mr. thornberry: mr. miller. mr. miller: general dunford, looking back to the 2012, 2014 strategic guidance and defense reviews, what specifically has changed in the geopolitical world and based on those changes, is it safe to say we need to look at falling on what mr. forbes said, recalibration or resizing of our current forces? general dunford: congressman, thanks. i would say the most significant changes, one has been russia. two has been the rise of isil. we talked about the behavior of china in the south china sea, and certainly the capability and development of north korea have all been a concern. iran remains a concern but quite frankly the trajectory has been predictable when those strategy documents were written. we accounted for iran. in the four other areas, we've seen capability, development or behavior or a combination of the two that have significantly changed the operating environment over the last few years. mr. miller: and i do think it's important that the american people understand the guidance tha

mr. thornberry: mr. miller. mr.iller: general dunford, looking back to the 2012, 2014 strategic guidance and defense reviews, what specifically has changed in the geopolitical world, and based on those changes, is it safe to say we need to look at falling on what mr. forbes said, recalibration or resizing of our current forces? general dunford: congressman, thanks. i would say the most significant changes, one has been russia. two has been the rise of isil. we talked about the behavior of china in the south china sea, and certainly the capability and development of north korea have all been a concern. iran remains a concern but quite frankly the trajectory has been predictable when those strategy documents were written. we accounted for iran. in the four other areas, we've seen capability, development or behavior or a combination of the two that have significantly changed the operating environment over the last few years. mr. miller: and i do think it's important that the american people understand the guidance that

mr. thornberry: mr. miller. mr.ler: general dunford, looking back to the 2012, 2014 strategic guidance and defense reviews, what specifically has changed in the geopolitical world, and based on those changes, is it safe to say we need to look at falling on what mr. forbes said, recalibration or resizing of our current forces? general dunford: congressman, thanks. i would say the most significant changes, one has been russia. two has been the rise of isil. we talked about the behavior of china in the south china sea, and certainly the capability and development of north korea have all been a concern. iran remains a concern but quite frankly the trajectory has been predictable when those strategy documents were written. we accounted for iran. but in the four other areas, we've seen capability, development or behavior or a combination of the two that have significantly changed the operating environment over the last few years. mr. miller: and i do think it's important that the american people understand the guidance th

jihadist brothers a week before the typhooning representative thornberry chairman of the house armed services committee good to see you mru so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. maria: your take on rising global terrorism how do you are characterize things right now. >> important not to be misled taking a village or two in iraq in syria from isis that is not the whole story isis territory is shrinking somewhat they are growing in influences in afghanistan we have seen a terror network in europe far brierg than anybody expected, so we shouldn't get, all fixated on taking a town or two in iraq or syria we need to push them there no question. but itting a bigger fight. >> you see the news this morning, boeing is cutting 4,000 jobs may cut 8,000 by the end of the year, so you see the defense industry, still under pressure and debate happening we should be cutting defense spending. >> no question as a matter of fact we did cut defends 21% last for you years world not 21% safer than four years ago you have a growing threat of terrorism around the world, including really scary scenarios like getting into nuclear plan

mr. ryan: i'll refer you to the budget committee. tom price sworking with mac thornberry on that, our house chairman. we had a very good conversation in our conference this morning. it reminds me of the kind of conversations i led our conference through when i was running budgets. we are still on track and on schedule. remember, our deadline's not until april 15 for the budget resolution, so we still are a good month ahead of where we otherwise would be. i wanted to start this conversation early because we're losing a couple weeks in july. so i want to get the process up front so we can consider all of our appropriation bills. we're still on track for that. ultimate -- ultimately this is going to be a decision made by our team. the kind of speakership i'm going to have is not going to be the top-down, jam things down people's throat kind of speakership. this is going to be a bottom-up, we make decisions joinltly as a team as the house republican conference. i fundamentally believe we need to pass a budget and that we need to have a full functions appropriations process. i