in collaboration with admiral davidson and his team at indo-pacific command we encourage a free and open indo-pacific region. the simile team with the department of defense as part of the rim of the pacific 2018, the largest maritime exercise on the quote and we sent one of our flagships, national security cutter bertholf to purchase figure it was a terrific operation. currently we're in the operational planning phase for pushing and national security cutter into the indo-pacific theater in the coming calendar year. the coast guard will build maritime partner capabilities and capacity and were going to advance relationships in the western pacific. the polar region, for more than a century the coast guard has been the nation's primary maritime presence. both the arctic and antarctic cold vast resources, natural gas, oil, minerals, , fish stoc, freshwater reserves. dark water considerations at play. while we focus on creating peaceful and collaborative high latitude environments, and we respond to increase competition in the strategically important regions. both of our near-term competitor

it included this message from vicedmiral linda fagan, a pacific area commander. >> during these uncertain timese ofapse of appropriations of the government shutdown, i know it's hard for these crewsbe to be leavinnd their dependents and spouses. it's a thousand times mo so when everybody's wondering when their next paycheck will be and amhow they can support they they are leaving behind. there has been an incredibleou ouring of support for the families here in the alameda area, but the tension and the anxiety for the crew is real. >> woodruff: without legislative action, or an end to the partial shutdown, coast guard members will miss their second paycheck on january 30th and retirees will start missing out on benefits next month. virginia senator tim kaine, a democrat, spoke on the senate floor today about the coast guard. >> they're deploying for multiple months and they're saying goodbye to their families but their families in alameda n it cheap will have to keep paying rent bills and thingst while co deployed and not being paid. >> woodruff: according to the coast guard, an esti31% of

secondly, as admiral davison said, he just took over the command in the pacific, he said there's no guaranteeuld win a war today against china because of the military capability they have advanced. >> lou: and that's speaking from the man in charge. >> he would fight the war. we, on the commission concluded that we would struggle to win and we could possibly lose. why is this? we have not taken care of our military capability. 9/11, for one reason and this absolutely reckless sequestration of the budget control that kneecap the military. >> lou: when the president talks about a national emergency, he means a national emergency. your outline a confrontation with china, its global comments economic, it is potentially military. it is existential if we are not extraordinarily responsive to the threats and challenges that china poses. as always, it's great to have you here. >> lou: up next, socialist darling, alexandria ocasio-cortez, she has called capitalism tomorrow. she and nancy pelosi are very immoral people, apparently. we take that up next. david bossie joins us. before go to break, let's

pacific theater. it was the unit he was commanding of marines that was securing the base with no organic research or capacity in the battle that lasted three days in which the japanese and it also launched several waves of combatants against the marines. this is the commander who never swayed in his capacity to keep his men's bar now high. to keep the morale high as such i think the figures on i record two and a half thousand killed with maybe two dozen marines. this is just an example of how the leadership at the tactical level had a strategic effect. it turned around the war for us in a way that is unimaginable in the overall way we look at the war to date. >> host: you also took us quite a bit on what do you need to know about the war. you mentioned the nature of the enemy and what are the long term objectives and specific threats to the united states at home or abroad and do we have the right tools to keep the nation safe. this is a crucial part of the book. >> let me start by calling my professor from the kennedy school he had a superb lecture on the line at the johns hopkins lab where he talks up a com

unpaid coast guard members deploying to the pacific and middle east got this send-off from their worried commandant. >> i find it unacceptable that coast guard men and women have to rely on food pantries and donations to get through day-to- day life as service members. >> stop the shutdown! >> reporter: for the first time today, furloughed workers descended on a paralyzed capitol hill, as senate chaplain, barry black, called on a higher power for help. >> those who work deserve their pay. >> reporter: the president says he is looking into alternative locations if he can't give his state of the union address here on capitol hill. end he already has several vevitations, jeff, including one today from the governor of west virginia, who offered up his state capitol instead. >> glor: okay, nancy. also, our poll here does shed some light on what is driving this stalemate. can you talk about that? >> reporter: right, well, it shows that leaders are dug in because a lot of their voters owe dug in, too. take a look at this-- 69% of take a look at this-- 65% of republicans said president trump should not sig

unpaid coast guard members deploying to the pacific and middle east got this sendoff from their worried commandant. >> i find it unacceptable that coast guard men and women have to rely on food pantries and donations to get through day-to-day life as service members. >> reporter: for the first time today, furloughed workers descended on a paralyzed capitol hill as senate chaplain barry black called on a higher power for help. >> those who work deserve their pay. >> the irs is one of the federal agencies affected by the government shutdown. thousands of workers were ordered back to work without pay to deal with tax season. how is that going over? here is dean reynolds. >> i absolutely live paycheck to paycheck. >> reporter: shannon ellis says she can no longer afford to go to work. is it too expensive for gasoline to drive to work? >> it's too expensive to put gasoline in. we just don't -- we just don't drive a lot. >> reporter: an irs customer service representative, she is among 36,000 from the irs who the white house ordered back to their desk without pay last week. but ellis declined, citing a

he spent time in atlantic and pacific fleets, for different submarines and one ballistic missile, commanded the uss honolulu in his final command job before becoming chief of naval operations. without further ado, join me in welcoming the cnl to brookings. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. , it's a pleasure to be back here and thank you for your hospitality and your kind introduction. i love coming to brookings and as much is anything it's a learning institution and learning across a broad spectrum it's a sense of security, foreign attaches and leaders, academia, media, the whole deal, just coming here is such a pleasure. i look forward to getting through my remarks to get through the q&a which is where i learned from the questions and answers. as the leader of the navy, we strive always and i look forward to learning. i hope to get through my remarks in 15 or 20 minutes, to set up in the most basic way to describe our way forward and then with michael's help we will get to some questions. >> let's see if we can work this >> there we go . >> so, it's hard to beat this quote from george w

chester nimitz, the commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet, personally the navy cross to miller. he said he wanted to do it himself, which was unusual. this was the third highest honor awarded by the navy. nimitz and the navy used this episode as a recruiting tool. let me get down here. this is the poster that was issued. this was the recruiting tool they used. miller served, if you don't know the rest of the story, served in the pacific theater until 1943, when a torpedo struck his ship from a japanese submarine. the american warship miller served on site within minutes. miller one of the heroes of thearl harbor, was one of more than 600 fatalities. the united states navy commissioned a knox class frigate in honor of glory miller. also a bronze commemorative plaque of miller is located on the family park at the u.s. naval base pearl harbor. the united states post office recognized miller in 2010 by issuing a stamp in his honor to pay tribute to what they called distinguished american sailors. under president obama, two texas legislators introduced legislation to rename the waco

today, the proliferation of missile technology -- i will tell you the combatant commanders out there, i did it in the pacific, you have to have a sensor suite that includes that space-based capability that dr. kennedy is talking about across the board, you have to have a ground-based capability, sea-based, all that interconnected so it shares and talks and learns from each other and characterize a launch as rapidly as you can and determine what the trajectory is and probable impact point is and the shooters and command and control to do all that simultaneously. we're not there. we're working on it obviously, but like president reagan did in '83, this is the inflection point and we have to make the decision to look at technology that dr. kennedy is talking about. we need the capability to look across the entire spectrum of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and icbms because our potential adversaries use every one of them. when we put that architecture together, this is a little different than what happened in 1983, i think, when you put that architecture together, in 1983 i don't think we really thought

. >> we'll be working for u.s., the united states and endo commander and we'll be executing national security operations throughout the pacificain time of the government shutdown, i know it is hard for these crews to be leaving their spouses and dependen dependence. everyone is wondering when their next paycheck is going to be and how they can support their family that they leave behind. >> i am watching they canc can service members deployed overseas without a paycheck. are you surprise there is more outrage of this when it comes the coast guards? >> there is an out pouring support for us, usaa provided gifts to help us. we are only doing what we can do in order to provide paycheck assistance to them. i have been one of those ship captains who is having to deploy. it is not easy leaving your family behind. it is difficult for them having to leave their family behind and not been paid. >> help us understand this admiral, i know we have been talking about the efforts to help the post guard. this month already received more than $400,000 in help for the coast guards and its members. help us understand where those donations are

pacification programs come to a screeching halt. fromee numbers surge washington nixon explodes and reports that the invasion had cut the american command by surprise. moment, bothsible are actually out of the country visiting family when the eastern offensive begins. nixon again goes into a cold rage. abrams is saying the south vietnamese were taken by surprise. we are in charge of the godamn intelligence out there. struggles to gain a clear picture of the battle from south vietnamese commanders, who were reluctant to report bad news to superior officers. aregeneral's performance from the white house. more, nixon considers relieving abrams of command. in short, nixon had reached its limits. haig recalls,r the white house to seize a large message that the south vietnamese has lost their will to fight and total capitulation may occur at any moment. his powerful most remaining weapons, u.s. air power. of may 1972, after an extended meeting, the president orders the mining of -- and the full-scale bombing of north vietnam. it is codenamed operation linebacker. it targets north vietnam's support structure. itself the campaign serves to hit

pacific ocean. the crew and their families are facing pressure. in a tweet, coast guard commandant karl schultz, wrote "our uscg members sail across the world to protect u.s. national interests while theire loved ones copwith financial challees and no pay at home." he also tweeted out this video produced by the coast guard. it included this message from vice admiral linda fagan, a pafic area commander. >> during these uncertain timest lapse of appropriations of the government shutdown, i know it's hard for these crewsg to be leavhind their dependents and spouses. it's a thousand times re so when everybody's wondering when their next paycheck will be and how they can support tily they are leaving behind. there has been an incredible outpouring of support for the families here in the alameda area, but the tension and the anxiety for the crew is real. >> woodruff: without legislative action, or an end to the partias shutdown, coguard members will miss their second paycheck on january 30th and retirees will start missing out on benefits next month. virginia senator tim kaine, a democra

chief of staff in the pacific and southeast asia and his daughter but had never mentioned in his life. it is tragic but frankly that was a consequence of his desperation to command that. >> i ask this question with some trepidation because i know your wife will not watch war films with you. but to the effect most people know anything through the film that i have seen more than once i'm sure many people here have as well so specifically what does it get right or wrong? . >> it is a lot better than other films but i think the performance deserves an oscar because it was brilliant but frankly the director could be using history but the way that chamberlain had teamed up but in fact, churchill behaved with such sensitivity that he allowed him to stay at downing street and a whole bunch of reasons and british and american filmmakers had little respect for history consequential filmmakers have a much better treatment of histor history. but it is a lot better than others there are a number of things you could criticize i don't think he wanted to criticize the british too much and in fact, he was dying of cancer when he wrote that book and i think that's what he hoped i

pacific theatre. henderson field was a small airfield that we had captured, and it was a unit that he was commanding of the marines that was securing the space, with no organic reserves, no capacity to reinforce them organically from the core and in a battle that lasted three days in which the japanese not only bombed this field, not only shelled the field from the sea but also launched literal waves of combat tance against the marines this is the commander who never swayed in his capacity to keep his men's morale high. he made sure, the small things. making sure that they were clean shaven, making sure that any man who wanted to have a service, a catholic protestant service what have you to keep morale high was allowed access to that chaplin, and as such i think the figures i record two-and-a-half thousand japanese killed with maybe two dozen marines injured or killed. this is just the example of how leadership at a tactical level can have a strategic effect and how one airfield in the asia pacific turned around the war for us, in a way that is un imaginable in terms of the over technology way that we

command, we encourage a free and open indopacific region. this summer we teamed with the department of defense as part of the rim of the pacific 2018. the largest maritime exercise on the globe. we sent bone of our flagships. the national security cutter to participate in that. it was a terrific operation with a huge number of partners. in the dozens. kus currently we're in the operational planning phase f. we're going to advance relationships in the western pacific. similarly, where teed it up, the polar regions. the coast guard has been the nation's primary maritime presence. both the arctic and abontarctic hold vast resources. there are significant broader national strategic considerations at play. while we focus on creating peaceful and collaborative high-latitude environments, we're responding to increased competition. in the strategically important regions. both of our near-term competik r competitors, china and russia, are expanding icebreaker fleets as well as bases, access, and influence in the polar regions. the coast guard builds trust. through diplomacy and cooperation l venues like the arctic coast guard forum, arctic c