thornberry: there is a risk there. the question is if the united states makes a deal, is the united states going to stick with the deal? everybody is watching how we handle this. so that is part of the reason , the better course is to stick with the agreement that we signed even though i disagreed , with the deal at the beginning. but sticking with that deal with continuing to work on improvements that can benefit not only the united states and our allies in the middle east, but ultimately be a benefit for iran in the long run. susan: one last question and we will move on to defense spending and that is the veterans department. after watching what happened with president trump's nominee, dr. ronny jackson what is your , advice to the white house about the kind of v.a. secretary who would do well for the services you could feel comfortable about the direction of the department going forward? rep. thornberry: my advice would be someone who knows veterans, someone who has good management experience, someone willing to sha

newsmakers with representative mac thornberry. then, a senate hearing on the 2000 teen -- 2018 defense budget request. the subcommittees of his committee have been working on next year's pentagon spending with a total of $716 billion. ed.is clear we have questions about pentagon priorities. thank you for being our guest. rep. thornberry: thank you for having me. >> to reporters that are joining scully, i'm going to -- as you were watching the historic scenes out of the korean peninsula, i am wondering what your thoughts were on the security issues for the peninsula and our allies as you are seeing these scenes and promises? rep. thornberry: it is remarkable. we have not seen this sort of thing since the end of the korean war. i remember the history north korea has been adept at manipulation of public opinion and benefiting from it. it may well be they have gone further and more effective in splitting -- trying to split us from our south korean allies than his father or grandfather has ever done. i remain skeptical because of but i

this is an intriguing one, that it's all down to labour shadow secretary emily thornberry.e prime minister... the commonwealth has a government meeting in london this week and she suggested the prime minister should ta ke suggested the prime minister should take this opportunity to apologise to the commonwealth, primarily it would seem for the conservative government positive result at the time when the international community was imposing sanctions on south africa, and i was very much a commonwealth led initiative. with fierce rose between margaret thatcher and... and she absolutely refused. she absolutely refused to do that. david cameron in 2006 did apologise to nelson mandela but emily thornberry is saying, you know what, you need to apologise to the commonwealth for that as well? which i think is sensible. what do you think? i think this also politics behind it. ithink think? i think this also politics behind it. i think the government commits a big deal for the next week, the meeting of the commonwealth leaders summit in london. they wanted to be about things like the

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we'll stay on this for you and ask chairman mac thornberry coming up about that.l. >> we really believe in social experiences and i think what happened here is we were very focused on creating that. we were really focused on that and weren't focused enough on being pre-active enough and mark is happy to say here is what we weren't doing and here is what we're doing now. >> bill: that's the coo of facebook talking with dana perino on friday. critical week. mark zuckerberg testifies before congress. users whose data may have been shared with others will be notified today. ladies, good day to both of you on a monday. you have a billion users worldwide. we have a rule in place in 2015 that was legal according to facebook standards. take a down the line, katie. you start. what comes of this this week do you believe? >> i'm not so sure there will be a lot of answers. there will be a lot of questions from both republicans and democrats and i think we'll see rare bipartisanship in washington, d.c. on this issue. they may be focused on different things. democrats foixed on

thornberry talked about iran nuclear deal with called for the removal of sanctions on iran and in iran'se for a run's -- nuclear deal on may 12. once the deal is in place is what happens if the united away and i think others, y mattis, among to my ear, at least, has been very consistent, saying whatever deal to begin the with, you better understand what the consequences of walking away from it are and at the same time macron was esident arguing in congress just this past week that there may well be some improvements that could be ade to the deal or around the deal, as far as iran's other activities are going. think we should try to work for improvements, maybe enhanced verification, for example, of he deal, or -- and/or, curtailing iran's other ggressive activities in the region and some of their -- the for example, m, but for me, i would not think it interest of the united states to walk away from very clearless we're about the consequences of that. f we walk away, i think we'll be on our own and it's going to present a number of problems. there time to make these changes to the deal and

texas republican congressman mac thornberry is chair of the house armed services committee and he joinss tonight from capitol hill. registered mr. chairman, i wantp on the comment from defense secretary mattis that he wants to see international chemical weapons inspectors in syria this weekend. does it indicate to you there will be no u.s. strike until those inspectors are safely out of syria? >> i think it's important that we not say when or how or where we may act. clearly, if assad allows these chemical inspectors and, we will be very cautious about anything that could endanger them. at the same time, i don't think most people believe there's a high likelihood he's going to let actual inspectors in to prove what he has done. which is a terrible atrocity. we can't lose sight of that. >> chris: president trump and his tweets has been sending mixed messages. forget about the time, and i understand your sensitivity about that. are you persuaded that he's eventually going to order a military strike to deter or at least send a message to bashar al assad, are you convinced it's the right an

thornberry said in a statement.n just received $700 billion as part of last month's omnibus spending bill. a sizeable portion of that is to supposed to help fix the readiness issues that the pentagon has warned is leading to more crashes. arthel? >> arthel: okay. jennifer glitch. thank you. >> rick: the israeli military on high alert ahead of planned profit protests along the israeli, gaza border. plus, the facebook privacy scandal gets worse by the day as the social media giant admits millions more users may have been affected and ceo mark zeric mark zuckerbs ready to testify before congress. >> i don't think we are perfect. i don't think we should learn from the mistakes and continually doing better. i'm the first to admit that we didn't take broad enough review of what our responsibilities were. last years' ad campaign was a success for choicehotels.com badda book. badda boom. this year, we're taking it up a notch. so in this commercial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watc

congressman max thornberry chairs the house armed services committee.soldiers lost their lives in a growing string of military aviation crashes. the two soldiers were doing routine training in their apache military helicopter when this crash happened last night at kentucky's fort champbell. a total of seven u.s. soldiers died in military aviation crashes in just the last month. thornberry says, quote, what has been evidence to me for some time is now becoming clear to the american people. the readiness of our military is at a crisis point. there can be no higher priority for the defense department than ensuring that our aircraft are safe and that pilots get the training they need. >>> the father of missing 5-year-old in tennessee has been arrested and charged with criminal homicide. here's the 5-year-old, joe clyde daniels. he was autistic and non-verbal. he was reported missing by his parents wednesday morning. hundreds of volunteers have been searching for this boy over the past week. according to the tennessee bureau of investigation, his father, jos

joining me now to discuss, chairman of the house armed services committee, republican william mack thornberry of texas. you like the rest of us, you have seen these horrifying pictures, but unlike the rest of us, as chairman of the armed services committee, you're in a position to do something here. what will you do to help protect these children, these civilians inside syria? >> to be clear, the president is the commander in chief and he must order whatever must be done by our military or by our diplomats. congress' job is to make sure they have the tools they need to carry out whatever they choose to do. so these people are clearly butchers. what we saw a year ago when assad used chemical weapons to kill about 100 people was the president responded with a targeted attack against the military units in syria that had carried out that chemical attack. so my opinion is that they ought to consider doing something similar this time with our allies. because we cannot allow this sort of behavior to continue. >> advising the administration that another attack like the one from last year would be app

ncicap.org] ♪ [playing: "you can't always get what you want"] this weekend,rs our guest was mac thornberryalks about the korean peninsula and the deadline for recertify in the iran nuclear agreement. he's also asked about veterans and the president's search for a new v.a. secretary. >> after watching what happened with president trump's nominee, what is your advice, if you could give it to the white house, about the kind of v.a. secretary who would do well for the services that you could still feel comfortable about the department going forward. >> my advice would be someone who knows veterans and someone who has good management experience and someone who is willing to shake things up. that's the combination of characteristics that we need. i can tell you there is a lot of frustration in congress because if you look at what we've done with the budgets going into the v.a. the last few years, they've gone up quite a bit. and yet the output has not been going up with the increased money. and there's a lot of frustration that we keep trying to make reforms and they keep putting more money into

. ♪ >> on the newsmakers this weekend, our guest is republican congressman mac thornberry of texas.of the house armed talkses committee, he about the latest of elements on the korea peninsula and the deadline for recertify the iran nuclear agreement. he is also asked about veterans s search forident' a new v.a. secretary. >> after what happened with president trump's nominee, what is your advice if you could give it to the white house about the kind of va secretary who would do well for the services you could feel comfortable about the direction of the department going forward? >> my advice would be someone who knows veterans and has good management experience. someone who is willing to shake things up. that is the combination of characteristics we need. there is a lot of frustration in congress. if you look at what we have done with the budgets going into the v.a., they have gone up quite a bit. has not gone up, commiserate with the increased money. there is a lot of frustration that we keep trying to make reforms and put more money into it. we are still not serving the veterans th

action to keep this country safe, but if this were to go ahead, the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberrythat the prime minister was to be kidnapped oi’ prime minister was to be kidnapped or the country was invaded, you could just get on and respond. on a practical note, could we have recalled parliament in this instance? i spoke to one labour and conservative mp this morning both in support of the strikes and they said no, because of where everybody was spread around the globe, the mps could not have got back in time to match french and american deadlines, leaving britain looking isolated and weak. and borisjohnson told cnn today the reason they did not get parliamentary approval was because they wanted to focus on the speed and efficiency of the operation. jeremy corbyn is adamant theresa may should have recalled parliament and if not, she should have held a vote before doing anything tomorrow when everybody returned. and he seems to think that that is the way the public mood is going. and some of the early pulling supports his view. well, the syrian government denies having used chemic

constrained to keep this country safe but if this were to go ahead, the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberrygot could not or the country was invaded, there would not have to be a delay, they could get some response “— have to be a delay, they could get some response —— the prime minister got kidnapped. would we have been able to call parliament in this instance? i spoke to two people today who said no because of where everybody was spread around the globe, they could not get back in time to match french and american deadlines leaving britain isolated and weak. and borisjohnson said today the reason they did not get parliamentary approval was because they wanted to focus on the speed and efficiency of the operation. jeremy corbyn is adamant theresa may should have recalled parliament and if not, she should have held a vote before doing anything tomorrow when everybody returns. and he seems to think that that is the way the public mood is going and some of the early polling support his view. i'm sure the argument will carry on tomorrow, thank you very much. well, the syrian government denies h

host: i'm going to read some of the statements from mac thornberry, the chair of the house armed services saying a sought use of chemical weapons is unacceptable. equally concerning, the attack is part of a trend of russian supported attacks across the world. the united states and the allies cannot let these stand. i support the president's decision to undertake this strike together with our allies. heading to flagstaff, arizona. good evening. thank you for taking my call. i would just like to say i .upport our president 100% god bless him for stepping up for his humanitarian efforts. but the united states of america stand up to the world and say that we will not tolerate this actionn, indignant against innocent human beings. the last caller that said let's keep looking up, read your bible, people. can you describe and explain that statement a bit more? and its meaning for you? >> the meaning for me is that we are in end times. our country needs to wake up and get on our knees. we need to pray. we need to look at what the bible predicts about what is happening in our world and what is goi

affirmed free-speech rights for high-school students after that, newsmakers with representative mark thornberry. is naomi, i am 11 years old. [applause] me and my friend around our walk out of our elementary school on the 14th. [applause] sophomore at auburn university and three years ago, i stood exactly where you are today and one of my first march for life. ♪ >> landmark cases. c-span's special history series. produced in partnership with the national constitution center. exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. >> mr. chief justice, may it please the court. good evening, welcome to c-span's landmark cases. tonight's case is tinker versus des moines independent committee schools district. in a 7-2n court decision it won't in this case that student's first amendment rights of free's reach are protected even when they are in school. she will be here to share her personal experience and her work as an adult to promote student's free speech and press freedom. thank you for being with us. >> eric jaffe is the chairman of the federalist soci

>> that's the very question that max thornberry has asked, urging the white house not to rob from the military to pay for border security. it could take from the very accounts that are needed to rebuild military aircraft and address the pentagon's readiness problems. >> border security is national security. we are leaning forward to support the president in his intent and his goal. but readiness remains our top priority. >> when president bush sent 6,000 national guardsmen to the border in 2006, it came from the navy and air force's operations and maintenance account, shep. >> pentagon officials say nothing actually has changed in syria. that's despite president trump saying this week that he wants to pull out u.s. troops from the war-torn nation and soon. just yesterday, the white house said american involvement in syria is coming to a rapid end but did not give specifics. john roberts on the north lawn. hi, john. >> good afternoon, shep. the president said last week that he wanted to bring the troops home. now the president has had a meeting with his national security council and he

congressman mac thornberry warned the white house not to rob the military to secure the border. harris. >> harris: jennifer, thank you very much. meanwhile, i had mentioned republican governors of texas, arizona, and new mexico are backing the president's decision to send national guard troops to the border. even california's jerry brown, who has locked horns with the president over his state sanctuary policies in the recent past is signaling he may be able to work with the federal government on this. let's bring in texas attorney general ken paxton, he can tell us about the crisis at the border. it's interesting. people say oh, we haven't heard about this before. they must be asleep at the wheel because the president has been talking about it for a long tim time. >> at least during the first two years of his administration, he's done more for border security and immigration reform than any president i have ever seen. >> harris: talk to me about the crisis. >> we track statistics on crime and texas as it relates to illegals. we know we have a problem. 600,000 crimes, 1200 homici

i had at the pledge of speaking with chairman thornberry couple of weeks ago just in a private meeting and he was asked what could he do to make things move faster because when i hear reports that it takes 16 years to go from statement in need to initial operational capability i don't even care if the number is right. even if it's not exactly right it is so far wrong that it is unacceptable and what can you do to bring that into a small number of years and i said, sir, might immediate reaction is can either keep our processes or we can keep our preeminence but we cannot have both. we have become a process driven acquisition and development culture where our primary goal seems to be to make sure we never make a mistake in acquisition and never have to protest never make a wrong technical choice and we spend so much time trying to rent a mistake but the cost of not making a mistake in the is bigger than a mistake. at some point try something in the works. that is what i think the congress was going after when they created my position. i can site specific figures of things that this natio

i had the privilege of speaking with chairman thornberry a couple of weeks ago, just in a private meeting, and he was asking, what can you do to make things move faster? because you know, when i hear reports that it takes 16 years to go from statement of need to initial operational capability, i don't even care if the number is right. [laughter] even if it's not exactly right , it is so far wrong that it's unacceptable. what can you do to bring that into a small number of years? i said, well, sir, my immediate reaction is you can either, we can either keep our processes, or we can keep our preeminence but we cannot have both. we've become a process-driven acquisition and development culture where our primary goal seems to be to make sure that we never make a mistake in acquisition, we never have a protest, we never make a wrong technical choice and we spend so much time trying to prevent a mistake that the cost of not making a mistake in the large is bigger than the mistake. i mean, at some point try something and see if it works. and that's what i think the congress was going after when

guest: thornberry has already cautioned against robbing the military to fund this.he military also has enormous responsibilities around the globe and that money gets used a pretty quickly. you have a 2 million-man military. cautioning against using this as a catchall to fund everything because they had such a big budget. the: we want to hear what viewers have to say. give us your comments and questions about the national guard guarding the border. what are your thoughts on this? --ublicans, (202) 748-8000 (202) 748-8001. .emocrats, (202) 748-8000 independent, (202) 748-8002. national guard members, (202) 748-8003. where exactly would these national guard members go to? four states along the u.s. mexico border. right now we have a small cell, about 150 military personnel in el paso, texas. they have been there since the 1980's. george h.w. bush set that up to assist with border control and surveillance and being a coordination cell. they have air force and coast guard members there. we do already have a small military presence that helps with coordination. where the

[inaudible conversations] [inaudibleth committee chair max thornberry. [inaudible conversations] >> the committee will come to order. for the last three national

. >> chairman thornberry, ranking member smith, distinguished members of the committee, good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. let me say up front that the army's readiness across formations is improving and if called upon today i'm confident we would prevail in any conflict. this is due in part to increased funding congress provided last year. for this i would like to say thank you. the army's mission to defend the nation has not changed but the strategic environment has. following 17 years of sustained combat, we now face a future characterized by the re-emergence of great power competition and continued challenges by rogue states and nonstate actors making the world ever more complex and dangerous. to address these challenges, the army is changing, we have a comprehensive plan to ensure our long-term dominance, but must have predictable, adequate, sustained, and timely funding. fiscal uncertainty has done a great deal to erode our readiness and hamper our ability to modernize. while the army must be ready to deploy fight any time anywhere against any

this three-hour hearing begins with committee chair max thornberry. [inaudible conversations] >> the committee will come to order. for the last three national defense authorization acts especially acquisition reform has been a major priority. the purpose is to gain more value for the taxpayers out of the money spent but even more importantly to make it apart more agile and dealing with a variety of security challenges it faces. secretary mattis has testified or technological position has eroded in recent years compared with our leading adversaries. we confront threats that don't conform to traditional notions of warfare and the historical evidence indicates we have may well be a fit them of our own success. as one writer put it when looking at the inner war years the losers were forced to re-examine everything. military losers are intellectual radicals. the winners complacent in victory feel the need for self-examination far less. the answer is the department must work to be more innovative in technology, in policies and in thought. one of the many bo

affirmed free-speech rights for high-school students after that, newsmakers with representative mark thornberryis naomi, i am 11 years old. [applause] me and my friend around our walk out of our elementary school on the 14th. [applause] sophomore at auburn university and three years ago, i stood exactly where you are today and one of my first march for life. ♪ >> landmark cases. c-span's special history series. produced in partnership with the national constitution center. exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. >> mr. chief justice, may it please the court. good evening, welcome to c-span's landmark cases. tonight's case is tinker versus des moines independent committee schools district. in a 7-2n court decision it won't in this case that student's first amendment rights of

chairman of the house armed services committee max thornberry calling friday's deadly helicopter crashking saying, in part: the readiness of our military is at a crisis point. two soldiers killed when their apache went down during training at fort campbell in kentucky and all seven service members died in crashes this week. >>> and a sunday showdown taking shape at the masters not here on the plaza, but the actual plaza. patrick reed holding onto his lead entering the final round. [cheers and applause] >> how about patrick reed? abby: the 27-year-old american now at 14-under-par and a three-shot lead over rory mcing i roy. rory mcilroy. ed: watch for mcilroy. he can make a run. abby: i thought you were on team reed. come out of nowhere. ed: i like him -- abby: kind of like you, ed, no one expected. pete: they saw the putt i nailed right here. ed: you've got to do it in the game. pete: you're saying i'm a gamer. ed: the only guy that looked better in a green jacket was arnie. i don't think that's true. [laughter] pete: i've got to put up with it all morning. ed: we've got new informatio

our guest is mac thornberry, chair of the house armed services committee.ou can also listen to it on our free c-span radio app, and online any time at c-span.org. we want to welcome back chris matthews of msnbc. how many books have you written? guest: 8. host: i want to begin with a picture -- this is from an earlier this month -- for our radio audience, three african long,an women saying "so bobby." guest: the affection the people felt for this guy, when he died. black and white. there was that wonderful scene in philadelphia, where 20,000 african-americans saying the "battle hymn of the republic was repblispontaneously -- -- republic" spontaneously for the guy. this is gone. the unity of black and white communities. very patriotic and democratic already so tied into pager does them. what has been missing? bobby has been missing, that spirit. host: in the beginning of the book, you talk about the politics of 1968. you wrote young people were obsessed with the daily spectacle of a war -- the vietnam war -- a conflict that their country could neither win nor

obviously your training in military has given your patience and stamina matched only by chairman thornberryas well. thank you for that. i have a quick question. if this is that past and had to do can stop at any time. but in b light of the national defense strategy, what is dod doing differently to counter the destabilizing activities of iran in that region? >> congressman, we are looking at iran very holistically right now. we are looking at him clue weapons program. the is being reviewed. we are looking at their maritime effort with our fifth late u.s. fleet actually draws together nations between 25-35 nations to do counter mine exercises. it's not just a naval message. it's also diplomatic message, that don't try this. nations from all around the world will show up at sweet delights if you tryy to do it. we're working with our partners in your to counter their terrorist activities and those go from yemen and syria. in lebanon to bahrain and the mischief there up to there. we are also addressing their cyber efforts, working with other partners in the region to make them more resistant. w