assessment is that the fiscal year 2020 budget request falls short of fully supporting the 2018 national defense strategy. to turn to the first question, which is, where is the budget headed? over the last 10 years, the u.s. defense budget first went through a drawdown, and in recent years has been going through an increase. you can see that represented on the chart in front of you by the black line at the top of the chart, which is showing you the enacted level of national defense spending in inflation-adjusted dollars. the amount of money spent on overseas contingency operations, gradually declined as the u.s. withdrew troops from our rack -- from iraq and afghanistan, the money spent on because theilized u.s. was conducting a military campaign to defeat isis. the biggest change in defense spending occurred last month, when congress and the white house agreed to a budget deal i already mentioned. this budget deal increased spending caps for fiscal year 20 and 21. those caps nest up you that in 2020, national defense spending shall not exceed $738 billion, and in 2021, the spending shall not ex

satisfy the national defense strategy. our adversaries studied how to equip the air force, invested in technology and strategies in ways that reduce our advantages by exploiting our vulnerabilities. also designing a force they hope can avoid the strengths. because of these trendss we have a national defense strategy that refocuses on the need to build a force that competes in strategic environment characterized by power competition that underlined this discussion. from an air force perspective i can assure you we have and continue to move aggressively with the national defense strategy. in our program we set the vector which we were able to talk about a little more. we step on the accelerator and you will see that. we are building airspace forces that are more lethal, resilient and seamlessly integrate with joint force teammates, allies and partners. how do we do that and what is our framework as we shift from old to get to the new. the modernization priority is performing multi-domain command and control. multi-operations

said i would note that the national defense strategy commission, a group of bite partisan expert said that they believe that the department of defense and needs 3-4% gpt gb d growth to implement the national defense energy. and it seems to be tough to do that under flat budget. all >> we are yielding a lot of progress in particular for general murray's command. we were able to reduce the requirements process which was taken is 5-7 years. now he can crank out fully loaded, required documents to the doctor who will release an rfp to vendors in 18 months or less. for complex weapons systems. we've reduce the time it takes to make a decision, turn to the contrary, saying develop a prototype of culture, armored vehicle, machine gun. now he reduce that spend time. is the speed of an order for business. reducing the cycle time to achieve a sale , that is great for american business, and great frescoes we will get it sooner. we don't spend millions of dollars talking to ourselves, and moving paper back and forth to make up our mind. the speed of which we can bring these capabilities forward w

we refined that with the national defense strategy. clearly, china and russia are the benchmark by which we measure our capability development and how we prioritize and allocate resources for the force today. do not mean exclusivity. deal --lenges for us to shift sufficient resources to make sure we sustain competitive advantage well into the future. when it comes to giving things up, every time we develop a budget, we make choices. the choices we make, 2017,ularly in 2016, 2018, 2019 have reoriented to make sure that first and foremost, we address the cyber, space, electronic warfare, the maritime capabilities, the functional systems that need to change to make us more competitive. definition, when you make priorities, some things fall off the table, no question. >> china, in particular, is a fascinating subject for so many in the pentagon and beyond. did we fundamentally misjudge the speed at which xi jinping would begin to project power around the world? i recall when he came to visit here in washington as vice president before he t

major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the national defense strategy, national security strategy and how the world is changing and recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get where it needs to be with a look out to about the 20- 30-year time frame and follow up with the paper on the air force which i think is coming up next month and then wrap up by the end of the year with the paper on the navy so we'll have all four services covered and how to think about preparations for the future. these papers are meant to give an independent perspective, advice and recommendations to the administration, to the military service in particular, leading officials and the defense department and hopefully to perform deliberations in congress and this one hits the ball out of the park on that. starting about 18 months ago, the army did embark on a major effort driven by then secretary of defense james mat us on increaseing reality to the force and getting back to the age of peer competitor fights with major opponents li

national defense strategy. for three decades, our adversaries have studied how we orchestrate and equip our air force. we've invested heavily in technology and strategies in ways that they hope reduce our advantages by exploding with a perceived as our vulnerabilities. while also designing a force they hope can avoid our many strengths. because of these trends and the potential for deterrence, we now have a national defense strategy that refocuses our department on the need to build a force that competes with strategic security environment characterized by great power competition. that is underlying this whole discussion. from an air force design perspective, i can assure you, we continue to move aggressively to align with the national defense strategy. .e set the vector when we are able to talk about that a little more, we step on the accelerator. you will see that. and spacelding air forces even more lethal, resilient, adaptive, and seamlessly integrated with our joint force teammates. how are we doing that?

with various efforts that we had along the way to build the afghan society, to build the afghan national defense forces, but it is very , as i amme today providing military advice to the president, it is very clear to me what our national interests are in south asia and against which we should measure the level of commitment we have from afghanistan and the region. david: the president has said he wants to go down to 8600 troops. was in a radio interview a week or so ago. that is roughly the level that president obama wanted to go down to when he did that withdrawal. what can we imagine that we actually accomplish up a level? is it really intelligence gathering? gen. dunford: i think it is important for everyone to understand that the level of resourcing has to be understood in the context of the operational environment and objectives. we have spoken about the objectives, now that us speak about the operational environment. the number 8600 that the president referred to was a number that was generated by military leadership when we looked at the current mission that we have, the operating enviro

previously a reporter at politico pro defense and inside defense, a recipient of the national press club's best analytical reporting award in 2014. and named the defense media awards best young defense journalist in 2018. i don't know how long you get to carry young as a title. >> i've aged out already. >> is that it? okay. without further ado we're going to turn to a great discussion and open it up for q&a later. when we get to that point, identify yourself and who you're with so our online audience knows who's speaking as well. try to focus on questions, not personal statements. without further ado, take it away. >> thank you to everyone in the audience for being here and for those also watching online and tom, thank you for all your hard work with this report. since it's been released it's really triggered a decent amount of discussion and debate in the army community, which is obviously a good thing. so we'll dive deeper into those issues in our conversation. but, you know, it's my feeling that it's a good time to be making suggestions to the army. since they're in the process of devel

as the introduction said we have a new national defense strategy. even though it was january of 2018, in army terms that's like yesterday. people say why haven't the army or department of defense adapted to the new strategy? it's worse than turning an aircraft carrier. it takes years to turn an organization like the army. i think this paper came out a good time. the bipartisan budget act passed a month or two ago in congress gives the ability to the army to focus on their future, versus continuingterm resolution, shutdown, how will we get through these months? they now have the luxury, assuming congress does what it needs to do, to think about their future in an intellectual way, which is rare in washington, d.c.. most of our research at heritage is focused on the near-term fight, we write about the natural defense authorization fighter and things on congress's plate. this is different for us, looking out further. and i thought 36 years in the army, i thought i knew a lot about the army, you would think that i did, but it turns out i didn't. i've nev

one that recognizes the centrality of space to america's national security and defense. under general raymond's leadership, spacecom will boldly deter aggression and outpace america's rivals by far. for 35 years, general raymond has led and commanded space operations at every level in the u.s. air force. molly, i hope you are very proud of him. i'll bet you are. i am, too. he is a warrior who has integrated space capabilities to make our military even stronger, and to pave the way for a new era of national defense. he is respected by everybody sitting in front of us, everybody in the military, and everybody that knows him. spacecom will soon be followed, very importantly, by the establishment of the united states space force as the sixth branch of the united states armed forces. and that is really something, when you think about it. the space force will organize, train, and equip warriors to support spacecom's mission. with today's action, we open another great chapter in the extraordinary history of the united states military. spacecom will ensure america's dominance in

the task force has advanced important provisions of the national defense authorization act to help clean up contaminated sites and protect service members and their families and first responders who have been exposed. as house and senate leaders begin conferencing on this bill, it's critical that the final national defense authorization act includes pfas provisions from the house and senate-passed bills. americans have waited long enough. congress has an important opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation that will protect veterans, current service members, firefighters, occupationally exposed to pfas and families in communities impacted by military pfas contamination. this issue is critical to my district and my state and i will continue to work across the aisle with anyone who is willing to protect communities and future generation from pfas contamination. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. ompson: thank you, speaker. mr. speaker, last month i had the pleasure of hosti

defense dr. mark esper, acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire. acting secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, acting secretary of the air force, matt donovan, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, and congressman mike turner. we are especially grateful to welcome the new leader of space com, general j raymond, highly respected man within the military. joined this afternoon by his wife, molly. thank you. thank you, molly. congratulations, molly. it's great. their wonderful family and several of their friends. general raymond, congratulations. so important. i know he is going to do a fantastic job. thank you very much. [applause] pres. trump: the united states combatant commands were developed to join branches of our armed forces in common cause across diverse fields of battle. each of the united states military is combatant has an area of responsibility from centcom, which oversees our mission in the middle east, to our most recent cyber com which we established last year to protect americans from the most advanced cyber thr

anyone who believes in a strong national defense should find troubling. equally troubling are the many areas of our defense budget that do nothing to enhance national security. you would be hard-pressed to convince me that the air force spending $3000 on coffee cups or $14,000 on a 3-d printed toilet seat makes a safe. over the course of four years, the department of defense spent $294 million, the equivalent of nearly four u.s. airports joint strike fighters on erectile dysfunction medication. seriously, look it up. in 2016, the washington post reported that the pentagon buried an internal study on $125 billion of internal waste amid fears that congressman is the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget. if we were talking about the department of education failing and calling it success, conservatives would not be calling for increased funding. and we are spending more to get less. the impact of this bureaucracy is stark. as former secretary of the navy lehman notes john "it now takes an average of 22.5 years to deploy new weapons instead of the

kildee: earlier this year, the house an senate both passed national defense authorization act bills. both important provisions to pfas chemicals were included in those bills. these provisions would fund cleanup of contaminated sites, stop pfas from polluting our drinking water in the future, and ensure that service members, first responders and family exposed to these chemicals have the health care they need. as co-chair of the congressional pfas caucus, a bipartisan task force from states across the country, we work successfully to include many pfas provisions in both the house and senate passed bills. now it's critical that the final nda which is being gauched right now include very strong pfas provisions. -- provisions. this is what we need to do to protect public health. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia -- from arkansas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recogni

national defense, concerned free but fair i think he would have applauded all of those things. i'm pretty sure he would have at the same time he probably would have said something like why didn't trump's mother wash out his mouth with soap? and make them understand we don't need a potty mouth except goldwater where not have use the word potty. >> how did you become known as a conservative historian quick. >> i don't think i am. i think the historian of the conservative movement is george nash who wrote a marvelous book called the intellectual history of the conservative movement that is the bible and the primer that we refer to if you want to know what happened through the seventies. george nash is a marvelous painstaking and brilliant historian. it so happens i have written some books and biographies and histories. so maybe i am coming up from fifth or sixth and making my way up i didn't start out to be a historian but i started to be a novelist and that didn't work out so well. [laughter] i wrote three very bad novels that never got published thankfully because it would be an

the other aspect of this, i think, is the national defense strategy puts a great focus on partnerships and this becomes absolutely key. just as we talked about -- as i talked about that, partnerships can be a mitigator as well. we're providing them the right equipment and support can help offset all of this. and of course all of that has to be underscored by, you know, synchronization in our informational military realms so we're clear on what we're trying to accomplish in each of these areas. and everybody is synchronized with respect to that. >> easier said than done. in addition to this period of geopolitical change, we're seeing a period of profound technological disruption, the list goes on and on, and many of the wonderful companies out in that hall are representative of the cutting-edge in these areas. but the u.s. and the military rely on the drivers of our innovative ecosystem in places like silicon valley and route 128 and austin and so forth. if you look at how the chinese are approaching this, they have a doctrine that ensure that is their private companies are carrying wat

we have a national defense strategy. we don't is our nds book. but this is unique. it's something where the democrats and republicans got together. and it was total agreement on the strategy that we would use. and so we are locked in pretty much to that. china and russia have passed this in key areas, and they're catching up in others, there's a time when we had our launch superiority that we don't have any more. and we don't know how that's changing. it's a moving target. when president trump assumed office, america's main focus was counter terrorismment but today, the united states is properly focused on the security challenges that we face. years of budget cuts under the obama administration left our military in a readiness crisis, the last administration that thought we could cut our defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars while fighting two wars and everything would turn out. however, that isn't the case. this is kind of a surprising thing. i see that senator wicker is not here yet. but he came up with a document that after i checked it out, i believe

expeditiously as well. >> we will. >> there's a provision in the house past nda grants the national guard access to defense environmental restoration program to support p foss cleanup and is currently controlled by the department of army but if confirmed would you support giving the national guard access to these accounts? >> yes. >> thank you. invested her, i appreciate secretaries john henderson's visit to michigan in my request and able to meet with residents facing the p foss contamination problem in and around the former wordsmith air force base answer both of you have a similar concerns of these committees and bowler of what goes on. i have sought to ensure the air force adequately budget for projected p foss contamination related needs and was disappointed, to say the least, that the air force diverted more than four and half million intended for cleanup to cover needs another site elsewhere in the nation. will you quit work with congress to secure the races we need to fully address this contamination problem that exists not just in michigan but across country and how will you do that? >> absolutely

when you pass in ndaa bill, the gentleman from marilyn knows this, and national defense authorization act is a bill, republican, democrat controlled house and who's been in charge. we have always come together. always, every single year that we moved in ndaa it's been bipartisan. this is a first year you all broke from that. he passed a a partisan bill onil defense knowing it was never going to become law. but not worked with democrats and breaking the tradition that every year we have followed thaa republicans and democrats will come together and safe with all these other differences. there are a lot of differences we have that we need to work through and we might get some, we might not get others but we put defense on the site and said this is one where we will come together, republicans and democrats. every year we did it including last year when we were in the majority. this year y'all did not pick yo, broke that tradition. it's unfortunate it is again that will never become law. you can brag you got it done but you get something done that will never get signed into law in broke a

problems.rious we have a national defense strategy. i can't believe that. this is kind of unique. total agreement. we are locked into that. they are catching up in others. we don't have any more. we don't know how that is changing. it is a moving target. -- focus main farkas was counterterrorism. of budget cuts under the oura administration left readiness and crisis. the last administration thought we could cut the budget hundreds of millions of dollars. that is not the case. he came up with a document, after i checked it out, i believed it to be true. when we were cutting our budget 2010-2015scal years they were increasing there's in china by 83%. people are not aware of this. they don't know that is going on. the cuts left our military in a predicament that will take years. fortunately, we have a good start. somel year 18, 19, we made great advances. this. looking forward you will be playing a major role fixing something broken right now. >> thank you very much. i join you in joining secretary mccarthy. i would also like to welcome sec. mccarthy's family. likewise, ambassador ba

our national defense icon. connected together as one pentagon family. all of us. we are much stronger. we are much resilient to defend our nation and to do what's right. all ofi want to welcome you to the pentagon memorial and to this observance. thank you very much. [applause] >> please remain silent and silence all mobile devices for the duration of the ceremony and as the names of those who were killed 18 years ago are remembered. dr. paul w ambrose. specialist craig simonson united states army. petty officer 3rd class melissa rose barnes, united states navy. master sergeant max j bell p, united states army retired. dr. yenene bitru. petty officer second-class chris hundat, united states navy. blackburn. colonel canfield d. boone, united states army. boot.ane donna m. bowen. out alan p boyle -- alan p boyle. bernard c brown the second. petty officer 3rd class christopher l burford united states navy. captain charles f burlingame the third, united states navy reserve retired. petty officer 3rd class daniel m, yarrow, united states navy. sergeant first class jose

that we take up every year to authorize funding for our military and our national defense. both the house and senate passed versions of this legislation this summer. now members from both houses are working on reconciling the house and senate versions of the bill. the senate passed national defense authorization act was a strong bill, and i hope that the final bill will look a lot like it. right now our military is rebuilding after years of underfunding and the strains of the global war on terror. in november 2018 the bipartisan national defense strategy commission released a report warning that our readiness eroded to the point where we might struggle to win a war against a major power like russia or china. the commission noted that we would be especially vulnerable if we were ever called on to fight a war on two fronts. here in the senate, members of both parties have been working to address the military's rebuilding needs and ensure we're prepared to meet any threat. the bipartisan national defense authorization act that we passed in the senate in june authorizes funding

the national defense authorization act that passed dates to reconcile and the senate had similar provisions. the one that democrats say republicans in congress should be worried about. this is the executive branch taking away the power of the purse. you saw some members like michael lee and mitt romney also calling for congress to claw back. >> multiple mass shootings have prompted all but his nation on gun violence prevention ahead of the judiciary committee to headline house democrats, set to move on new gun control legislation even though they postpone the hearing, they will pick it up when congress comes back. tell us about the legislation they are expected to take up and what do you think the timetable is? >> the different aspects to tactile, the house passed hr 80 which is an expanded universal background check bill. a lot of emphasis was placed to bring that up especially from chuck schumer. the judiciary committee is again high-capacity magazines. this would be the ability to shoot 100 or more bullets that we saw in the dayton shooting, allowing the killer to take out people within

that limited capability, limited to the needs of national defense and reliance on the us for extended deterrence both nuclear deterrence and also conventional strike is still the preferred method of ensuring japanese security and i think that's going to be true no matter what the chinese are going to do. where i think you will have a variable that will change japanese thinking , that variable will be the united states . if the alliance is no longer reliable, ceif we decide asia is not our thing. south korea and japan can go it alone, why should we mark if we decide that we are more interested in burden sharing and a shared strategic in relationship across asia, if we decide to negotiatewith north korea , then accept them as a nuclearpower , it's inevitable. these are the kinds of decisions that i think will prompt some rethinking in japan about what that means for the long haul for japanese security area at the end of the day there is a catastrophic failure of the alliance to defend japanese interests and certainly to defendjapanese territory . and sure, i don't think the alliance is

we have devoted only 15% of our national income to national defense. as will appear in my budget message tomorrow, our war program for the coming fiscal year will cost $56 billion. or, in other words, more than half of the estimated annual national income. that means taxes. and bonds. and bonds and taxes. it means cutting luxuries and other nonessentials. in a word, it means an all-out war, by individual effort, and family effort, in a united country. now when he was talking about individual effort and family effort, he was talking about kids, too. and family effort meant that even if you were over here, on the home front, and your loved ones were fighting overseas, over there, as the popular song went, there was still work that you could do to help defeat the enemy. everybody, both young and old, and no matter how much you had or how much you didn't have, had a very important role to play. in this united states war effort. and roosevelt wanted to make very, very sure that everybody was clear about that. early in that new year of 1942, the united states

there is also a provision in the house based that grants the national guard access to defense environmentalrestoration program funding. to support the cleanup that is currently controlled by the department of the army. if confirmed, would you support giving the national guard access to some of these accounts. >> yes sir. >> thank you. i appreciate assistance secretary john henderson his visit to michigan and requested in april to meet we put residents also facing a ethos contamination problem. in around the former air force base. i'm sure both of you have concerns we put these communities and you are well aware of what goes on. i've saw it on to ensure that the air force adequately budgets for projected contamination related needs. i was disappointed to say the least, that the air force recently diverted more than four and half million dollars intended for cleanup at wurtsmith, to cover needs and another site elsewhere in the nation. my question to the investor is will you work we put congress to secure the resources boy need to fully address is pfs contamination problem that exists not onl

that we've made for the american people, making this country safer, more secure, through our national defensethrough border security, making our nation more prosperous through tax relief, regulatory reform, energy reform, and supporting the kind of free and fair trade deals that will keep this economy rolling. and i want to thank you for what you're about to do. because i know it's going to be house republicans that lead the way for passage of the united states-mexico-canada agreement. i mean, building on this momentum, this is -- this is a president who, like all of us here, believes in free trade. but he wants it to be fair and reciprocal. and so we engaged in negotiations with our neighbors to the north and south, and the usmca, when it's passed, will be the largest trade deal in american history. we believe it will create and benefit nearly 2 million manufacturing jobs across the country, and it will create nearly 200,000 new jobs in its early days alone. and republicans are in the lead on that. you've been telling the story in the airwaves, on the pages of your local papers, and we encou

the good thing is they have maintained all of our department like focus on the national defense strategy. we aren't seeing any changes there. part is seeing china and russian modernizing the nation. think jeff hit it on the head. we are in the strategic competition stage right now the department, we do battle well. we do force on force well away by aircraft and tanks. it's that gray zone space that we don't do as well. it's looking at that nest between economic and national security. i think about china's one belt one road initiative. military planners really care about who is operating what port where. most missions care about who is operating railways and we care about resilient communication telecom networks so all of these things are happening now and if we can't effectively be present and counter in a competitive and economic space you are setting yourself up for not being successful if and when the balloon goes up. just another thing i would mention there is just technology as well as and jeff hit on this to we are seeing them in a pretty concerted effort to go after specific techn

and i'm going to use the language that comes from our national defense strategy and the cyber strategyflows from that in 2018. and this is language that our former secretary of defense used very cheerily about -- clearly about lethality, partnership and reform. and it's a great lens by which to look at signer and a few other quick items we'll talk about. but i need you to remember something when we have this conversation. there's a couple caveats. every one of these framing ideas doesn't exist unto itself. this is all about outcomes. gotta make sure that we pause and think about what it is we're doing, why we're doing it, and if it lends itself to the ultimate mission, the reason we're doing it. which means there's got to be execution the make sure that we're still on track. technology changes, we all know, at a rapid state. it's easy to chase technology and not the mission. it's easy to stay focused on antiquity and not adopt modernization. so there's got to be some level of balance. and we do this within a government system of funding which drives a lot of this which at times is a bi

the period at the tail end of that first 12 to 18 months was the crafting of the new national defense strategy. so, that really paralleled back to how do we convince the rest of the department of what china looks like and what are their goals and objectives going forward? and the piece that i would offer to you is that at the macro level, i consider china an open book. they're academic right, they plan as a nation, and they move out in a very large way in a public fashion. we know their national objectives are to restore or achieve regional, to displace the u.s. as a global power, and to change some of the international organizations out there to be more advantageous to china's authoritarian model. so, if we know that, it becomes then what we worked on for the second 18 months which is the hard part, what do you do about it? so, the piece i would offer to the crowd here is that while we used to rely on china being able to build a lot of stuff but not being able to train with it, not being joint enough, they have worked through all of those issues and they are presenting as we have see

it's fundamental postwar organization of military capability limited to national defense.d with alliance with the united states. my answer today is, no. unless. the unless is important because i think a lot of people feel this rising threat perception from north korea and china will make japan change its mind on things like conventional strike. some people think even nuclear weapon when i did the book in new york at cfr i can't tell you how many questions i got about japanese nuclear capability and what the japanese could do and what they do it and how would they do it. i thought, take a breath. japan is not about to become a nuclear power. threat perception my conclusion is threat perception alone is not going to push japanese political or security strategic thinkers away from that basic fundamental premise. the limited capability, limited to the needs of national defense and reliance on the u.s. for extended deterrence from both nuclear and conventional strike is still the preferred method of ensuring japanese security. i think that's going to be true no matter what the

defense industrial base? how do we help safeguard our nation's most critical secrets? at the time they're thought of through development and eventually for the introduction in our war fighting apparatus. so partnering from the idea of mission execution and planning and then on the side of ensuring that we're able to share information with a common level of protection is critical for us. all of these have varying efforts that are ongoing in the building today and serve again that framework i just described. the last piece, and it's one of the most critical. it involves a level of trust. trust with the taxpayer. trust with our government. and keeping that trust and not breaking faith with our work force. and our war fighters. we need reform. some of this reform is going at pace which is pretty respectable, and others may be at pace that needs to be picked up and made better. so what do we mean by reform? this is the idea of scarce resources being applied in the most consistent, meaningful, and thoughtful ways. gone are the days for everyone doing what's right in their ow

in the national defense strategy, at least the current one, promulgated under secretary mattis was very clear in terms of where the focus was. it was focused on great power competition and maintaining that competitive edge. i agreed with that and testified to that fact when asked. but i think when we look at other areas, we have to look carefully what our o interests are there. you know one of this things that strikes me is when you think about the different interests that we have that are not just interests for today or tomorrow, but have been enduring interest, preventing this area from being a platform for terrorists to attack us. maintaining our freedom of commerce and navigation through the the region. prevent iing instability. preventing proliferation f of nuclear weapons then of course maintaining a favorable balance. these are enduring interests for us, so i think as we look at other areas, we have to look at how we address those interests. and i think what it requires is when it comes to military forces, i think it requires figuring out what is sustainable in this, in these are

around in our elections, so externally i would look at those two, and that's why we rewrote the national defensenations, not the nations we wanted to be dealing with, but the russia of putin, the reality, the russia of -- the president of president xi, but internally my bigger concern is two-fold. it's our growing debt that we're going to transfer to the younger generation, with seemingly no fiscal discipline, and more than that it's the lack of friendliness, it's the increasing contempt i see between americans who have different opinions. i mean, we're going to have to sit down and remember, if we want this country to s t tay a democracy is t up i break it into those two fundamental difference threats right now. >> brennan: on that note we will leave it there. i think a lot of people would agree with you, i would like everyone to be friendlier these days. one other thing, before you go, i want the wish you a happy birthday. >> well, thank you, margaret. >> brennan: and we will be back in a minute with democratic senator chris coons. senator chris coons. he's standing by live. start of. every ne

is it going to be any important part of our national security or national defense?hat about the employment issue? are we going to be able to use ai to create jobs? and you think, ai is going to eliminate jobs, but that is not really what is going to happen. most any job someone has has several components, so it is a tapestry. you want to find the components that are going to work with ai and the components that are going to replace ai, and put those together in a way that makes people more productive and doesn't eliminate jobs. used aiow have we already today on a day to day basis, and where do you see ai in the next 10 years? rep. mcnerny: health care is the most obvious. lookan have ai trained to radiography, and be as accurate or more accurate then radiologists. that's an important application. we are getting closer to self-driving car's. a lot of artificial intelligence goes into training those circuits to know how to react to different stimuli. beon't know if it will ever perfect, but we could easily be better than humans. it is not too far off those are a coup

defense. he is stealing money away from our nation's homeland defense to build his vanity wall. finally, at fort huachuca, arizona, the current situation is that the facilities do not meet the current mandatory criteria specified for vehicle testing and maintenance facilities. if the current facilities date back to the 1930's and 1940's and have surpassed their estimated life expectancy. the facilities violate current antiterrorism force protection standards, existing utility systems such as water, sewer, electric and gas require replacement. there are no other suitable buildings on the installation available in support of this mission. if they were to lose this -- the funding for this project, personnel will continue to work in substandard and unsafe facilities. the facilities do not comply with current life, safety, building codes. the current hvac fire suppression, the existing infrastructure deficiencies jeopardize personnel health, security, and safety. this is what he's taking money from to build this wall. the senate could put a stop to this. it is up to us, our actions i

serious issue is the military pressure from china is that even 2 years ago your government's national defense report highlighted concerns that chinese military activity near taiwan posed an enormous threat to security in the taiwan states now just a few days ago you had washington saying that china stepped up its pressure seen the largest increase in military activity around taiwan for 20 years as you and you think that's meaningless why us say china is going to interfere in the lecture in tell you why and so us is coming here to interfere and. you happy with these bullying turnouts because that's what they are not happy about bullying thing but i'm not what i was doing i'm happy about you know we can do persons with each other we can ask of china to make changes we are the only people on earth believe that we can make that happen we can make china a peaceful country where you look back at the history who are the invaders who are the invaders japan right who participated the wars in asia. if you want to live in history do you want to live in the no i want you to live in the present in modern