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u.s. department of defense for an interview was declined but we did get a statement saying america's partner forces are vetted and that the final use of the weapons is checked. meanwhile u.s. support for rebel groups in syria continues. and to defeat eisel america has chosen a new ally the president authorized the department offense to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over isis in iraq and syria. but could his rebel forces have been own territorial interests and a new front has opened in a region already fractured by war. in a recent escalation to u.s. allies turkey and the kurds have been pointing guns at one another. and more lives are taken every single day. this brand of weapons is a global problem and even more so if exporting countries avoid accountability. looks so to me it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world's record for this the side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil t

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u.s. department of defense buys 3% of the aluminum and, rather, 3% of the steel and 20% of the aluminum.ot a issue national security. this is issue -- trish: she is making a good point here. what we herd from john lapides could be issue of national security. why take the risk. >> a lot of things could be issue of national security. if you want to talk about national security, look to china as ally, instead of pisses them off. >> keep it clean. we have kids around here. >> come on. trish: we do. michael, the chinese, in terms of being friends with them, we tried that right? we tried being friends with everyone and it hasn't worked. so, kayleigh, is it time to try something new? put your money where your mouth is? if you tell the chinese, sign on to the sanctions, let's be clear, be on the sail page when it comes to north korea, they trade with north korea behind your back. don't you have the right to invoke some kind of economic pain on them? >> absolutely. i mean look at this. the chinese have made a fool out of us under the obama administration, slapping a 35% tariff on our cars that we

u.s. department of defense to help develop smarter grown software. according to a report google has agreed to provide machine learning software helping the computers better detect objects and surveillance footage. the dod says it's part of the projects to win war was computer intelligence. >>> amazon a acknowledges the alexa ifs creeping out customers with robotic laughter. >> that's pretty horrible isn't it. the company says it's working to fix the problem. people began talking about the issue on social media in recent weeks. one twitter user reported alexa began laughing in the middle of an office conversation even when the user asked alexa why she laughed. she said sorry, i am not sure. >> nervous perhaps. >> so odd. >> >>> we know not to drink and drive obviously. drive obviously. what about drinking and sho hello, i'm vincent, this is livingston, that's tangella, this is our haunted house and every saturday night on kofy tv-20 we present our show creature features, where we show wonderfully horrible films and horribly wonderful guests. do join us

of the consulate in seattle because it's close to a u.s. submarine base and also boeing, the company which does quite a lot of business with the u.s. department of defense. they have offices and factories in the state of washington. the 60 russian diplomats and their families have seven days to leave the u.s. all have been using the cover of a diplomat to engage in intelligence activities and spy on americans. >> this president knows what is right on the international stage and how to deal with russia. when we need them to defeat isis or terrorism, he works with them. when they do things like in england with the poisoning of that individual, we sanction them. we stand up against them when we need to. >> of the 60 russians expelled, 48 are at the russian embassy. similar actions have taken place in europe and canada. >> 18 countries have announced their intention to expel more than 100 intelligence officers from their countries. this includes 15 e.u. member states as well as the united states, canada and the ukraine. president putin's regime is carrying out acts of aggression against our shared values and interest within our continent and beyond. as a so

u.s. department of defense, for example, there is a steel company in sheffield, england that produces castings for the weapons system of the new columbia class nuclear submarines. they're replacing the ohio class. if we were to tax those, we would be taxing our own supply chain. so the president is going to make sure that doesn't happen. certain u.s. companies won't be able to ask for exclusions of individual products. so we still don't have all of the fine details here. but again, a 15-day clock began running with the imposition of tariffs with the president giving some countries besides canada and mexico a window to change their trade practices. the president talking about the problem of trans shipment of chinese steel. 2% comes from china. the president says because china trans ships, the percentage is higher. we stop trans shipment or we will allow their products or they will be taxed. here we go. we'll see what happens. >> thanks, john roberts. we saw the mark moving higher. stocks moving up as fears of an all-out trade war began to ease. with me right now, melissa arnold. liz harrington

u.s. hostilities. but this has not caused us to enter interactive warfare or hostilities in yemen. the department of defense and secretary mattis have made clear that u.s. forces are not -- are not engaged in exchanges of fire with hostile forces. according to the acting general counsel of the department of defense, the limited military and intelligence support that the united states is providing to the k.s.a.-led coalition does not involve nip introduction of u.s. forces for purposes of the war power resolution or section 1013 of the authorization act, fiscal years 1984 and 1985. mr. president, i support that assessment, the refueling of aircraft over the red sea does not equate to introducing u.s. forces into hostilities nor does intelligence sharing. u.s. forces are not transporting saudi forces into combat within yemen by air, land, or sea. so the expedited procedures this resolution seeks to exploit simply do not apply here. if senators disagree with my assessment on the merits and oppose our support for the coalition, they have he'll several legislative tools available to them. they could try to restr

u.s. department of defense to help smarter drone software.'re going to provide them with machine learning software to better detect objects in surveillance drone footage. the d.o.d. says it's to improve the ability to win wars with computer artificial intelligence. >>> amazon knows why its smart assistant alexa has been acting kind of creepy. >> you hear that chuckle? some alexa-enabled devices are freaking out their owners with unpropted bursts of laughter. it mistakenly hears the phrase alexa laugh. they've changed the phrase to alexa, will you laugh. it can laugh before laughing because that was creepy. amazon is working on that update. it says i can laugh. >> it doesn't sound like the alexa voice to me. that's why i'm more concerned. it sounded like a lady at the seattle headquarters, i hear you and i see you. >> somebody in the cubby hole just going, i'm going to freak this person out. i'm going to freak this person out. >> uh-huh. >> i'm with you on that one. i'm right there with you. i unplug that thing half the time when my wife's not

told for the first time in this people's memory, the department of defense and department of state have a close working relationship where we all agree u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the men and women in uniform at the department of defense under the leadership of secretary mattis and general dunford protect us as americans and our way of life daily at home and abroad. military,olunteer they do it for love of country, they do it for you and they do it for me and for no other reason. as americans, we are all eternally grateful to each of them and we honor their sacrifices. the rewarding part of having leadership and partnerships in place is that you can actually get some things done. and i want to give recognition to the state department and our partners for a few of their accomplishments under this administration. we exceeded allies, the expectations of almost everyone with the dpr pressure campaign. --the air of strategic patience we increased the scope of the sanctions. the department understood a global campaign to bring partners and allies on board with every country around the world. at every meeting i have had throughout th

u.s. department of defense and the cia. jeremy, it's been so long. michael, good to see you as well. start with you because you're new to us here. how significant is this expulsion of this many diplomats coming after this poisoning in the u.k.? >> i think it's very strong messaging that the administration has decided to expel 60 diplomats, for more consequential is the closure of the consulate in seattle which was primary used for espionage purposes. so the message bhientsds is strong. in terms of reel consequences this doesn't amount to a whole lot. after all these sorts of diplomatic expulsions always result in a tat for tat response. >> you mentioned the consulate in sooelkts, the administration saying it was primary used for spying purposes, it was near a u.s. submarine base and a boeing facility. if the facility was used for spying purposes, why was it open in the first place? why is the response to a poisoning the reason they're closing it? >> frankly, it should have been closed a long time ago. a lot of t . >> jeremy, the russians aren't happy about this. they're asking folks

for the first time in most people's memory, the department of state and department of defense have a close working relationship where we all agree the u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the men and women in uniform at the department of defense under the leadership of secretary mattis protect us as americans at home and abroad. as an all-volunteer military, they do it for love of country, they do it for you, and they do it for me. if for no other reason. as americans we are all eternally grateful to each of them and honor their sacrifices. the rewarding part of having leadership and partnerships in place is that you can actually get some things done. and i want to give recognition to the state department and our partners for a few of their accomplishments under this administration. first, working with allies, we exceed the expectations of almost everyone with the dprk maximum pressure campaign with the announcement on my first trip to the region that patience was over and dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions. the department undertook a global campaign to bring partners and allies on board in

for the first time in most people's memory, the department of state and department of defense have a close working relationship where we all agree the u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the men and women in uniform at the department of defense under the leadership of secretary mattis and protect us as americans at home and abroad. as an all-volunteer military, they do it for love of country, they do it for you, and they do it for me. if for no other reason. as americans we are all eternally grateful to each of them and honor their sacrifices. the rewarding part of having leadership and partnerships in place is that you can actually get some things done. and i want to give recognition to the state department and our partners for a few of their accomplishments under this administration. first, working with allies, we exceed the expectations of almost everyone with the dprk maximum pressure campaign with the announcement on my first trip to the region that pasheance was over and dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions. the department undertook a global campaign to bring partners and allies on boa

the department of defense it has become difficult to continue the operation without the kurdish forces who are not involved in the conflict with turkey and despite suspending ground operations u.s. airstrikes will continue the department of defense also expressed its disapproval over the turkish operation against the kurds daniel mcadams executive director at the hall institute thinks that the u.s. alliance with the kurds is unlikely to survive. well that's three months of the old saying it's better to be the enemy than the ally of the united states because if you're the enemy they may try to buy you but if you're the ally they certainly will sell you and that certainly seems like what they're doing with the kurds perhaps the kurds are understanding that they will be sold out they were sold out at rock as well and they will be sold out in the eastern part of syria where the us is operating and they're coming to the aid of their allies dizzee us hope that the syrian government gets further drawn in to the fight with the kurds against the turks then the us can swing back around and help its turkish ally in fighting the syrian government and the kurds as well maybe that's the move

u.s. department of defense task force on domestic violence in the military from 2000 to 2003. in that role, i was able to travel all over the world and observe and listen to domestic violence survivors, domestic violence offenders and those that were trying to deal with domestic violence in the military. i learned so much about the military and grew to an even greater level of respect and honor for all of our armed services at every rank. most of the recommendations that we made as part of that domestic violence task force were adopted by the military. we can hear from some of the testimony some of the things that are supposed to be put into place, the problem is now, of course, implementation, sustainability, continuous evaluation and continuous improvement. that's where i think we have fallen down. one of the recommendations we made was to conduct a systematic , population-based, regularly repeated and importantly, totally anonymous survey of active-duty military women and active-duty military wives. wives of active-duty military women. this was done by cdc in 2010. it is be

of the satellites. these fixed sites also provide predictable locations from which adversaries could get close to discern u.s. capabilities. as the department of defense developing more launched sites. in support a rapid responsive and resilient launch capability. i'm a representative from guam. and i will say here that there has been inquiries about space capabilities in our territories from commercial investors very reset where these visits and they are very ambitious to begin operations. could any of you comment on this. there are commercial launch sites that are available today. we have commercial sites. different space ports in new mexico and alaska into florida there are multiple space once. i think resiliency is important. one of the big things that has happened over the course of the last year is significant. that is in the move to autonomous ranges. every time space x doesn't launch. they do it autonomously. you have to have the ability to load up a rocket. we had raters implement tree. and a bunch of contractors working there. that's help to reduce of the range of structure a more resilient capability going forward. are you aware of the inqu

for the first time in most people's memory the department of state and the department of defense have a close working relationship where we all agree the u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the men and women in uniform at the department of defense under the leadership of secretary mattis and general dunford protect us as americans in our way of life daily at home and abroad. as an all-volunteer military, they do it for love of country, they do it for you, and they do it for me and for no other reason. as americans, we are all eternally grateful to each of them and we honor their sacrifices. the rewarding part of having leadership and partnerships in place is that you can actually get some things done. and i want to give recognition to the state department and our partners for a few of their accomplishments under this administration. first working with allies, we exceeded the expectations of almost everyone with the dprk maximum pressure campaign. with the announcement oy very first trip as secrery of state to the region that the arab strategic patience was over and we commence the steps to dramatically increase not just the scope but th

u.s. capabilities. if the department of defense developing more launch sites using commercial capabilities to address these weaknesses and support a rapid responsive and resilient capability? guama representative from and there has been inquiries about space capabilities in our territory from commercial investors. very recent tour these visits and they are very ambitious to begin operations. could any of you comment on this? are raymond: yes, there commercial launch sites that are available today. we've got them on our fixed in newnd we have them mexico, alaska, florida, virginia. >> is guam on the list? gen. raymond: we would be happy to put it on the list. one of the big things that has happened over the last year which is significant is the move to thomas flight termination -- s flight terminations. we can protect populations, low up a rocket if it were to go astray. we have radars and command distract and tennis and a bunch of contractors working that. thomast is all done the autoumonusly. >> are there any other comments from the other witnesses? are you aware of the inquiries that have made of guam? t

u.s. assistance has contributed to improve it by the coalition on these issues. specifically, the department of defense has told us that engagement by u.s. military person has resulted in the production of a no strike list. that is a process which actually puts targets off-limits and ensures that pilots and others understand those targets. they also caused a succession or an ending of the use of -- by saudi forces. and the formation of the body to investigate noncombatant casualties. these are positive steps but it is clear that much more must be done to maximize impact of the war on yemeni civilians. i support our continued engagement for that purpose. both saudi arabia and the uae face a significant threat from houthi rebels armed with ballistic missiles. apparently with assistance of the iranians. there have reportedly been dozens of such attacks against saudi arabia since the spring of 2015, including against civilian targets like the international airport in riyadh which was attacked this december. i strongly support the right of our partners to defend themselves from these threats and believe i c

u.s. capabilities. is the department of defense developing new launch sites with commercial capabilities to address these weaknesses and support a rapid, responsive, and resilient capability? i am a representative from guam. i will say that there have been inquiries about space capabilities in our territory from commercial investors. very recent were these visits. they are ambitious to begin operations. could any of you comment on this? commercial launch sites available today. there are multiple spaceports. we would be happy to put guam on the list. one of the big things that has happened over the course of the last year, which was significant, is the move to autonomous flight systems and autonomous ranges. every time that spacex does a launch, they do it autonomously. we have to have the ability to protect populations and blow up the rocket if it went astray. we typically have command to struct and dennis. -- antennas. that is all done autonomously. that helps reduce the range infrastructure. commentsere any other from the other witnesses? are you aware of the inquiries that have been made to guam? to l

u.s. capabilities. is the department of defense developing more launch sites using new commercial capabilities to address these weaknesses and support a rapid, responsive, and resilient launch capability? i'm a representative from guam. and i will say here that there has been inquiries about space capabilities in our territory from commercial investors. very recent were these visits, and they are very ambitious to begin operations. so could any of you comment on this? >> yes. there are commercial launch sites that are available today. we've got them on our fixed bases. we have commercial sites. we also have different space ports in new mexico and alaska, in florida, in virginia, so there are -- there are multiple space -- >> is guam on tlist, general? >> we'd be happy to put guam on the list. i think resiliency is important. one of the big things that's happened over the last year which is significant, and it doesn't get a lot of press, and that's the move to autonomous flight termination systems in the autonomous ranges. so every time, today, every time spacex does a launch, they do it autonomously. you

u.s. congress and department of defense on the best way forward for arlington national cemetery. thank you. we stand ready for your questions. >> thank you. let me just start, mr. allen, i have a question for you. the results from the first survey appear to favor restricting eligibility to p.o.w.s, valor awards, the purple heart, medal of honor, killed in action and active duty. 68% of the veterans in this survey favor this category while only 47% favor keeping retirees eligible. i'm referring to a survey that was done i believe by the department of the army. i am curious why your testimony is contradictory to the survey results. can you elaborate on this? >> thank you, mr. chairman, for the question. yes. so our position is contrary to what that particular point in the arlington national cemetery advisory committee survey said because i'm here representing the members of the military officers association and our members explicitly stated that they prefer not to restrict eligibility to the military retiree population. i think that's the distinguishing factor between the data poin