. >> it is national defense. we spend so much more on national defense than any country.ou can add of many countries and you would be pressed to find their military spending equals ours. >> growth in social security and medicare. someone will have to pay the bill. that bill is based on all of us. through our taxes and payroll, as ashley payroll taxes for social security and medicare. those programs are the most significant spending problems. they dwarf any problems we may dream of with regards to food stamps, housing assistance, welfare, osha will support, -- social support, the scapegoats for federal government problems. >> the federal government budget is like a federal -- family budget is that it goes up on small things like groceries. and the federal government, cutting back the mall things will make a difference and pr ograms. if you could cut spending from the overfunded programs, which programs would you redirect the money to? >> take it away from military ending and invest it in the nations infrastructure, roads, transportation networks, and in education. >> none.

repurposing those lands from national defense to environmental defense. and i believe it is probably the most accessful base conversion in the united states. if you haven't been to the presidio, i think you should try and make that. if you're from out of town, it's a spectacular transition there. so, these golden gate national parks that i happen to be the superintendent of has now become after 40 years the second most visited national park in our country. we get 14 million people a year that come to our parks. it has spectacular coastline, includes muir wood, alcatraz, we get to tell the stories, stories about essentially what you and your predecessors did this this area. our headquarters, fort mason, was the fisherman's wharf area was the port of embarkation for the wars in the pacific. just this week we brought in a world war ii 16-inch bottle ship gun to the marine head lands to put it up at battery townsly which would have been the pinnacle of coastal artillery in world war ii. so, we now have a canon or artillery collection that spans in our park th

live pictures from national defense university at fort mcnair here in washington. till awaiting remarks from defense secretary chuck hagel. expected to talk about some of the fiscal challenges facing the defense department. he is expected in a couple of minutes. we will have live coverage here on c-span. >> the president of the national defense university, major greg martin. >> good to see everybody. good afternoon. we are honored to host the secretary of defense for his first formal policy address. i cannot think of a place more fitting than the national defense university for him to deliver it. ndu is, after all, a place where we study the nexus between strategy and policy so that our rising military and civilian leaders can better advise those who govern on how best to preserve the peace, or if necessary, to prevail in war when all other avenues have been exhausted. our speaker is certainly more than qualified to talk about the art of both peace and war. secretary hagel is a combat veteran who enlisted in the united states army and volunteered for service in viet

defense against an attack, for example. we've got the teams formed at the national level. we are trying to expert the capability to the combatant commanders, farming fusion centers, operations centers so they have the capability of reconnaissance is that networks external to the united states of course in defensive teams in the .mil name is under attack can block and if necessary have the capability to perform as well. so we are in ourselves. you are interested in the nation and the next step will require legislation to supplement in his executive order. >> also on a unified cyber command. >> we have a pushed it because i want to make sure the timing astray. the cyber, national security agency be too will have it. i'm not sure we been persuasive in that regard. we want to leave well enough alone because we are adequately organized right now. if we are having this conversation in 2020, people say of course it should've been a unified command, but were just not there yet. >> mr. secretary, you know corporate r&d has not played in the department of defense and translated and t

institutions to better reflect 21st century realities, as i outlined in a speech last week at the national defense university. the process begin under the leadership of secretary gates who canceled or curtailed more than 30 modernization programs and trimmed overhead costs within the military services and across the defense enterprise. these efforts reduced the departments topline by $78 billion over a five year period, as detailed in the departments fy 2012 budget plan. the realignment continued under secretary panetta who worked closely with the president and the joint chiefs of staff to craft new defense strategic guidance and in fy 2013 defense budget plan, which reduced the department's top line by 487 billion over the course of a decade. the president's request $526.6 billion for the department of defense is based budget for fy 2014 continue to implement the president's defense strategic guidance and enhances the departments efforts at institutional reform. most critically its sustained quality of the all-volunteer force, and care we provide our service members and their families which again

it's not to give preschool children warm milk at lunch, but to provide for the national defense. if you're going to do preschool children meals or something, why do we have 17 programs that do that? do we decide along the line after 13 that we needed a 14th? hey, let's go back and look at some --nyway, i get off. number one. number two, welfare reform because welfare reform is not a case as we pointed out, but it's a time under bill clinton. it's not a case 69 welfare queens driving around in the cadillacs collecting checks. well form reform is a building block of reforming the basic unit of society, the family in saying, it is better to encourage families to stay together than flow the husband out so that the wife or mother can get bigger checks, and things like that we researched back to chrls murray to what robert did subsequently and the rest. those policy issues, lee, that are still front and center in everything we do, what butler did with enterprise zones and privatization, on and on, but the biggest achievement, as far as i'm concerned, what we've done is harming is now a

so you have to consider the nation's defense investment over time. it takes decades to build a military capability of the kind the u.s. has pier yen probably most importantly, another feature of the u.s. military today is operational experience is unrivaled, including such attributes as the ability to work constructively with partners, to accuse intelligence and operations, to operate jointly among the services, to support forces with logistics'. all of these skills honed in iraq and afghanistan. so, for these reasons, enduring values and increasing military power, the united states can and will succeed in rebalancing to the asia pacific and the years to come. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> deputy secretary carter, thank you for those remarks. it is great to have you here. you can see the turnout, a great audience and few members of the press and the back. i do not know if you can see them. this is on the record. did you know that? >> i did. >>

at some of the nation's largest defense contractors.en areust how breaking through the glass ceiling in a field that has been dominated by men. >> when you set out to do this article, where did you start? >> i started by reaching out to some friends in the u.s. marine were because i knew they invested in the f-35. the f-35 is supposed to replace every marine combat airplanes that they have. withnt a lot of time marines in afghanistan. i want to learn more about this. in those initial conversations that led me to reach out to more people, to critics on the outside, but to folks at the air force, navy, to really borrow into this. what i learned very quickly is that this is a very complex program with a very troubled ory it was not something i would understand overnight. i spent weeks and weeks. >> when did you started? >> i started in the fall. i was distracted by of some other things, not the least of which was the resignation of david petraeus. i came back to it earlier this -- in therge part fall, i was a little unsure. once it became

what kind of action are we talking about will the national defense magazine said that the option for the pentagon would be to subsidize domestic suppliers if their products are seen as essential however the ongoing cuts of government spending might make a bailout of weapon manufacturers a tough sell the taxpayers want to know the story of close up. news can become global in an instant especially with the help of video images and will there is a place for your news and video needs our t. has a sister station roughly which launched today it's a video service committed to capturing important moments as they happen but if you watch our t.v. regularly you are right you've already seen roughly video in our broadcasts from the t.s.a. breaking that twenty thousand dollar boat world renowned cellist alvin gearhart the b.b.c. employee strike rock roughly was there capturing it all be sure to check out their new website now up and running to see the news before it hits the mainstream let's going to do it for now for more on these stories we cover go to youtube dot com slash r t america will be.

a professor at the national defense academy of japan and a retired lieutenant general. he notes that they have had to further focus on the asia pacific region. >> we were very busy on issues. and north korea -- washington dc, and now the last two years. i think the americans are very serious about the provocation of north korea but in the meantime it may not be a good idea to react today. that may give credit to the provocation. so mixed kind of feelings for the americans. >> perhaps i'm sure that the americans may have a belief that any bad behavior should not be rewarded. north korea may want to talk to americans, but in the future, more provocations may come. china has been criticized by the japanese americans, koreans, for china, and they had not been doing a fine job. but that's not true. the six party talks were initiated by chinese -- even though chinese have been doing, and what they have done may not be enough for others. this time, china should play an important role. and china has same interests in preventing the conflict. preventing further proliferation of

members of north korea's national defense commission said the proposal was unacceptable. they called on the security counsel to retract economic penalties imposed after the country's latest missile launch and nuclear tests and demanded that u.s. and south korean commanders suspend military exercises currently under way in the south. the commission members also said the military forces and the people of north korea are closely watching what steps the u.s. and its followers will take. the remark suggests that there is still room for dialogue with the u.s. and south korea. >>> south korea's foreign minister is playing go between in an effort to keep an annual summit with japan and china on the calendar. yun byung-se in seoul says he will also raise the north korea issue. officials have been preparing to host the summit in late may. a diplomatic source saying young is expected to meet the other foreign ministers. the source says yung will try to convince the two ministers to proceed with the talks as planned. they believe it's too early to hold a summit because leaders of all

many republican would add don't talk about national defense, the pentagon budget should be off limiting. the problem with the thinking you have exempted the three largest area of spending from the critique of spending. these are the division and conflict and contradiction any serious proponent of limited government has to contend with. i think there has been a sort of this view propounded that there limited government is impossible. they make the argument and i would count that limited government is possible but difficult. the fact there's been limited government, the federal government was fairly limited for 150 years even after the progressive era, even after the civil war where there was government growth and there were some impediment to governmental growth that were institutional. we had a limited federal government. i think they might have a little bit of stronger argument when it comes to sustainability of long-term for especially in a mass democracy or welfare state. for the purpose of the discussion we pause a somewhat limited government is possible. i argue in the book when re

up, defense secretary chuck hagel speaks out on the national -- speaks out at the national defense university. president obama speaks about gun violence in a visit to numbeden. and henry paulson on china. in a ways out there with respectable -- that respectable women did not do. this was a time when the women's movement is underway. interestingly enough, someone is veryia tyler conservative in some ways, but in terms of breaking from traditional ways that a woman should behave, she is doing it in a way that other women are not at that time. >> our conversation on julia tyler, the second wife of president john tyler is available on our website, c- span.org/firstladies. that is really significant this has been preserved all of these years. i'm one point, there were several of these mounds around the valley. only a couple of them have survived. most of the mounds were much smaller. .t's just around survives also also's sister mound survives. this great mound has survived. it gives us an opportunity to study and learn about their lifestyle and hopefully learn something about how complex their soc

defense for cost savings purposes. number three, d.o.d.'s role in the imperative of national energy independence, which was not mentioned in your testimony. and finally the downsizing of defense and economic recovery in regions of our country that still are hurting from the downturn. are neurological conditions affecting our troops. general dempsey, thanks for addressing that in your testimony. i want to point out the excellent work that general castro is doing. it is great. and i wanted to ask if the president's new brain initiative which is to be leveled funded at 100 million. some of the material that has come to my attention all of the research institutes on the coasts and in our region of the country, nothing. and we have many, many of our citizens who enlist in the military or guard and reserve and i would hope as darpa's role in this is shaped, you will think about -- all parts of our country being linked somehow in this tremendous effort that can help both army -- military side as well as on the civilian side. just f.y.i. on that. number two, on the role of the guard

>> as you know, we were instructed through the national defense authorization act to conduct environmental impact statementings looking at possibility of putting a site on the east coast. that investigation, that study is underway. of his year.ve a complete by the we'll obviously share that with the congress. >> oka thti i have, mr. secretary, the commitment made by the president in order to get the votes necessary for that, and i -- those commitments have not been met. and what i would like to get from you, for the record, there wouldn't be time now is will you support the product that the president talked about in order get the votes that he got for the new star treaty? in other words noting the capability. whatever the commitment the president made, i, of course, would support and carry forward my responsibilities in order comply with those commitments. >> thank you. >> and the treaty. >> thank you senator inhofe. secretary hale, on the gao report, would youveany differences that you have, not now, but for the record with the gao report in addition to the request of senator inhofe. >> i

some analysts call the threats empty, but speaking at an national defense university today, chuck hagel said he wasn't willing to take that chance. >> it only takes being wrong once, and i don't want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once. >> north korea has threatened to launch attacks against the united states. the u.s. has sent fighter jets and warships to the korean peninsula. >>> children from around the nation will dine with first lady michelle obama at the white house this summer. they'll be sampling original issues at the second annual kids state dinner. it has a prize and contest to promote healthy eating. the first lady's healthy lunchtime challenge is asking kids from eight to twelve, and their parents, to create nutrition lunch recipes that represent each food group. if they have a winning recipe, they get lunch with the first lady. >>> there is news that google is set to launch a new model of its tablet. the new gadget is set to be thinner and have a higher screen resolution. mountain view's google helps to sell eight million units before the end of the year. >>>

here's from the national defense academy of japan. >> the united states has come to see the threat of north korea more seriously than ever now. there are two types of deterrences. one is what people usually think as deterrence. that is, if you do something which is not desirable for me, i will punish you. that's one type of deterrence. but there's another type of deterrence, that if you try to do something very undesirable to me, you will not succeed. and the deployment of the missile system to guam is that type of deterrence for strength and that type of deterrence for the united states against north korea increasing threat of missiles. and north korea's provocation did not start recently. they have been provocative for many years, and u.s. officials knows about it. they see north korea as a kind of unpredictable, very provocative country. on the other hand, the united states is quite sure about the effectiveness of their deterrence capability against north korea. if you look back more than 60 years of the history of north korea, that country has never taken any suicidal option, whic

investment in public broadcasting is the second best investment the federal government makes, after national defense alone. that's how much they appreciate what we do on air, online, and in the community. >> how are the stations, the member stations, going about find gun -- finding new sources of funding. >> guest: we have a partnership among stations that has just gotten off the ground, and we have found that if every public television station could do as well as the top 20% of our public television stations do in terms of generating income from individual donors and foundations and corporations, we could generate an extra 200 mental -- $200 million a year in sponsorship revenue for our system. so we're in the process of going as far as we can possibly go with this initiative, and i think that will produce some very significant results. as i say, we have other entrepreneurial enterprises underway as well. we're doing a lot of fee-for-service kinds of work with the state of nebraska. we are their data managers. in south carolina we are contracting with the state to do some very specific educational

defense institutions to better reflect 21st century realities as i outlined at my speech at the national defense university. it began under the leadership of secretary gates the cancelled or curtailed 30 modernization programs and trimmed across the defense enterprise. these efforts reduced the top line by $78 billion over a five- year time, as detailed in the fiscal year 2012 budget plan. the realignment continued undersecretary panetta who worked closely with the president and the joint chiefs to craft new strategic guidance and a fiscal year 2013 budget plan which reduced the budget $487 billion or with the course of a decade. of president's request $526.60 billion for the department of defense's basin implement theto president's strategic guidance and enhances the department's efforts of institutional reform. most critically, it sustains the all-volunteer force and the care we provide our service members and their families dot which, again, as you know underpins everything that we do in this organization. the particulars of this request allow me to address the profound budget problems facing

would hit north korea with considerable force and according to the south korean ministry of national defense policy reply in both peace time and war time under the missile technology control regime united states allow itself to create an exemption list of missile ranges but so they could now are lifting missiles work of the entire territory of north korea north korea is under sanctions basically sort of north korea how the few options to to resist and but yet i'm sure you talk about you talk about international law here and the issues of sanctions i mean is there some already saying that in north korea playing with fire for example by restarting its yongbyon nuclear facility or it is it a vital move for the country at this point you're saying that south korea has has an exemption when it comes to using ballistic missiles it's not the same for north korea. you know as far as starting the nuclear facility as a symbolic move on north korea it's harder it really makes little difference that serves a nuclear weapons program or take many months to restart the facility and the best it can produce e

amendment on the national defense authorization act and he didn't do that. well right now i think we have every reason to believe that they would follow through on it this is something that's been at it through different agencies and at the highest levels and i know it wasn't issued lightly but i just want to cross that bridge when we come to it and the question is if it's. just a couple of tweaks what happens then yeah and we can't wait around until you know what to expect that we ought to have to prevent this before it gets about point but really quickly about thirty seconds left but why do you think that's been so under reported in the media and i mean basically it's been passed through the same week that there's two major tragedies being covered virtually nobody coverage that's a good question and i don't have an answer this is a big threat to privacy probably bigger than the patriot act or some of these other expansions that we've seen and the thanks to you and some of their reporters. it's finally getting some coverage all right well let's keep pushing

provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand and then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has no temporal or geographic limitations and can be used by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very difficult to reverse as far as u.s. actions overseas part of the nation's response to terror. policies like torture or drone strikes which target terrorist suspects but also kill civilians overseas terrorism draws strength from the adoption of extra legal violence as a counter measure but it's yet unclear how much security people draw from giving up their rights in washington i'm going to check out. a quick look at other international news now the number of deaths from the devastating year play in the army's provinces that has now reached two hundred three with eleven thousand people injured the five magnitude aftershocks reported on sunday

surveillance and officials say this was all to keep americans safe as was the passage of the national defense authorization act in addition to all the measures that have been taken domestically over the past twelve years america has waged two wars overseas that have cost the country more than two trillion dollars but after the events that unfolded about boston marathon bombings many critics believe that washington has spent a large amount of money and wasted a lot of resources and at the end of the day it has not kept americans any safer this illusion that technology is going to save us that filling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airline passenger as a contingent terrorist is going to save us is an incredible delusion the idea that we're going to continue on the course we're on in these terms and then save ourselves through technology is an incredibly misguided delusion earlier this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry insisted that that america's investment in front policy is national security insurance but as this past week h

to do its national defense bidding. and we just need to keep that in mind. >> one final brief question. the secretary asked me to field of the last question. >> good morning gentlemen. i'm a d.c. lawyer. i might add, in this town, what else? first of all i would like to applaud general amos for not only remembering correctly pronouncing the names of those strategic but small islands off the east coast of asia. bravo for that. my question is a very quick one, and if i remember correctly, nobody on the panel this morning has used or mentioned the name carrier battle group. is there any reason for that? thank you. >> yeah, a carrier battle group, all of these things believe it or not have a definition. the ships that make up carrier battle group, if you will, they are called carrier strike group snow, and it's nothing more than a definitional. the context that i used then was deployment and what you deploy and where they need to be and how you rotate or not rotate. >> i would like to thank everyone for being with us this m

need pipelines we rely upon pipelines they're critical to our economy they're critical to our national defense they're critical to our way of life but they are aging told that roughly half of the underground pipelines in the united states were laid before nine hundred seventy the state expects to be reimbursed for our losses and i expect the citizens of our state to be reimbursed for their losses so yes we are talking about a lot of money. the greek government has resumed talks over its bailout program with its international creditors athens is looking to secure almost ten billion euros in exchange for budget cuts and the slicing of its civil service and i go to such here is from the university of adrian says the use commitments to austerity remain steadfast despite increasing anger and resentment lately it's an open blackmail and i think we also witnessed this in the case of cyprus where not only the parliament but the. separate society. contested i said no we can't get such measures we can't stand such a social disaster and they were just blackmailed into an even faster package of measures t

long lines we have way bigger issues all these problems we have are so much deeper like the national defense authorization act patriot act so drones of war drug war the list goes on and on so again another distraction yes it's important but under an electoral system where we have true people good people in office democrats the republicans say they've got us into this mass but when reform that system we will no longer have problems like long lines bigger problems like the in the a.m.a. and all the other things i previously mentioned absolutely no it is it's again like you said just another one of those things that really distracts from other issues that could be covered more and one of the issues that you've been very vocal about in your organization and have also had success in is this topic to legislation which which i feel a lot of people still haven't really heard about i wonder if you can expand on it and do you know what you're going to say should it's done in the actual ramifications that this could have on the electoral process but really it sends a message i feel totally by stopping

before that they will do one thing and i've done another you have to look any further than the national defense authorization act the n.d.a. passed in late twentieth levin in that case the president said he would veto it and sure enough he signed into law so there is a chance that you know that these threats are meaningless in this whole thing is moot but i really going to see what happens in the senate before we can actually take it from there remind our viewers many of which are in america why this act is causing so much controversy. so the for the cyber sharing intelligence. for sharing and protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will let businesses private companies google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb its cyber attacks aimed at the united states computers now in theory yes it would do that cisco would a lot

amendment on the national defense authorization act and he didn't do that. well right now i think we have every reason to believe that they would follow through on it this is something that's been through different agencies and at the highest levels and i know it wasn't issued lightly but i just want to cross that bridge when we come to it and the question is if it's. just a couple of tweaks what happens then yeah and we can't wait around until you know what to expect that we have to have to prevent this before it gets about point really quickly about a thirty to thirty seconds left but why do you think that's been so under reported in the media and i mean basically it's been passed through the same week that there's two major tragedies being covered virtually nobody coverage that's a good question and i don't have an answer this is a big threat to privacy probably bigger than the patriot act or some of these other expansions that we've seen and the thanks to you at. they're the reporters that is finally getting some coverage all right well let's keep pushin

that happened 40 years ago when the army decided that those lands were no longer necessary for national defense. so, that strategic entrance to this harbor was