. >> the pentagon making public statements about the pentagon's reservations to use military force to carry out u.s. foreign policy, general jack keane is joining us tonights, he will tell us when did the pentagon decide it possessed a separate voice from that of commander in chief,. >> chinese are raising their present in western hemisphere their cyber is espionage threat is rising, despite that president's warning that huawei is using product to spy for china, dozens of allies are willing to work with the chinese tech giants. >> and our top story, the united states, now contending with an expansionist china across broad fronts. there are significant impediments to reaching a trade treatmenagreement on fair and rl -- reciprocal trade with beijing. too carry out their own public relations campaign against our own government's trade positions. >> the national media often turns to chinese sources within the u.s. for reports on these trade talks, on more than one occasion, a few administration officials have boosted the u.s. and china trade talks as nearing agreement: fulfill thei their

some hard hitting questions right there being thrown at her pentagon official yeah you know. what's the you know i mean the principals have spoken on camera just not in the briefing room since then but three hundred some odd days of the televised press conference and i wondered do you think that there was a connection between what's happening in the white house and the pentagon why we're suddenly about seeing these briefings any more personally it looks like what happens when you have a manager and upper management upper management in middle management and middle management doesn't want to say the opposite of whatever management said to the press so they don't talk and because there's been so many questions about whether the generals the generals know better than trump and the white house in the white house really wants to you know one of the things that sarah huckabee sanders has said this really wants to to is keeping that information compartmentalize keeping the messaging of the white house and the administration in one place and i think that allowing the defense departmen

the pentagon helped work with. but i think what's really funny is that the last time that there was an actual official press conference at the pentagon was on may thirty first of last year. and it was when dana white spoke on camera. and what's really interesting about that is one of the questions she answered was because they were recently doing one of the filming for the new top gun movie she wondered if the press wondered if it would be an accurate portrayal. some hard hitting questions right there being thrown at our pentagon official yes you know and you know what's the point you know they have i mean like mr burns the principals have spoken on camera just not in the briefing room you know since then but this is three hundred some odd days about televised press coverage and i wondered is that do you think that there's a connection between what's happening in the white house and you know the pentagon why we're suddenly not seeing these briefings anymore personally it looks like what happens when you have a mana

pentagon officials avoid even using the term transgender. >>the policy focuses on the medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and aspects of this condition that may limit a service member's ability to deploy. >>dysphoria is the pentagon's preferred term is defined as a state of unease or dissatisfaction under the new rules gender dysphoria is in the same class as bed-wetting and sleepwalking a combat deficiency and grounds for discharge the issue really should be on whether it's there's a diagnosis or not the issue should be whether trans. >>individuals who are ready and willing to serve physically able to sleepwalking may be a problem that would teach someone from serving but being transgender absolutely does not this changed. 2 years after president trump tweeted that he wanted a transgender ban. >>saying in part. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail at least 4 lawsuits are proceeding through the

white house shouldn't run the pentagon. the white house for that matter shouldn't run other departments. if you appoint the secretaries, if you appoint good people to those departments, then you ought to delegate the responsibilities to them to basically run their department, but then what you want from that secretary is the best guidance that person can provide in order to help the president make the decision that needs to be made. the worst thing that could happen if the white house tries to run the pentagon, tries to get involved in the decisions before they've gone up to the process of the pentagon, and i fought against that, bob gates fought against that because that's not -- you can't work that way. it just -- it interferes with the process. so bottom line here is, you need to have responsibility as civilian leader, you need to ultimate responsibility for what goes on in the department of defense, the decisions that are made and the implementation of those decisions, but you just as the president delegates authority t

have a seen the pentagon lot of vacancies left acting. an acting secretary to the -- of defense, and acting chief management officer. we are going to have an acting air force secretary. lower-level spots have been left vacant for a while. across the administration, there seems to be a comfort level with people acting in these roles. giving that we are 18 months out from the election, it is going to be a challenge to bring people into fill the spots. print secretary positions things that need to be confirmed by the senate? democratsd, -- senate are not looking to hand president trump theories. the armed noted that services committees tend to be bipartisan. required aattis waiver and a vote. up aesident trump puts nominee considered qualified do not think you will see a big fight for the air force. one to watch is the acting secretary of defense to see if that nomination does go through and if democrats scuttle that for political points. services armed committee chairman is a republican from oklahoma. what are his feelings about space force

>> well the pentagon has its own preferred ways of doing things. and in general it involves as you pointed out, more four-star generals. that's fine i want people rewarded for good work. but there should be basically pay for performance. if you do a great job, fine be rewarded. if you don't, maybe not so much. the command is the easiest way for the military to think about things. because that's a little bit like the fighter jock at attitude, the leather jacket and top gun and you're cool. space is a very different environment. as you know with coding, programmers, these unmanned vehicles it's more like the silicon valley software nerd thing. we need a career path for those people. because some can be extraordinarily brilliant but not necessarily love to do the p.t. requirements every morning not necessarily want to laser off the tattoos or get rid of earrings. but what matters is ability. and we have to be able to include those folks in our military. and reward them. so i think there are ways to do this. the space wmt development agency will probab

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. >>> pentagon officials talked about the defense budget and the trump administration's plans for a space force. we'll hear from acting defense secretary patrick shanahan. but first assistant air force secretary william roper discusses space technology and national security. >>> good morning. thank you, todd, for the introduction. thank you, csis, for hosting these events. it's an important time to be talking about space. you know, throughout recorded history and likely even before then, humanity has been inextricably linked to information from space. the waxing and waning of sun paths and moon phases provided critical information about seasons and time, and the stars a way to navigate over great and treacherous distances. what was once a seasonal, monthly, perhaps daily connection is now nearly continuous. satellites furnished timed within nanoseconds and positioned to within meters. as well as 24/7 communications, imagery, weather, entertainment and much more. many of us likely got here today because our lives are connected to space. the world space economy is currently valued at approx

a pentagon spokesman confirms the pentagon is preparing to command the u.s.ilitary's role at the border by loosening existing rules that bar u.s. troops from interacting with migrants. according to this defense official, the mission at the border will not change the legal authorities of the u.s. troops are tightly overseen by pentagon lawyers. what will change is that u.s. troops will now be permitted to have incidental contact with migrants. for instance, if a soldier is serving food to migrants at a customs and border protection facility or driving and transporting migrants, cvp would still have custody but the soldier could drive the bus, for instance. the soldier can still not have custody of the migrants. these troops are not entering a law enforcement role according to pentagon officials. dhs has also issued a waiver, which will ensure ebbing pedy shus construction of a new wall to replace approximately 26 miles of border wall near the yuma sector in arizona. dana? >> dana: thank you. more than 1,000 migrants, mostly cubans, staging a mass escape from a

at the pentagon, too. we can all work at the pentagon. i worked at the pentagon from 2009-2017 and in the 90's as well. i understand your perspective. there is bad weather. what we are seeing is there and -- is there is an increase in larger impact storms. larger dollar storms. what we're also noting is that with warmer waters, you get more energy in the storm, which can be higher winds or more water. storms overe record and over again, you start to wonder if there's something different going on. i don't think it takes a scientist to see that the arctic ice is melting and that there is more trade going through the arctic. the russians are certainly reacting. the chinese are certainly reacting. we have be prepared to deal with that. the navy in norfolk is seeing the sea level rise. they have to do something about it. they are raising their peers, because they are having impacts. years budget alone, they are asking for $40 million to raise flood walls around their drydocks. they are concerned that when they cut open a ship, like a submarine

shall i ten months ago i covered how twenty one trillion dollars had gone unaccounted for at the pentagon over the past twenty years don't try to think about the number twenty one trillion because you'll pass out and hit your head on a desk ok if your salary is forty thousand dollars a year in order to earn it twenty one trillion it would take you five hundred and twenty five million years. at which point you can even enjoy the new jet ski you bought because you're a brain in a jar. since i last brought you that report there has been a little more coverage of it the nation magazine did an article for did another article in just a few weeks ago that tell you wrote about it in-depth in rolling stone then in a few a few months ago i brought you another report about the huge number of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against at the pentagon according to the government accountability office the g.a.o. but you already know this i've covered it before so why am i bringing it up again well now the g.a.o. has come out with a new report showing the total number of whistleblower complaints ov

jennifer griffin has the details from the pentagon. jen?d, i'm told by senior administration officials that the president could announce that acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is his choice for defense secretary any time in the coming four days. the hope is the senate will have time to confirm shanahan before he travels to asia for a big upcoming defense conference at the end of may. the decision comes just a day after the pentagon inspector general cleared the former boeing executive of exerting any unfair influence with his former employer and his business dealings with the pentagon. the pentagon will sign off on a dhs request for 300 to 500 more troops to the border. mostly lawyers, cooks, drivers and medics. the pentagon is preparing to loosen rules allowing migrants to work with troops. the legal authorities of the troops are tightly over seen by pentagon lawyers. what will change is that u.s. troops will now be permitted to have incidental contact with migrants. for instance, if a soldier is serving food to migrants at a custo

i was involved as a lawyer in the pentagon papers case, i represented the senator who read the pentagon papers into the congressional record. if they indicted him for merely publishing classified material, this would be the pentagon papers case modern version.s but they were very clever, and they indicted him on a very factually questionable bases for encouraging manning to try to get information for asking manning for the first part of a password into a computer -- factually, it's a very weak indictment. it doesn't indict him for publishing classified material. one of the reasons for that is, great britain probably wouldn't extradite somebody who is charged merely with publishing information, but if the allegation is conspiracy to try to essentially hack a government computer by getting into the password, thent that might pass the level for extradition. but this is going to take a long time. he's going to fight it. one question is, where does he stay while he's fighting it ask mike if in prison all that time, he might come to united states and try to stand trial. >> sean: he stayed in

we are not getting that on the political level at the pentagon right now.it truly is the deep state with bureaucracy against a populist president who is being more effective than any president in modern history. yet it seems impossible to find leaders amongst the ranks of those bureaucrats and so-called professionals. whether be the state department or dod. these people are trying to preserve the status quo rather than help this president achieve his vision for the countries future. it is stunning to behold. christian whiton, as always, good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, american borders increasingly seeing the border crisis for what it is. we take that up and more after this quick break. ed rollins joins us.gh we will be right back. ike drivig with his dad. -what a sign, huh? terry, can you take a selfie of me? -take a selfie of you? -yeah. can you make it look like i'm holding it? -he did show us how to bundle home and auto at progressive.com and save a bunch of money. -oh, a plaque. "he later navigated northward, leaving

his case is the most important for media freedom since the pentagon papers case where one of the biggest revelations of the leaks published by a science concerned alleged us war crimes in afghanistan the international criminal court has been looking into similar accusations for a while now but has just decided not to open an investigation into the matter the i.c.c. claims that doing so now would be counterproductive. the judges decided that investigation into the situation in afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice the i.c.c. noted the lack of cooperation that the prosecutor has received which is likely to go skate. should an investigation be authorized hampering the chances of successful investigation and prosecution of the us president or trump ale the decision is quote a major international victory for the rule of law the us has refused to sign up to the i.c.c. slamming the court is exercising unaccountable powers of prosecution the i.c.c. says there are reasonable grounds to suspect war crimes were committed in afghanistan that is based on a preliminary inv

you another report about the huge number of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against at the pentagon according to the government accountability office the g.a.o. but you already know this i've covered it before so why am i bringing it up again well now the g.a.o. has come out with a new report showing the total number of whistleblower complaints over the past five years at the department of defense sorry organized human murder machine and it's nearly a thousand. oh i'm sorry pearlie the wrong it's ten thousand whistleblowers come what what i'm trying to do what oh oh oh oh oh nearly all hundred thousand come on that's just stupid is that is this robbie robbie you know you got numbers did you do it but man i swear to god show me show me day show me to put up the quote from the government accountability office put it up that if you're so sure rob a god or somebody i don't know how do you put up the cover. story go to cynically the department of defense inspector general identified eight substantiated violations of whistleblower confidentiality between fiscal years twenty thirteen and t

good day who was the hero of the pentagon papers case he was the lawyer for the new york times he came out of retirement the other day and he sued. however much you dislike because. his case is the most important for media freedom since the pentagon papers case one of the biggest revelations of the leaks published by a concern alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan the international criminal court has been looking into similar accusations for a while now but has just decided not to open an investigation into the matter the i.c.c. claims they're doing so now would be counterproductive the judges decided that investigation into the situation in afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice the i.c.c. noted the lack of cooperation that the prosecutor has received which is likely to go scared should an investigation be authorized hampering the chances of successful investigation and prosecution u.s. president are try and pair the decision as quote a major international victory for the rule of law washington recently revoked an entry visa for the prosecutor responsible

you know the people at the pentagon don't like this. >> yeah. what the president has said, and this is unilateral policy but the president has committed that he's suspended major joint military exercises between the united states and south korea. or as he would refer to them as war games. and that remains the policy and the president reaffirmed it from the podium. >> the war games thing, they really don't like that. >> the president reaffirmed that point from the podium in hanoi when he did his press conference. but i will also say i think the pentagon has done a fantastic job of working within the parameters of that policy. >> because we continue to do the military exercises. we just don't call them that. >> to make sure we do the military training that any responsible -- any responsible decision-maker at the pentagon would want to undertake. we do military sector training. we have 28,500 u.s. soldiers on the korean peninsula, and they need to be prepared always to defend the mission that's been assigned to them. my job from the department of s

so to sum this up the pentagon gets fifty five percent of. all the discretionary tax money we pay to our government fifty five percent they have no idea of way or how it's spent they make up the numbers resulting in tens of trillions of dollars of unaccounted for adjustments they lose helicopters buildings and in a few instances i'm not kidding even nuclear warheads proof what nuclear war. there is loads of fraud and corruption at every level and thousands of whistleblowers have tried to come forward every single one of the six minutes when they do over ninety percent of them are dismissed without even being investigated and i can't believe we're seeing this much corruption from our organized human murder machine all right you know was a big thank you thank you thank thank you there was thank you first right through the trillion dollars a year of taxpayer money and would be the department of on authorized highly secretive your company was it easy to buy the fish yet. we are. told that it was going on they can only take the news from behind wh

>> bret: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. lucas, thanks.next, the dangers of legalizing recreational marijuana. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 11 in los angeles with the arrest of a suspect in the shooting death of rapper nipsey russell. they took 29-year-old eric holder into custody today. hustle was killed outside of a closing store on store. flood control spillway at the nation's tallest dam will be deployed this week for the first time since it was rebuilt after crumbling during heavy rains two years ago. that incidents forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. the oroville dam needed repairs that needed more than $1 billion. live look from atlanta from our affiliate fox 5. the big story there tonight georgia tech is working to repair the damage created by a cyber security breach that may have exposed personal information for up to 1.3 million current and perspective students, faculty and staff. georgia tech saying it discovered the hack in late march, infiltrators used one of

remember the 1971 landmark pentagon papers case? the u.s. supreme court 6-3 ruled the media outlets could publish stolen materials as long as they didn't conspire to steal the information. i went to the ecuadorian embassy in london. i asked assange about russian sources. assange said he didn't steal the dnc or podesta e-mails and the source wasn't a government entity. i asked him specifically about russia. take a look. >> did russia give you this information or anybody associated with russia? >> our source is not a state party. the answer for our interactions is no. >> you did not get this information about the dnc, john podesta's e-mails? can you tell the american people 1,000% you didn't get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? >> we can say -- we have said repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the russian government. it is not state parties. >> sean: now, manning's case, i said pardon but really the sentence was commuted to get things accurate. if it wasn't russia like assange said, who was it? why was as

by went downstairs hours later the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the sector defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and they were going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he said yes sir i said well don't short term. the rules of the gate have to be changed and we are still living with this sort of the legacy sophie doesn't see. most of the. legal frameworks invest in all of them are decided for industrial face of the stick watch and now we are moving and i think the problem is that our concepts are behind. bests drugs where cocaine is where four bucks for the under fifty. everybody use cocaine. cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. two this is about a fifteen people smoke this one go figure so. you can find the

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military would be considered a terrorist group the us does it then in return for this step the pentagon will be considered terrorist groups. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put in and towards those who has more from baghdad the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to come in the in the future between the two countries the iraqi prime ministe

evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest pentagon arms depot on the west coast california was conquered naval weapons station. and i went out just to check out the situation. and discovered that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of bloggers with all these weapons. there's a train track and these bunkers that came out and crossed the highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships. we had a press conference in which that are in store planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he is fourteen years old. ryan and duncan murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. automatic train. pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we shan't and then the train slows down and stops. said a couple of people across the road went over to the front gate of the station inform them that we were on weekend. and there was already a train that we could see you know this couple box cars were going to show they had heard on the front to be sure to engineer kn

i went downstairs i was leaving the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq he pulled up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the sector defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he said it yes sir i said well don't. try and some american foreign policy at its core isn't really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial of agency others on the international stage. it was a bit like it's a small it's. you notice the first one to open your eyes for girls going forward from the other in the woods. but you'll see this for the door to. see if it was national guard coming off. the top. of the area. it's a loca

this is a crash investigation. 8b tohington boulevard pentagon is open. 8c pentagon/crystal city is also open. we're sending a reporter to see that. that's going to be a big impact is if that iin shut dur the commute. two left loans at the toll road getting by, and upp marlboro,30 1 near marlboro pike about right lane get by. >> thank you. i>>> we have breaking the district. we're working to learn more about this overnight policen investigatio in the petworth area near 13 and randolph northwest. you can see plenty of the police were called to the scene. we'll keep you updated. >>> today you'll have the chance to pay respects to the victims of the sri lanka attacks.f a book o condolences will be available to sign at the embassy of sri lanka from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. today. >>hemeanwhile, t world continues to mourn one of the deadliest coordinated terror attacks since 9/11. terrorists set off a series of bombs at crches and hotels. yesterday thr more explosions rocked the capital. they were left over from the original attack, and no one was hurt. 40 people are under arrest including the

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the military transgender ban is now in effect only the pentagon insists, but it's not a band and the policy avoid using the word transgender. >>the policy focuses on the medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and aspects of this condition that may limit a service member's ability to deploy. >>dysphoria is the pentagon's preferred term it is defined as a state of unease or dissatisfaction under the new rules gender dysphoria is in the same class as bed wetting and sleepwalking a combat deficiency and grounds for discharge the issue really shouldn't be on whether it's there's a diagnosis or not the issue should be whether trans. >>individuals who are ready and willing to serve physically able to sleepwalking may be a problem that would teach someone from serving but being transgender absolutely does not this change comes nearly 2 years after president trump tweeted that he wanted a transgender ban. >>saying in part. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military wo

by went downstairs hours later the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the secretary to fence off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and they were going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he said yes sir i said well don't show it to em. i do think the numbers mean something they matter to us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime happens each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent of the world market goes thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first second per second and fifth when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overall . the only number you need to remem

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he explains why the pentagon wants to upgrade its weapons so the alternative to modernization is. disarmament. we have postponed. any decision because there are costly and politically very divisive we've postponed any decision about the modernization of our nuclear forces for decades the newest u.s. nuclear weapon in the arsenal in one nine hundred ninety one. there is no weapon that was designed intended to have a shelf life of more than twenty or twenty five years. the us is not only developing new kinds of nuclear weapons it's also devising new strategies in which those weapons might be used. to some that is a frightening proposition. so is war again think of all it was not thinkable in the one nine hundred sixty seventy's and eighty's when the one nuclear war became the problem of armageddon the problem of the end of human history. and it's possible the today we have one or two or three actors who believe that a nuclear war can be won. because it can be kept limited because we will back down when they employ nuclear weapons on a women of bases and if they believe it can be kep

shoot for the moon for go have a good weekend at the pentagon shanahan may have a more permanent role he is expected to sign a request to send more troops to the southern border and bruce will - - loosened rules for interacting with illegal immigrants and smugglers. we have the details kim jung-un i am told by senior officials the president could announce patrick shanahan is the choice of the defense secretary anytime in the next four days hoping that the senate could confirm him before he travels to asia at the end of may coming just one day after the pentagon inspector general cleared the former executive from boeing of any unfair influence with regard to the former employer with business dealings in the pentagon. separately one official says the pentagon will sign off on a dhs request for 500 more troops sent to the border mostly cooks and drivers trying to ease existing rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants. according to a spokesperson the mission will not change but the legal authorities of those troops are tightly overseen by lawyers but the troops will not be per