trump's own budget folks cut the legs out from underneath the pentagon on this deal. help us square -- why are they coming up short when mr. trump wanted to do so much more? rep. thornberry: i would say first, i don't think there's any doubt the president wants to repair and rebuild our military. the budget that his administration since up -- sense did not do that, in the reason is they did not have any people in place on capitol hill. when the budget came to capitol hill, there were exactly two senate confirmed trump appointees in the pentagon. one was the secretary of defense and the other was the secretary of the air force and she had and there one week. what you had was either obama ord odors -- holdovers people who were there temporarily, and what they had was the plans of the obama administration, and that is what they sent. those of us in congress who have been following this understand that is inadequate. part of the attitude of some of the trunk folks is a less a year to study this and get our people in place and we will come up with a better budget in 2019. o

the pentagon papers estimated about an estimated 280,000 vietcong communist fighters. this was up from what their estimates were of about 10000 in 1962, so 10000 to 280,000 in the insurgency was rapidly growing. there was an active uprising in south vietnam which included three months of setting themselves on fire, images which were broadcast into america's living room in the us understood and officials understood american intervention in opposition to it was rising, but they did not understand why there was opposition and why there was opposition into the us backed south vietnamese-- south vietnamese regime, but they thought scientists could up them understand, so slope was one of the people that was sent to vietnam. he was using the warsaw test which was a time to help understand psychotherapist. so far at least in this happy with the vietcong fighter that ink blocks veiled to release any insights into the fighter. he asked the viacom fighter to go through the parts and identify something sexual. nothing. than he has the fighter to find anything that reminded him of a

mattis at the pentagon in yemen, iraq, syria, and afghanistan. particularly to set troop levels in afghanistan. are there perils for the military long-term that now seems to be having to own this policy, whatever happens? again, different from mr. obama who, rightly or wrongly, owned the policy? it seems that the pentagon will own it, and i wonder what you think about the perils there. rep. thornberry: if someone is the decision maker, that person will be held accountable with a for the result of his or her decisions, but i have to say, i recently reread general mcmaster's book "dereliction of duty" about what went wrong in vietnam. you had the white house, in that case under lyndon johnson, making the military decisions which were based more on politics than on military strategy and tactics. that was a disaster. i think you have seen shades of that in the obama administration. too many decisions were made in the white house among staffers and so forth. the military ought to be given the goal. the president say, "this is what i want you to do," an

the pentagon has filled in the gaps. the pentagon says that is suspicious activity at that same air base from which the planes departed that according to united states and most of the west, that provoked that chemical attack in the first place. there are differing points of view on what exactly happened on the ground. the russians contest the u.s. point of view. that is what the pentagon is saying. suspicious act vividly and preparations for another chemical attack. the response from the united states might be similar to what we saw at the beginning of april. there were no details on that. there were details from the palace where you are from a phone call between the u.s. president. aty seem to have discussed least a possible response together. a joint response by france and the united states, if there was to be another use of chemical weapons by the regime. >> what does the readiness to stand this -- stand beside the united states tell us about the relationship between emmanuel macron and the president? >> it is a relat

weeks ago the i-team revealed a problem for first responders at the u.s. pentagon. the i-team scott mcfarland is getting results and now those firefighters are a step closer to getting a new station. bill toney remembers running for his life inside the pentagon. >> all these images won't ever leave me. >> reporter: and remembers seeing the firefighters running toward the danger. >> it was greatly inspiring to see how and risked their own lives. >> reporter: the terror attack at the pentagon killed 184 people and devastated the nation and destroyed the fire station outside the complex.ç toney was troubled, though, when a news4 i-team investigation revealed in may the plans to rebuild that fire station had quietly stalled. for the past 15 years, firefighters who manned that station have worked out of trailers, which don't meet u.s. army standards. that's according to military records obtained by the i-team and the local firefighters union. >> people are worried about it being broken and how we're going to fix it and make it better. >> reporter: we found the timetable

you know, conservatives for a while have attacked president obama for micromanaging the pentagon too much, not going along necessarily with troop levels, with freedom of operations, things of that sort. you know, folks on the hill say it's got to be a balance. we've got to use the military advice, but also, you know, have the white house weigh in on these things, have the white house really, you know, be owners of that -- of whatever the policy is. so that's a struggle they're in now. you know, trump, in his style, has made it clear he's fine with the military, trusts the military guys, he trusts defense secretary mattis, who's a form marry reason corps general, and he's going to go with them. host: lastly, what's been the reaction from members of congress to what's a departure in tradition for a president? guest: yeah, i mean, it's hard to say whether it's a full departure in tradition here. we'll see as it goes along, if the white house continues to really leave this unchallenged. then it becomes a pretty significant issue. at this moment, we've just heard murmurs up on capitol hill

eighteen shot down the su twenty two the pentagon says quote in accordance with the rules of engagement but areas of syria west of the euphrates river were under the control of isis prior to syrian government forces pushing into the region the last several months assad's government along with the cooperation of russian forces have been successful with killing many isis terrorists in that region and pushing them out of key cities so now moscow is calling on the pentagon to provide a full accounting of why it decided to take down the syrian su twenty two jet and told the u.s. that russian forces will track coalition jets should they enter this regional airspace again despite american mainstream media reporting or insinuating that moscow might shoot down u.s. aircraft immediately that simply not true ed. all right thanks miguel in response to the downing of the syrian jet russia's defense ministry says it has halted cooperation with the united states military in syria or to use emily su has the details right now one thing is when diplomats engage in a war of words but today's development s

according to a statement released by the pentagon the syrian fighter jet that strayed into a so-called de confliction washington says the syrian military forbidding from entering that area where the u.s. backed s.t.'s for the syrian democratic forces a base however russia's foreign minister earlier rejected the use of the de confliction zone so good lavrov says the u.s. has drawn up its oban trees here without consulting with the syrian government. i'm not aware of that the conflict zones the pentagon is referring to maybe there is own that have been established unilaterally where the coalition thinks that he will do whatever it wants we don't recognize such loans. as you know there are already discoloration zones that have been agreed on and established by syria iran turkey and russia any steps by the coalition which don't receive consent from damascus are not legitimate the downing of the syrian jets the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the assad government the us led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in s

i appreciate very much you taking the time to come to the pentagon and to meet with us. we've been looking forward to this for works now since we got the word of your visit so again, welcome mister president. you for being here. >> you very much indeed. is a great talk for me and for my delegation. we can hear the review and i told you this was my dream from the time when i was in office and i think that we together do a lot in the three years to do a great job. >> we lead with all our american partners to create a new armed forces tuition. >> and now, we build up the aggression, the armed forces to the european army. but for me, the priority of creating a new europe and when i see it's not a moratorium without massive restraint. i want to feel for that, i especially want to thank general john. he's doing a great job. >> and he is so successful. when we aren't governments we have the armed forces of the united states , the fully integrated very well understood and lastly, we share a common goal with russia. you shared yours too. and i'm proud to inform you mister secretar

northern afghanistan we have been in touch with the pentagon for comment about as it is released from prison but we haven't heard back just yet however we did hear from the afghan defense ministry. confederation's cup championship a shift of focus from some pay to spoke to the russian capital where the whose team will face off against portugal on wednesday former england footballer stan collymore remorse guy with the latest. we have moved on from st petersburg to beautiful moscow stunning color most alongside me how about this review snotty about it's not bad at all is it bustles cathedral red square lanes two beautiful sunny day in a wonderful part of wrong we have here in the capital wonderful you just ticked off many of the big tourist i was there every one afternoon and the front of the playground and walked around already not a really good look around to know what little confidence in the shopping galleries how you like this is what we got gold action for everybody now let's check out germany australia three two the result from yesterday's game let's go through the goals as it wa

led coalition shot down a syrian army plane near the city of raka saturday lover also stressed the pentagon is still treating various terrorist groups differently for. the franks we have sure that the u.s. is really targeting arsenal but we don't recall america bombing so actively. so whatever it's called now it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature. and russia's now holtz's some cooperation with the u.s. over syria has pulled out of the agreement it signed with washington to prevent collisions in syrian airspace or meanwhile australia is announced it is temporarily suspending its air operations in syria. well the u.s. led coalition says the downing of the syrian fighter jet came in self-defense however in the last months the coalition has already targeted syrian forces and those loyal to damascus five times well let's have a look at where the attacks took place the plane was shot down southwest of the syrian city of raca where the coalition supporting kurdish troops in their fight against i so well the u.s. led coalition has also conducted several bombing raids ag

the pentagon deployed two launchers in april. n a trip last week, officials traveling with traveling with defense secretary jim mattis seemed to indicate the deal was complete. >> we've been consulting with the government throughout the process. to get the entire battery to the korean peninsula which includes six launchers. >> pentagon taking a wait and see attitude but some see it as a challenge for president trump's north korea policy at a time of uncertainty on the korean peninsula when they would prefer to present a united front. >> bret: news about the pentagon's ability to defend the homeland against an incoming missile. >> pentagon officials say this is the equivalent of getting upgraded to a triple a+ rating and comes in the wake of the successful missile defense test at the air force base in california. fox news has obtained a memo sent june six to the defense secretary which says that the u.s. missile defense agency is now for the first time capable of defending theo's homeland. the memo was written by the independent op

the pentagon spokesman captain jeff davis concluding an off-camera briefing a short time ago. he's told reporters here this morning, they've been looking at intelligence over the last few days at this air base that they had struck back in april, that they believe that chemical attack was organized and perpetrated from and began to see some activity there regarding the chemical weapons stored at that air base, but in the last 24 hours, that intelligence, that information became more compelling, and became suggestive, according to the pentagon, that the syrians were planning an attack. the intelligence is focusing on one particular aircraft shelter at that base, an aircraft that is there and chemical weapons substances that are there. now, he wouldn't go so far as to say whether the chemical weapons have been or were being loaded on to that aircraft, but, again, saying that the intelligence had become more compelling over the last 24 hours, and saying that this is what led to the very ominous statement from the white house last night, which now as fred is reporting has gotten rea

it's one thing about leaking data about war and i agree, the pentagon papers were a good thing and by the way they deflated the democrats and republicans. these people are leaking that make it seems like they're deflating something important and in fact, there deflating the most common -- nothing happened. neil: the bottom line is were getting from these leaks is information about the process of government. i think comey is a grandstanding, comes across -- here's the thing, i thought it was fascinated this is how the president describes the president of the united states ask and when it comes to his investigation. that is information which may not be illegal, i agree with you, but it's information i like to know and most americans. >> why did james comey feel it was up to him? that he had the moral response ability to start the avalanche that is special counsel. why did he feel that was his j job? i agree with adam shift at this point. he was the fbi director who was fired? same reason he used on july -- >> what you agree with the ranking member -- >> there were avenues for him if he

the white house expected the state department, the pentagon, the cia and the office of the director ofnational intelligence, all of the relevant organisations knew what the relevant organisations knew what the white house was up to. nevertheless, it is still a remarkable statement being made so publicly, as it was by the white house. a follow—up statement from the pentagon and also from the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, who also made her own remarks. nikki haley is the us ambassador to the un. here she is on twitter saying... the russians, for their part, say they consider such threats from the americans to the legitimate leadership of the syrian arab republic unacceptable. so far, so predictable. the russians on the americans always disagree on the bashar al—assad regime. but there is something greater going on here related to the pressure on the so—called islamic state group. let's get the analysis of our defence and diplomatic respondent jonathan marcus. i think it is. this is if you like the next war, the next major battle that is coming. you have two was going on at the mo

he wanted to leak information gathered by the fbi and justice department from its the pentagon of papersand that is a crime because that prejudices a jury that would eventually have to leake whether any of the activities where it illegal. so when nixon learned that these two men, g gordon liddy and e howard hunt were involved in watergate, he realized that in order to protect himself he had to engage in a cover-up. so behind the scenes, he starts thatmmit very illegal acts two-and-a-half years down the line will cost him the presidency. host: initially there was a reticence among national media to even touch the story, right? guest: they did not want to make too much of it. it seemed to be a caper that had gone wrong and the watergate break-in was a pretty silly thing. it was under motivated and over bungled, as a journalist named gary wells put it. there was not much defined in the democratic national committee. it seemed like this was, started out more as a farce than a tragedy. the washington post smelled a rat and bradley and katharine , the publisher and managing editor decided to p

is on every screen i've walked through here at the pentagon the last 20 minutes. everyone is watching events unfold on television. you get two views at the pentagon of the ability of isis to conduct external operations. the one view is you're going to see more of them. as isis loses physical territory inside their caliphate, you'll see more high profile or attempt at high profile terrorist attacks. the other view is that their territory shrinks, they're playing defense on so many levels. their communications is restricted and getting hit by so many bombs. in raqqah, there are 24 strikes last night by coalition air forces. they're getting hit so often, they actually don't have the time to plan and conduct external operations. so two views you get here. now, just to recap what happened overnight. you did have the final assault on raqqah. the difference with the assault on raqqah and the assault on mosul, which is still going on, is that mosul, they left the iraqis and coalition forces, an escape route to the west. unclear why they did that. some people thought the i

the pentagon is not reporting a unspecified number of injuries among the crew.ne sailor is being readied for medevac by a helicopter, the ship remains under its own power, but propulsion is limited. it's going to have to be towed back to port. when we come back, the panel's winners and losers of stay out front with tempur-pedic. our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. so you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com it's about moving forward, not back.t. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you

early on to from the former pentagon official michael maloof about this he was looking on he says the suspected attack follows a familiar pattern but a different target now in europe. given the fact that this was a vehicle using the cheap means in fact it's the identical method that isis called upon. terrorists in place to to use because it's cheap it doesn't you have no intelligence on any of this and this has been this is been the history of what we've been seeing recently particularly during ramadan the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims so waking up again to see another tragic night for london it wasn't so long ago that this particular mosque was making plenty of headlines in the u.k. it's minus is about that the finsbury park mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. as the muslim popula

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cnn has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: u.s. s had been watching this air base in syria for some days. it was the same air base that the syrians used to launch their last chemical attack back in april. but over the last couple of days, there grew concern about what they were seeing there. they saw a syrian aircraft move into a shelter with chemical abilities nearby. that is what led to the white house warning that caught a lot of people by surprise. not top cabinet officials but within the pentagon, a lot of people didn't know that warning from the white house was coming. the real goal is to avoid officials tell us, avoid any additional u.s. air strikes. what they are hoping is that the russians will work to influence assad and get him to back off and not launch another air strike. but if he doesn't back off, if he were to proceed, u.s. military officials are letting it be known they have everything in place to strike again. >> thank you. >>> the white house says its warning to the assad regime was the equivalent of quote, puttin

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he is there at the pentagon. : senate leaders are working hard to try to pull together the 50 votes they have to have to pass the republican healthcare plan. bringing vice president mike pence to the hill to get everyone on board during an important lunch today, florida governor rick scott will meet with him as well. he joins us next to react to the assessment and take a look at what the senate plan means for you when you head to your doctor's office. >> shannon: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to keep the healthcare alive working on votes. six senators publicly saying they can't support the bill as it is currently written. mike emanuel chasing them all over capitol hill. it appears at this stage the senate republican leadership has a numbers problem. >> absolutely right. a number of senate republicans were struck by the congressional budget office for the uninsured would grow. the other numbers problem is gop senators who don't want to debate it or discuss it. susan collins, rand paul, dean heller a

what the pentagon is telling us is that this was an armed drone that was advancing toward coalition forces. those coalition forces, no exact description of them but the most likely scenario is that these are syrian democratic forces, the armed groups that the united states supports and arms. there's a possibility that u.s. soldiers were actually on the ground with them at the time and this drone, according to the hostile, was displaying intent. that is the term used by the pentagon. hence why it was shot down by a 15 fighter jet. no munitions were dropped by this armed drone, but there had been some dropped just a week earlier by another drawn that was moving toward coalition forces as well. those did not explode once they hit the ground, but that's the exact same scenario, according to the pentagon, that happened during the night yesterday. >> the u.s. and russia are obviously on opposite sides of , that theict conviction channel still not back up and running as i understand it. we're just going to see more incidents, aren't we? that line is still close, that's something that has actually

did this come from the pentagon, from what we understand at this point? >> reporter: from what we know at the moment, this was a statement from the white house. it hasn't been backed up by any evidence so far. but in a situation like this, one would be surprised if the white house or the pentagon were to be -- would want to publish photographs or evidence that they may have that they believe assad is preparing a chemical weapons strike. they would lose in part the element of surprise. perhaps surprising in part because president trump has said in the past that he would not -- he would not give warnings, he would just act. that's been the narrative until now. so far, nothing from the pentagon. obviously waiting to hear what they have to say. nikki haley, ambassador of the united states nations, being clear that it would be assad responsible, but not just him, as well his backers, russia and iran, as well. to that point, secretary of state rex tillerson talking yesterday by phone with his opposite number in moscow, sergei lavrov. >> reporter: clear if the is

how seriously is the pentagon taking this threat from the kremlin? >> well, jake, to be clear, the pentagon not looking for a dogfight with the russians but taking it strongly enough to respond to it, jake. u.s. pilots flying over syria now on the lookout for russian airplanes or missile threats following the weekend shootdown by a u.s. navy fna superhornet of a syrian war plane. this because the kremlin threatened any u.s. war plane operating in certain areas of syria would be considered a threat. when the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was asked if he was confident that russia would not shoot down a u.s. warplane, the answer was carefully worded. >> i'm confident that we are still communicating between our operations center and the russian federation operations center, and i'm also confident that our forces have the capability to take care of themselves. >> reporter: defense secretary james mattis taking the threat seriously, his spokesperson issuing a statement. as a result of recent encounters involving pro-syrian regime and russian forces

failings in afghanistan last week the pentagon seems to have been looking for someone to blame and it's found the perfect excuse when it's first report to congress since the election the pentagon named pakistan as the single greatest external factor hindering u.s. actions the report refers to what it calls support of afghan insurgents by the pakistani government during sixteen years of its involvement in the country washington has given a range of reasons why it. wasn't going according to plan. iran is reportedly arming and funding the taleban corruption is a huge challenge and afghanistan that russia is now meddling in afghanistan it's very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when your enemy enjoys external support and safe haven we had the. overt legitimacy lent to the taliban by the russians the problem that the us has trying to carry out the occupation and subdue the population and i mean the real answer is the u.s. has to get out of afghanistan and they claim that they would have resolved everything and they would have won the war only it wasn't for pakistan or only or if it on

senators have now joined those critical of the pentagon's policy in syria. this is illegal war at this point then there's a practical question the practical question is doing anything you want killing every perceived enemy in every perceived leader of chieftain of five people in some misbegotten village is it helping are we going to defeat an ideology by killing people the united states and the coalition are there without any permission without any i mean awful for a party to be president and so when we when we not only do we enter here and there are sovereign airspace. but now we have shot down a syrian jets we have been carrying out bombing attacks there is an act of war of aggression. under international law. and jacqueline there looks at how trying this promises to stop was such interventions are now being broken as the syrian conflict escalates. made it clear that defeating terrorism and putting an end to the trend of u.s. interventions in the middle east were top priorities so he opted for granting more power to the military what i do is i authorized by

census of join those critical of the pentagon's policy in syria. this is illegal war at this point and then there's the practical question the practical question is doing anything you want killing every perceived enemy in every perceived leader of chieftain of five people in some misbegotten village is it helping are we going to defeat an ideology by killing people the united states and the coalition are there without any permission without any and all four are ready to be president and done so when we when we not only do we enter syria and there are sovereign airspace. but now we have shot down syrian jets we have been carrying out bombing attacks this is an act of civil war of aggression under under international law. of the german parliament has approved the transfer of its troops from the. key to jordan following dividing tensions with ankara let's get the latest now from correspondent pizza all of a piece of ice this thing across the story it seems the woodrell problem solved really isn't it all is there more to this. well this isn't so much a

according to a statement released by the pentagon the syrian fighter jet that strayed into a so-called a de confliction zone of washington says the syrian military forbidding from entering the area where the u.s. backed s.d.f. the syrian democratic forces a base but as far as russia sees it russia's foreign minister earlier said that the u.s. there drawn up its own boundaries in this without consulting the syrian government reacting to the downing of the jet call for why the cooperation with damascus. we call on the united states and all others who have their forces or advisers on the ground in syria to ensure the coordination of our work zones of deescalation are one of the possible options to move forward jointly who call in everyone to avoid unilateral moves respect syrian sovereignty and join our common work which is agreed with the syrian government. down to the syrian jet is the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the assad government the u.s. led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in syria in those cases

the pentagon would like to have six missiles as part of that thad battery. only made two of them operational. they were hoping to get the other four in place in order to have a solid system to defend seoul as well as the u.s. troops there. we had just heard in the last week from the assistant secretary of defense for asian affairs, david helsey, he was on the trip with defense secretary mattis, and he told reporters on the plane that in fact they were in negotiations with the government of korea to position all six of those missiles. now it seems based on the reports out of tokyo, based on the comments of south korean officials, that we have not been able to confirm but "the new york times" is reporting, based on those statements, it looks as though the south korean government is reneging on that agreement or perhaps this is a negotiating strategy and they're trying to negotiate through the press with the pentagon. so we only have the statement that you read from the pentagon which says we refer you to the south korean government, the rok government. the u.s

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. >> weeks ago the i-team revealed a problem for first responders at the pentagon. cott macfarlane is getting results and those firefighters are a big step closer to getting a new fire station. scott? >> that's right. all this week, the nudesews4 i- is showing the results of our investigation, big changes promised by government for big problems we've exposed, including a problem that's festered for 15 years. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: bill tony remembers running for his life on 9/11 inside the pentagon. >> all of these images won't ever leave me. >> reporter: and remembers seeing the firefighters >> it was greatly inspiring to see how everybody came together and at risk of their own lives. >> reporter: the terror attack at the pentagon killed 184 people. it devastated the nation and destroyed the fire station outside the complex. tony was troubled by what a news4 i-team investigation revealed in may, that plans to rebuild that fire station had quietly stalled. for the past 15 years, firefighters have manned that station have worked out of trailers which don't meet u.s. army st