the president himself surprise the pentagon -- surprised the pentagon. the president at a cabinet meeting announced they would have a $700 billion budget. now they are scrambling to basically redo the budget. finding $33 billion to cut. that will come from things like systemsics or high-end that need to be developed for the future fight. that will be cut or delayed under this budget cut. there are a lot of moving parts to this. when congress comes back, especially in february when the budget drops, this will be something referred to by both sides. democrats met with ticket -- republicansy will say this says it needs more funding to make the strategy work. we need to increase funding. host: does the report from the commission relate the amount of funding and budget cuts to america's military readiness? guest: it does. this goes back to sequestration back in 2012. the way that was implemented was what the pentagon called salami slices. everything took a 5% cut. that meant there was not a strategic thought about how to cut things. readiness was cut where it

flows through the pentagon. that's more than any other government agency. it employs more people than any other part of government. it has more property around the world. it has more than a trillion dollars of real property, real assets in buildings and land around the world. it was not built on the accounting systems within d.o.d. were not built to meet auditing standards, so they've had to go back and try to retrofit with, you know, modern day accounting systems that can provide the traceability you need to pass an audit. >> how did they do this? how many people were needed to conduct an audit and how many or moreries and sites they visit to do this? >> it's hundreds of people. we don't have the full list of where they went to visit and everything. it's standard audit. you don't check every single line item, you spot check, but it cost over $900 million to do the audit and work on the corrective activities during fiscal year 2018. over $900 million and that's going to continue in 2019 and 2020 and going forwar

flows through the pentagon. that is more than any other government agency. it employs more people than any other part of government. it has more property around the world. it has more than $1 trillion of real property, assets, in buildings and land around the world. it was not built on the accounting systems -- the deity accounting systems -- the d.o.d. accounting systems were not built to meet auditing systems. they have had to retrofit with modern-day accounting systems. host: how did they do this? how many people were needed to conduct the audit? how many sites did they visit to do this? guest: hundreds of people. we don't have the full list of where they went to visit. in a standard audit, you don't check every line item. you just spot check. we know it cost over $900 million to do the audit and work with the corrective activities just in fiscal year 2018. over $9 million. that will continue in 2019, 2020, and going forward. of $1l be spending short billion a year trying to get the d.o.d. up to the standards

what could places like the hill or the pentagon do? well, we have a very good system of bringing in like i mentioned, technical experts from universities to help support r & d innovation. we have a great system of using reservists to shore up talent needs in the pentagon. maybe we should be thinking about reservists who have the kind of business expertise that would allow for this kind of industrial base analysis or financial management analysis to reshape pentagon policies going forward. >> by the way, it must be said one of the reasons eric is so effective in this job is that part of his biography i didn't mention is before he was an army officer, he was an investment banker. last question. >> this is a question on the industrial policy and invent incentivizing given the global market base. in the 1800s, we adopted the metric system. yet today we are still using the old system. every mechanic has to own two system tools and we have lost millions of dollars in failures because of conversion between the systems. the federal government,

the reaction from the pentagon been about a pan-european army? >> it predates a lot of the current discussion. germanymething i know had been talking about, going back to 2015. it was a mean in the whole brexit debate. a lot of people on the right in the u.k. said we don't want to participate in a european army. we already have nato. if that becomes a replication of nato or draws focus on it, that remains to be seen. it is still very conceptual. >> what you are seeing here is the tension between what secretary mattis has been tried to do since he took over the pentagon, which is reassure european partners that the u.s. commitment to the alliance is ironclad, and then the questioning he -- the questioning created by the president whether or not the united states needs to be there. >> thank you. i hope you will come back. appreciate it. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] joined c-span sunday,

the headline as you mentioned is that the pentagon failed its inaugural audit but pentagon officialst is beside the point. quote, we failed the audit but we never expected to pass it we never thought we were going to pass an audit. everyone was betting against us that we wouldn't even do the audit. review found inventory discrepancies and the pentagon thought it owned certain buildings and instalinstallations that it no longer found found reabundant it systems in better need of cyber security. the audit cost $413 million. and was conducted by 1200 auditors who visited 900 military sites. they examined $2.7 trillion in assets. the problems will cost an estimated $559 million to fix according to the pentagon. the chairman of the house armed services committee said the audit should not be an excuse for arbitrary defense budget cuts. >> so far there has been no finding of fraud or any of that sort of thing namely the problem is that one set of financial or accounting systems cannot talk to another. the biggest surprise may be that the bengal does not actually owns a many buildings as it

now let's welcome back dr harlan ullman former advisor to the pentagon a vietnam and persian gulf vet now chairman of two private companies and u.p.i. is arnaud de borchgrave distinguished columnist he is the author of anatomy of failure why america loses every war it starts welcome back and thank you for your service oh we'll. veteran state began one hundred years ago as armistice day and remembered today in europe at the end of world war one it was a celebration of peace correct absolutely on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the armistice ended still these world war one and that was celebrated but it didn't bring peace in our times instead it brought confusion it brought disharmony and it brought world war two and the cold war because the first world war was the war to end all wars for and it certainly one it certainly did not in recent years the veterans administration has been controversial twenty fourteen secretary eric shinseki was forced to resign amid scandal over patient wait times and records manipulation by hospital officials more recently da

it was not that and i was in a place to sit from the pentagon. a place to sit from the pentagon.ted this mistrust. —— to see. see. when the mistrust built, it is how to bridge that gap. to bridge that gap. hindsight that you came to that understanding? understanding? i was aware that the mistrust was building. mistrust was building. i have a better perspex did on it. better perspex did on it. actually could have sympathy for both sides. both sides. we're just trying to do ourjob. this was in afghanistan. one of the metrics must be lives. they are always tied together. that you are prior to that longer in iraq. iraq. you in a way that you run it did not. you develop feelings for the afg ha ns. you develop feelings for the afghans. afghans. the afghans are people that really can endear themselves. really can endear themselves. have had a difficult 30 plus years, if you go back to the mid— 70s. if you go back to the mid— 70s. pakistani operations inside the country. country. society back together but it is really ha rd. society back together but it is really hard. really hard. and,

for the first time ever, accountants did an audit of the pentagon and the short version, the pentagong problems could take years to fix and cost millions more dollars. jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon. >> since 1990, the pentagon was to undergo an audit. last december, jim mattis ordered the first ever audit. the headline is that the pentagon failed this first ever audit. patrick shanahan said that is beside the point. we failed the audit but never expected to pass it. everybody betting against us that we wouldn't even do the audit. it found inventory discrepancy that the pentagon thought they owned buildings that they no longer owned and noted that they needed better cyber security. the audit cost $14 million and used by 12 auditors. they examined 2.2 billion in assets. the chairman of the house armed services committee, congressman mack thornbury should not be an excuse for cuts. >> so far, there's no finding of fraud or any of that sort of thing. mainly the problem is that one set of financial or accounting systems cannot talk to another. i think the biggest surpri

the pentagon is refusing a trump administration request for u.s.ake on law enforcement duties at the border with mexico. cnn learned the pentagon rejected the request on october 26th, even as it signed off on providing air, engineering and medical support. president trump requested as many as 15,000 active duty troops as a caravan of migrants is working its way to the u.s., mexico border. joining us is sarah westwood. using troops for domestic law enforcement is itself unlawful. is that why the pentagon refused this? >> reporter: that's right, fred. cnn has learned that the pentagon rejected part of that initial request from department of homeland security for troops to perform what defense officials saw as law enforcement activities, because as you mentioned, active duty troops are barred by law from enforcing domestic laws unless under specific emergency situation. that part of the dhs request for troops had to do with crowd and traffic control, according to the dhs. pentagon officials felt that would have required troops to enforce domestic laws

the pentagon said it was planning to send only half that number. the numbers have changed at a dizzying speed since a week ago, officials indicated they were planning first to send 1,000 troops. then on monday, the general in charge of u.s. nornl command, who is overseeing the deployment, stunned the press conference by confirming the number had ris yearn to more than 5,200, indicating the numbers could rise. >> by the end of this week, we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest borders. that is just the start of this operation. >> one day later, general o'shaughnessey met with pentagon reporters and shot down news himself suggesting 14,000 troops were being sent to the border. quote, i honestly don't know where that came from. that is not in line with what we have been planning. defense secretary mattis pushed back yesterday on critics who called the deployment of thousands of active duty troops a political stunt. >> the support that we provide to the secretary for homeland security is practical support, based on the requests from the com

the pentagon fails its first audit with hundreds of millions of dollars now needed to fix the problem was revealed. after the. riots and people are now venting their anger. resignation. she should have come here a long time ago she was hesitant and then he showed up with massive police protection. she should have gone back. down long ago public outrage in ireland after a man is cleared because of the underwear the victim was wearing. it is just after nine o'clock on saturday morning here in moscow you're watching r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. the pentagon has failed its first ever full budget audit looking into spending on personnel and their top brass though doesn't sound surprised we never thought we would go to. everyone was against us that we wouldn't even do the audit for the pentagon audit kicked off last december uncovered a two point seven trillion dollars in assets the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred thirteen million dollars now over a thousand order from outside visited over sixty locations and examined hundreds of thousands of items however f

joining us from the pentagon. marking his one-year anniversary soon in that role. he brings to it a wealth of experience, including service as a combat veteran himself. service as a senior aide on capital hill working on national security policy. a previous stint at the pentagon. and also working for defense contractor raytheon. mr. secretary, thanks very much for being our guest this week. sec. esper: thank you, susan. thank you for inviting me. susan: let me introduce the two reporters who cover defense issues who will be asking questions. missy ryan works for the washington post as a national security reporter. and pat tucker is at defense one as a national security reporter for that publication. missy ryan, you are up first in just a minute. but we wanted to start with the anniversary that we are celebrating this weekend of the armistice, 100 years after the end of wwi. and also veterans day, which makes it a very special veterans day holiday. wwi was a time when warfare changed drastically. we are also in another period where warfare is changing drastically. h

pentagon fails its first ever audit looking into spending on arms and military personnel. and demonstrations broke out across the island as a man is cleared of rape after a court is told that the current accuser was wearing a provocative underwear. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us. one protester has been killed and more than two hundred injured during clashes in france over rising fuel prices according to a police a truck driver panicked and accelerated after being surrounded by protesters in the east of the country and ran over a sixty three year old woman and twenty three percent surge and diesel prices over the last year has triggered mass public anger. these are pictures from paris where protesters blocked the roads causing major traffic jams several separate demonstrations are being held in the french capital some one hundred seventeen people arrested. ports now from paris we've come here to the show they already have a look up here pushing much all the way from his

the pentagon fails its first ever hundreds of millions of dollars now needed to fix the problems revealed. and demonstrations across. cleared of rape after the court told the accuser was working for vocative underway. good evening and welcome this is outing international. police of protesters who blocked roads over petrol price hikes forty seven people were confirmed injured in clashes with offices in mass protests that occurred across the country one demonstrator was killed after being hit by a car more than one hundred thousand people hit the streets across france to show their anger at fuel prices i. will demonstrate being held around paris. you know of course when a child a dubious case has been gauging the mood. we've come here to the seans elisei only to have a look up here pushing much all the way from here to almost plus to go on the road has been blocked by many people wearing those yellow vests she crowds coming together to block off this major artery of paris and it looked at one point like a sea of yellow vests walking down the streets we take a look towards the uk to trilby c

and decades of overspending it's reviewed the pentagon then splashdown millions of dollars on its first ever audit which failed. is in stake artie's wind challenge we asked them to blind taste american and french reds after donald trump claimed that u.s. brands are just as good for. our. pretty only be much better to. give you thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. the new york times has released the film claiming the soviet union launched a decision for mission campaign to the western part i guess the of takes a closer look at this suppose it russian obsession with fake news the seven commandments fake news that come on let's click big headlines were not this would be a masterpiece. in the american. in twenty six. the same techniques same. even. the same traits. great production value music showing in their opinion how russian this information evolved from the cold war can you every agents was evaluate its on how many. do soon promotion of variations of the. quick disclaimer this is an opinion piece so you can bug the new york times about factual inaccuracy as which seem to

also become the pentagon first of all of it but hundreds of millions of dollars nine needed to fix the problems for you and demonstrations across the island so it was a man is. the court is told that the accuser was wearing provocative underwear. hello welcome good evening you're watching international start this hour with breaking news to you because some news coming out of russia's sudden republic of chechnya a female suicide bomber has blown herself up near a checkpoint in the capital grozny that's according to the interior ministry they do also say there are no reports at this stage of anyone else being killed or injured officials also say that the woman had been under surveillance for extremism that's what we know so far and more in fact i will bring it straight to you. i massive mass nationwide protests over fuel prices are under way in france with over one hundred thousand demonstrators crowding streets at least forty seven people have been injured in clashes with police while one protester was killed after being hit by a car charlotte devinsky. in paris well we're here in the b

stories here the pentagon fails its first order but hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the problem is revealed. months after the fatal stopping of migrants prompted riots people. demanding the resignation she should have come here a long time ago she was. not with massive police protection this is. she should have gotten her back side stepped down long ago. after a man is cleared of rape because of the underwear. just after midday here in moscow on this saturday welcome to watching international we have the latest on. the pentagon has failed its first full budget audit looking into spending on the personnel and the organization's top brass though doesn't seem surprised. we never thought we were going to post an audit everyone was betting against us that we wouldn't even do the audit of the pentagon audit kicked off last december uncovered a two point seven trillion dollars in assets and the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred thirteen million dollars now over a thousand orders from outside firms examine hundreds of thousands of items however only five out of twenty one d

the pentagon has failed its first ever full budget audit looking into spending on. the organization's top brass though doesn't sound surprised. we never thought we were going to post an audit everyone was betting against us that we wouldn't even do the old it on the pentagon audit kicked off last december and covered two point seven trillion dollars in assets and the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred thirteen million dollars over one thousand orders from outside firms visited over sixty locations and examined hundreds of thousands of items. however only five out of twenty one departments managed to pass the army navy air force and marines all failed and now over five hundred million dollars are needed to rectify the problem is revealed by the audit a correspondent picks up the story. we never thought we were going to post an audit seventy one was bet against us that we wouldn't even do the audit the air force the marine corps the defense logistics agency the u.s. special operations command and the u.s. transportation command a number of sections agencie

might draw in his buddies just like those before him ascending things from bad some because the pentagon files his first ever order with hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the problems. and demonstrations to across the island as a man is cleared of right after the course is told this week you said it was blaring provocative on the way. there she's gone seven pm here in moscow he watching international now at least forty seven people have been and you think clashes with police during mass protests over fuel prices in france one demonstrator was also killed off to be hit by more than one hundred thousand people have taken to the streets across the country to show that right. back i. was. these been gauging the mood one of the demonstrations in paris but we're here in the best parts of paris where a small demonstration is taking place have a look you'll see some of the people behind me some of them are wearing these yellow vests now the point in that is because this protest is being described as. all the yellow vests this is a movement of people who want to come out together to show how

start today stories here on the pentagon fails its first order with hundreds of millions of dollars needed to fix the problems for a few. months after the fatal stopping of. riots that people are now venting their anger demanding the chance of those resignation she should have come here a long time ago she was hesitant and then he showed up with massive police protection this is a show of cowardice remarks she should have gotten the backside sooner and stepped down long ago. public outrage in ireland after a man is cleared of rape because of the. victim was wearing. and one pm now on saturday here in moscow you just in time for our latest program here top stories for this day. so the pentagon has failed its first full budget audit looking into spending on personnel the organizations top brass though doesn't seem surprised we never thought we were going to post an audit everyone was basically against us that we wouldn't even do the audit the pentagon audit kicked off last december uncovered two point seven trillion dollars in assets and the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred thi

the pentagon files its first ever orders with hundreds of millions of dollars nine needed to fix the problems for you also to come this hour angela merkel visits the city of chemnitz months after the fatal stabbing of a local boy migrants prompted mass riots people and i venting their anger at the man doing the chances resignation. she should have come here a long time ago she was hesitant and then he showed up with massive police protection this is a show of cowardice from our chancellor she should have got my backside sooner and stepped down long ago. public outrage in ireland so you offer a man is cleared of right because of the underwear the victim was wearing. or the welcome you're watching r t international where it's just gone two pm here in moscow now the pentagon has failed its first ever full audit that looked into spending on personnel but while discrepancies have been discovered that exact figure has been given on how much money was unaccounted for the organizations top brass though don't sign surprised. we never thought we were going to pass an audit everyone was betting

the camel's back michael and his buddies just like those before sending things from bad so was the pentagon fails its first ever audit looking into spending on arms and military personnel. and demonstrations break out across ireland as a man is cleared of rape after the court is told that the new cues are whistling provocative underwear. a broadcaster a lot of direct forest it is moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right one protester has been killed and more than two hundred injured during clashes in france over rising fuel prices now according to police a truck driver panicked and accelerated after being surrounded by protesters in the east of the country and ran over a sixty three year old woman and a twenty three percent surge in diesel prices of the last year has triggered mass public. these are pictures from paris where protesters block the roads causing major traffic jams several separate demonstrations are being held in the french capital some eighty people have been taken into custody or he's dubinsky has more from paris we'v

the president himself surprise the pentagon -- surprised the pentagon. the president at a cabinet meeting announced they would have a $700 billion budget. now they are scrambling to basically redo the budget. finding $33 billion to cut. that will come from things like systemsics or high-end that need to be developed for the future fight. that will be cut or delayed under this budget cut. there are a lot of moving parts to this. when congress comes back, especially in february when the budget drops, this will be something referred to by both sides. democrats met with ticket -- republicansy will say this says it needs more funding to make the strategy work. we need to increase funding. host: does the report from the commission relate the amount of funding and budget cuts to america's military readiness? guest: it does. this goes back to sequestration back in 2012. the way that was implemented was what the pentagon called salami slices. everything took a 5% cut. that meant there was not a strategic thought about how to cut things. readiness was cut where it

yellow line between huntington and braddock road and pentagon city and mt. vernon.en jackieson spoke with frustratedas folks l night. >> it got very bad very fast. the friday evening closure of the reagan national airport and metro station was like putting a co in a bottle of fizzy water and shaking it hard. traffic back ups spilled out in every direction. the dark, rainy rush hour did not help. drivers beg threading their way through residential streets in arlington. tempers grew short. there wereal sev minor collisions. >> we have been here over an hour. >> long lines started growing for the shuttle buses that would take peoplerom the pentagon city metro station to the airport and station south but the buses were caught up in the same traffic as everyone else. the lines began stretching around the station. by 6:00 p.m. much of arlington south of the e pentagon,t of army navy drive and north was in gridlock. many like elizabe mcdowell gave up waiting and she began pushing her son's s oller to the airport on foot. i tried a to get uber. it was like $70. i ha

the pentagon fails it's first boarded with hundreds of millions of dollars now needed to fix the problems. and demonstrations across the island as a man is cleared of rape after the court is told the accuser was wearing provocative underwear. thanks for joining us you're watching our internet. protesters being killed in more than two hundred others injured during clashes in front of a rising fuel prices according to police a truck driver panicked and accelerated after being surrounded by protesters in the east of the country and ran over a sixty three year old woman is how the rallies unfolded. i. mean these are pictures from paris where protesters blocked the roads schools and major traffic jams several separate demonstrations some being held in the french capital on the issue so many people have been taken into custody and your correspondent has been gauging the mood. we've come here to the seans elisei only to have a look up here pushing much all the way from here to almost plus to go on the road has been blocked by many people wearing those yellow vests to crowds coming together to bl

a members desk at the pentagon. we provide our members with significant discounts to our conferences, including this one. it's not all about what we get out of it. it's also about what we give back by advocating on behalf of press freedom and open government. let me give you a quick overview of today. we're going to hear from a couple speakers this morning and they'll each -- after they speak briefly, we are going to dedicate as much time, if we can most of the time, to your questions. and our first speaker may need to leave a few minutes early since he has some pretty important responsibilities today. we'll see. i wanted to give you a heads up about that. so after lunch, we will have another speaker, we'll have a coffee break, we'll have our journalism awards and we'll have our traditional panel on military media relationships with the services public affairs chiefs. everything today is on the record, as it always is on our conferences. you're invited to join us for cocktails afterwards right here. our -- we have a

i have not heard anything from the pentagon in terms of a response. reporter: i think what you are seeing is the tension between what secretary mattis has been trying to do since he took over the pentagon, which is reassure european partners that the u.s. commitment to the alliance is ironclad, and then the questioning inevitably that is created by the president's public questioning of whether or not the united states needs to be in nato. host: thank you both for appearing on newsmakers for the first time. i hope you will come back. appreciate it. reporter: thanks. >> i had thought about the forgotten presidents even before i began the book, and it occurred to me there might be something these presidents off so had in common, not just that they were forgotten. announcer: university of north carolina constitutional law professor michael gerhardt talks about two of his books, the forgotten presidents and impeachment. >> i think bill clinton did a lot to merit his own impeachment. he knew members in congress were looking for him to make mistakes, and the

the sources talked to today sort of paint the pentagon into sort of three different groups.roup is a dissenting opinion from what these documents show, it's basically they are hard liners. they believe in a crackdown on illegal immigration. and, you know, they're going to sort of -- they support what's actually going on. that is not from what i'm hearing is not the majority view there is a second group that they are career military. they're going to follow the orders of the president, just regardless of political ideology. they're going to follow the orders, but they really come at this problem in terms of the money situation, like, you know, how much is this going to cost. and then the third group is really how is this going to overall affect military readiness, that it's a waste of money, that even the troop level response coming down from the national command authority is -- just doesn't equate with the most likely course of action. like you said, they're assessing that the migrants are going to dwindle down to the smallest group, that historically 20% make to it the bord

[applause] >> he's pentagon producer with abc news. on behalf of military reporters and editors, we'd like to present our first journalism service award to you for outstanding and dedicated service to your fellow members of the pentagon press corps. you have always gone above and beyond to help your fellow journalists, to include setting up the extra press room and countless other acts of selflessness. please join me in giving louie a round of applause. [applause] >> you look surprised. [laughter] >> thanks, louie. right now we can take a little bit of a break. again, the coast guard commandant is scheduled to come in around 10:30, a little bit more than a little break, but maybe he will show up early. we still have some breakfast goodies over here and coffee. [inaudible conversation] >> book tv will be in prime time on c-span 2 this week for three nights followed by a four-day thanksgiving holiday weekend. we begin with books on the financial world and the economy with capitalism in america by alan greenspan. it's book tv in prime-tim

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the pentagon is not going to get reimbursed for this. we're talking tens of millions of dollars easily, if not close to $100 million, depending on how long they're down there. >> and according to an unclassified military planning report, published by "newsweek," the walking caravan won't take it to the border for at least another month, perhaps, and is downsizing already as it goes. do you think this deployment's even necessary? >> it's hard to see how it is. and this is why i would like to see more transparency out of the department of homeland security about exactly why they need all these troops and for these particular missions, and that's what we're not getting. the pentagon, i think, has been pretty forthcoming about what they're sending, what units. >> and why. >> they even listed the bases and why. they haven't been transparent about the money but i understand that. they don't know that yet. dhs has a responsibility to explain to us why this isn't a political stunt, why this isn't a campaign tactic, and why exactly they need this

the pentagon audit kicked off last december it covered two point seven trillion dollars worth of assets the entire process of examination that cost four hundred thirteen million dollars over a thousand orders were brought in from outside firms and examined hundreds of thousands of items however only five of twenty one departments managed to pass the army navy air force and marines all failed now more than half a billion dollars is needed to rectify problems revealed by these checks to explain or is killing more. a number of sections agency's divisions were given what they call disclaimers saying that they had multiple issues that needed to be fixed some of the things that stand out for example we've got fifty three million dollars worth of an installed missile motors that were listed as not working well the auditors discovered that actually these missile motors were functional the pentagon is notorious for wasteful spending of taxpayer money. apparently unconcerned the deputy of defense the defense department came forward and said that they were not surprised that this was simply not a

that comes with hard decisions and resource decisions in the pentagon. we not heard a lot about that. my guess would be given the overall trend of how were moving in the military forces and globally is that were not as prepared today to execute on multi- options as we would've been three or four years ago but could argue we have the jcpoa so there's less of a need but if we are in a post jcpoa world and i agree with robin and ken and their assessment of the iranians if we assume you're not to be engaged in the diplomatic negotiation with the iranians anytime soon, if ever, under this ministration the question of plan has to be back on the table. >> don't get me wrong, i ran is suffering. value of the currency as a third of what was a year ago so it was sanctions at the end of the day they got the iranians to the table in 2013. that is clearly one way of squeezing them. it's the timetable and everything to gain something. rouhani campaign on something in the beginning and obama was interested in changing in the aftermath of the arab spring and chaos sprea

i also think the pentagon is very aware that the president of yemen is ill. he spent much of the last two months at the cleveland clinic. he has serious heart problems. and even though he has been in exile since, i think, 2015? anyway, for a number of years in riyadh, that -- i think he's gone back, you know, made these brief trips, but the government doesn't control etc. own capital. the problem is if he dies, the vice president is from the isla party. the saudi man, the vice president isn't, and so what you can do is see a complicated scenario where there's military chaos already, and then the rivalry over just which government is saudi arabia actually trying to put back in control, and that's -- you see a political process that unravels and makes diplomacy even harder. is so i think that's something that there's an awareness, a confluence of factors. and then you throw in jamal's death, and that has given more focus. but again, i'm not convinced that it's going to lead any place. it need -- the u.s. is talking about the u.n. taking the lead on this, and we

you went and gave a press conference at the pentagon.t out -- [ cheers and applause ] yeah. like, you're -- so this -- i want to make sure everybody knows. you're an actor talking about a movie. but these are real reporters. right? >> yes. yes. >> seth: how was it? >> unfortunately they put in real reporters, not fake ones. [ light laughter ] yeah, so the navy were incredible in supporting us with this movie and then i was invited to the pentagon. i thought, "great, i'm going to go along, get a trip around the pentagon and they're going to show me around." and they said, if you can just do a press conference at the end. they gave me information about the navy. so i'm thinking -- i'm more defending them, saying, "don't worry, you didn't spend any money, necessarily deviate from their missions." and as we get there, i look out, and i go, "i recognize this room." then i walk out and i look behind me and i'm -- that's the pentagon sign. i'm actually doing a -- and i see barbara starr of cnn and the first question is saudi arabia. >> seth: oh

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on saturday here in moscow when a very warm welcome to you top stories from the international the pentagon has failed its first full budget audit looking into spending on personnel the organization is top brass though doesn't seem surprised. we never thought we were going to post a nude it was basically against us that we wouldn't even do the old it now the pentagon ordered kicked off a last december and cup at two point seven trillion dollars in assets the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred and thirteen million dollars well over a thousand autos from outside visited over sixty locations and examined hundreds of thousands of items out of a five out of twenty one departments manage to pass the army navy air force and marines all failed and now over five hundred million dollars of needed to rectify the problems revealed by the or didn't auntie's can have mach one investigates. a number of sections agency's divisions were given what they call disclaimers saying that they had multiple issues that needed to be fixed some of the things that stand out for example we've got fifty three

and a pentagon leadership unable to convince him of its perils.w york times" again, pentagon officials privately derided the deployment as an expensive waste of time and resources and a morale killer to boot. "the new york times" pentagon correspondent helene cooper, one of the articles of the article, joins us now. thank you very much. your article was very graphic. tell us for those who didn't read it this sunday about the situation about average g.i., if you will, sitting down there in the dust of the border, probably going to miss thanksgiving at home, probably, whatever. what is their mission to them? what do they think they're doing? >> right now they're going through the motions of setting up for war, but it's a very weird sort of dance that you see. it's very similar to -- i've been on deployments in iraq and afghanistan. and when american troops first arrive, the first thing they do is they set up base, and they set up their tents and they, you know, they're just like in iraq and afghanistan at the beginning of the wars, there is very lit

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reports now from paris now the pentagon has failed its first ever full audit looked into spending on personnel but while discrepancies have been discovered no exact figure has been given on how much money was unaccounted for the organizations top brass meanwhile is not. we never thought we would go to post an audit everyone was betting against us that we wouldn't even do the old it well the pentagon would it kicked off last december and cover two point seven trillion dollars in assets the cost of the whole process totaled four hundred thirteen million dollars more than a thousand dollar tis from outside examined hundreds of thousands of items however only five to twenty one department did manage to pass the army navy air force and also marines all failed and now more than half a billion dollars in needed apparently to rectify the problems for a field by the checks as more. a number of sections agency's divisions were given what they call disclaimers saying that they had multiple issues that needed to be fixed some of the things that stand out for example we've got fifty three million