he'll also preview trump's meeting with the chinese president, and marci captaintor will talk about the u.s. trade agenda and the state of manufacturing here in the u.s. also washington examiner healthcare correspondent robert king will discuss a reported new effort on healthcare. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live 7 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> today on capitol hill, members of the house armed services committee were briefed on the state of the u.s. armed forces. they were joined by three former pentagon officials who focused on ways to improve the services. from capitol hill, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. >> tomorrow we'll hear from the service chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. today, however, we'll concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. we've done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military healthcare, com satisfactory reform, reright of the military code of justice, as well as significant organization za

he'll also preview trump's meeting with the chinese president, and marci captaintor will talk about the u.s. trade agenda and the state of manufacturing here in the u.s. also washington examiner healthcare correspondent robert king will discuss a reported new effort on healthcare. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live 7 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> today on capitol hill, members of the house armed services committee were briefed on the state of the u.s. armed forces. they were joined by three former pentagon officials who focused on ways to improve the services. from capitol hill, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. >> tomorrow we'll hear from the service chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. today, however, we'll concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. we've done a lot of reform over