the us house armed services committee has approved an amendment to the national defense authorization act. the get this it will automatically register man, no fighting age for a quote possible military draft. now the text is clear, and e mail us citizen from 18 to 26 will be automatically registered. while america has a volunteer army, as it stands, the new system of automatic draft enrollment is claimed to be replacing an older version in which, signing up for a draft was a voluntary choice. oh, if washington it likes to bring back the draft. i move not seen since vietnam, those names will be ready to be pulled up. well, that's learn more with form a pedagogy senior security policy unless michael belief, joining us here on this program. michael. oh my goodness me. i mean, look at the end of the day, if this sounds a bit why reading, i would just start off by asking you why this, why no, as well, thanks for having a i think they're trying to bring more people on because increasingly, more and more american men are not signing up for the draft, even though they have a statutory obligat

, we had democratic congressman adam smith, who was the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. >> tell us that he wishes president biden had not gone public with erin burnett threatening to withhold certain weapons if israel veins population centers and rafah, what they shows is a bit of politics surrounding president biden on the issue of israel with us now seen a senior data reporter, harry and i thought that was illustrative. yes. >> of of what you've been looking at in the data of sort of that president biden getting squeezed from both ends here. >> he's getting squeezed from both ends. you know, i think it's important to note, let's look at the choice for president in 2024, among biden's 2020 voters. all right, because i think this sort of illustrates sort of how biden's getting pushed a little bit. so if you'd like by non the israel-gaza war, look at that. he's getting 87% of the vote rfk juniors getting eight donald trump way down here at four. >> but if you dislike biden, if you disapprove of the job, he's doing on the israel-gaza war. >> look at this. he's getting just 50% of tha

will you commit to seeking an assignment on the house armed services committee to protect that interest for your district? >> absolutely. let that help save us some time. host: we will go on to carol murphy for her response. ms. murphy: thank you. absolutely that is on my list to pick up. i'm in assemblywoman and daughter of a master sergeant. i can tell you i work on the base with base commanders and other folks. we also made the same commitment on the military affairs committee to work on military issues, not only in new jersey. one of the biggest ones we have [indiscernible] >> were going to go to herb conaway, we are working to address feedback so we are aware of that. to you. mr. conaway? >> i have treated people who are part of the veterans community. i know how important bases are to veterans and national security. i seek to serve on the committee and the general assembly and on the veterans affairs committee legislation to make things better for our military families. >> michael, you are next. you have a question for dr. conaway. >> you voted with democrats in support of chris christie's proposals to increase contributions of public

israel, admit its operation and raffa, joining us out of disgust, democratic congressman roku kind of california's serves on the house armed services committee, is also a member of the congressional progressive caucus and a biden campaign, sirgany, congressmen you're doing a whole lot these days, but let me ask you let me ask you this. your reaction to the israeli military moving into rafah what do you think the president's response to all of this should be? and your reaction to hitting the pause button, the administration hitting the pause button on some of these larger munitions going to israel. >> jim, i think the president has taken exactly the correct action, something that many of us have been calling for, for weeks. he has paused offensive it's a weapons going in to israel he's made it clear that netanyahu cannot continue to blatantly defy the united states president, secretary of defense, and secretary of state allies don't do that. they don't treat friends that way. and this is why 37 of us voted no on the offensive weapons and the president basically as now embraced our position and ceasefire negotiations are set to continue hamas

with us now is congressman seth molten from the commonwealth of massachusetts, a member of the house armed services committee, a congressman. last week you tweeted, i've always said that israel must defeat hamas. the question is whether invading rafah ultimately helps or hurts the cause. after meeting with the israeli ambassador day for an hour, i'm even more skeptical of their plan. you said i support president by his decision at that point, you were talking about his decision not to provide certain offensive weapons? if israel went into rafah, we're getting the news that israel is increasing. it's true presence on the ground there. can you tell us what you disapprove of that you learned of israel's plans we'll look. >> they just don't have answers to basic questions that you need to know have answers to if you're fighting a counter-insurgency, like what is the end game? how do they plan to prevent civilian casualties? what does he humanitarian aid plan? so you're, you're actually winning the support of the population and not just pushing them further into the arms of the terrorists. they didn't have answer

us the reporting. >> john all right. with me now is democratic congressman adam smith, the ranking member on the house, armed services committeecongressman, always great to have you here. how clear. and i know you heard erin burnett interview with president biden the other night how clear do you think the president's policy toward israel in terms of supplying weapons is right now. >> well, there's one aspect of it that isn't clear, but overall it's incredibly clear that dr. supporting israel we just passed a massive supplemental. we continue to give weapons stun the defend themselves just a couple of weeks ago, we defended them against the attack from iran, hundreds of missiles that were shot down and the us played a huge role on that. that's clear. and the specific aspect of what weapons is he talking about? restricting from israel? real based on what actions i don't think that was as clear as it was. now, john kirby cleared it up quite a bit yesterday talking about dumb bombs specifically. and if the attack in rafah amounts to a basically a full urban invasion, and you're talking about dropping bombs indiscriminately but i d

house armed services foreign affairs committee i want to tear more about what you learned feels yesterday testimony of michael cohen was something sparked outrage everywhere said the case over after day testimony walk usppened. >> yeah, maria. look. to be honest it was probably a little bit boringto do blanch.e methodological, cohen lied in front of judicial can he lied to lawyer lied to judge when he pled guilty in circumstances walking us through that again, caught cope lying on the stand about testimony he had just given days prior, in this big culminating final phone calm cohen claimed closed loop on hush money i guess forgot about texts he send before and after saying no, no, the call was really about getting harassed i guess by some prankster where todd had perry mason moment was he couldn't possibly the talked about all things he said he did plus texting about, in a 90 second phone call there is just no way, and cohen fem -- fell part on the stand the jury was absolutely dialed in at that point. maria: wow. that is where liberal media said you know, i think cooper on cnn, said michael cohen was cornered was he lied again so we will see what happens on monday your thoughts about this case you th

milley, you told the senate and house armed services committees on september 2021, one provision of the doha agreement agreement was the most important one, do not attack usr the coalition forces. you said that the taliban did not attack u.s. and coalition forces. did the taliban carry out at least some tax against u.s. and coalition bases in 2021 including indirect fire attacks? >> their work but the taliban, they would deny that, the taliban, you never can be certainrt if they have total er control over their individual units. the issue was a lethal attack. that is the fundamental piece. there was specific about the cities -- >> it depends on the definition of "is?" >> not at all. no attacks, congressman self has the agreement, no attacks on u.s. coalition forces, and conversation, it is "lethal attacks." there are specifics, i am doing this from memory, no mass casualty attacks. the problem is they did adhere to most of that, some attacks but not before, they did pick up the pace on attacks on afghan security forces which is significant. by my memory, looking at somewhere between 30 and 30,000 attacks. the peak of attacks. on afghan security forces in

told the senate and house armed services committees , in september of 2021, that one provision of the doha agreement, the taliban adhere to was the most important one , do not attack us or coalition forces. you said that the taliban did not attack u.s. and coalition forces didn't the taliban carry out at least some attacks against u.s. and coalition bases in 2021 including indirect fire attacks? >> there were but the taliban themselves, they would deny that. you never can be certain if they have total control over their individual units. there were some attacks and the issue was lethal attacks. that is the fundamental piece. there was also specifics -- >> in other words, it depends on the definition -- >> not at all it says no attacks and congressman self has the agreement, no attacks on u.s. and coalition forces. we are talking about lethal attacks. also, some specifics, i believe , doing this from memory, about no mass casualty tax. the problem is -- they did adhere to most of this, they did pick up the pace on attacks on afghanistan security forces. that is significant. by my memory, looking at somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 attacks. the peak of attacks occur