as you say with this ndaa, make a strong force ahead and move past helsinki. great to see you, we'll bring you back. >> you got it, thank you. >> harris: democrats taking what many see as unprecedented steps in their quest for thousands of documents on president trump's supreme court choice. are they going too far? plus, what president trump's attorneys say should be off the table in any possible trump-mueller sitdown as they use some of their harshest language yet. will we see an interview between the two men? stay close. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won't find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray relieves 6 symptoms... claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. >> harris: sitdown showdown, rudy guiliani speaking out about the trump legal team's response to robert mueller's latest term for an interview. he said the special counsel doesn't need to ask a single question on obstruction, he knows all the answers. they're not going to all

the senate version of the ndaa did not have any language with respect to catsa. indeed, one of the reasons that we avoided any sort of discussion with respect to caatsa in the senate was the feeling was that there might be a negative impact on the ongoing bilateral relationship with turkey to persuade turkey to reverse its decision to buy the s.-400. it would trigger mandatory sanctions under section 231 and put our defense cooperation with turkey at risk. the final conference outcome, after discussions back and forth in a very serious and very, i think, thoughtful way was a very narrow waiver for section 231 sanctions only and reflects a number of important changes to the house provision that raised the bar for the president even to be able to invoke this waiver. first, the conference can preserve all existing caatsa sanctions currently in effect against russia, including sanctions for russia's elections interference and aggression against ukraine. second, the waiver is not available for any transactions wentties in the russian defense and intelligence sectors t

>> i just think there is going to be good momentum coming out of this ndaa with legislation. it was a real bipartisan effort and there is now stories that this other defense technology agreement the acronym, cause the that the u.s. and india than talking about for a long time, several years might be looking for opportunities there. the one thing that i always think is really important to recognize with regard to the u.s. india relationship is shared interests, shared values, building trust which can take years. we know that. the other thing that in many ways is so important is the growing importance of prominent influence of the indian-american community and different areas of the american economy but also lets let's face it, also in politics. look at our ambassador to the u.n. right now nikki haley. you look at one of secretary pompeo's most trusted outstanding assistant secretary who i happen to know quite well. she used to work for me. she is fantastic in terms of being in charge of all the economic issues at the state department paid literally the economic diplomats in th

and so i had never opposed an ndaa, and i have supported every single one of them, despite the fact that they didn't have everything i wanted or everything i liked -- until today. there is a lot of good in this legislation, and it makes it difficult to be an opponent of it. for florida it's been -- it's authorized over $200 million for military construction in the state. littoral combat stations, air traffic control towers, f-35 fighting capabilities at eglin air force base, flight simple laters at macdiller air force base. it authorizes the secretary of the air force to build a cyberspace test facility at eglin. it authorizes the conveyance of land at the air force of enlisted village, 80 acres next to i.g.land for independent living and apartments. it authorizes the continuing development of the b-21 bomber. it fully supports the gulf range complex, a true treasure for our country and it's the largest military range in the continental united states. as for the country, it also has all sorts of other important things, an over 2.6% military pay raise. it increases the active duty workfor

so we will take a look and see if the ndaa adds to that or merely supports it. but i don't have any comment on future plans, what we might do, but if you regard congressional , -- but i do regard congressional action through the ndaa as a strong statement of their interest and where their support lies. on the more, you used the term covert, aspects of china's influence of operations in asia and southeast asia. again, i think similarly continue to shine a light on what china does is the first step, because i think when these things are exposed there's often a backlash. we certainly saw that and australia when a bunch of those activities were published through the good work of people like john. i think we saw that in vanuatu, when there was a press story about potential economic levers being used to gain port access, -- leverage being used to gain port access, whether that was factually correct story or not, it created a backlash. i think we're learning more and more about the situation in malaysia, that it's much worse than people even expected and i think mahath

, the ndaa just passed not long ago, last week recently. we are still all the provisions. if it's a statement of congressional intent, we certainly acknowledge that it is a point of interest for congress and there's always been strong support for taiwan there. the things you mentioned, potential hospital ship as a come high-level exchanges, to my knowledge of those are things that have led us to do under the taiwan relations act, under the good construct of the relationship. so we will take a look and see if the ndaa adds to that or merely supports it. but iraq any comment on future plans, what we might do. but i do regard congressional action to the ndaa as a strong statement of their interest and where their support life. on the more you use the term covert aspects of china's influence operations in asia and southeast asia, again, i think similarly tensioning to shine a light on what china does is the first step because i think when these things are exposed there's often a backlash. .. we are learning more and more about the situation in

it might have been the 2013 and daa -- 2013 ndaa. it allowed for detention of terror suspects.cs have said this needs to be repealed as it could allow for indefinite detention of american citizens. the big advocates of this, senator rand paul, senator mike lee pushed very hard to get a vote on this on the senate floor . i believe senator lee was accompanied by senator feinstein, who used to be chairman of the intelligence committee. it has been blocked by folks like senator lindsey graham, who is a former military lawyer himself, who say that provision is necessary to detain people in the war on terror. that has not been resolved yet. that was not in this bill. ,n the wasteful spending piece that is a concern of many lawmakers, absolutely. i think the interesting thing will be to see what the results of the pentagon's audit are in the fall when that comes outcome of the first-ever audit of the pentagon budget. saying whyawmakers are we giving the pentagon $700 billion plus when they haven't even been able to check their own books? host: jeff is in silver spring, maryland, a dem

the ndaa has a subunified command which is kind of the next level down. i am much more in favor of that approach, because i i think that would really be the ticket for solving the problem that everyone is mostly focused on. so in conclusion, we're going to get a glimpse of where the pentagon is going in the next week. they're going to come out with their first report on this matter. none of them are in favor of a space force. i say none of the top leaders, but they're stuck. the president has said it, and it'll be interesting to see how they now deal with it. >> thank you. very concise and think and great start. brian, over to you. >> thank you, mike. just reorganizing my thoughts because she already captured a couple of things i was going to mention. i would say overall i very much understand the challenges that are driving the interest in a space force, and i do think we have change. but i am i'd say cautious, maybe skeptical of that, that the space force is the answer to solve those problems. you know, i would highlight what's going on in the space dom

the ndaa has global and nationwide significance, but it also has tremendous local importance. representing the commonwealth of kentucky, i know just how significant an impact this legislation had will have on some of our nation's finest. at fort campbell, members of the 101st airborne division and a number of special operation divisions will benefit from the authorization of new investments in their training facilities. at fort knox, the army's human resources command and recruiting command will receive the support they need to modernize officer personnel management and the post will receive much-needed certainty and authority for its energy savings program. at the blueblass army depot, critical work to support demilitarization will continue because this bill authorizes the resources necessary to conduct safe operations. and service members will benefit from a well-deserved raise in military pay and expanded authority for military family housing and education. so, mr. president, none of my colleagues need to look far to find examples of how the needs of our service members wil

so we're excited about the language in ndaa 2019.finally, the daec, this council, is working closely with the administration and the congress specific to our 30 recommendations that we published on june 8th. we are encouraging the administration to use the tools it has to affect real change. to issue executive orders, directives and to hold the system accountable to the seize this opportunity to address issues that we have debated since the defense news article, wrapped in red tape, that was published in 1997. i remember that. many of you probably do not. a unique opportunity for true change, and i am honored to work with the colleagues here representing both state, the nsc, the white house and others to advance these changes. thank you. >> thank you, keith. as i mentioned, i'm going to sort of take a break now on opening remarks and ask some questions as moderator that i would like the whole panel to weigh in on if they would like to. and i want to start with the question, if i could just pose it in its most general form and then el

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this, the ndaa is also attached to senator john mccain. the bill is named after hip.here has been some pretty public disputes between the president and senator from arizona. some will watch what if anything the president has to say about that. in any event, defense spending has been a big priority for president trump. he also says this is very good for the economy. >> our military will soon be stronger than it has ever been by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobody makes equipment like we do, nobody. whether it is planes or missiles or any form of military equipment. reporter: the white house continues to monitor a different kind of issue involving money, that being the turkish lira and its large slide. president erdogan blaming in part the united states that it will increase tariffs on loom and steel or at least will begin to do so. kevin h. ssett says that is not the problem within turkey's borders. >> countries lost the rule of law, moves away from democracy, capital tends to get out of the country and that can lead to currency cri

in the ceremony, his wife cindy mccain tweeting i'm so proud of senator john mccain and his work on ndaaedibly humbled and since president trump would not do it, let us hear on "the lead" congratulate senator mccain and the family and thank him for his service to the country. also on politics today, with me earlier, lauren rudy giuliani appearing to change the story, denying that president trump ever raised the issue of the michael flynn investigation with then fbi director james comey seemingly contradicted his prior statements about it. as the president and the team fired more attacks on the fbi today and learned that the fbi fired peter strzok, the agent booted by robert muler from the russia investigation for all those texts that he sent disparaging mr. trump. cnn's manu raju joins me now. the president called for an entirely new probe of hillary clinton even though the inspector general at the justice department concluded that he could find no evidence of bias leading up to the decision to not file charges against hillary clinton. >> reporter: the president demanding an end to the r

was home getting treatment, i'd talk to the chairman of armed services when they walk through the ndaa, he's getting his treatment but senator mccain would be there doing the work. there's no one that understood the military better or the idea of what happens around the world when we would travel to other countries and sit with those leaders it was always a person they'd ask about and it was john mccain because they knew him personally and they trusted him and that helped america's foreign policy around the world during all different eras and different times. maria: he was a true patriot our love and condolences out to his family obviously and we'll be waiting to see in the next couple days how he is laid to rest as we reported earlier. what does this mean for the upcoming mid-terms let me switch gears and ask what you're expect ing in november. it feels like you're going to have more success on the senate side than the house at least that's the speculation. >> well the senate has a much different map and the map they are playing has a much better map. how has a history against them wh

we must fight fire with fire, and the cyber command recently authorized by the ndaa should be encouraged by the president of the united states to take action in cyberspace that provide a real deterrent. finally i would just say that it is more than just military challenge because we do need to define the battlefield init this combat. it is also a threat to privacy. a defense of privacy as a defense of our national security. a which analytic and demonstrate our own data can be weaponized against us. that data canri be weaponized against us as effectively as any missiles d -- cambridge analytia -- and i look forward to continuing to work with our colleagues on seeking to provide the weapons and tools, and equallyrt important, the will to use those weapons and tools. we need to make the american people of where. too often, all of you and i sit through classified briefings, and at the end i asked repeatedly, why can't we declassify this information? our enemies know whatwe they are doing against us. you know what we are doing against us. we know what they are doing against us. only the ameri

since stratcom did work outcome last year in the ndaa congress relocated these operations to the global engagements of the state department. now, the level -- global engagements center may not be the place for this. the state department by law has to engage in truthful operations, not, they don't necessarily have people who are trained to think about psychological warfare or political influence operations. you might want, ideally, an organization, but this is where the have put it, so this is what to work with right now. they are under the public it is taskedon and with coordinating all of these various operations. help them to establish the understanding of how to do this and to make sure they have access to professionals they may not have generated internally so they can ingauge -- engage recommendations on the full range of the counter propaganda operations. now, with that said i think i can we take questions now or later? very good. all right, very good. if anyone has any questions later, i will be around. [applause] >> do you have comments on the get -- geck or what they are doing

ndaa.t by boosting military. >> if it's the point to honor the military boost it further. i don't think it's for the military. everybody wants to honor the military. i don't think it's about that. i think it's about someone who has a little bit of a narcissistic -- >> i disagree. >> bill: i expected that answer. you are really -- thank you, juan, thank you, shelby, thank you, lisa. fox news alert now. president trump talking to reporters at the white house as he leaves for a trip up here to new york city. there is a live look at air force one. the president on his way now expecting tape play-out from that shortly. he is on camera. we'll show you the back and forth in a moment right after this. you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's

ndaa, i'm happy to report, that the annual authorization of the national defense was signed into law. i want to take a moment to thank a colleague who is not here today to celebrate that fact, senator john s. mccain, for whom the bill has been maimed. our dear friend senator mccain has been a stalwart champion for the men and women in uniform. he would be proud that once again congress has met its obligation to give the military support and certainly it needs to conduct missions around the globe, even from afar, senator mccain's influence on this chamber is considerable and strong, his presence hoaferred -- whoeverred -- moverred over to make sure that the defense bill was strong and voted on quickly. and he is so -- and so many of the bases in my state, including our niagara air force base, including our fort drum are so much the better because of john mccain's great work. i wish him all the best and commend his staff, including senator inhofe and senator reed's staff for their work on the john s. mccain national against authorization act. on the supreme court, as we return from stat

to start with return on investment, in the past two ndaa cycles, there has been an emphasis on reform monitoring planning of security collaboration and the president himself and members of the administration strong in quite encouraging allies to step up and do more, to invest in our collective security. arms transfers are a form of security cooperation, so in thinking ahead in how we frame and reconcile the imperative of seeking return on investment with the need to be streamlining our arms transfer processes and policies to provide those arms to other partners, i think we to -- with the highest levels of our government. if they are treated as separate policy decision-making processes, we run the risk of the country of parallel and possibly conflicting outputs and outcomes. -- outcomes that we will have to deal with in the years to come. context also matters. further the by, with, and through approach, relying on allies and partners to achieve common security objectives, not only through burden sharing but also burden shifting. we have seen this approach increasingly utilized not just

mccain ndaa for fiscal year 2019. these investigations in the reports will conclude by the summer of next year, allowing the army time to complete their plans for command during this fiscal year. most importantly, it gives the army additional time to take a deliberative approach to their acquisition overhaul. congress has asked questions about the army's plan to establish this command. what are the true costs for moving personnel? how many studies did the army conduct to develop this plan? what were the options presented? unfortunately the army has not been able to provide these answers. my fear is that the army is not executing this organization transformation in a deliberative and coherent manner. we all want the men and women of the army to have the best technology in the world. however, we also have a responsibility to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars. when the army can't provide basic answers to provide calculator on their -- provide clarity on their plan or identify how this plan was formulated, it leads

ago, congress passed ndaa that constructed the department of defense to take back their portion of background investigations. that roughly equated to 70% of our business here. wece that decision was made, have been working very closely with the department to figure out how to do this, how to take the organization, perhaps fabricated a little bit and make it work. the truth is that that split would have been debilitating, distracting and pretty counterproductive. good news is that after further , the administration has determined that this is probably not a good idea. look at the government reform plan that was published back in june, the instructions and intent in that plan is to entirety fromts the office of personnel management to the department of defense. that includes the people doing the work, the facilities, the assets and the workload. i think in the long run, this is a much better solution. -- it will keep us able as an organization to stay focused on what is the most important stuff we are doing. the initial trust determinations of being made on individuals and the ability to keep t

menendez: i don't know why you reject the provision of the ndaa. it creates confusion in the world. go ahead. assist. sec. mitchell: on the second part, i don't want to get process.the i think it is something to always keep in our pocket. i think we're looking very carefully and sober mindedly at russian behavior in all regards. process. cbw sanctions speak for themselves. there could be a follow on to per the law.law -- i say we reserve to ourselves all options. there is noz: differentiation between what happened north korea and the action did menstruation took, and the russian administration. there is no reason we should employ all the uses we have because we need to deter the russian administration from undermining our elections. let me start by reiterating what was set of both of you. i thought you gave us a sober but very thoughtful fact-based presentation today. reallytion is to you about why given all the things we are doing, including sanctions, are we not making better progress? let me start by saying i appreciate that a couple of weeks ago the secretary was able to make cl

fire with fire and the cyber command recently should be by the ndaa encouraged by the president of the united states to take action in cyberspace that provides a real deterrent. finally, i would just say that it is more than just military challenge because we do need to define the battlefield in this tobat, it is also a threat privacy. defense of privacy as the defense of our national security. cambridge analytic at demonstrates that our own data can be weaponized against us. weaponizedan be against us as effectively as any missiles or bombs and i look forward to continuing to work with our colleagues on too often all of you and i said there classified briefings and at the end, i have asked repeatedly why can't we declassify this information #our enemies know what they are doing against us. you know what they're doing against this. we know what they're doing against us. only the american people are unaware. we need to do more to make them aware. thank you. >> thank you both. our second panel, would you please come forward? thank you. thank you very much. do you solemnly swear to tell t

in ndaa there's a provision for project solarium in cyber, which would be the equivalent what we did after the invention of the atomic bomb to develop a doctrine. and i think having a doctrine and having a strategy and a set of rules of engagement would go a long way in creating some element of deterrence to what right now, i think, is a very ambiguous and challenging environment. >> well-- >> let's say one more thing. i think that's a critically important part that's missing. we don't have a declaratory statement that things like russian interfering in our election, that causes repositioning is something we are going to take action on and impose costs on. we need to do that and do that now. >> that's very helpful and on the issue of the private-public, not only interaction and partnership being important, it's something that i agree with you on and that's why today senator portman and i are introducing a bill that would establish the cyber response response team act and it would authorize in law, dhs's cyber hunt and incidence response team and allow select private sector cyber expe

menendez: i don't know why you reject the provision of the ndaa. it is the codification of of -- codification of of view. i do not get it. it creates confusion in the world. go ahead. sec. mitchell: on the second part, i don't want to get ahead of the process. i think it is something to always keep in our pocket. i think we're looking very carefully and sober mindedly at russian behavior in all regards. cbw sanctions speak for themselves. depending on how the russians respond, there could be a follow on to that per the law. i say we reserve to ourselves all options. sen. menendez: there is no differentiation between what happened in north korea and the actions the administration took which i applaud and the russian federation. there is no reason we should employ all the uses we have because we need to deter the russian administration from undermining our elections. and continuing to violate the national order. sec. cardin: let me start by reiterating what was said of both of you. i am glad you are there. i thought you gave us a sober but very thoug

separate space service established starting about a year and a half ago and we put it in last year's ndaaefense department to go and study themselves and come back by august 1st with a report and that was what vice president was announcing, was the study that we had required. folks have to understand, we are not talking about star trek here, we are talking about national security satellites and this is essential that we get after this problem because we have serious threats from the chinese and the russians when it comes to our national security satellites and those are getting worse every day. charles: i'm glad you say that people have to understand that this is -- because knee-jerk reaction is ridiculed, but that's always the knee-jerk reaction, i didn't understand that we had a space treaty, covered nuclear weapons but not the kinds of things that the chinese are working on and how much our economy and security is tie today -- tied to outer space. >> here domestically, if you use that smartphone in your hand, you're using satellite. if you put debit card in gas pump, you're using satel

even though at home getting treatment i would tack to the chairman of arm service talking through the ndaa getting his treatment but senator mccain would be there doing the work and knew -- there was no one that understood the military better. or the idea of what happens around the world when we were traveling to countries sit with leaders it was us a a person they would ask about and it was john mccain because they knew him personally and they trust him and that helped america's foreign policy around the world during all different eras in different times. >> presidential campaign chief strategist, charlie black, charlie good to see you tell me a story i always tell people when someone passes away, that all americans knew john mccain from watching him on television just watching his -- his life and a career unfold. but tell us a story about this senator that you think remember him. >> well there could be very many dagen. but you know, in addition to being the champion of freedom, for the whole world and -- being a champion for regular order and bipartisan compromise? the senate he was a te

and with this president, through the omnibus and ndaa he is telling our military and the world that ouritary will have the equipment and the resources and the respect that they need to be the greatest military in the world. he believes -- this president believes in peace through strength. the peace part is important and the strength part is important. you see these enthusiastic crowds and tells you exactly what america is focused on and what's important. this president promised he would be pro-military, pro-veteran, pro-law enforcement and makes good on that every day. i'm stopped in the street every day having people thank me and they particularly mention how pro-defense, pro-military, pro-veteran and pro-law enforcement this president is. >> bill: good to have you back here. kellyanne conway from the north lawn. thanks. >> julie: 11 children rescued from a compound believed to be a training camp for a violent mission. now the suspects keeping them prisoner have been granted bail. what is going on with this horrific story? plus this. another tragic story after a man arrested for domest

that's what's in our ndaa, a vision of compassion, freedom and opportunity that knows through all too personal of family experiences what it's like to flee religious persecution or famine or war and how a beautiful thing it is to be treated with respect and decency if you come to the shores of the united states of america. thank you mr. president. mr. sullivan: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: mr. president it's the end of the week here on the senate floor and it's my favorite time of the week, and i think it's the pages' favorite time of the week too because we get to talk about the alaskan of the week, and this is a speech that i give every week, and the whole purpose is to talk about somebody in my community somebody in my great state who has done something really important for their fellow alaskans or maybe their fellow americans. sometimes it's someone very famous sometimes it's somebody who is just working hard every single day and doesn't get a lot of recognition. we like to come down here and talk about them. we like to brag about th

i ask for comments are he lated to the appropriations bill for three minutes prior to the ndaa bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hoeven: thank you, i want to thank my colleagues for advancing the appropriations bill, specifically the ag appropriations bill. also, i want to thank senator merkley, my ranking member on the committee. throughout the process, we've had open communications and have worked to advance the bill and to address amendments brought forward by our colleagues. also i want to thank specifically senator merkley's staff jessica, diane neller and bob ross for their work as well as my crew, carlo clark, patrick carroll, elizabeth and rita endrew. this has been a process that's involved other subcommittees as well. i want to thank all of those who have worked on these appropriations bills, including senator collins and senator reed and their staff on transportation, housing, and urban development. senator murkowski and senator udall and their staff on the interior bill, senators lankford, senator coons on the financial services subcommittee. this has ce