i i mean, this is a my marine corps. it's not your marine corps. it's not his marine corps. it's hard marine corps. i had one guy say don't overstate my marines. they are not yours. they belonged to the united states. he's right. they are your marines. our marines. not mine. the only thing is mine is if we screw up. [laughing] i've had a couple of those, but that's mine. you ask me, , that's why tell te sergeants, okay, if we screw up, that's mine. i advocate for you and i would rather advocate about all the great stuff you are doing, so help me out. help me out to the best of your ability. but i appreciate the opportunity. thanks. >> thanks. thanks to the atlantic council. general neller, thank you, everybody. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight on c-span2's booktv in prime time starting at 8 p.m. eastern a discussion on immigration

it is not my marine corps, your marine corps. it is our marine corps. say "myon't ever marines." they are our marines. the only time it is mine is if we screw up. [laughter] general neller: i have had a couple of those. that's mine. that's what i tell the sergeants. if we screw up, that's mine. i advocate for you. i would rather advocate about all the great stuff you are doing. so help me out. help me out to the best of your ability. but i appreciate the opportunity. thanks. >> thank you. thank you to the atlantic council. thank you, everybody. general neller: i'm running late. >> thank you very much. [indiscernible conversation] c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. friday morning, radio talkshow hosts from around the u.s. share their thoughts on the direction of the country. be sure to watch live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. monday on "landmark cases," griswold v. connecticut, where griswold of planned parenthood challenged a kinetic get -- a connecticut law banning the use of birth control. the statut

our next speaker is the commanding general at marine corps base camp pendleton.ais has numerous operational tours in the persian gulf, italy, and japan. he most recently served as the commanding general at the marine corps war fighting laboratory duty at campng pendleton. it is my honor to introduce brigadier general calais. [applause] >> secretary baker, flag and general officers, distinguished guests, fellow citizens, good morning. thank you for that introduction and the opportunity to say a few words on behalf of the united states marine corps. it is truly a privilege to be serving as a residential representative as we honor the birthday of our 42nd president. -- 40th president. thank you for allowing us to do our part in honoring one of america's great heroes. we have marines from camp pendleton supporting today's ceremony, and i want to give a special thanks to the marine .orps air station colorguard [applause] i also have some marines from my staff, to include the chaplain. nice job. i can tell you that everyone of these museums -- marines here today is hap

ernie wallace, ed rummond joined the marines on the eve of the war in vietnam. >> i went in the marine corpsn december of '59. went to boot camp in '60. >> three years after ed brummond arrived at boot camp, ed tried to join the army. >> the army recruiter wasn't there. went to the marines. the marine recruiter wasn't there. the navy chief said hey. >> step in here. >> joined the navy. >> had you even heard of vietnam? >> i had heard of it when i was in high school. but it was just another country. >> just another country? vietnam's dense jungles, cloud-draped mountains and waterlogged rice paddies are much like its history, complex and dangerous. the viet minh are wanting to spread -- >> this is a professor of history. >> in the mid 19th century, catholic missionaries were being persecuted in vietnam and in china, and this issue was a part of what brought france into involvement in both vietnam and china. ♪ >> the french colony of indochina included vietnam, laos, and cambodia. in the late 1800s and early 20th century, hundreds of french migrated to asia in search of wealth. made second cla

our next speaker is the commanding general of marine corps installations. recently served as commanding general at the marine corps war fighting laboratory, before assuming command of camp pendleton. [applause] in >> fellow citizens, good morning. it is truly a privilege to be here serving as a presidential representative, as we honor the birthday of our 40th president. on behalf of the marine corps based camp pendleton, thanks for doing your part to honor one of our great heroes. i would like to give special thanks to the band, and the security emergency services battalion, for doing the honor details today. [applause] i have some marines from my staff, and i can tell you every one of these marines here today is proud to be here to celebrate one of the nation's greatest presidents. i didn't have to tell any of them to be here, i can promise you that. [applause] as i did last year, i would like to take a moment to honor and acknowledge nancy reagan. you the support she provided president reagan was indescribable. you had to breathe air -- be there to apprec

our next speaker is the commanding general at marine corps base camp pendleton.gadier general kevin kelly has numerous operation tors in the persian gulf, italy and japan, in most recently served as commanding general of the green court were fighting laboratory before assuming command a camp pendleton. [laughter] [applause] >> distinguished guests, fellow citizens, good morning. thank you for the introduction and the opportunity to say a few words on behalf of united states marine corps. it is truly a privilege to be serving as the presidential representative as we honor the 107 birthday of our 40th president. on behalf of all of the marines at camp pendleton, thank you for allowing us to do our part in honoring one of america's great heroes. we have marines from camp pendleton supporting today's ceremony. i would to get a special thanks ,o first marine division band the color guard, and the security and emergency services battalion who are doing the honor details today. [applause] i also have some marines from my stack here to include the chaplain. i can tell yo

that's going to have an impact on the navy/marine corps team across the board. this isn't just the surface navy. we went after root causes about what's going to make -- why did this happen and how are we going to correct the actual trajectory of where the navy/marine corps team is going. it hits us from how we do business to how we recruit to how we employ and how we deploy. i'll close in saying that congress is going to give us quite a healthy basket here. in fact, if we get the budget that's being discussed. and that dovetails into the audit. if i'm congress, i'm going to ask for a receipt. i'm going to ask where the money's going, what did it go to. and the audit is going to be the primary tool for us to respond. i'll tell you that we've been underway for the audit in a short period of time, and we're already seeing a very interesting reaction in both services. as you know, the marine corps has been at it for a while. the navy just started. we're changing the conversation from this being a task to this being a learning experience. what the audit is doing is u

i am really thrilled to be here at marine corps air station, miramar, home of the third marine aircraft wing and mighty marines. thank you. this is beautiful. this is great. and we are here today to celebrate your incredible achievements. so relax, be at ease, and let's have a good time for a couple of minutes. okay? and thank you for being here, darrell. i want to thank you both. you lead the third marine wing and miramar excellence and honor this core has been honored. all throughout the world they talk about you. i want to thank you all the sailors and coast guards man who

we had a corporal in the marine corps with amtrak in pendleton on her own. there is a part therefore the diesel engine that is a foreign object debris extractor, if you cut it in half, it looks like the inside of a seashell. she took his home with her, along with the computer aided manufacturing equipment and created an out for them for this to be manufactured, subtracted manufactured in town. the part is a 19 week lead time part, it is a $23,000 part. compadre whoo her took it into town the first one failed but the second worked. four deist manufacturer, a lance corporal salary, the bill came to about $2400. we promoted her to sergeant and gave her $5000. she went to the moon. she is our loudest advocate. dos is what we are trying to and it is gaining traction. inside the building my biggest secret weapon i got to unveil in october was the head of acquisition who has been doing this the majority of his life for the folks in tampa on the acquisition side. we have to figure out and get after getting the weapons, getting the needs to the war fighters as quickl

. >> we'll breakaway from this recorded program and take you live to miramar air station, marine corps air station in san diego, california, just eat of la jolla. you can see that's marin one on the tarmac and we expect the president to speak at the home of the third marine aircraft wing. ♪ >> marines, sailors, coast guards and families, please join me in welcoming our commander in chief, the president of the united states, donald j.trump. >> thank you. i am really thrilled to be here at marine corps air station, miramar, home of the third marine aircraft wing and mighty marines. thank you. this is beautiful. this is great. and we are here today to celebrate your incredible achievements. so relax, be at ease, and let's have a good time for a couple of minutes. okay? and thank you for being here, darrell. i want to thank you both. you lead the third marine wing and miramar excellence and honor this core has been honored. all throughout the world they talk about you. i want to thank you all the sailors and coast guards man who traveled here today from the stations all across the san dieg

and and then he comes in and say bragging about how he saw into the troops does not his fellow marine corps could larry imagine if a democratic president had been there in court if he spelled a c o r e instead of see you oh r p the marine corps because he doesn't know he's an idiot he ran through airy that's how he spelled it because he first of all he's a chickenhawk he when from vietnam he said his own personal vietnam was avoiding s.t.'s at orgies this guy is a loser through and through and so for when he comes and talks about how he's pro troops he just embarrasses them so he's a fraud in every imaginable way other than that you're crazy about. ok what do you make of the firing of rex tillerson. so i have any theory on larry and it's a theory that i laid out before he was fired so five days before he was fired i said on the young turks tillerson is going to go quote very soon now what. i base that on not on their disagreements on north korea or iran or any of the other things they're making up right now know exxon canceled their deal with roast nafta the biggest russian oil company that

he lived out the marine corps semper fidelis, always faithful. faithful to our country, faithful to his family, and now the boy from the little rock house has reached the top of the mountain. we know he is home. may god bless you. [applause] [organ music] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> amen. >> i don't think anyone could improve on what brian had to say. it was a wonderful speech. thank you very much. i was in new york until 4:30. i was going to come as the governor but i found out i was invited to as a president, so i am very glad to be here today. [laughter] aesident carter: i have been friend of zell miller -- off and on -- [laughter] four 55 years. when i was in the georgia senate, zell had served a term before i did so he was an expert on state government. he was very helpful to me in the senatorsl of the new that were there to serve with him. zell was, as has been said already, and educator. his mother and father had both taught in zell was there for many years. i'm just finishing up my 36th year teaching at emory university so he and i have a lot in common. zel

of time we are seeing an interesting reacting in both services the marine corps has been at it for a while the navy just started we are changing the conversation from a task to a learning experience it is uncovering the way we do business and when that happens you start to shine light on logistical distribution, and vested -- investments then you get some clarity to your dollars are spent so then are they worth the dollars expended? it really is a step forward. in closing the biggest message i am transmitting throughout services is urgency. we have to get after this yesterday. it is a drum we continue to be loudly and clearly. it is being received and after 16 years of doing more with less now we are in the growth phase we will be leaning forward and it will take us a little while. we cannot expect this to happen overnight congress is giving some relief but in general, it will be building a new structure to lean forward. thank you. >> fiscal year 19 budget the air force just put forward is driven by the national defense strategy with the reemergence of the great power competition wil

. >>> a read -- we spoke to a retired marine corps man that conducted hundreds of missions from 2006-e story of that mission and the marines he fought with is told in his book. thank you for joining us here major scott. >> thank you for having me. >> you talk about growing up in high school. you talk about the war movies. but in the end, you say it is about bringing those marines home alive.>> it is absolutely about the people. you can measure your success on the battle field from the number of bad guys you kale but for me the real metric of success was bringing home as many marines alive as possible. we did that through our training and because of the brotherhood and power of human connection that they shared through some of the worst conditions created by war. every time they performed the superhuman acts on the battlefield, i could not have been more proud of them each and every time. but that brotherhood that we experience in the marine corps goes over to the families that support us. our families are big part of everything we do. they continue to love us so much and care for us s

. >> and a retired marine corps dog is now living with his human partner and his family in south san francisco. up next, more on sergeant tayco. he's now being honored with an award for courage. >>> we see the stocks are doing well. that percentage-wise bump is the same on the s&p and the nasdaq. >> i was just told. >> what is the code. mystery. >> that hasn't happened before. >> steve, that's right. it's the next hour. that means rosemary's here. >> good morning. tgif. >>> we are looking at an unsettled pattern i will call it for our bay area weekend. with that said take a look at all that cloud cover outside. still at this hour we woke up with a lot of fog. santa rosa 47 degrees. low 50s in san francisco. 50 degrees in oakland. these temperatures running a little bit cooler than yesterday. and for the afternoon we'll be partly cloudy for the second half. here's a look at what you can expect as we step to the afternoon. there we are. 66 in oakland. 70 for san jose. still a relatively mild day expected. but again when i talk about unsettled weather in store. take a look at that. ther

with president trump and the importance of foreign aid it was shown as much as again until the marine corps commandant starts at about 1:10 p.m. eastern. [applause] >> thanks a lot. >> thank you. >> all right. thank you so much for being you today. we are excited to cook off the conversation. wanted to just take a step back about what you are doing here, what your message is. >> why are you here? >> talk to us about what is a messenger bring to washington on this trip. >> my full-time work is at the gates foundation, and we have two big things we focus on. one is u.s. education. the other is global health. the u.s. government is a key partner in both of those activities. in the case of the health work, for all the diseases we work on, the nih is either the biggest funder or the second-biggest funder, and likewise we are either the second or first biggest funder. making sure that research helps us understand how to work better. and in terms of foreign aid, the overall foreign aid is 130 billion. the u.s. is the biggest single country at about 30 billion of that. as a percentage of our a cut

i am thrilled to be here at marine corps station miramar. home of the third marine aircraft wing, and the mighty miramar marines. thank you very much. this is beautiful. [cheers] we are here to celebrate your incredible achievement. relax, be at ease, and let's have a good time for a couple of minutes. thank you for being here, darrell. you, i, i want to thank salute you both. you are tremendous, the job you have done. you lead the third marine aircraft wing, and i miramar marines with the excellence and honor for which this court is admired all throughout the world they talk about you. i want to thank all of the incredible soldiers, sailors, airmen, and coast guardsmen who travel here today from the stations all across the san diego region. i have a message for you straight from the heart of the american people. we know what that is, support you, we thank you, we love you, and we will all was have your back like you have hours. thank you. [applause] and very importantly, most important, to all of the military spouses and family members here

thank you. >> seven years in the united states marine corps. >> yes. >> thank you so much for your service>> my pleasure. >> let me tell you what you're up against today. 14 questions, money values growing from $500 all the way up to that $1 million.

the marine corps has been at it for a while and the navy just started. we are seeing the conversation from this being a task to this being a learning experience. with the audit is doing is uncovering the way we do business. when that happens in you start shedding light on logistical distribution, investments, weapon systems, you all of a sudden get clarity as to where your dollars are being spent.and you get to that the metrics is it worth it? in closing, i would biggest message i am transmitting from the services along the lines of this is urgent. get after this yesterday. it is a drum we continue to beat loudly and clearly.is being received. after 16 years of doing more with less, and now we are in a growth phase, those are new muscles. it will take us a little while. it cannot happen overnight. congress is giving us relief but in general it is going to be building a new muscle structure to lean forward into the issue when we look forward to doing it. thank you. wilson: our fiscal year budget is driven by the defense strategy and the great power compet

the middle is richard spencer at the 76th secretary of the navy who served as the pilot of the marine corps earlier in his career before departing active-duty to enter the financial sector and prior to serving as the secretary of the navy, he worked as the vice-chairman of the intercontinental exchange inc. and served on the board and the chief of the operations executive panel. then all the way to my left is heather wilson the 24th secretary of the air force graduate of the u.s. air force academy and served as an air force officer. she also served on the national security council staff of president george h. w. bush and served in congress where her committee includes the house permanent select committee on intelligence and commerce. she was a rhodes scholar earning her doctorate at oxford university. i promise an opportunity to do k about their priorities as we are here at the beginning of the second year in the s administration we have a national strategy to be released. the secretary has released his national defense strategy and the hearings are upon us and the timintime is right to hea

road to- zell took that the united states marine corps.nto the man he became. he learned a lot. one of the things he learned was to be punctured all. as his staff will tell you, he was never late. that includes a meeting at harris college in the summer of .953 when he asked his future wife to square. -- mary and 46 years. -- they were married for the next 46 years. he's a country music fan and he loved the rodeo. his favorite restaurant was waffle house. he also quoted shakespeare. listens to mozart. attended the atlanta opera and a text you don't top and blue jeans. his mother told him that art was human race.e of the they developed a large collection of art and music. cell follow his father into politics. a decision i know a little something about. he was elected mayor and four times as lieutenant governor. in 1990 the people of georgia made him the governor. nobody was better prepared for the job. , guest told the new governor i've been waiting out there for 45 minutes. zell said, i've and waiting for 16 years. governor miller did a lot

>>before we get started i just want to make sure i am not speaking on behalf of the marine corps.stand that. >>that being said -- >>for regular folks walking into a gun store let's say i am 18 and i want to buy a ar 15, we cannot do that in california but stems -- some states you can. >>when it comes to 18-year-olds being able to purchase whatever firearm they want to, i am a firm believer. four years 21 and up is the age limit to buy handguns. when it comes to rifles and shotguns you can buy them at 18. i am a firm believer, i was 18, when i was 18 i moved out. i have friends who were 18 they moved out and married at 19 and had kids at 20. you are telling a 20-year-old who is a homeowner and a family that he does not have a choice to defend himself if anything were to happen. >>you are saying a ar 15 would be necessary as opposed to any other type of legal weapon like a shotgun, handgun, if you want to buy an ar 15. >>21 is --. >>as a former marine you would understand this and i was former navy. when i was 18 in the navy i could drink on the base club because it was military pro

level. >> we'll breakaway from this recorded program and take you live to miramar air station, marine corps air station in san diego, california, just eat of la jolla. you can see that's marin one on the tarmac and we expect the president to speak at the home of the third marine aircraft

i am here today to do good for our military and our marine corps. i am here in hopes that my voice will be heard on behalf of all survivors of abuse so that the principles and values of what the marine corps and our entire united states military were founded on can be salvaged. it's extremely unsettling to me that the first question i am asked when people find out that i'm advocating on this matter is how has this affected your husband's career? it is a serious problem when advocating for what is right and good in regards to child sexual abuse is looked at as a threat to positive progression in the career of a service member. if our military continues to turn a blind eye to the dark culture breeding in our military's ranks, the military will be the victim of their own demise. this culture has to be attacked. the enemy is not always fought abroad. in this case, it's staring us right in the face in our very own ranks. our country is the great force that it is because we have fought for and accepted change over time throughout the history of our nation

dilla berto served in the united states marine corps in operation enduring freedom and operation iraqi freedom he is a fellow at the center for international policy and co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan whose mission is reducing troop counts as they are and lobby in congress for non military solutions jake thank you for your service there and for what you're doing here and for your time tonight welcome. they certainly have a program iraq fifteen years later and year seventeen in afghanistan these countries are half a world away so these wars are a concept there and appropriation on capitol hill when you lobby members of congress what is that moment the story that you tell that never fails to show our senators and representatives. i think the most important thing that members of congress failed to recognize is when they visit to go on their war tourism efforts in kabul they tend to sit behind fourteen foot concrete walls with flak jackets and they talk to you know colonels and you know generals but they don't really don't get in the field and speak to privates and corpor

let me tell you on behalf of the navy, marine corp. team, we understand that this put people in the farthest edges of their comfort zone, and we are wildly supportive of that and we thank you for your efforts. we look forward to getting those resources as soon as possible in order to enhance readydyness in our department. these national defense strategy building our credible force. i echo what secretary es spepert said about the need for resourcing. today 90,000 sailors and marines are stationed using ts global commons for medium ensuring the maritime lanes remain free and open. assuring access to overseas regions, defending key interests in those areas, protecting united states citizens abroad, preventing adversaries from leveraging the world's oceans against us, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. our budget requests enhance readiness and continue increasing the kablt and capacity of the navy marine corps team. as directed in the 2018 national defense strategy our budget submission supports building a morley that will, resilient and agi

marine corps trucks from the navy ship onto this utility.it landed near pier 50 and then the trucks rolled off. this was on sunday. sunday night and early into the morning, the u.s. marine corps started setting up tents, medical facilities, in the event of a catastrophic emergency. we had a great partnership with the state of california partners that do esf 8 and our own public health. we want to thank their group for supporting the effort. interestingly, this is outside of general hospital, so this was a great opportunity for us to have folks work in the emergency department come out, look at the tents and in turn, we could send in our u.s. marine corps and california state representatives into the hospital to look at how we do day-to-day operations. the next exercise we did, this was three weeks later. it's vigilant guardian. this was sponsored by the urban area security initiative, the bay air. we worked with the department of energy, those are the folks that are going to help us if we have radiological or nuclear attack. this is a type o

the office of marine corps communications tweet this is outstanding saying there open to marines on botheteran also said i hear glass ceiling breaking. a lot of applause. heather: i watched g.i. jane the other day. this went viral. >> she brought the house down with a special version of the star-spangled banner. listen to this. ♪ over the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ >> that employee, sabrina barnes, says she is singing that song at the ribbon-cutting, it has special meaning because her son joined the military and she says that song means so much more than it has in the past. heather: god bless her, thank you. have a great day. the time is 26 minutes after the top of the. adjoint plea, republican lawmakers demanding an investigation into the fbi's abuse of power allegations. >> the effect the obama justice department and fbi utilized what they knew was fabricated evidence that makes watergate look like small potatoes. heather: new call to jeff sessions to take action. texas primary result pouring in overnight, democratic turnout boosting enthusiasm on the left. our next

is a whole different topic of conversation in my opinion than having a army navy air force and marine corps there and coast guard that can defend this country so they're in my opinion there are two separate debates i can see how they they might come combine in a conversation on the fifteen in age limit and all of that. i was a superintendent of the fifteenth largest school system in the country i know bob runcie down in broward county and very well actually and we've been communicating i've been trying to support of that but. i can there for school security and safety you need the physical building needs to be impenetrable and that's one thing that the school systems have not been investing in that that individual should not have been able to walk into the school system as superintendent and white county i had to press a buzzer to get into my schools and then they would unlock the door even though they knew it was me they could see it was me but an analog part of it was i was sort of challenge them to say they're going to you know. not not follow the rules because it was important the other

i left vietnam in august 1970 very, very angry at myself, at the marine corps, at the american peopleat the u.s. government. and really determined i was going to do what i could to help end the war. i still had two years left to do in the marine corps, so i was a bit of a latecomer to the antiwar movement and the g.i. movement, but i tried to make up for it by working very hard. i was stationed at camp lejeune for the past two years of my tour. we put out an underground newspaper called "rage." was done an example of high journalism, but it was the best we could do and we were really working hard to tell the truth about the vietnam war and about militarism. reaction ofas the the base commanders and authorities to your publication? as bestre underground we could be for a very long time. i don't even have a photograph of that period because we were afraid. i do have copies of the newspaper we put out. we used to distribute the newspaper in the middle of the night. we would get 3000 copies made and bring them onto base in a couple of cars. we would go through the barracks -- camp lejeune

marines initiate literally hundreds of small patrols and ambushes throughout the i corps area each weekone of the most difficult jobs in this war is to distinguish friend from foe. each person must be carefully searched and identified. with scrupulous fairness. marines have found that such treatment of then often crude enemy results in the profiteering of information of an enemy force. in possession of such knowledge, marines react quickly, plans to rectify belated and a striking force moves swiftly. they are met by intent of small arms fire. the attack is carried to the enemy stronghold. >> again that film from 1967, as 1967, we begin our conversation looking back 50 years ago. we are pleased to welcome the former u.s. senator, jim webb, a graduate of the naval academy, thank you for being with us. and an associate editor of the washington post and author of how many books now? them, they marched into sunlight. let me begin where we were early in 1968. who was winning the vietnam war? >> no one was winning. the united states government, without telling the public, basically decided the