but the pentagon thinks it can be done. host: how advanced and the technology side are we at stopping missiles and how has that progress over the last decades? guest: we are pretty advanced. alwaystagon would like to have greater capabilities and the pentagon recognizes that our peers are not standing still and they are advancing their own capabilities. a hypersonic missile poses a serious challenge. to get at that, the missile defense review wants to put a sensor in space so you can have birth to death tracking. with a hypersonic, it is not like a ballistic missile where you can calculate its course and figure out where it is coming down for you have to track it added is in moving -- you have to track it as it is moving. host: before we get to the calls, a price tag for all of these? guest: is going to be very expensive. the 20 ground-based interceptors i mentioned before that congress already put a down payment on at a bulk of $5 billion emergency funding for the pentagon a little more than a year ago. we have not seen a

it is a great cost to the pentagon. these troops are not doing the training they need to be prepared to meet the national security threats that are paramount. what are they doing at the border? why is it necessary to have active duty troops at the border? i don't think that has been explained. we want to understand. there are larger concerns about the demilitarization of the border. the u.s. military is constitutionally prohibited from enforcing law in the u.s. if they crossed over the line, the white house has been in the -- ambiguous, the pentagon has not. secretary mattis was clear they will not do that. we want to make sure the lines do not get blurred and the military is not being used as domestic law enforcement. >> you mentioned cost. do you have a sense for how much has been spent so far to deploy duty troops there? there are thousands right now. adam smith: we don't. i heard a figure like $700 million. that is something we would like to have some transparency on. >> the president is considering using emergency

then we look at the pentagon. we had had a report from the missile defense agency about the money they want. the air force said they need 25% more planes. the army wants to get air strength up. we want 255 ships. we do not have enough money to do that. we have to make choices. two, our nuclear weapons, we need to upgrade them. they are aging. they need to be upgraded. do we need as many as we have had? i believe there are many fallacies in place in terms of what drove us to build as many nuclear weapons as we did. if we focus on a deterrent strategy, i'm having enough nuclear weapons to make sure no adversary can threaten us with nuclear weapons, that we have enough to deter them, that is what china does. they have 250 nuclear weapons. we have 4000 or 5000. i do not think we need that many. as you noted, the cost is only going to get higher. we are going to have to make choices. making that type of investment nuclear weapons as opposed to other areas of national security -- we are not spending enough money on arti

a community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with.silicona community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with.silicon community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with.silicon community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with.ssilicon valley to tap into a community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with.ilicon valley to tap into a community the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with. should we think about that with places like wall street, the banking community? to get a better understanding of their drivers and to attract that talent to work with the pentagon on these challenging issues. in particular, for example, can we get data analytics experts, like carolyn was talking about, to come and help us think not just about tactical data on the battlefield, but as it reflects to manufacturing problems, as reflects to procurement policies? the last thing i will mention before i get off the stage is money. we think about money on capitol hill, of course. from a policy perspective, the hill is very comfortable in thinking about spending money on fundamental science

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al jazeera the pentagon well moxon makovsky is a former u.s. department of defense official and now a senior fellow at the atlantic council he joins us via skype from some pieces back in florida i'm wondering this is essentially the militarization of space could this be the start of a new arms race. you know obviously president trump has increased the u.s. department of defense budget and this is a part of his interest in creating a legacy for himself as being strong on defense yes of course there's going to be concerns about a militarization of space but the u.s. has operated in space for many years and u.s. is obviously needed to compete with powers like russia and china which have their own space programs so in many ways this in terms of a focus is overdue but i think one of the things that's questionable is the wisdom of president trumps desire for a separate space force a separate military department which is still not a foreign inclusion which he does not have support from the congress and he also has significant detracto

back in june of two thousand and eighteen the president ordered the pentagon to start implementing and researching a separate space force and it's widely known that secretary mattis former secretary madison opposed to separate department he slow rolled the department of defense's study of this issue the air force also has been opposed to seeing a space force moved outside of its own control their preferences for a space. command or unified command stays in the air force so i would say absolutely there are severe detractors within the us administration and within the congress including some republicans who do not want to see president trump's space force come to fruition president trump by beating the drum about the need to militarize space could actually create the results that we want to avoid which is a domain in space that sees great powers shift potential conflict to space so again this very aggressive posture and aggressive increase in military spending on this potential independent department that would be caught akin to the air force the navy and the marine corps could act could

appreciate it. >> the pentagon chief of staff didn't resign. he was pushed.ant to ask your response and if you're concerned about senior staffing at the pentagon in the wake of secretary mattis' resignation. >> i am. because i'm really concerned about secretary mattis departing. we've read the story. he was the adult in the room, right? he could check some of the worst i impulses, obviously not all of them. he had so much credibility with the military and national security and as a person his word carried a lot of weight and he has a lot of allies and friends in the pentagon and when the president, when secretary mattis resigned, he could no longer work for president trump because he didn't agree with the decisions but the more important part, he didn't agree with the way the president made them in such a chaotic off the top of his headway that was not well thought out and didn't have a plan behind him. so the less stable people there are at the pentagon, the more nervous we should be. secretary mattis leaving is a huge blow, but we need to keep as many peopl

so the last table people that are at the pentagon, the more nervous we should all be.tary mattis leaving is a huge blow. but we need to keep as many people there as possible to understand the way things are supposed to work. >> with the government shutdown now becoming the second longest ever and no real end in sight, the president has announced this primetime address to the nation as first from the oval office tomorrow night. how serious do you take the discussion that we're hearing considering a declaration of an emergency so he can take funds from the pentagon and essentially use those funds to build his wall or do whatever else he wants to do. >> i take it very seriously, precisely because this president is so unpredibctable and he changes his mind based on who talked to him last or what story is done on fox news. the fact that he might want to do this is a distinct possibility and would be a waste of money. the building a wall is not even going to help with border security and we don't have a border security crisis. so, we're talking about 5 billion, 6 billion in

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al-jazeera the pentagon mark some of the makovsky that is a former u.s. department of defense official and a senior fellow at the atlantic council says there are deep divisions within the pentagon over transplants. back in june of two thousand and eighteen the president ordered the pentagon to start implementing and researching a separate space force and it's widely known that secretary mattis former secretary madison opposed to separate department he slow rolled the department of defense's study of this issue the air force also has been opposed to seeing a space force moved outside of its own control their preferences for a space. command or unified command stays in the air force so i would say absolutely there are severe detractors within the us administration and within the congress including some republicans who do not want to see president trump's space force come to fruition president trump by being the drum about the need to militarize space could actually create the results that we want to avoid which is the main in

following president trump's march at the pentagon become a briefing in the pentagon briefing room with out, sandra. >> sandra: luca at the pentagon thank you. >> bill: for southern borders, 2,000 migrants out of honduras pushing through guatemala through mexico and eventually to the u.s. border. the latest track coming in, a growing battle over immigration report -- reform and ongoing throughout the country and former acting tom homan reacted to that. >> i've said many times i can't blame anybody if they want to be part of the greatest country in america, but you can't be a part of the greatest country and not respect the laws. you can have it both ways. >> bill: here and ready to go, jessica, a fox 12 contributor. an editor of "the wall street journal" editorial page, lawrence jones editor and chief of campus reform. how are you doing? >> my command was really encouraging. we have to get this thing done. what do you think? >> i don't see it happening because nancy pelosi is not at the negotiating table. they are on vacation at the president invited people into the white house to have

it's a great cost to the pentagon. thash not doing training to meet their paramount job. why is it necessary to have active duty troops at the border? we want to understand that. there are concerns with the u.s. military is crossing over the line. the white house has opinion ambiguous about it. and. >> do you have a sense of how much has been sent so far? there are thousands there now as i understand. >> we doubt and that is something we'd like transparency on on what it is costing us. >> president is considering using emergency authority to tap pentagon military construction funds and other moneys and move it to build his border barrier. do you think in longer term there might be bipartisan support for limiting presidential authority like this without the consent of congress? into based on a 1976 law so it's a law empowering the president to deliver money from a lot of different areas. in my world it's military construction budget and so taking you know billions of dollars out of the construction budget would be a problem. there is opposition to it and this is not dod mo

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al-jazeera the pentagon. colombia's president evander case says those responsible for a car bomb attack on a police academy will not go unpunished at least ten people were killed in the biggest attack on a police or military facility in the capital bogota in more than a decade the vehicle packed with explosives was driven into the academy grounds then blew up shattering the windows of apartments in the area around the building no one has claimed responsibility for what the government has called a terrorist attack. only. colombia united against terrorism i convey to the families of the victims and to the national police might of it geraghty embeddable colombians. this is an attack on an academic center where young people and unarmed students were this is an attack not only against the young the security forces or the police it's an attack against society this demented terrorist act will not go unpunished. well the chief prosecutor has identified the driver who is killed in the attack you will see we have video

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al-jazeera the pentagon. but also in the president's pentagon speech he describes pyongyang as an ongoing extraordinary threat as he revealed a revamped missile defense strategy this is north korea's top envoy arrived in the u.s. to discuss a possible second summit between donald trump and kim jong un kim yong left to beijing on thursday has been leading talks with washington and is expected to meet sect of state might have on friday. so i had him on al-jazeera questions and gone a bit over the murder of one of its top investigative journalists. and shack dwellers a south africa challenge the old farts used to provide them with permanent homes. it's all quite cold for many of us in the northwest and parts of europe now you can see the coldest screaming down from the north and it's dragging in some speckled clouds with it those speckled clouds are actually bringing us quite a few flurries of snow here's the leading edge of that cold air and you can see it sinking its way southward so it's opening the door for

has been working out it's a long delayed report it was doing a year ago it's what the pentagon would like to work out it doesn't mean they're going to be authorized to do anything like it all right particle cussing through to the heart of what the president has been talking about thanks to u.s. special envoy on the afghan reconciliation has arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban zalmay khalilzad days missing pakistani lead us trying to bring the taliban back to the table last week top on leaders council to meeting with him accusing the u.s. of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the doddle. the pata city of health ministry in gaza is warning that at least three hospitals may be forced to close because of power shortages there isn't enough fuel it's a power generators the backup on reliable electricity supplies will stop the reports from gaza on what is course the latest shortfall. a money d.b. is one of the around three hundred women a month to give birth in this women'

the exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. the collective effort by all those groups involved became a fabrication that became the policy of the united states and it was used to justify a war. further information was provided by friendly nations. in rome a dossier from the italian military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. it eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by may share. the german secret service offers its support as well. it's provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile aboard its roots. or ship date as. the war to liberate iraq went for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the country into a war. in august and september the drum beats of war in iraq started get louder and louder and there were some indications that the president would soon be calling on congress for an aut

any moment he will speak at the pentagon. this comes as the commander in chief is facing incoming fire on multiple fronts. his one-time lawyer and fixer confirmed today that in fact he paid to have online polls rigged in favor of then candidate trump and he says he did it at the behest of and for the benefit of president trump. and as we await the special counsel's report, his current attorney, rudy giuliani, drops this bombshell about the trump campaign and russian collusion. watch this. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> i have no idea -- i have not. i said the president of the united states. there is not a single bit of evidence the president of the united states committed the only crime you could commit here, conspired with the russians to hack the dnc. >> let's be very clear about that. that is a complete about-face from what the president's attorney has said over and over again. >> regardless of whether or not collusion would be a crime, is

white house officials say the pentagon and state department were not caught off guard. nfc spokesperson added the nfc coordinates policy and provides the president with options to anticipate and respond to a variety of threats, we continue to review the status of our personnel following attempted attacks on our embassy in baghdad and basra consulate and will consider the full range of options to preserve their safety and our interests. shepard? >> shepard: thank you. secretary of state mike pompeo says the trump administration expects saudi officials to hold accountable every single person involved in the murder of the washington columnist jamal khaishoggi. he made that comment after me meeting the saudi crown prince. the crown prince bin salman is accused of ordering the killing. when a reporter asked secretary pompeo about it, when asked about whoever is responsible, he wouldn't comment. lawmakers have urged the administration to punish saudi arabia for khaishoggi's brutal death and demanded the united states pull back support for the war in yemen. >> mike pompeo wrap

mily: talk to us about the status of the jedi pentagon cloud contract.here was some concern certainly tech companies that amazon was a shoo-in and other ompanies were not happy about that. in fact, the c.e.o. of oracle actually brought it up to president trump. >> yes, oracle and other tech companies have been fiercely to the way the pentagon has been handling this contract. they say the pentagon made the when they decided to award the contract to only one provider. in the industry suspect that amazon is still the rontrunner for the contract, but actually microsoft is seen as a solid second choice and has to have an upset here. they have extensive existing elationships with the defense department. this deal will help them but also recently earlier this year, another deal with the .c. to extend its cloud technology there and so, you know, we'll have to see where lands on this. i think at the moment, amazon is still looking like a frontrunner. what is the timeline, when is the d.o.d. going to decide? d.o.d. has decided has, announced previously that t was

as they're being a lot so how much would all of that cost well there was a briefing here at the pentagon with senior officials the question was asked over and over again and they refused to answer. bottom line it's easy for the president to make big promises but the pentagon as a backdrop getting money to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al jazeera the pentagon colombia's president even decay a says those responsible for a car bomb attack on a police academy will not go unpunished at least ten people were killed in the biggest attack on a police and military facility in the capital and more than a decade the vehicle packed with explosives that was driven into the academy grounds and then blew up shattering the windows of apartments in the area around the building no one has claimed responsibility for what the government has called a terrorist attack. only. colombia united against terrorism i convey to the families of victims and to the national police my soul the territory and that of all colombians. this is an attack on an academic center where young people and u

well because congress has said to the pentagon you have to come back from time to time and review our defense of missile posture this happened under barack obama president barack obama in two thousand and ten before that as you mentioned ronald reagan and this trip. actually bit long delayed much speculation in washington that they were sort of keeping it out of the mainstream media because they were hoping for some breakthroughs with north korea they didn't mention north korea directly about this but this is the president also trying to look presidential let's keep in mind where we are right now the government is partially shut down polls show he is losing popularity the wall is unpopular the shutdown is unpopular and he's being blamed for it this gives him a chance to come to the pentagon and project an image of straight it'll be covered like that in much of the conservative media so it's not just about the message he's sending internationally it's also about what he wants the people domestically to be talking about right now that elaine with the latest there from the pentagon patty

the pentagon could go ahead and start enforcing this ban.eme court today refused to hear the case of a washington state high school football coach who was fired after he refused to stop leading students in prayer after games on the football field. he came here to the supreme court and said this violated his freedom of religion. the supreme court said it's not taking that case. the supreme court agreed to hear a challenge to a new york city law that said you can't take your handgun outside city limits. the people who challenge this law said they want to be able to take their guns to shoot ranges outside the city and one homeowner said i have another house outside the city. the city said if you can afford another house, you can afford another gun. this is the first gun rights case the supreme court has taken in a decade. >> to the transgender military ban decision or announcement, was this a surprising one or not so much? >> a little bit surprising for this reason. the justice department under the trump administration has repeatedly come up to

worldwide but some experts were quick to point out what the president promised is not actually in the pentagon plan the review itself says the united states is very interested in seeking a three way or in space so satellites that could observe missile launches and detect them sooner but there isn't any mention of putting weapons in space yet pentagon said that it would do another study over the next six months or the usability of that idea this sounds like science fiction and it would be exceedingly expensive they want to come up with a laser with the technology doesn't exist yet that they could put on drones to potentially shoot down missiles as they're being lost so how much would all of that cost well there was a briefing here at the pentagon with senior officials the question was asked over and over again and they refused to answer. bottom line it's easy for the president to make big promises but the pentagon is a backdrop getting money to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al-jazeera the pentagon and also in the president's pentagon speech described pyongyang as an o

the pentagon allegations of. abusing. no independent credible information the claims were first made by journalists on human rights also ahead in the program this. british prime minister suffers another humiliation in parliament ahead of next week's crucial vote. his latest meeting with. negotiate over the building of the southern border. in american civil rights activist. recognizing her work is revoked. because of her open support. international news center here in moscow this is r.t. always a pleasure to have your company i'm you know neal our top story. the pentagon is denying allegations that u.s. personnel witnessed or were complicit in torture in yemeni secret prisons overseen by its ally the united arab emirates the u.n. and a number of human rights groups voiced their concerns over the issue after the a.p. news agency uncovered gruesome details of the abuse. initially prisoners were having sheep in containers which were smeared with excrement each container and held up to fifty men who were blindfolded shackled a

the pentagon wants to put a ?launch, and eventually, shoot them down from space. here's what the president had to say. we will terminate any missile launchers from hostile powers, or even from powers that make a mistake. it will happen regardless of the missile type or geographic origins of the attack. we will ensure that any main missiles find no sanctuary on earth or in the skies above. so where are we with the global stockpile of nuclear weapons. according to last year's figures, russia is reported to be stockpiling the most nuclear weapons with close to 7,000, the us was close behind with around 6,500. france, china, the uk, pakistan and india all have capability, and on a lesser scale north korea. joining us now is derek chollet, who formerly served as us assistant secretary of defense and is now at the german marshall fund. will the ideas and the vision that president trump laid out to be at the pentagon ever come to fruition? what we saw today is your typical trump performance of traditional republican fore

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al jazeera the pentagon.is a former u.s. department of defense official and a senior fellow at the atlantic council he says there are deep divisions within the pentagon over a transplant. back in june of two thousand and eighteen the president ordered the pentagon to start implementing in researching a separate space force and it's widely known that secretary mattis former secretary madison opposed to separate department he slow rolled the department of defense's study of this issue the air force also has been opposed to seeing a space force moved outside of its own control their preferences for a space. command or unified command stays in the air force so i would say absolutely there are severe detractors within the us administration and within the congress including some republicans who do not want to see president trump's space force come to fruition president trump by beating the drum about the need to militarize space could actually create the results that we want to avoid which is a domain in space that

at the pentagon. the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee says allegations donald trump instructed his former to lie to congress is one the most serious accusations against the president so far buzz feed news is reporting trump told michael cohen to lie about a building project project. democrat adam schiff says his committee will do all it can to find out the truth. examining whether a chance campaign colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen presidential election bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general and joins us live from washington d. c. the how potentially devastating claims for donald trump. well i think this takes the impeachment. prospect to a new level what mr cohen is testifying to if it's true from buzz feed is that a crime to which he is already pled guilty lying to congress was really part of a conspiracy with the president to mislead and frustrate the oversight function of the legislative branch. that clearly in my judgment would be a high crime and misdemeanor justifying

to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al jazeera the pentagon's own investigative journalist who helped expose corruption in the african football has been shot dead in dollars capital hussein swallows part of an undercover team which accuse the head of the football association of accepting bribes he was forced to resign i'm a boating to pull stuff from across. relatives and friends gather at the family home of the murdered journalist ahmed hussein. he was shot multiple times just outside his home in accra and what appears to be a targeted killing almost all do is from the north the other family from this place is all here morning you know it's something very shocking and what people were even intending to do we have big. moms who come to talk to us not to take the law into our high declare yet we don't know who is responsible. of this unfortunate incident i'm at work closely with the award winning investigative journalist and us army together they expose corruption in the gun in here to sri health sector and most recently saw several hours after the killing and ask

a red hat showed up during the pentagon speech today though it wasn't clear if a pentagon or civilianhoedilding . talking to one coast guard officer. >> how are they feeling about trade because you know trade for me is a big subject we've been taken advantage of for many, many years. >> reporter: the impact of quick decisions like announcing the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria in a white house video is what has caused national security concerns at the pentagon. >> they're all coming back, and they're coming back now. we won. >> many people raising the question whether that isis attack in northern syria that killed four americans yesterday might have happened because isis saw vulnerability when the president announced troops were leaving. >> an important point indeed. >>> just ahead, the fight against isis raging on despite president trump's claim that the terrorists have been defeated. we're going to go live to syria for the very latest. and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team. the team? gooo team... order online pickup in an hour. and, now get 20% off with coupon. at

everything begins less than six hours after the attack at the pentagon which was also strong secretary of defense donald rumsfeld scans the rubble and he issues his instructions stephen campbell and one of his advisors takes notes rumsfeld's intentions are unequivocal. the evening of that tragedy president bush addresses america and the world. today our fellow citizens our way of life are very freedom came under attack. we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. we will make no distinction this essential detail was inspired by a key figure in the pentagon richard powell. on the afternoon of nine eleven places a call to the president's speech writer. i was on the telephone with david frum and i said to david. on the afternoon of nine eleven whatever else the president says he should say that we will hold responsible the states that support terrorists safeguarding it is a strategic break from the more modest policies of bush is pretty decisive and. i believe it represented a recognition that we would never succeed against the te

the pentagon tonight allegations of u.s. allies abusing detainees in yemen saying there's no independent credible information claims were first made by journalists and human rights groups also ahead. is day it is the day. of. just. over the british prime minister suffers another humiliation in parliament ahead of next week's crucial vote on. president trump storms out of his latest meeting with democratic leaders describing the talks as a total waste of time after they refused to fund his border. and american civil rights activist has left stunned after recognizing the work is the vote and for the davis suspects it's because of open support for palestinian. thursday morning at eleven here in moscow money welcome for me in the news team q first for you this hour the pentagon is denying allegations that u.s. personnel witness store were complicit in torture in yemeni secret prisons overseen by its ally the united arab emirates the u.n. and a number of human rights groups voiced their concerns over the issue after the a.p. news

pentagon denies allegations of u.s. allies abusing detainees in yemen saying there's no independent credible information the claims were first made by journalists and human rights groups also ahead. this is day to day. and for. the british prime minister suffers another humiliation in parliament ahead of next week's crucial vote on divorce plan. president trump storms out of his latest meeting with democratic leaders describing the talks as a total waste of time after they refused to fund his board of. american civil rights activist is left after an award recognizing her work is revoked until a day to suspect it's because of her support for the palestinians. hi there wherever you're watching welcome to r.t. international thanks for joining us this thursday january the tenth one calling break with your world news this hour first off the pentagon is denying allegations that u.s. personnel witnessed or were complicit in torture in yemeni secret prisons overseen by the united arab emirates the u.n. and a number of human rig

as they're being a lot so how much would all of that cost while there was a briefing here at the pentagon with senior officials the question was asked over and over again and they refused to answer. bottom line it's easy for the president to make big promises but the pentagon is a backdrop getting money to do it well that's a much harder thing to do particularly al-jazeera the pentagon but all drums blaming the u.s. government shutdown for canceling next week's trip by the american delegation to the world economic forum in switzerland he's also struck the planned visit overseas by house speaker nancy pelosi she suggested truck delay his plan state of the union address if the four week longest u.s. government shutdown in history doesn't and it's over building a five billion dollar war on the border with mexico and this senseless shutdown is in thirteen great pain and every part of our country every day the impact spread impacts spread reaching the lives of hardworking americans these are the people who deliver services. to the american people we should respect what they do for our country

generals in the pentagon labeled message force multipliers i love a good goodbye note and the and as william arkin pointed out in an interview on c.n.n. the us media somehow managed to accommodate all those pro-war voices without even know. where some of the conflicts are taking place. when i think about how we cover the news i think about are we at war or are we not at war and even if we're in this so-called perpetual war or the long war as the pentagon calls it i want to know that it's being covered with the aggressiveness that's necessary right now brian we are bombing nine countries around the world and i defy you to even name what they are that's how can i add to our coverage of warfare is beyond us of the i cannot if there is and he's not a military expert he's a news media critic but i wanted to make the point and in fact it's been interesting even my colleagues have said one of those nine countries is again show me any mainstream media outlet that is anti war they'll say oh it will be me that's not fair we're not pre-war either. the corporate media is massively pro-war so whe

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jeremy, you were a chief of staff at the pentagon.bly, as a lawyer, credibly, how does he get away with this, or during the times of appeals, can he -- does he have broad authority now, if he declares this humanitarian crisis, to repurpose money and take pentagon money to build a wall? >> first, the humanitarian crisis of separating families was a crisis that this president created. so i don't think he can blame anybody else but himself for that. as far as the national security crisis, and admiral stavridis will weigh in here as well, this is not a real crisis. this has been a made-up crisis. it's a chicken little crisis. the president felt an acorn drop on his head and said the sky is falling. it's doubly dangerous, andrea, because not only is he defining down what a national security crisis is but he's going to take money from military readiness. not only is he undermining security but he's actually undermining the ability of the pentagon to actually defend us when a real crisis manifests itself. >> in addition to all your other hat

the questions being, of course, how will the pentagon do this? will they move forward with this immediately and what happens to the number of individuals who are serving openly and hon loray in the u.s. military right now? >> kourtney, stick around. i want to bring in paul on this to talk about the legal implications. there is and we'll get to this, sort of the human implications as kourtney is referencing here. but how does this move forward? how do you see it moving forward? >> what the court said is for now, for the moment that the transgender ban can be enforced. >> temporarily. >> it's not making a decision on the marriage yet. but the reason that's interesting is first, three lower courts, federal courts of appeals had found that the ban is unconstitutional. and so typically we'd expect the court to respect the rulings on this important issue. the other really interesting thing here is the lineup. it's a five-four vote in favor of reinstating the ban temporarily. it's just what you'd expect with a conservatives, president trump's new appoin

not so much part of the unveiling of a new defense strategy the particular hand reports from the pentagoncost and technology could put the brakes on space mission. for decades american presidents have dreamed of creating a missile shield over america from ronald reagan's star wars you have to do it today the u.s. president donald trump promising a full scale modernization of the military's missile defense systems but he's taking it further literally into space we will recognize that space is a new war fighting domain with the space course leading the way my upcoming budget will invest in a space based missile defense layer. its new technology it's ultimately going to be a very very big part of our defense and obviously our offense that would be a shift felt worldwide but some experts were quick to point out what the president promised is not actually in the pentagon plan review itself says the united states is very interested in seeking a three way or in space so satellites that could observe missile launches and detect them sooner but there isn't any mention of putting weapons in space y

with former pentagon security state officials playing the role of retired coaches and athletes and that is why i'm like and this n.b.c. fox news and c.n.n. we will always be watching the hawks. to. treat this like. this one. as it were to do. what they like you know that i got. with. this. because. well the level of watching the horse i am so i robot and i'm top of the law list so here we are you know i think no surprise i mean you know we both have worked in other news outlets and i understand how that works but m s n b c the sort of n.b.c. universal family definitely not been doing a great job since since the attacks of nine eleven i don't think they've been covering things and a way of actually as they said means that they want to have more security no no and they and they don't cover i mean it's all just kind of cheerleading the national security state and that's not even just a muslim b. c. of n.b.c. like they're easy to pick on because you know this week they had a reporter basically say look you guys don't do enough to hold these guys accountable but again i would just want to sa

the president 6-3 decision in the pentagon papers case, the u.s.st the "new york times" clearly states that the "times" had a right to publish information as long as they didn't steal it. and you were requesting information and trying to find information like many others in the media what was coming next, correct? >> you are exactly right, sean. we had a right to do this. every journalist and person involved in political operations and the campaign julian assange not only dropped 40,000 emails debbie wasserman schultz july 22nd, 2016, within a day or two he said he had more emails to come. and, of course, the speculation was rampant. i wanted to know. irving wanted to know. i paused on a couple of emails to ted malek to see assange. there is no crime in any of this. this is normal politics. >> sean: why are you confident? you seemed confident the last time you everywhere on this show that you were going to get a pre-dawn raid. you feel it's less likely today, why? >> much less likely. i think i have pushed back. i have written this book silent no m

we asked the pentagon about the strike and ali salem's account of the deaths.not comment ocyond a statement at the time that a strike had rred on that day in shabwa ♪ in another part of yemen, safa traveled to the site of the largest known u.s. special forces ground raid in th d untry. the pentagon saiat the time that seven terrorists were killed with no civilian casualties. (animal bleating) >> ahmad: the raid took place o ny little village called athlan on may 23, 2017. the people who lived in the village described anc apocalyptiscene-- they were so frightened about the amnt of u.s. soldiers that were sent. there were the helicopters, the drones. >> narrator: the villagers say safa is the first foreign journalist to come here since the u.s. raid. abu mujahid: ahmad and mujahid: child: (abu mo'ath speaking arabic) child: mo'ath: child: mo'ath: child: >> narrator:ight-year-old mujahid's back and hearing was damaged in the raid. mo'ath and child: child: >> narrator: a u.n. investigation later said that 50 u.s. soldiers were involved in the attack, and that in ad

over time the pentagon learned more and more they can shift it to someone else.he chinese team uses chinese strategy the american team would lose. so i think this is behind president obama's pivot towards asia even though it wasn't as much of the pivot as it should have been its part of the new national security strategy of president trump to take the military balance of power in asia seriously, that we are slowly falling behind of these chinese submarines, jet fighters and tanks are still up. they are continuing to keep the nuclear forces low, nothing like us or the russians. now they are talking about increasing their nuclear forces. i would say the main challenge is politics influencing the next generation but the military challenge is there too. i was just delighted that secretary mattis recently made his first visit to beijing in his entire career. this shows somebody focused on europe and the middle east and in some sense taking seriously the military challenge from china. mark: can the chinese military and a great science and technology. its military sites

pentagon, pentagon city, crystal city, closed all weekend long. they have an express shuttle running between the airport and lafont plaza every five to ten minutes, that you can catch it. >>> a historic milestone is reached i this partial government shutdown. it is now the longest federal i closur u.s. history. previous record happeneduring e clinton administration. that one lasted from december 15th, 1995, through january 6th, 1996. this current partial sshutdown furloughed thousands of federal workers in our area. roughly, nationwide, 800,000 federal workers facing this harsh reality of not getting paid. they're being forced to make some very difficult choices. news 4 spoke with a furloughed couple in montgomery county, who says they're a paycheck to paycheck family. they've stopped eating out. they've cut back on therapy for their child with special needs. three weeks into thshutdown, they've had to reach out to a local food bank. >> don't want to feel like we're takingsition where we're something from people who are in much moree dstraits. >>

it was on the pentagon papers case. i mean, i'm thinking that was 47 years ago.t was amazing to me that that's what i focused on. as a journalist, i had a right to talk with assange, to speak with assange, to publish what assange had. it's just that i had no contact with assange. >> sean: "new york times" published it. >>ou yeah. >> sean: by the way, you said to me, you have never talked to julian assange. >> never. >> sean: neither has roger stone, if i remember correctly. >> as far as i know. roger can speak for himself. i know for myself, i have never spoken to julian assange directly or indirectly. no contact.ke >> sean: so comparing thee pentagon papers case, which you did a dissertation ironically on, and looking at this case, all you and roger want to know is, what does he have? neither one of you were part of a conspiracy to steal information from anybody, nor did you steal any information fromd anybody. the precedent 6-3 decision in the pentagon papers case, "new york times," clearly states that the "times" had a right to publish information as long as t

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the pentagon is dying out occasions that u.s. personnel witnessed or were complicit in torture in yemeni secret prisons overseen by its ally the united arab emirates the investigation by the a.p. news agency uncovered some gruesome details. initially prisoners were having shipping containers which were smeared with excrement each container and held up to fifty men who were blindfolded shackled and sometimes forced to relieve themselves in corners after guards shifted to were for did they. we could hear the screams return police is greeted by fear almost everyone is sick the rest are near death anyone who complaints has directly to the torture chamber. courts highlighting torture and scandalous practices the associated press and human rights groups say that prisons in yemen operated by the united arab emirates a long time u.s. ally have been run in total degradation and that u.s. military personnel may have been involved with or even witnessed the torture but the united states department of defense has fired back with its own repo