waste is alive and very well at the pentagon. i have a poster here, a cartoon, a blowup of a cartoon published in "the washington post" in 1985, my early years in the united states senate. it shows ernie fitzgerald, a famous whistle-blower, confronting what is quite obvious, his chief adversaries, the big spenders at the pentagon. as a senior air force official, ernie fitzgerald committed a crime, and he says his crime was that he committed truth. ernie fitzgerald's famous for in 1968 exposing a $2.3 billion cost overrun on the c-5 aircraft program. in those days, having a senior pentagon official like ernie fitzgerald speak the truth about a cost overrun on a high-visibility program was unheard of. in fact, it was dangerous. it was so dangerous that it cost ernie fitzgerald his job. that's why i like to call ernie fitzgerald the father of whistle-blowing. the cartoon also depicts the infamous $640 toilet seat that made history back in those days as one example of the terrible waste at the defense department. that happened in 1985

we simply followed the organization of the pentagon papers. we took 13 chapters and spread them out and basically dealt with them in that way. in the end, i think we came out with different days on which we ran the papers. the government's argument was that publishing the papers would harm national security. this was history. all of these events were older. we are talking about the eisenhower years, kennedy's, then the johnson years of the late 1960's. here we are in 1971, there was only one part of the pentagon papers that events were still unfolding. that was called a diplomatic annex. it was all about the different efforts and peace channels there were to negotiate settlement between washington and hanoi. we took one look at that and said if we write about that we don't know whether or not those channels are still alive. we could harm diplomacy. we will not go into that. we were mindful of actual national security needs. susan: let me show you the headline that came out of that were heard it was june 13, 1971. vietnam archived three decades

there are questions of how to reform the pentagon. chairman thornberry of the senate armed services committee wants to reform the dod bureaucracy while senator mccain over on the senate armed services has other plans. they have different ideas on how many more troops there should be in the military. the senate comes in lower than the house. and the pentagon's request. how many fighters? how many and what kind of new ships to put on contract? those are standard things that come in every year that they had out.h ou -- hash they do them pretty quick fashion, but there are also other issues. the congressman mentioned cfius which is the board of the -- foreign investment and foreign, which is the board of the controls takeovers in the united states. that will be a big point of contention with the trump administration as well. joe: i think that is a pretty conference of list of some of the more consequential issues. the funny thing is sometimes the inconsequential issues are tangential to defense, that can gum up the works. the congressman a

there are questions of how to reform the pentagon. the health armed service committee wants to reform all the dod bureaucracy, while senator mccain on senate armed services has other plans. they have different ideas on how many more troops there should be in the military. the senate comes in lower than the house. those are standard things that come in every year that they hash out and they do it in a quick fashion. there are also some policy issues -- the congress he thatoned the board controls foreign investments in the united states and foreign takeovers. -- aim of that is to prevent to guard against access to sensitive technology by countries like china. zte,tating sanctions on that will be a point of contention with the trump administration. >> that is a comprehensive list of some of the more consequential issues. sometimes there are inconsequential issues that are tangential to defense that can .um up the works the congressman alluded to the endangered species act. for a couple years we have protections for the have caused disagre

waste is alive and very well at the pentagon. i have a poster here, a cartoon, a blowup of a cartoon published in "the washington post" in 1985, my early years in the united states senate. it shows ernie fitzgerald, a famous whistle-blower, confronting what is quite obvious, his chief adversaries, the big spenders at the pentagon. as a senior air force official, ernie fitzgerald committed a crime, and he says his crime was that he committed truth. ernie fitzgerald's famous for in 1968 exposing a $2.3 billion cost overrun on the c-5 aircraft program. in those days, having a senior pentagon official like ernie fitzgerald speak the truth about a cost overrun on a high-visibility program was unheard of. in fact, it was dangerous. it was so dangerous that it cost ernie fitzgerald his job. that's why i like to call ernie fitzgerald the father of whistle-blowing. the cartoon also depicts the infamous $640 toilet seat that made history back in those days as one example of the terrible waste at the defense department. that happened in 1985

intelligence community i think that's one reason why he and the sun the moon and the stars to the pentagon he had to have somebody who was on his side when we put it to the international context that you just raised look we've got clients and i do call them clients of not satellites in europe in the far east like south korea and japan i think he can afford to kick them around but when we come to the middle east and talk about israel and saudi arabia i don't think there's so much our client. where their client given the kind of influence the israelis and the saudis have in this town it's not so easy to cross them so i think he is proceeding much more carefully there just as he indulges the pentagon i think he's indulging those countries but we're going to have to see now he can turn the corner especially if he can work out something with mr putin on syria with regard to essentially keeping the israelis and the iranians away from each other near the golan heights we might have the beginning of something constructive in that region but that's going to be a very tough road to hoe i think ok it

cfius was established in the 1970s and it has players from whole bunch of executive agencies, the pentagon, commerce department et cetera, the intelligence committee and was set up the time when foreign companies are starting to acquire american firms. mostly at that point in the energy sector but there was a concern that if the arab nation or a company with ties to the government wants to buy american oil company does and that potentially have national security indications of the control our energy supply. it was set up in the 70s in the industrial age, if you will, much unlike what we have today. in those days it was pretty clear. company a was to buy company be in the united states and maybe the committee on foreign investment should look at that and see are there potential concerns there. fast forward to today and the information age it's a whole lot more completed. it's a foreign company or investor wants to get her hands on, if not the company itself, some of the technology within it so what we looked up was how this committee is not well-equipped to deal with some of these much more

intelligence community i think that's one reason why he and the sun the moon and the stars to the pentagon he had to have somebody who was on his side when we put it to the international context that you just raised look we've got clients and i do call them clients of not satellites in europe in the far east like south korea and japan i think he can afford to kick them around but we come to the middle east and talk about israel and saudi arabia i don't think there's so much our clients as where their client given the kind of influence the israelis and the saudis have in this town it's not so easy to cross them so i think he is proceeding much more carefully there just as he indulges the pentagon i think he's indulging those countries but we're going to have to see now he can turn the corner especially if he can work out something with mr putin on syria with regard to essentially keeping the israelis and the iranians away from each other near the golan heights we might have the beginning of something constructive in that region but that's going to be a very tough road to hoe i think ok it's

the pentagon will keep faith. ry keeps faith with its troops when it comes to issues of their health care, families, anything to do with it. when you sign up, they've got your back. we reporters kept asking, are the troops going to get the boot? last year, it was reported this might happen. it was in the works to look into somehow pulling out this program that allowed for immigrants to sign up and, because they signed up, get fast-tracked to nationalization. it is a legacy program from the iraq and afghanistan wars, where there were a lotimmigrants. a lot of latin american ones. it is an american tradition. there have been foreign troops that served in u.s. armies since before the revolution. >> more than a tradition. what does it mean if they start getting rid of a lot of foreign-born troops, and what does it do for company morale? >> so, we have to be careful. the story only says about 40 troops. it is not talking about thousands. it is not talking about pulling, you know, people out of the troops. why aren't we

so who is james steele and why did the pentagon choose him to go to iraq. the conflict in which over fifty eight thousand u.s. soldiers died is where james deal was first introduced to country insurgency as an alternative way of combating a guerrilla uprising. still served in the vietnam war in the black course regiment from one thousand nine hundred sixty eight to nine hundred sixty nine he was described by general george patton jr as the best troop commander in his regiment. but a vietnam shaped his formative military career it was in the war against leftwing insurgents in el salvador that james.

intelligence community i think that's one reason why he and the sun the moon and the stars to the pentagon he had to have somebody who was on his side when we put it to the international context that you just raised look we've got clients and i do call them clients of not satellites in europe in the far east like south korea and japan i think he can afford to kick them around but we come to the middle east and talk about israel and saudi arabia i don't think there's so much our clients as where their client given the kind of influence the israelis and the saudis have in this town it's not so easy to cross them so i think he is proceeding much more carefully there just as he indulges the pentagon i think he's indulging those countries but we're going to have to see now he can turn the corner especially if he can work out something with mr putin on syria with regard to essentially keeping the israelis and the iranians away from each other near the golan heights we might have the beginning of something constructive in that region but that's going to be a very tough road to hoe i think ok it's

miller, it is that white house advisers who are proteges of steve bannon who have been against the pentagono had been against the state department. you know were steep and has been all week? he hidden in london. talking to people like, there is a certain british politician, he used to party. and newspapers. it is fascinating. thank you both for being here. counter terrorism detectives in britain investigating the contamination of two people by the nerve agent novichok believe they have found the source of the substance. dawn sturgess died in hospital on sunday after being exposed to the nerve agent. her partner, charlie rowley, remains in a serious conditon in hospital. our correspondent duncan kennedy has the latest from salisbury, well, the news that they have found in this bottle came through from the metropolitan police late this afternoon. all they are saying is they found a small bottle at the house of charlie rowley in amesbury, and that the bottle was found on wednesday. they say the bottle was then taken to porton down, the research lab quite near to amesbury, and the tests have co

asking the pentagon for a permanent u.s. presence in the country to deter russian aggressions.es about 1,000 troops there, but a bigger deployment could anger russia and ply more military moves from moscow. joining me now, from the american institutes, one of our favorite gas, because you have great ways of explaining all of this, tell me how the russians would feel if the president were to decide to increase the military presence and make it more permanent in poland? >> the predictable outcry, but i am always skeptical of this trope, don't do this, because it will anger so-and-so, don't do this, because they may get upset. well, they are big boys and girls in russia. just to give you an example, you said that we were rotating 1,000 by the battalion group. you know what is facing them across the win across the russia divide? over 3,000 russian troops in the western military district with two tank divisions. how is that? how much more can putin put in if he is god forbid upset. so i think we should not worry about this. i think that we should put credible conventional deterrence

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compare that to the pentagon and all the waste and abuse and the cost overruns in the pentagon. the fact of the matter is snap works. by the way, the average benefit is about $1.40 per person per meal. people can't live on that. that is why food banks will tell you in the middle of the month they are inundated with people because they have run out of money to buy groceries for their families. this is an effectively run program. it is constantly being reviewed. it has a very low error rate. even this administration will concede that. it is quite frankly underfunded. -- i't know how people can think the benefits are too low. we should be talking about expanding the program and making it better. this is the united states of america. we are the richest country in the history of the world. we have over 40 million people who were food insecure or hungry. i am ashamed of that fact. we ought to be able to do better. i wish we would stop beating up on poor people. i wish we would stop creating farm bill's that are cruel documents, like we did in the house. problems.olve these i don't know

december president trump declared victory in the fight seven months later, the pentagon warning the militantup is creeping back into parts of central iraq bringing a new wave o kidnappings assassinatio and terror attacks. er.the fight of isis isovot we must work with our iraqi partners to set the conditions that will prevent the resurgence >> reporter: the situation even more dangerous in afghanistan where isis has been gaining strength after being pushed out of syria. .sthey're now fighting. backed forces and the taliban. with countless civilians caught in the crossfire. >> our res bnsibility toe as supportive as we can in all of those things and support the afghan as they work theirth way through . >> reporter: the threat has american diplomats trying a new tactic, secretary of state this week to start directier talks with the taliban hoping to end decades of war and focus on the fight against isis. >> we, the united states, are ready to tawe with the taliban hope that they realize this and that this will help to move the peace proce forward. >> we and our afghane partners ar moving forwar

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will take a procedural vote on that nomination and another procedural vote on the nominee to be the pentagon's general counsel. when the senate is back in session on monday, live coverage on the companion network c-span two. >>> i think fdr used this place as a place to bring real leaders up and let their guard down and focus on some of the major issues that they were there to talk about springwood is the same way. when you walk into these buildings, you didn't have queens and careens -- kings and prime ministers, you came in as a friend. coming to a home as a friend is different than walking into a place of business as a colleague. so going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events is different than coming up to this very secluded place where there were no bank of photographers waiting to take a picture of a handshake. it was a place where he could be open with his guests and show them sitting in his wheelchair, laid it all out there. he was there showing up the fact that i am not hiding from you. the guests receive that in such a way that they were willing to open up

he's the one who leaks this to the press. >> i was the lead reporter in the pentagon papers. ainst the war, and he copied these papers with the hope that eventually they would be used to embarrass an awful lot of people and which would show that we had made a terrible mistake fighting this war in vietnam. >> it started with the ellsberg story, front page. >> i think kissinger was obsessed with secrecy, and so was nixon. my first three articles were published. and the nixon administration then wanted to stop the whole thing. >> my argument inside was, if you want to make the case against the pentagon papers, get up and charge "the new york times" with publishing national security secrets, gross irresponsibility, and sabotaging the war in vietnam. >> the justice department went to court in new york today and got a temporary order restraining the "times" from publishing the next and last two installments. >> attorneys for "the new york times" claim the protection of the first amendment which embodies the concept of the freedom of the press as sufficient to protect their disclosur

i was assigned to the pentagon and it didn't take me long to think mcnamara was a psychotic liar. ere was something about airplanes and he was lying about it. i knew right away there was trouble. the second i was in a month of being at the pentagon, i was going after him about not telling the truth and lead me to those in the pentagon, those officers with four stars who were very worried about the lie that was going on in the war. you do know how he did this. at 6:30 in the morning they get to the papers by six and he would wait for the stand up to open. so he called me into the conversation went like this i thought maybe [inaudible] i said if you've seen page 19 in the bulletin. so we agreed to meet. he would come and get me on weekends when i was not at the pentagon and we would just talk for hours sometimes and he was a a teacher. >> it was to the point of read before you write. >> he was forbidden to come and read all these files. he didn't like the way that they treated people and he didn't like us and the way we were treating in vietnam. every night in the washington bureau t

so who is james steele and why did the pentagon choose him to go to iraq. the conflict in which over fifty eight thousand u.s. soldiers died is where james deal was first introduced to country insurgency as an alternative way of combating a guerrilla uprising. steel served in the vietnam war in the black course regiment from one thousand nine hundred sixty eight to nine hundred sixty nine he was described by general george patton jr as the best troop commander in his regiment. but a vietnam shaped his formative military career it was in the war against leftwing insurgents in el salvador that james dear secured his reputation as the country insurgency specialist. steel arrived in el salvador in one thousand nine hundred four as the leader of the us mil group a group of u.s. military advisors to the salvadoran army. told greentree got to know james steele when he was working in the us embassy in el salvador at the time. colonel steele as the no group commander was in charge of the special forces teams the training teams that were out of brigade headquarters. t

the pentagon considers that company zte a national security threat. und guilty in 2016 of repetedly skirting american sanctions on iran and north korea. ♪ in tonight's whatever happened to segment america's space dominance. 4 years ago today, two americans became the first men to land the space craft on the moon. now, a half century later, the u.s. relies on russia, yes, russia, to get its astronauts into space. correspondent kirsten fisher has the report. >> that's one small step for man. >> that small step was supposed to be one giant leap for mankind in a way it was. in the 4 years since neil armstrong became the first man on the moon humanity hasn't stepped any further in space. in some ways the u.s. has taken a step back. american astronauts have been hitching rides on the russian soyuz last seven years. all-american rockets are still at least a year or two away. >> we are anxiously anticipating a return of launching american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. >> all of that is about to change and fast thanks to a new space race. o

you talked about there's no one in charge of space in the pentagon. debbie, in addition to being secretary of the air force you were also the secretary of defense and senior advisor for space and the question i have for you is in that role as principal advisor did you feel like you have the necessary qualities to make decisions? >> it would have been great to have even more authority but the biggest authority i had and i tried to expedite well and forcefully was i had the power of the mouth, the power of the casino. the power of sitting at the table to include the white house and the interagency and certainly within the pentagon, the budgetary discussions that would go down. and i would say the single belly button for space is the single belly button for many things that would be the deputy secondary or the secretary because the expectations is that we will collaborate with one another. that we will simply dictate but rather that we will coordinate and try to work things out because we are mutually supportive, we the services are supposed to be militar

the pentagon plans to keep using the weapons but it is trying to minimize the risk to its own troops. in one nine hundred ninety four rocky was appointed director of a pentagon program that aimed to do just that in the event the desert he and his colleagues test fire d.-u. minissha is into various targets. the team or a full protective gear including respirators because do you just can be deadly if it failed. rocky believes that his exposure to depleted uranium during his work in iraq had seriously damaged his health he continues his efforts to call attention to the risks associated with do you mean missions. contamination incredible incredible amount. for done settled on a credible source. and the women just are going to blown away. it would be next to impossible to decontaminate large areas every time do you mean issues were used cruise would have to remove about thirty centimeters of topsoil in a zone about one hundred meters square. the contaminated material would then have to be stored as needed sites. for the body if you're absolutely right it's totally impossible. and our produ

. >>> the pentagon confronts a growing threat in afghanistan. after president trump declared victory over isis, the extremist group has begun creeping back in to parts iraq and afghanistan. >> lucas tomlinson has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: back in december, president trump declared victory in the fight against isis in iraq. but just 7 months later the pentagon warning the militant group is creeping back into parts of central iraq bringing a new wave of kidnappings, assassinations and terror attacks. >> the fight of isis is not over. we must work with our iraqi partners to set the conditions that will prevent the resurgence. >> reporter: the situation even more dangerous in afghanistan where isis has been gaining strength after being pushed out of syria. they are now fighting u.s.-backed forces and the taliban with countless civilians caught in the crossfire. >> our responsibility is to be as supportive as we can in all of those things and support the afghans as they work their way through this. >> reporter: the threat has american diplo

hi i work here in the pentagon my name's patti lu and i mainly in charge a refill in the nk in the copy years because generals do not know how to use the copiers it's you know they can handle war but i don't know a copier and i wanted to report that someone here in my department gave taken the plans hold which are clearly partment plans and then. we must go through seven or eight times a week and it's ridiculous ok thank you patty ya'll write down the seven pens right below the section as to how you do. this. anyway here's more from the forbes article this past december the inspector general report indicates that unsupported adjustments are the result of the defense department's failure to correct system deficiencies you're blaming sproule years of dollars on failure to correct system deficiencies that's like saying i had sex with a widow with a hundred thousand waggled hairless aardvarks. because i wasn't looking where i was walking. normally and said. let's do this and we do a lightning round here where we go through all of these catastrophic problems with the twenty sixteen election

now the pentagon chief is apparently threatening to drop the case america's main military ally james mattis is written to the british defense secretary ken winston saying that britain would be dropped in favor of france the letter has been leaked to the media ahead of next week's nato summit in brussels where donald trump is expected to push u.s. partners to boost their defense spending as global actors france and the u.s. have concluded that now is the time to significantly increase our investment in defense of our allies are following suit i am concerned that your ability to continue to provide this critical military foundation is at risk of erosion. well the u.s. which pays three and a half percent of its g.d.p. to nato has repeatedly pressured its allies to pay at least two percent of their g.d.p. in twenty fourteen nato agreed to increase defense spending accordingly within ten years and while the u.k. needs the criteria matters did note in the letter that more is required of britain but at the same time stress that france is boosting its spending despite not meeting the two per

but it was established in the 70s and a bunch of executive agencies mike the commerce department and pentagon when foreign companies and there was a concern in the energy sick on -- in the energy sector with ties to the government and that could have natural security implications. that is much unlike what we have today company a wants to oversee company b and we should look at that to see if there are other potentials in the information age it is a whole lot more complicated of investors if not the company itself but how this committee how they are dealing with the sophisticated transactions but also not steel or gas but but there was an example of a chinese company which is the money transfer company in the united states normally i would not think that would have that implication of why that would matter but if you use the money gram you provide personal information like bank accounts and money gram but there was a concern because then they also own the national security potentially against the united states. >> and republican of north carolina any chinese related companies part of the suppl

whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go or whether it is like i said an analogy to the pentagon whether he's indulging the realities that exist so he can do something else if he can get us out of syria i don't expect us to admit we made a mistake in syria of course we did a tragic horrible mistake but in politics people don't admit mistakes if he can slip us out of syria somehow the real question is will he take the bait on what has to be the red line that israel and saudi arabia want regime change in iran and if he goes down that road it's the end of his predecessor presidency he needs to understand that he ends up as george w. bush if he goes down that road may be a lot worse i frankly don't think he's going to do that but he's certainly got a lot of people both foreign and domestic pushing him in that direction and right now he's indulging them the question is whether he will follow through with that i hope he doesn't you know peter one of the things i've noticed that's unique about this presidency. tweeting assigned is that i think serious people and not just pundits that ar

. >>> the outrage over the pentagon spending $10,000 on a toilet seat cover for this military plane. >>> and the glamorous instagram model attacked by a shark during a photo shoot. she shares her terrifying story. >>> we do say good wednesday morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm linsey davis in for diane macedo. we begin in wisconsin. an explosion has leveled several buildings forcing a major evacuation in one city. >> drone video shot moments after the explosion shows the size of the debris field. at least two first responders have been injured as several fires turned this small city into what looked like a war zone. a massive gas explosion rocking the small city of sun prairie, wisconsin, near madison. >> we felt this boom, and i thought something landed on our roof. it was so loud and our house shook. >> reporter: raging flames lighting up the night sky. the smoke seen for miles. >> that's the gas main. >> reporter: several buildings destroyed and cars on fire. the streets littered with debris. >> there was this big boom, and it knocked me to the ground, and i felt it.

through files at the pentagon he made discovery. the documents were open to me i was a lot of course. there was one particular. special weapon. for a blue collar worker leaving the court of the jury being somewhere on the original . came across the ship that was disposing of nuclear weapons. page by page. forty six. fifty three disposal commences thirteen fifteen disposal of thirty tons of special weapons completed. changed the course of twentieth century history more than the development of nuclear weapons. human beings now had the power to destroy themselves. i think that's the norm you know military machine hunger i think that it's much more difficult to regulate military activities on ethical safety related or legal grounds compared to civilian activities. i mean in the ministry of a civilian life is all about managing prosperity but the but in military situations the top commanders can do pretty much what they want on the us and they do it or they have to do it because the enemy can to see if they don't they've lost the battle t

ernie testified before congress that this prize program cost the taxpayers $2 billion more than the pentagon would admit. $2 million and that was 1968 and in today's dollars that would be more than 14 and a half billion dollars. ernie's audacity to commit truth earned him the absolute theory of the president of the united states and the famous nixon tapes revealed that the president himself ordered his subordinates in the white house to get rid of that so be. that is a direct quote from the tapes. they did. ernie spent the next 14 years fighting for his professional life. in fact, he only had his job at the pentagon until he retired because of a court order. time and again mr. fitzgerald resisted the pentagon's never-ending effort to silence him and his career. from the fight that they put upe you would've thought that the defense department was facing down a mortal enemy but whatever we asked ernie to come to capitol hill. i had to go to the pentagon, once myself in 1985 , too serve him a subpoena just so he could testify before mike subcommittee. ernie's work and life have greatly inspired

so who is james steele and why did the pentagon choose him to go to iraq. the conflict in which over fifty eight thousand u.s. soldiers died is where james steel was first introduced to country insurgency as an alternative way of combating a guerrilla uprising. still served in the vietnam war in the black course regiment from one thousand nine hundred sixty eight to nine hundred sixty nine he was described by general george patton jr as the best troop commander in his regiment. but a vietnam shaped his formative military career it was in the war against leftwing insurgents in el salvador that james dear secured his reputation as the country insurgency specialist. steel arrived in el salvador in one thousand nine hundred four as the leader of the us mil group a group of u.s. military advisors to the salvadoran army. todd greentree got to know james steele when he was working in the u.s. embassy in el salvador at the time. colonel steele as the no good commander was in charge of special forces teams the training teams that were out of brigade headquarters. the

it appears that an aircraft of some sort did hit the side of the pentagon. >> i need you to stop for second. there's just been a huge explosion. i can't see that second tower. >> is there's go to the trade tower again baa we now have -- what do we have? >> it looks like a new plume of smoke. >> one can only hope the area has been evacuated but you wonder about the emergency vehicles and the people who might have been injured early in the morning. >> there was dust everywhere. >> i don't know where my peers are. i don't know if they got out okay. >> all of a sudden i heard rumbling and we started running away from it. the glass blew out o on to the sidewalk. >> i was thinking of going back, but it was chaos. i start to leave. i see people jumping from the top of the world trade center. >> it was unbelievable. this guy still trapped. we couldn't get to him. >> i'm just going to add to the chaos and trauma of the day to say a large plane has now crashed about 80 miles south of pittsburgh. >> we don't know where their destination was, what their target was. we can only presume or guess th

addition by subtraction, the pentagon considers a controversial shift in u.s. troop strength in europe and we will talk exclusively with homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen about immigration and keeping the country safe. this is "special report." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. president trump is digging in a place aggressive and controversial confrontational trade policy tonight as european leaders had to the white house for what could be an explosive session tomorrow. in the meantime, the administration is doling out billions of dollars to try to ease some of the pain for america's farmers, caught in the terror of cross fire. correspondent kevin corke from the white house where there is a lot of talk about real trade wars and potential real wars. good evening, kevin. >> you are right. in the week that started seeing pretty high intensity with response to -- an ongoing trade warts and i got the president's attention during his remarks in kansas city. that is ahead of an all too important meeting coming up here at the white house

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at the pentagon, lisa tomlinson, fox news. tice department will warn americans about foreign governments, according to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein overseeing the probe into russia meddling in the 2016 election. >> exposing schemes to the public is an important way to neutralize it. the american people have a right to know if foreign governments are targeting them with propaganda. >> reporter: those remarks as the doj release a report how it will handle cyber security threats without hurting official investigations. rob: tony podesta offered immunity to testify against former trump campaign chairman, falcone he is the brother of clinton campaign chairman john podesta and founded the podesta group which worked with paul manafort to lobby for ukrainian efforts in the united states. manafort and podesta's firm retroactively registered, manafort is charged with money laundering and lobbying violations. jillian: the white house withdrawing a nomination for a us appeals court judge. ryan downs who donald trump wanted on the

let's bring in barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, the d.i.a. a different take than the president. >> you bet they do. you'll remember mr. trump said before the summit before he sat down with kim that he would know within a minute if kim jong-un was serious about all of this. well, not so fast. the d.i.a., the military intelligence agency says their latest assessment is kim won't give up his nuclear weapons and instead for now will try and hide what he has. and that is absolutely critical. if he can hide missiles, if he can hide warheads, if he can hide his ability to make nuclear fuel, this makes it very difficult for the u.s. under any circumstances to know what's going on inside north korea. they think he's likely to sign some sort of document, to sit and talk to the u.s. as long as possible. you know, why wouldn't he? he can string it out for months. but to actually give up his nukes, to let inspectors in, to verify what is there. to make an honest and candid declaration of what he has, the pentagon is skeptical about all of that right now.

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national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. s the back front of poland's request and where it is the stand the pentagon? >> in fact dana, native allied poland worried about russia's post-aggression actions and ask the pentagon in april to consider permanently basing u.s. troops in poland. they even offered a two billion-dollar incentive when their defense minister met with secretary mattis at the pentagon recently. he was noncommittal and neato investor kay bailey hutchinson on fox news on sunday had this to say about poland's request. >> we do have troops in poland and it is a rotating force, part of our enhanced forward presence. certainly we look at all offers me like that but no decision is being made right now. looking at it, yes. >> dana: at the u.s. begin rotating more than 1,000 troops and 80 tanks into poland in january 2017. a move designed it to send a strong deterrent signal to russia without breaking a 1997 nato agreement not to permanently basing u.s. or nato troops in former war's warsaw t countries. >> dana: in s

access to american technology and know-how and that term, the controls, was something going by the pentagon that without a more copies of strategy on how to police this we are facing the real potential that it will gobble up a lot of the stuff that we see as advancing technology. >> guest: i think you're seeing chuck schumer pick up on it but uses the term family jewels when he goes on the senate floor and rails against trump for focusing on tariffs and not this and the term is quite apt in people do use it. >> host: senator schumer and cornyn are heavy in your article as does the made in china strategy by president xi and this is the article "how china acquires 'the crown jewels' of u.s. technology". cory bennett and bryan bender are the authors. >> coming up next, iowa republican senator chuck grassley on the role of congressional oversight. then a congressional hearing on fcc oversight and later a discussion on the files of osama bin laden. live later today president trump will be in white sulfur springs west virginia for a salute to service dinner honoring members of the military. you w

the pentagon is not going to be able to make up for it having the generals talk to each other.wn each other their military lives. what is this president standing for? praises erdogan, duterte, putin, mugged angela merkel and theresa may and macron. it's just hard to follow the bouncing ball here. >> i've interviewed the nato secretary-general in many times. in many ways frustrating interview, talks points he wants to make. acknowledges funding isn't where it should be credits bred for funding in nato. and con vague the importance of nato. on that point how worried are you the president of the united states and the way he talk answer nato, what he focuses on will lead americans to question or feel there isn't a reason for think alliance in the year 2018? >> it's a huge problem. look, the president has great credibility to at least 40% of the american people. that rally had he in montana, people roared their arrivpprova when he talked about taking it to them with a brickbat over equitable distributions of resources. that the germans were paying the russians and should be paying u

: it only flew for about ten seconds, but northrop grumman is now conducting tests as part of the pentagon's- secret efforts to develop hypersonic weapons that can fly longer and further. >> this is the hypersonic pulse facility for aerodynamic testing of hypersonic vehicles. >> reporter: he took us into a test chamber on condition we would not reveal its location. it is a giant air gun which fires bursts of gas at incredible speeds and pressure to simulate the conditions of hypersonic flight. >> the gasses come down the air gun and hit right back here at the plate. >> reporter: that's a pretty hefty piece of steel. >> it is. it is very hefty. >> reporter: look how the gasses burst through the steel plate. that plus temperatures of 2,000 degrees are what a hypersonic aircraft would have to survive. >> we have a test article we're trying to emulate in the conditions of the hypersonic, it will be in here. >> reporter: there is something in there now. >> there is. it is shrouded right now for security purposes. >> reporter: in other words, you don't want us to see what it looks like? >> nope. s

the national security advisor will meet with the pentagon, the wall street journal reporting that mr.eting today with pentagon officials. to be a fly on the wall. us richard haass will join from the council of foreign relations and we will definitely speak about john bolton and the admirals and generals of the pentagon. hearing from the financial times, i visited with -- in london who is with blackrock. she has a very nice summary of the nuances of checkers and onto the future of brexit. it is essential to fight the right battles. the european parliament elections next year likely to pit globalists against highly coordinated populists. sh goes on toe say it would be wise for the european union to accept the basic premise of the u.k.'s proposals. bob and james with us. yous, this is a very centric essay on how the eu has to respond. is the eu responding in a responsible way? james: you are never dubbed enough. -- dove enough. the eu is asking things that were irreconcilable, that the bush people do not want the free flow of people, but happy to have the free flow of goods and services.