the honorable james stewart, assistant secretary of defense for that part of the fence. rear admiral john pelichik, the deputy director of studies in the leon panetta senior fellow center for a new american security. major general peter burke, mobilization assistance the commander of us northern command and miss elsa kania, senior fellow with the national security program of american security. thank you for joining us today. i would like to turn to you for an opening statement. >> as vice chair for military service, i will be meeting the efforts for the military service commission. when it comes to military service there is commonality, it is understood by a small portion of americans. we found that many americans do not understand the requirement to register for the purpose of the selective service system. although there is no draft the selective service is in existence but there seems to be much confusion between the two. most young men today see it as a secondary process whether they apply to driver's license or federal financial aid. 75% of young men registering as a

james stewart. mr. stewart, you're recognized for five minutes. thank you mr. chairman and vice-chairman, or chairwoman. distinguished members of the commission i'm honored to appear here today to discuss mobilization needs of the department of defense and the nation in the event of national emergency or war. i will address two kinds of mobilization, first involving the department of defense's all volunteer force using our military services reserve component and second, the mobilization requiring more troops than the current all volunteer force can supply using these selective service systems. the reserve components of the united states militaries are an integral part of america's national defense architecture, providing reliability capabilities to our global combatant commands and state governments. with the ability to quickly mobilize in emergency events, provide operational support abroad or at home, the reserve components are vital to executing the department's defense strategy. the department's operational reserve model with one standard of readiness allow

there was james stewart.ould have a socialist who would be running as a democrat party nominee. and we may have one this time. >> indeed we might. you know, i have enough faith in america to think that we can tolerate that kind of disease in our body politic and that the antibodies will cluster around that and just expel it. let the election of 2020 be a referendum. the individual versus the collective. capitalism versus socialism. i'm perfectly happy to take that vote. i know exactly how that's going to turn out. the american people aren't idiots despite what bill maher may think. david: we already have seen polls, last time we polled it at fox news, by two to one, americans thought a move toward socialism, bad. move towards capitalism, good. by two to one. i think the president's on the side of the american people on this. don't you? >> no question about it. when you think about bill maher in front of his little studio audience and every time he tells one of these little jokes, know why the audience laughs?

joined by chris christie, rahm emanuel, alice stewart, stefanie brown james, and our chief white housen karl. jon, let me begin with you. the white house liked what they heard from barr in that exchange right there. it also appears, he wouldn't comment on it, that the white house has been briefed on the overall mueller report. what do they know? how worried are they? >> george, they have been briefed in broad brush strokes. the white house counsel office has been briefed on the logistics, the timing of the release. they have been briefed enough that the white house will not invoke executive privilege to get further redactions. but there's significant concern on the president's team what will be in this report and unredacted. >> even stuff that will be unredacted. >> yes, yes. the good news is already out there, broad conclusion of conspiracy between the campaign and the russians on the hack. or interfering in the elections. but, there's significant concerns about what will be in here, new information on the obstruction of justice question. on what the president was doing regarding some

stewart is the biographer we chose for him. the tennessee governor loyal to by theon but impeached republicans using the tenure of office act. guess who is dead last. james buchanan. this one hurts a little bit because i'm a pennsylvanian. i love the biographer we chose, robert strauss. president. ever. a full 30 points below andrew johnson. all of these people -- all of them are below william henry harrison who was only an office for one month. -- ino office for one month. they were the net negative presidencies. let's look at how modern presidencies fared. ronald reagan was the only one that made it into the top 10. lou cannon, the terrific biographer is the chapter that he did. he had a lot to say about reagan's command of storytelling while he was in office. george h.w. bush in 20th place. seeill be interesting to now that he has passed and records are available. there is a bit of a halo effect when presidents leave office. the twoso book ended by adams presidents. bill clinton came in at 15. marinus'seminal biography, he writes about bill clinton's duality. he could be both good and bad at the same time and it impacted everything that happened throu

david stewart is a biographer chose, the tennessee governor loyal to the union but of course, impeached by the republicans using the tenure of office act. okay guess who is dead last? james buchanan. i'm a pennsylvanian so this one hurts a little bit. and i love the biographer that we chose for this chapter. his name is robert strauss. it is a really fun book called worseworst. presidents. ever. i think richard called them all the net negative presidencies. so let's just take a quick look at how the modern presidents feared. ronald reagan was the only one that made into the top 10. lou cannon, his cervical bar for the car with him as a journalist in california is the chapter we did. he has a lot to say about the command of storytelling by reagan in the office. next, george h. w. bush. 20th place. it will be interesting to see what happens to him now that he has passed, now that more records are available and it is a bit of a halo effect once the presidents leave office so the next time we do it we will see whether or not he remains there.anderson, hayes also book ended by the two atoms presidents. bill clinton came in at 15. we had david marinus, he was a "washington pos