there is weariness of european defense policy will french troops really come to the defense of astonia >> for them, staying close to the united states is very important. staying close to the alliances that gives them as much of a deterrent as possible is important. we should be clear here that it is vastly unlikely that russia will invade the baltics. the kremlin isn't stupid they are fully aware that they clash. it wouldn't be a fair fight. what they would be worried about is a situation where either nato has stabilized to the point where the securities don't really mean much or where we are in an advanced late putinism where things could get out of control or out of hands. they want to demonstrate where good members keep the alliance as politically cohesive as possible >> you mentioned ukraine the country that has shot into the spotlight because of the impeachment holdings in the united states. what has the the situation demonstrated with regard to security and trump's personal ambitions? >> we haven't seen any statements from other leaders even president zelensky who has been measur

congress can't sign blank checks to the defense department. we must work to ensure every dollar's present and accounted for. the nation's strongest military in the world is managed by a defense department where taxpayer dollars seem to vanish without explanation, without receipts, and without accountability. over the years i collected a laundry list of pentagon waste, fraud, and abuse from $436 hammers to $640 toilet seats, $116 soap dish covers and $999 pliers. most recently, i exposed a $1,200 reheatable coffee cup and a $14,000 toilet seat lid. the dirty laundry just keeps piling up, and at the same time of piling up, soaking the taxpayer. these wasteful expenditures represent just the tip of an iceberg. the simple truth is the defense department can't keep track of or doesn't seem to care where tax dollars are spent. internal controls are weak, and in some cases nonexistent, and that's been reinforced by this second audit for which the department of defense inspector general can't give a clean audit, and for a second time, i would suggest

here are the facts about buyer defense. first, we inherited from the obama administration more than 64,000 borrower defense claims. i asked them to investigate why they made such little progress processing these claims. the ig found material weaknesses in the previous administration procedures for approving and claims. the prior administration was encouraging claims to be filed knowing full well it lacked the ability to even accurately track them. it had no process in place for reviewing any claim. it knew that the department could not quickly and legally give blanket forgiveness for all loans. they left tens of thousands of claims behind. greeted by the crushing number of applications and without effective guidance from congress, we took action to establish a process for reviewing the backlog. using the categories as our baseline. we quickly adjudicated 32,400 claims. our relief methodology was based on same data. that the obama administration used to measure schools under their gainful employment role. unfortunately, in m

image of a sketch of the defense of washington, this was part of the arlington defenses. you could see the wood stockade. a noticeable feature as well is the sharpened sticks on the outside of the wall. almost every single one -- i will talk more about the construction here. everything is really going to change when this past day are ready. after the battle for bull run when the union army is driven back to washington, d.c., there is an order given from general scott saying retreat to the protection of the forts. in a sense they have already served the function. when general mcclellan gets there this is where you will see the rapid evolution of the defense of washington. i call this the art of fortification. the gentleman that will be tasked with designing is john g barnard. i call him the father of the defense of washington. he served on general mansfield staff. he will be in charge of the defense of washington for about three years. i'm going to give you a number here. by the end of 1861, going into 1862, there are about 48 forts surrounding the city. that is incredible

the defense department can re- task u.s. air force and cube nine from central command and deploy them to the pacific in a similar role. those who answer or might object that we should not have one strategic theater to benefit another are right. both are essentially an intere interest. the navy should also consider increasing its projected and q4 c3 since the end q4 c3 program capability. it's unmanned platform. inverting the unmanned carrier launched surveillance and strike program to the c bars, the carrier based. the navy has lacked carrier air wing or range extender since the early 2000's. since our retirement of the asics and f-14 carrier air wing strike strong. any strategy employing standoff strikes would require an aircraft to show the mq25's role. by expanding its missions profile to include isr t would both increase capabilities and i believe we've already extreme cross. they emphasize long-range centers rather than speed. thereby avoiding the difficulties the program encountered. ironic characteristic of strategy,

missile defense and the. continued investments their arsenal is becoming one rouble to a u.s. disarming strike and so that's what they believe whether it's true or not is another matter and therefore they are investing not only in that conventional forces but also in modernizing and increasing the number of the nuclear forces and despite the amity between moscow and washington. the russians are very concerned that china may have more nuclear weapons that is generally believed and also president has been openly calling for enough to be trilateral discussions on negotiations involving china russia and the united states' rights pavol do you envision some sort of trilateral treaty going on or happening in the near future between the u.s. russia and china. that seems right now not very likely because the chinese practices. say that they don't want to take part in any such talks and even the west so sign up to an e.u. treaty that is going to limit their capabilities or their. next their plans and russia will not be pressing china to enter such negotiations so that seems to be there

defense forum. i'm kristin fisher. eric: there are growing questions this weekend about a high speed chase near miami that ended in tragedy earlier this week. a pair of armed robbery suspects hijacked a ups truck and took the driver hostage and led law enforcement on a chaotic highway pursuit. welwelcome america's news headquarters. i'm eric sean. arthel: i'm arthel neville. it ended with officers firing a barrage of bullets, killing suspects. >> reporter: four people are dead including the ups driver who was allegedly held hostage and the fbi is looking into the outcome of the robbery and deadly shooting right now. the ups driver was identified as 27-year-old frank or ton ord of. his family said police were trigger happy. the two suspects, 41-year-old lamar alexander, and robbie jerome hill, are accused of trying to rob a jewelry store in coral gables late thursday afternoon. they opened fire inside the store, injuring an employee there, then ran off and carjacked the ups truck with the driver insi

defense contractors can look forwards to get a sizable piece of the action u.s. presence donald trump already thanks to japan since they fall buying the u.s. equipment. japan's constitution prohibits it from buying offensive weapons still the island nation is one of the world's top customers for arms and weapons systems as more and more funds are devoted towards the fence japan's defense budget has jumped nearly 15 percent in less than a decade and now prime minister shinzo obvious government wants to boost it by over one percent to $48600000000.00 that's a record expenditure but the government says it will be spent carefully on the issue of congo and we need to enhance our defense capability to handle the security environment at the same time we also need to have appropriate control over the defense expenditure so we will strive to make it more efficient you know bleeding. clue in. japan's growing defense budget is a boon for american arms makers tokyo buys weapons almost exclusively from the united states last year american arms imports were valued at $67500000

missile defense systems in eastern europe probably relation of the i.n.f. treaty experts disagree on whether that's true but in any case the treaty is in a pretty sorry state right now in kind them wouldn't that well their mutual accusations from the united states and russia about the other side violating the treaty the best way of course would be for both sides to sit down. and discuss here that exploits would need no more than a couple of weeks. to fix the whole thing but in the current political crisis in the current political situation between the united states and russia it looks like all virtually impossible which is which is very sad because we may be losing the treaty within a year. in 2018 the trumpet going to stray should release the latest version of the nuclear posture review which outlines the pentagon's plans for modernizing america's nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to both nuclear and non-nuclear aggression. the plan in part calls for the deployment of new or updated versions of cruise missiles to be based on submarines. the u.s. could deploy

missile defense systems in eastern europe rob violation of the i.n.f. treaty experts disagree on whether that's true but in any case the treaty is in a pretty sorry state right now in kind them wouldn't that well their mutual accusations from the united states and russia about the other side violating the treaty the best way of course would be for both sides to sit down. and discuss here that exploits would need no more than a couple of weeks. to fix the whole thing but in the current political crisis in the current political situation between the united states and russia it looks like all virtually impossible which is which is very sad because we may be losing the treaty within a year. in 2018 the trumpet ministration released the latest version of the nuclear posture review which outlines the pentagon's plans for modernizing america's nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to both nuclear and non-nuclear aggression. the plan in part calls for the deployment of new or updated versions of cruise missiles to be based on submarines. the u.s. could deploy the miss

of defense most of them don't spend enough according to nato. regulation on defense budgets so yes then there needs to be a new strategy there also needs to be an identifying of the actual threats we have new zones of conflicts that ought to be identified current through the threat to the moment the threat is not necessarily one country or another the threat is a much more global desir for this meeting nato acknowledged that china was posing new opportunities but also new challenges with its rise and of course the situation i was russia at the moment poses a threat when it comes to dealing with elections but there will probably be able to say more about this than me and i know my conscious outlines the 5 that we need a new strategy for nato and that's what i was saying earlier by just saying that the organisation is brain dead is not going to bring things much further like the man who is the enemy what is if they're in the music of the country what if the music climate change or globalization or global power not mentioned of the earth are going

want to turn you to where you're at the reagan defense forum. one of the few bipartisan events really left in terms of republicans and democrats coming together to talk about the nation's defense and how best to do it. you're standing in front of an f-117 fighter. as we look at the defense authorization spending bill and what's going to happen, we have some numbers to put up. white house asked $708 billion, congress approved 2019, $708 billion. in fiscal year 2018, actually. there was a little bit more than what the white house requested. you guys going to be able to get this done, or is politics once again going to take over in terms of the national defense interests? >> well, in terms of the authorization, the good news is this week, next week coming we will, in a bipartisan way, approve, vote for the conference committee on the defense authorization act. that's the underlying authorization for the equipment and the readiness and all the spending to sport our military war fighters and their families. and then, of course, the end of december, y

of defense most of them don't spend enough according to nato. regulations on defense budgets so yes then there needs to be a new strategic there also needs to be an identifying of the actual threats we have new zones of conflicts that ought to be identified occurrence or the threat to the moment the threat is not necessarily one country or another the threat is a much more global desir for this meeting nato acknowledged that china was posing new opportunities but also new challenges with its flies and of course the situation i was russia at the moment poses a threat when it comes to dealing with elections but it will probably be able to say more about this than me and my conscious outlines the 5 that we need a new strategy for nato and that's what i was saying earlier by just saying that the organisation is brain dead is not going to bring things much further like the man who is the enemy what does if there are any means not the country. music climate change or global division or global power to not mention the figure in the ring in london as fa

duck and cover. >> this is an official civil defense film produced in cooperation with the civil defense administration and in consultation with the safety commission of the national education association. [video clip ends] gary: right over here, we have a couple of museum visitors, thank you for coming by today. a little bit more about civil defense. this film is talking about how to build a bomb shelter in your basement with cinderblocks. enough to -- and this is the manual that was used for that. and then inside this, more civil defense items. what do you need in a civil defense fallout shelter? if you are going to be cooped up for two weeks, you're going to need food, you need water, you need batteries, matches. you need toiletries. you need to have a way to listen, a radio in case a broadcast was coming out. you need to have light for lanterns. you need to have a way to get fresh oxygen into the facility. this is a handcranked pump that would suck air into filters. as a result of my father being who he was, a u2 pilot shot down in the 1960's, we do have a small exhibit on what my fa

are you comfortable with that i secretary of defense? >> secretary esper: what my general counsel had come forward with is that there were legal and technical issues relating to the request that we some liquid and honor, so that was the reason behind that. >> chris: do you feel congress has a right to oversight to be able to see documents from the pentagon about a program that was approved by congress? >> secretary esper: they do, but provided it's on the right and proper way and i think it was the issue. i think my reputation is pretty good in terms of being very transparent. i like to munich it with members of congress but in this case it my recollection is that there were technical and legal issues that prohibited us from doing exactly what was requested by the congress. >> chris: finally, you were the secretary of defense this past summer won a lot of these actions were going down with regard to ukraine. the president trump ever explained to you, tell you why he was holding up u.s. military aid to ukraine, and ally that is in a curre

of defense. we will be taking a vote to finalize this bill shortly. our national defense is incredibly important. it's mandated in the constitution. our national defense is arguably congress' primary constitutional responsibility. i have great respect and honor for those in uniform who serve. in fact, i recently introduced a bill to give each soldier who served in the war on terror $2,500 bonus and at the same time officially end the war in afghanistan. ending the afghan war would save us about $50 billion a year. unfortunately, the bill before us does not end any of our multitude of wars. the bill before us simply continues the status quo and throws more money around the world at conflicts of -- conflit even begin to fathom. before rubber stamping more money, it's worth a moment for us to take a step back and consider two things. first, we need to ask ourselves whether borrowing millions of dollars year after year to fuel our appetite for more military spending is a wise policy in the years ahea

missile defense and the. continued investments their arsenal is becoming one rouble to a u.s. disarming strike and so that's what they believe whether it's true or not is another matter and therefore they are investing not only in that conventional forces but also in modernizing and increasing the number of the nuclear forces and despite the amity between moscow and washington. the russians are very concerned that china may have more nuclear weapons that is generally believed and also president has been openly calling for enough to be trilateral discussions on negotiations involving china russia and the united states' rights pavol do you envision some sort of trilateral treaty going on or happening in the near future between the u.s. russia and china. that seems right now not very likely because the chinese practices last week say that they don't want to take part in any such talks and even the west so sign up to an e.u. treaty that is going to limit their capabilities or their. necks their plans and russia will not be pressing china to enter such negotiations so that seems to

the other dynamic at play in the defense space is the turkish acquisition of russian missile defense systems which got them kicked out of the f-35 program, right? and so that was, like, a very clear question of signaling and consequence, right, i mean, we told the turks what would happen if they pursued that weapons acquisition and they did it, anyway, and the thing happened. >> although the thing that happened wasn't the sanctions designation that was required under catsa. >> right. >> so, just saying. >> and, again, that's reflective of this kind of lack of lash-up here on the u.s. side, i think. so i'll be honest, i have not thought long and deeply about sanctions as a response to the conflict between the turks and kurds because i think many of us in the defense community kind of get stuck at the initial issue which was if u.s. forces had remained in place there, this would not have come to a head in the way it did, but i'll leave it there. >> i give it a d-minus. you wanted a grade, i'll give it d-minus. the reason is -- >> i was actually thinking more of where you'd put it on th

there's also a case against the department of defense. they are the government said they can enforce that and the d.c. circuit found it's certainly true that the private plaintiffs in that case were not regulated or the statute and it was not to their benefit. was to the benefit of the public and appropriations control. nonetheless with matters is the congruence of dancers between the challenger and congress and there was no question the plaintiff was a suitable challenger because it was seeking to accomplish exactly what congress was trying to accomplish which is forfeiture restrictions on the executive misusing of appropriated funds. here too there's no meaningful way in which your interest can divert from congress but further as questioning has shown no one else can come into this court that the government would agree it is within the zone of interest in and force the government moving a billion dollars out of military retirement money. there's simply no no way to do that so the government is correct this is a billion-dollar slush fund

of defense most of them don't spend enough according to nato. regulations on defense budgets so yes then there needs to be a new strategy there also needs to be an identifying of the actual threats we have new zones of conflicts that ought to be identified and current through the threat to the moment the threat is not necessarily one country or another the threat is a much more global desir for this meeting nato acknowledged that china was posing new opportunities but also new challenges with its rise and of course the situation i was russia at the moment poses a threat when it comes to dealing with elections but there will probably be able to say more about this than me and my conscious outlines the 5 that we need a new strategy for nato and that's what i was saying earlier by just saying that the organisation is brain dead is not going to bring things much further like the man who is the enemy what is if there are any means not the country what if they're in a music climate change or global if there's no global power to not mention to the gath

defense contractors can look forwards to get a sizable piece of the action u.s. presence donald trump already found to japan since the obvious fall buying the u.s. equipment. japan's constitution prohibits it from buying offensive weapons still the island nation is one of the world's top customers for on's and weapons systems as more and more funds are devoted towards the fence to pan's defense budget has jumped nearly 15 percent in less than a decade and now prime minister shinzo obvious government wants to boost it by over one percent to $48600000000.00 that's a record expenditure but the government says it will be spent carefully on their own we need to enhance our defense capability to handle the security environment at the same time we also need to have appropriate control over the defense expenditure so we will strive to make it more efficient you know blue to be clueing. japan's growing defense budget is a boon for american arms makers tokio buys weapons almost exclusively from the united states last year american arms imports were valued at $675000000.00.

reporter: defense secretary mark esper sat down with our own bret baier. he was asked about the motive of the pensacola shooter. here is what he said. >> i can't say terrorism at this time. we need to let the investigators and the fbi to do its work. and we'll move on from there. reporter: esper ruled out any large troop deployment despite reports otherwise. >> reports of troops moving to the middle east to counter iran. did that happen? >> no, those are false reports. i don't know where they came from. we deployed 14,000 troops since may of this year. but i'm not looking at any major deployments coming up in the region. >> i hosted a panel with the joint chiefs about how the military needs to pivot away from the middle east. >> our marine corps is built ideally or another desert shield, desert storm. it's not the force we are going need based on the vectors china and russia are going to. we need to helped weight and become a naval expeditionary force. reporter: i asked how they plan to protect u.s. from disinformation and cyber attacks. >> we are already

defense agent. but, what is interesting about this splash page about the secret stamp is that the splash page, in addition to the big minuteman image here is also dedicated front and center to a letter to stan lee from the united states treasury department on december 2, 1941. that is a week before pearl harbor. and let us see what it says. mr. stan lee, editor captain america comics, 330 west 42nd street, new york, new york. dear mr. lee, we welcome the opportunity of congratulating you on the patriotic thought behind your new adventure comic strip, roddy colt, u.s. defense agent. remember, roddy colt is the civilian identity of the secret stamp. you can't forget that. we like the idea very much. and believe such a strip will be effective in connection with the plan promoted by newspaper publishers now reaching national proportions to sell defense saving stamps through approximately 500,000 loyal, young american newsboys from maine to california. sincerely yours, eugene w. sloan, director, defense

you know the patient of the in the national defense authorization act one sees has suspended its new stream 2 point plan activities. and join me in the studio with more on the story. but at the trump administration sanctions have become a political tool of choice in the often simply automatic reaction to anything that the president takes issue with and this case is apparently no different because president trump has officially signed a bill which will require him to impose sanctions on any foreign companies and individuals which are involved in the building of nordstrom to now many of course no not soon to it is a huge $11000000000.00 venture it's a pipeline over 1000 kilometers long running from russia to germany and essentially it's going to flood the european continent with russian gas at a faster and cheaper rate than anything else currently available on the market but since the very beginning washington has had a bit of a problem with the project the united states commands all our european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream 2. and we commend others to do

assuming we are are joined by news defense secretary. here at the reagan national defense aura. only i'm fox news sunday. chris: then - house speaker nancy pelosi formally directing democrats to move forward with impeachment. staying the president's actions need and leave no choice. we'll talk to democratic congresswoman a key member of the house judiciary committee which will hear evidence monday from house investigators. plus the justice department's inspector general, highly anticipated review of the 2016 russia. >>. chris: will ask our son a panel the ig report will be. the president claimed it was all a witchhunt. and our power player the week. is obsessed with spice. in the things that they use to see you. all right now. i'm fox news sunday. you are live at the ronald reagan presidential library and air force one that carried our 40th president around the globe in pursuit of peace. and walk into a special hour of fox news sunday from the reagan national defense coram. a gathering of key figures in national security. more and then the moment. but first the latest i'm to dev

defense contractors can look forwards to get a sizable piece of the action u.s. presence donald trump already sunk to japan for buying the u.s. equipment. japan's constitution prohibits it from buying offensive weapons still the island nation is one of the world's top customers for arms and weapons systems as more and more funds are devoted towards the fence japan's defense budget has jumped nearly 15 percent in less than a decade and now prime minister shinzo obvious government wants to boost it by over one percent to $48600000000.00 that's a record expenditure but the government says it will be spent carefully on their way through congo and we need to enhance our defense capability to handle the security environment at the same time we also need to have appropriate control over the defense expenditure so we will strive to make it more efficient you know blue to be blue in. japan's growing defense budget is a boon for american arms makers tokio buys weapons almost exclusively from the united states last year american arms imports were valued at $675000000.00. it

help national defense. so even if it wasn't the main part of the cover, the message would still be put some place on the cover. and you know it hit people, the young audiences effectively because these messages were sold, were placed on the cover of the world's largest selling comic magazine. this one here back the attack with war bonds was another famous one. it didn't involve comic book characters. it was a famous phrase, back the attack because it rhymes. and we're going to take a look at captain america here. i want you to buy war bonds now. we will get to you in a bit. i wanted to show you, tell you a little personal story that sews the seeds of how i got interested in this stuff. a cousin of mine years ago when i was a little kid. i think, yeah, it was my tenth birthday, yep. my tenth birthday gave me a retrospective book of batman and robin story. ah. oh, i stand corrected. this is going to show just how much of a geek i am. my cousin got me the batman encyclopedia the christmas before. it was my aun

the defense ministry gave the people concerned every possibility to delete as messes and messages the german defense ministry hasn't exactly made things crystal clear with its statement on the phone data being deleted the types of communication and official mobile phones that are subject of interest for the investigation committee are covered by evidence decisions the federal ministry of defense provides the committee of inquiry with all existing documents relating to the subject of the investigation this is far from over the investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on angle americans christian democratic union party who were in overall charge found on the line herself which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u. commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions peter all over r.t. berlin. the deputy chairman of the alternative for germany party saxony branch says

in anticipation of the enactment of the national defense authorization act one sees has suspended its stream to pipeline activities will proceed consistent with the legislations wind down provision and expect guidance compromising of the necessary regulatory technical and environmental clarifications from the relevant u.s. authorities. ok let's talk more about this with. following the story for us good morning sas. break it down for us them what's led to this moment good morning well we of course you know that under the charm of ministration sanctions have the a new political tool often used as a default reaction to anything that the president takes issue with and this case is apparently no different because president trump has indeed officially signed off on a bill which would require him to impose sanctions on any foreign companies or individuals which are involved in the construction of nordstrom to now as many will know nordstrom too is a huge $11000000000.00 it's a pipeline over 1000 kilometers long running between russia and germany and it will senshi fill up the european contin

for successful borrow defense claims. it could have been resolved if congress amended the authorizations over the last two decades. if members of congress don't like how much the statute has given the secretary, then we should work together to amend the statute. and mr. chairman, we disagree on policy. a lot of times. but we don't disagree that students who represent not only our current situation in the nation, but our nation's future deserve all the opportunities to succeed. and frankly, i am saddened that i need to remind my colleagues of this. i think we need to respect this institution and honor it with the decorum that it decierres and show the students how we should behave and be examples for them. so thank you, mr. chairman. for your indulgence today. >> i want to thank the secretary for your participation today. we've heard very valuable information. members may have additional questions for you and we'll submit them to you in writing. remind members that questions must be submitt eted seven daysd the hearing rec

said that the borrower defense creek in his defensive reprehensible and harmful to students, the main troll used by the mid to education department is defined based on the mean and it has no direct relation to the medium in, short it's analysis propose the formula that misunderstands and misunderstands techniques in a way that makes it materially harder for students to find relief i would like to enter this analysis to the. >> without objection. >> moving on to secretary davos in the past year the number has ballooned to 225th 7000. many of these are part of group claims submitted by 20 separate state attorneys general including in my state pennsylvania, and sound borders have been waiting for more than four years for relief. these groups claims represents thousands of students who were defrauded bright predatory colleges. there is no questions that these colleges engaged in fraud. 24 members of this committee on both sides of the aisle represent students in those. states now, initially when these claims are brought, your department attempted to have them summarily dismissed, by argui

we are joint today by secretary of defense, mike s -- mark esper. and our service secretaries, , thank you, millie general and members of the joint use of. any distinguished military leaders and representatives including mac thornberry, joe wilson, mike rogers, michael turner, michael mccaul, robert winston. french hill. matt gaetz. waltz and i want to to aa special shout out great gentleman who loves the military, loves this country. senatorim in half -- who worked so hard on this. i want to extend a special thanks to the commander of the air force, district -- in 10 major general ricky raab. and commander of the 11th wing and joint days andrews, colonel az.rew pur thank you. and i am profoundly grateful to everyone of america's airfields. there is no greater honor than to serve as your commander in chief. i especially want to thank the incredible people that fly in .aintain air force one you are the best of the best. q you i very much for doing such an edible job. the 2020 andng of a is a watershed moment in the truest sense of the word. before i

even though we have the disputes about the $400.00 defense system. the russian defense system we have disputes about syria about about the cooperation with russia in that region about supporting islamists in syria and so on and so on and not to not to talk about everything that is inside so churchy which gives reason for for a lot of wars so still is a very valuable member of the alliance in the south like every member of the of nato is valuable because they all have an equal say in the matter so there's no country that is left on the other and i think that's one of the things that make it to make nato valuable. people are worried about turkey because it's now and some are saying turkey should not be a member of nato. yes but it is and. i think you have to be one of the yes it is fair and this this meeting in london i think there was much to say about conflicts of interests and come face of post not had to present it to clashing with so in my own micro in talking with her son justin trudeau from canada and that gave a bit of the fading of a schoolyar

agreement by deploying missile defense systems in romania and poland. u.s. navy ships outfitted with anti missile interceptors are on duty in the mediterranean sea. washington says all of the systems are intended to protect against missile attacks from iran. human head over this issue of the russians say that the u.s. missile defense systems in eastern europe robbed by relation of the i.n.f. treaty experts disagree on whether that's true but in any case the treaty is in a pretty sorry state right now in kind them. that well their mutual accusations from the united states and russia about the other side violating the treaty the best way of course would be for both sides to sit down. and discuss here that experts would need no more than a couple of weeks. to fix the whole thing but in the current political crisis in the current political situation between the united states and russia it looks like all virtually impossible which is which is very sad because we may be losing the treaty within a year. in 2018 the trumpet going to stray should release the latest v

missile defense systems in eastern europe robbed by relation of the i.n.f. treaty experts disagree on whether that's true but in any case the treaty is in a pretty sorry state right now in kind them wouldn't that well their mutual accusations from the united states and russia about the other side violating the treaty the best way of course would be for both sides to sit down and discuss here that exploits would need no more than a couple of weeks. to fix the whole thing but in the current political crisis in the current political situation between the united states and russia it looks like all virtually impossible which is which is very sad because we may be losing the treaty within a year. in 2018 the trumpet ministration released the latest version of the nuclear posture review which outlines the pentagon's plans for modernizing america's nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to both nuclear and nonnuclear aggression. the plan in part calls for the deployment of new or updated versions of cruise missiles to be based on submarines. the u.s. could deploy the missil

reason one, self defense. as todd told the police that very first day -- >> it was probably a kill or be killed kind of situation. >> reporter: he was a good guy in a bad situation, said his attorney. he worked hard and long hours to support rachel. he wanted to make her happy, and he was a good dad. and for that she cheated on him, threatened him and then attacked with those scissors. of course, by that point, todd told the police, she was a very unstable woman. >> started drinking, started binge drinking. i was afraid for the children. she was just spinning into this mental cycle of self-destruction. >> reporter: and then todd's defense revealed this little gem. >> she's signed up for california sweetheart, which is an adult connection kind of -- you can judge for yourselves what it is. >> reporter: married to a man she'd grown to hate, in an affair with a man she was maybe thinking of cheating on, said the defense. she was conflicted, said todd's attorney. she was telling people she was afraid of todd. and

joe gould covers congress for defense news. with your first question is john donnelly. john: first question i want to ask about is the national defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. a marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u.s. military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. china and russia are endangering military satellites in space. we know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why it's important to have a separate organization created, why the air force doesn't have the resources or commitment to get it done. rep. thornberry: i think the place to start is the importance of space for our daily lives as americans. one of the examples i use is every time you fill up your car to pay at the pump, the pump connects to a satellite to verify your credit card before it will let you put gas into the car. every transaction on the new york stock exchange is timed to the gps satellites. you go through example after example o

there's also a case against the department of defense. the government said they can enforce that and the d.c. circuit found it's certainly true that the private plaintiffs in that case were not regulated or the statute and it was not to their benefit. was to the benefit of the public and appropriations control. nonetheless with matters is the congruence of dancers between the challenger and congress and there was no question the plaintiff was a suitable challenger because it was seeking to accomplish exactly what congress was trying to accomplish which is forfeiture restrictions on the executive misusing of appropriated funds. here too there's no meaningful way in which your interest can divert from congress but further as questioning has shown no one else can come into, this court that the government would agree it is within the zone of interest and enforce the government moving a billion dollars out of military retirement money. there's simply no no way to do that so the government is correct this is a billion-dollar slush fund fund lyi

the other dynamic at play in the defense space is the turkish acquisition of russian missile defense systems which got them kicked out of the f-35 program, right? and so that was, like, a very clear question of signaling and consequence, right, i mean, we told the turks what would happen if they pursued that weapons acquisition and they did it, anyway, and the thing happened. >> although the thing that happened wasn't the sanctions designation that was required under catsa. >> right. >> so, just saying. >> and, again, that's reflective of this kind of lack of lash-up here on the u.s. side, i think. so i'll be honest, i have not thought long and deeply about sanctions as a response to the conflict between the turks and kurds because many of us in the defense community kind of get stuck at the initial issue which was if u.s. forces had remained in place there, this would not have come to a head in the way it did, but i'll leave it there. >> i give it a "d" minus. you wanted a grade, i'll give it "d" minus. the reason is -- >> i was actually thinking more of where you'd put it on this l

of defense most of them don't spend enough according to nato. regulation on defense budgets so yes then there needs to be a new strategic there also needs to be an identifying of the actual threats we have new zones of conflicts that ought to be identified as the current threat of the threat to the moment the threat is not necessarily one country or another the threat is a much more global desir for this meeting nato acknowledged that china was posing new opportunities but also new challenges with its flies and of course the situation i was russia at the moment poses a threat when it comes to dealing with actions but there will probably be able to say more about this than me and i know my conscious outlines the fact that we need a new strategy for nato and that's what i was saying earlier by just saying that the organisation is brain dead is not going to bring things much further like the man who is the enemy what is if the enemy is not the country what is in the music climate change or globalization on global power to not mention to think in th

defense contractors can look forwards to get a sizable piece of the action u.s. presence donald trump already thanks to japan since so are they for buying the u.s. equipment. japan's constitution prohibits it from buying offensive weapons still the island nation is one of the world's top customers for all and weapon systems as more and more floods are devoted towards the fence japan's defense budget has jumped nearly 15 percent in less than a decade and now prime minister shinzo obvious government wants to boost it by over one percent to $48600000000.00 that's a record expenditure but the government says it will be spent carefully on the issue of congo and we need to enhance our defense capability to handle the security environment at the same time we also need to have an appropriate control over the defense expenditure so we will strive to make it more efficient you know bleeding. clue in. japan's growing defense budget is a boon for american arms makers tokio buys weapons almost exclusively from the united states last year american arms imports were valued at $

thanks to the outstanding work of the defense p.o. w.-m.i.a. accounting agency, his remains were accounted for in 2017 and just last weekend on the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor, he arrived home in arkansas to his final resting place. petty officer craig's burial is a long overdue moment of honor for a brave sailor and it's also a moment of hope for our many military families whose loved ones haven't yet been found. a reminder that our nation won't rest until every one of our missing heroes is back in our arms or laid to rest with honor. we've now fulfilled the solemn pledge to petty officer craig and nearly 80 years after his disappearance, we've affirmed once again that the united states leaves no man behind on the battlefield. mr. president, i ask consent that the following remarks be placed in a separate part of the journal. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cotton: synthetic opioids like fentanyl til tens of thousands of americans each year. they are a terrible accelerant that has fueled the worst drug crisis i

but what defense would there be to offer? >> there is no defense. and what they have said in the minority report, which is completely outrageous, is they just simply say, there is no evidence to support theablizations. but they don't present any evidence that says there is a defense to those. and it's sort of like if i went into a bank and i wrote a check on my own bank account and cashed the check and then i pulled out a gun and said to the teller, and now give me all the money in the vault. the fact that i did a legal transaction by withdrawing from my own account does not legalize the fact that i pulled out a gun and robbed the bank. and the same thing is true right now in terms of this. they're saying, well, the president was concerned about ukraine's corruption. well, if he was, he never let anybody know. but even if he was, it wouldn't excuse the fact that he withheld the money and put in danger our national security and that of ukraine, an ally, by doing that. and he helped only one person, himself, and putin. so i guess he helped two people,

spending but defense operations as well so again just just circling back to that i think one of the other challenges with this amount of money is it's basically intangible to the average american citizen on the one hand it's the end of the year it's the holidays people are paying close attention to these spending bills in the specifics that are in them but also when you put that number out there again it's 700 $38000000000.00 the average person can't grasp just how much money that really is that is such an astronomical amount and i think if we perhaps had some more conversations about just how much money that really is and get people to understand more than maybe they would demand more accountability of our members of congress and the department of defense in terms of how we allocate that money and how it's spent you mentioned space force earlier and i kind of want to. know we're getting there 6 branch of the military you know kind of against that i want to ask you and kind of explore that more why it why are you looking about saying we don't need it 6 or another branch of the milit

2018 national defense strategy. so, mr. esper, could you please tell us if, in fact, we are engaged in countering russia in the middle east? >> i think chairman smith said it, in his opening remarks that history matters so the relationship between russia and syria goes back to the cold war, with the ussr, that relationship in the post soviet russia was reinvigorated -- >> excuse me. the history lesson will take several months. >> i promise you get there in 20 seconds. it was reinvigorated with russia moves in under assad and began working closely with the syrian forces, so back to the question about the national defense strategy, the principal way that i see as countering russia is through our nato alliance to our partners. we've seen a lot of good success there, i was in london meeting last week, the nato allies are spending hundred 40 billion dollars more annually than they had before. >> can you please focus on syria and turkey? >> my biggest concern with the syria and turkey is actually turkey and russia, the co

was no guarantee that congress was going to approve the sale so turkey didn't want to risk its air defense system on a patriot that could quite possibly never be delivered so it reopened the tender at 1st it was in talks with china that didn't happen that deal fell through and then there was the s 400 the s 4 hundreds a very good air defense system i think frankly it's superior to the patriot the price is cheaper and it came at a time when turkey russia relations were improving so it was a natural step forward to bind that relationship even better going forward mr emu said to add a few minutes ago that nato provides you with a perfect security guarantee why do you need to buy an additional security and against who against what turkey wanted its own air defense system this is something that is wanted for a while said the nato security guarantees not enough i dand of the day maybe it's not enough maybe that's something that does need to be looked into like i said we know that there's about $6700.00 missiles that touched down on turkish soil throughout the 9 years of the syrian conflict this

to dominate space a syrian civil defense agency says at least 6 people have been killed by russian and government airstrikes in northwest idlib the white house at sea children were trapped under the rubble after homes were hits in the attack syria and russia have increased bombing of the area since april with more than a 1000 civilians killed. at least $58.00 migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of mauritania the international organization for migration says survivors are being treated in the northern city of new art who it says the vessel was carrying at least $150.00 people from gambia and that's the vessel was low on fuel. some more is rolling out a mass vaccination program to stem its fast growing measles crisis $62.00 people have died from the disease with more than $115.00 u. cases every day immunization is compulsory under a state of emergency imposed last month families who haven't been vaccinated are being urged to fire a red flag or cool off outside their house to speed up the process just to washington has more now from the simone capital of apia we'