also says trump's former campaign manager paul made a fort violated the plea deal by lying to them on five different matters including his contacts with the russian associate now the white house claims that this reveals anything new or as damaging to donald trump there are several strands to this story share proton's he breaks it down for us from washington d.c. shortly after the release of some of the prosecution documents the u.s. president expressed his lack o

and general dunford just said, head of the joint chiefs, we're only 20% through the training.need to have 80% still to go. what we've got is the president talking to erdogan of turkey. erdogan apparently saying i'm going to go after those kurds because they're my enemies, we consider them terrorists. trump then makes a decision very quickly, get out of there, i don't want to be in harm's way when they come. what happens? we leave those kurds to be slaughtered. we destroy our reliability in the middle east. who are the big winners tonight? russia. iran. you know, syria under isis. and you go down the list. turkey has won out on this thing. if you go down that list, these are all countries that are muslim are really opposed to us. this is a victory for the other side. >> you know, let me just ask you, you got back from iraq, you've done a ton of reporting on this. few people have your depth of knowledge on this subject. the president said flat-out on twitter and then later today, isis has been not just defeated but beaten badly. how does that square with what you've seen? >> tha

so maybe with general dunford to say how will we russia one - - deter russia specifically in the black sea with the only branch of government with some ideas that are useful because i think we are wasting valuable time with this white house. >> oh first. >> i agree with the premise that we need to understand what was deter russia in the black sea. and many are hoping that i hope it starts that we have to do this as an alliance with other allies and to agree and not just consent but participation of everybody else. you cannot do this unilaterally. so this would start first by building that alliance to show the nato flag more aggressively. and at the extreme other and maybe we harass russia. for those extraordinary measures but this is not your backyard. >> i would simply add to that with your emphasis about the white house the policies that have evolved by defense and state in the policies turn out to be pretty good so it is quite plausible. and i agree to have a nato context while the whole alliance may be skeptical especially the canadians. next question over here. >> general, to ques

chiefs united states army as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff replacing another generaljoe dunford trump, but the latest chief of staff to lead is mrjohn kelly. more on that from seven o'clock you're right on bbc news. in the meantime, here is the weather with louise. good evening. it has certainly been an unsettled week. things will quiet down for the second half of the weekend. we still have some showers to clear and strong winds, plenty of isobars across the chart through the night and isobars across the chart through the nightand in isobars across the chart through the night and in fact the strongest of the winds with likely to be across wales, southwest england and channel coast, gusting in excess perhaps 65-70 coast, gusting in excess perhaps 65—70 miles an hour. real rush in showers for the next few hours. they drift their way steady south, clear skies into the far north of the country. here we could the temperatures in the low single figures, so a touch of light frost not out of the question. we start off early birds with showers around, but they will use pretty quickly so

and so now when you hear things like $750 billion, this report says, and general dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others, the secretary of defense, they say the same thing. what we've got to do right now is increase the budget by 3% to 5% over inflation for the next five years. well, if you take 2016 -- i'm sorry. $716 billion last year and you go to $733 billion, that's only an increase of 2.1%, which is below inflation. so that doesn't do what all the smart people say we'll have to do. that's why you're getting all these numbers. host: you mentioned the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. what do you make of the president's pick of mark millie? sen. inhofe: you know, he is a i like him. he is an army, army. he is a soldier's soldier. i think they're going to get along real well and i think he'll do a great job. host: you mentioned your army service term. you served two years in the army? sen. inhofe: yeah. back in the days of the draft. the best thing that ever happened to me in my life was being drafted. host: do you think the chairman of the armed services com

he would replace marine general joseph dunford. milley is actually the chief of staff of the army, and the president made an appearance with him at the army-navy game this afternoon. he is to the president's right. he called milley a great gentleman and a patriot and said his transition date is to be determined. reena. >> ninan: nikole killion at the white house. thank you, nikole. now to the dangerous weather moving across the south. in the deep south the threat is floods. further north, it's ice and snow. states of emergencies have been declared in oklahoma, north carolina, and virginia, which could get walloped. here's janet shamlian. >> reporter: the storm tore through texas, dumping snow and unseasonal heavy rain, travel grinding to a near-standstill as plows and tow trucks became a lifeline for those caught off guard. overnight, heavy rains hammered houston. roads and highways turned into fast-moving streams as sewers backed up and overflowed. first responders, using a high- water rescue truck to help these drivers after they

bush joseph dunford is wrapping up his second term as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a group of senior defense leaders and there are reports the truck will pick mark milley to or who is currently the army chief of staff to replace him and again.

perhaps one might want to think about encouraging jim mattis and joe dunford to examine the question how are we going to the terror russia -- deter russia in the black sea. and get from the only competent branch of government some ideas that would shape debate. i think we are wasting our time with this white house. i would like to get your views. gen. breedlove: would you like to go first. >> if you want me to go first i will go first. gen. breedlove: i agree with the premise that we need to understand what it would take to determine a shot in the black sea. i'm about are hoping to say something terribly military, i believe it starts with something that sandy said. we have to do this as an alliance with our other allies, with the agreed, not just consent, but participation of everyone else. be seen going in their unilaterally on a matter like this. i think that will play into mr. putin's this was start first by building that alliance, even if it is a mini coalition to show the nato flag more aggressively in the sea. at the extreme other end, the russians have been arresting ukrainian

bush joseph dunford is wrapping up his second term as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a group of military leaders there are reports that trump will pick mark milley who is currently the army chief of staff to replace him and nikki haley is stepping down as u.n. ambassador after two years in the job trump has chosen state department spokeswoman heaven now it to be the face of washington at the u.n. now it was previously an anchor with fox news and had little diplomatic or government experience before joining the administration also in jordan reports from washington d.c. . good afternoon it's been rumored for weeks that state department spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations on friday the u.s. president confirmed the speculation. nauert had no foreign policy experience before she joined the state department in early two thousand and seventeen she was a t.v. news presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative news channel that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back i

then of course in artillery, dunford's the one that said both ina and russia have u.s. outgunned and outranked -- outranged. that's a scary thought. he knows what he's talking about. with that threat out there -- [inaudible] -- mr. yaeger: ok. i want to shift to africa. we brought up that before. you've been one of the foremost experts and leaders in congress on africa and the importance of u.s. engagement on the continent. as everyone knows e the lead architect of the creation of the u.s.-africa command. our national defense strategy prioritizes great power competition with china and russia. both those countries are doing a lot more in africa these days. in what areas do you see chinese and russian activities on the african continent that worry you and what should we do to better compete? mr. inhofe: it's primarily china. because everywhere you go, china. there's kind of a saying there that america will tell you what you need and china build what is you need. keep in mind they don't hire anybody in africa. they bring their own labor in. that's part of their plan. they