but that was uh, pete hicks, if the us defense secretary speaking at the defense ministers, amazing in brussel as he basically said, the older the e u countries need to step up. this spending on defense to 5 percent, and he wants all of them to speak realistically about the war in ukraine, and he denied that the u. s. has betrayed you crying after donald trump spoke for an hour and a half with his russian count of it positively demand posing, trying to agree on terms for a long term settlement to the war. we're going to present back to semi o r n, who's professor of public affairs and director of the center for as long and global affairs. it's as simple as i am university. thank you very much for sticking with us here. we will, i want to talk a little bit about all the comments that uh, president trump has made and we can just listen into to what he said in regards to the war and cancer in recent dies. do us, we'll take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with the 2 without it as far as i'm concerned, if all of the stages are returned by saturday at 12 o'clock, i think it's an app

there's new defense secretary, pete hicks if established that trump's policy hasn't changed. the world is a safer place, a for your place when data is strong. and we certainly feel that way in our investment reflects that. we echo your sentiments on defense spending. the president has said 2 percent is not enough. and we're going to argue that up to 5 percent is, is been necessary investment from nato countries to ensure we're able to meet the threats of the future. whether that's a rush on the cotton net or to send to china, who has their own emissions as well? well, we have civil correspondence covering all of this, and we're on con, is live for us in eastern ukraine. you'll the ship of all of a is in most good, but 1st we're going to head to brussels and speak to hush him. how barbara has been following trump's cool with poaching as well as he exists. comments of uh, the last couple of days. this really is turning into a potentially definitive making isn't to cindy. this is creating more and zion g here, nate to headquarters and among ne to t allies, but particularly the e

there's new defense secretary pete hicks established the terms of policy remains the same or the world is a safer place, a free your place when nato is strong. and we certainly feel that way in our investment reflects that. we echo your sentiments on defense spending. the president has said 2 percent is not enough. and we're going to argue that up to 5 percent is, is the necessary investment from nato countries to ensure we're able to meet the threats of the future. whether that's a rush on the continent or to send to china, who has their own emissions as well. a horrible bar is lot for us and brussels at that defense ministers meeting conference today. it has the us. so the box, the you nice home as well as you crying into a corner with it, with trump and hicks this remarks, that's exactly the case tom, the europeans have for many months trying to offer incentives to the americans to stay can stick together when it comes to any security arrangements to be put into place in ukraine and europe in general. and it was saying that for example, let's see that into 524. they spent $485000000

pete hicks eth described drums plan to take control of cancer as a creative solution to solving decades of conflict. is it depends, it go on as prepared to look at all options for cancer. calhane is that dependent going with the latest. that is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu spending the afternoon here at the pentagon meeting with the new is secretary of defense. p takes us in the beginning of their remarks. they've talked about the need to increase cooperation between israel and the us, highlighting the fact that the trump administration did lift the prohibition, put in place by the previous administration and sending 2000 pounds bombs to israel and were far as were able to get in some questions to the new secretary of defense about gaza when it came to the possibility of using us troops. takes us simply said, the president is engaged in very high level complicated negotiations. you wouldn't get ahead of the president. but then he was also asked about getting palestinians off their lands. present is willing to think outside the box. look for new and unique dynamic ways to sol

uh, the us defense secretary pete hicks. this is speaking in brussels, literally listening as a us troop alongside a lot of brave nato troops. that was a different kind of mission for nato. far for long after america was attacked, this, the warrant, ukrainian, or russian by russia, has been a factory reset for nato. a realization that this alliance need to be needs to be robust and strong and real. and that's, that's why president trump has called for increase defense spending across the board for nato, for european countries to recognize this is an urgent real threat to the continent . this aggression needs to be a wake up call. americans are an active part of this alliance as we have been and will continue to. but when it comes to defense spending, even 2 percent of g d p is not enough. $3.00 and $4.00 and ultimately as president, trump is said, 5 percent of defense. many is critical. a realization that there is a russian war machine that is sought to take more and more land and ukraine in standing up against that is an im

of course, in the last week in munich, where we sold the us defense secretary pete had said, sorry hicks f saying that a return to the 2014 voters was unrealistic. about no bear in mind that the wish to spend hundreds of millions of dollars was on supplying ukraine. we've made a tree hardware that have been to counter offensive in the last 3 years. the 1st one was relatively successful, but the 2nd one has been described by military analyst is a pretty much an unadulterated siege of failure. we don't have an official statistics on the amount of civilians that have been killed in the 3 years of this war. but interestingly enough, zelinski present soleski himself offered statistics on the amount of industry personnel that have been killed. so fall $46000.00. he says 380000 ministry. personal injured and tens of thousands either missing in action or believed to. ready take being taken captive then is the open state, the fact that so much of ukraine's industry and it's a cold the exist as, as saucer the interesting weeks only last month. the last coke co co king coal mine just actually into

pete hegseth. >> called brown. >> on friday evening to. inform him he was being. >> fired. >> according to a defense official. >> during a november. >> interview, hicks said said that if confirmed, he would immediately fire. >> brown. >> arguing that the general. had pushed a woke agenda to replace brown. he's looking to nominate air force lieutenant general dan raisin cain, who, hegseth notes is someone who embodies the warfighter as ethos and exactly the leader we need to meet in the moment. what does this look like from your perspective? given the onslaught against agencies in our government now touching department of defense, european. allies looking at this, what do they what do they see and what should we expect from someone like lieutenant general cain in in this. >> in this new role? >> i think a lot of. >> folks look at this. >> as a very. >> haphazard period of time for. >> the us. government in. >> terms of donald trump is. >> dismantling a. >> lot of the. >> institutions of. the executive. >> branch. >> dismantling the leadership. >> that has. >> existed. >> basically saying. >> that anybody. >> who. >> was working before. >> in the. >> government is. >