host: retired army general john ferrari joins us now.serves as a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. his work focusing on the defense department budget. it was an op-ed that you wrote recently that is titled "the ukraine invasion shows why america needs to get a defense budget in order." what did you mean? guest: thank you for having me. what we have is a mismatch between the reality of what exists in the world, the strategy of our defense department, and the resources provided. right now, the strategy is under resourced as it exists today, but the strategy calls for only having one war at a time and we see china and russia getting together to split our efforts. it calls for emphasizing procurement in the future in the 20 30's over buying things today such as weapons systems and bombs and javelins and drones. it also calls for stationing u.s. forces more at home than abroad. when an emergency happens, we have to push people off to the far-flung frontiers of nato and east asia. we need to adjust the resourcing to meet the

. >> army general major general john ferrari with us for just about the next 15 or 20 minutes. call in, if you have your questions as usual democrats 202-748-8000, republicans 202 8001, and a special line for current and former members of the military as we often do in these segments, 202 748 8003. we are going to be going to the senate judiciary committee hearing room a little before 9 am eastern to let you see some of the sights and sounds right before judge jackson is expected to arrive around 9am . at that point it looks like reporters and members of staff party to arrive there but until then your phone calls. sergio is up first out of pompano beach florida, an independent . >> how are you your own with general bari. >> how are you sir? what is the potential budget for the air force or marines to cover in basic production of weapons and so forth? and how can we make it accurate? >> the marine corps's are interesting, their suffering what we call economics terms strength inflation. you're getting much less marines. they got text, they divested planes, they're focusing solely