the pentagon papers came out. and all of a sudden, it was access to more information -- there was access to more information. , how did youhat feel about the indifference under the obama administration about the information on hillary clinton's emails and how that information was protected and hidden and obstructed from turning it over? the f.b.i. n.g.i. and everybody else -- the f.b.i. and the c.i.a. and everybody else. how did he feel about them up screwing that from the public? guest: we have to be clear about what the pentagon papers revealed. paragraphs of "the new york times" report made it clear the government's own history of its own decision-making processes over the better part of a quarter of a century indicated government officials misled if not lied to the american people about the goals they were pursuing in vietnam, how well the war was going, and what their plans were for how the war was going to end. that was a very serious charge. it was a charge that captivated the american public at the time. a

the pentagon papers came out. and all of a sudden, it was access to more information -- there was access to more information. , how did youhat feel about the indifference under the obama administration about the information on hillary clinton's emails and how that information was protected and hidden and obstructed from turning it over? the f.b.i. n.g.i. and everybody else -- the f.b.i. and the c.i.a. and everybody else. how did he feel about them up screwing that from the public? guest: we have to be clear about what the pentagon papers revealed. paragraphs of "the new york times" report made it clear the government's own history of its own decision-making processes over the better part of a quarter of a century indicated government officials misled if not lied to the american people about the goals they were pursuing in vietnam, how well the war was going, and what their plans were for how the war was going to end. that was a very serious charge. it was a charge that captivated the american public at the time. a

you should not cooperate with evil. >>> the pentagon papers drama changed abruptly into the pentagon papers media freak out and farce as the documents arrived at the senate. >> i think dan was disappointed in that he may have expected too much from the publication of the papers. he may have expected the publication of the papers would create a greater sensation than it did. of course, it created a sensation. >> where is mr. elsberg? >> i hope he's in jail. >> but i think he was disappointed in the fact that the stance of the papers, the content of the papers did not seem to be absorbed by the public. >> i gave up my job, my clear, my clearance and i staked my freedom on a gamble. if the american people knew the truth about how they had been lied to, about the myths that had led them to endorse this butchery for 25 years, that they would choose against it. and the risk that you take when do you that is that you learn something ultimately about your fellow citizens that you won't like to hear. and that is that they hear it, they learn from it, they understand it and they proceed to ign

the pentagon papers were secret defense department documents that had been spirited out of the pentagon. >> right. the executive branch. >> the white house tapes from the watergate scandal were obviously created in the oval office with the president's knowledge, the question of whether congress should be able to get them was legitimate constitutional question. what about when it's a fight over congress releasing something of its own? >> it is absolutely terrible. you're absolutely right. because as you say, those are things where they're executive branch documents. here you've got a situation where a majority on the judiciary committee led by charles grassley is saying we're going to conceal our own transcript of this testimony which democrats have heard and feel should be released. that's really the kind of heavy-handedness you that didn't even see during the nixon period. and i think one reason why gravel was able to prevail was because he knew that with a democratic majority democratic senators were not going to go after him for releasing those documents. if you saw a similar profile

the pentagon papers were secret defense department documents spirited out of the pentagon. >> the executive branch. >> the white house tapes from the watergate scandal were obviously created in the oval office with the president's knowledge, the question of whether congress should be able to get them is legitimate constitutional question. what about when it's a fight over releasing something of its own. >> those other things were executive branch where the majority led by charles grassly and democrats have heard and that's really the heavy-handedness that you didn't see during the nixon period. and i think one reason prevail is he was the democratic majority. encouraged and blumenthal and others it might not end up so well. >> i was looking back at the coverage the day after gravel did this thing. we got the initial coverage, breathless coverage about what they done the day after that was about how his fellow senators were absolutely vexed by his controversial behavior and you saw that. >> it was an argument for historical judgment. often times thinks will look different in history, decades

covering the pentagon for us. what have you learned, courtney, from officials there at the pentagon? >> so spoken to people both in the region in hawaii and in u.s. military in the pentagon, and no one can find any indication that the u.s. military is the one who prompted this alert, that led them to send this push alert, indicating there was a ballistic missile inbound. and we spoke about this earlier, then general mccalf re-explaiex works. hawaii informs them there are some ballistic missile. u.s. has ability to see launches very soon and immediately start to assess what the potential trajectory is and where it could be going and potential impact point all over the world. that's u.s. strategic command and northern command who all work on that in conjunction with one another. but again once that threat comes in, if they have the indication that that could be coming to someplace like hawaii, or north korea could be hitting hawaii, they would be informed, u.s. military and u.s. pacific command would inform hawaii c

president i simply would like to read a statement from the spokesperson from the pentagon we have been working under a continuing resolution for three years now the current cr expires january 19 this is destructive. we need to fully funded budget or face ramifications on the military. that very cr that the pentagon objects to and i strenuously object. >> the objection is served. >> with that motion to concur. >> report the culture or emotion. >> in accordance with provisions of the standing rules of the senate hereby bring to a close the motion to concur to the senate amendment as follows. >> i asked the reading to be dispensed with and i concur that hr 195. >> i'm sorry i am not objecting. [laughter] >> i moved to concur with a further amendment. >> the clerk will report. >> the senator from kentucky moves to concur to the senate amendment hr 195 with amendment b 1903. >> i asked reading bee dispensed with. >> without objection to the a's and amazed to concur. >> is there a sufficient second? b >> they are ordered. >> a second degree amendment. >> to propose amendment 19042 amendment

you just heard from the pentagon. the pentagon thinks that it is wrong for the military. again from the pentagon spokesperson i want to repeat this we have been working under a continuing resolution for three years now. our current cr expires tomorrow january 13. this is wasteful and destructi destructive. we need a fully funded fiscal year eight team budget or we will face ramifications for the military. because of the urgent needs we face, the military and so many of the others, opioids, veterans, pension, we shouldn't delay any further. we should cloture tonight and the outcome i think we all know will be defeated and start serious negotiations tomorr morning. thats what we should do so i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived if not withstanding, the cloture motion filed on the motion to conquer in the house and senate amendment to hr 195 at 10 p.m., thursday january 18, 10 p.m. tonight. >> is there objection? the >> objection is heard. >> democratic leader? does the leader have any more motions? >> mr. president, let me address what was happen

narrator, peter hackers, pentagon reporter. this is a euro crisis in asia, berlin and cuba and how our armed forces have met these meetings and challenges to freedom. in their drive for world domination, the communist have identified different levels of possible conflict to exploit. peace ink of war and light of what he calls the new means of mass destruction. and what he calls local wars, he putsrejects because as he it, they may grow into a thermonuclear war. but he recognizes another category which he called war of liberation and popular revolts. what we prefer to call some version and covert aggression. it is these wars which he says are not only admissible but inevitable. answer tested during a year in vietnam is counterinsurgency -- counterinsurgency. at the request of the south vietnamese government, we are helping poked as peaceloving people learn how to defend themselves. here in a remote setting, there is new emphasis on the importance of the individual fighting men as a teacher and as well as a leader. troops are her

state department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to commit forces because the people that took that long or as you just just being i wouldn't. i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they were clear in the statement that they put out so let me just refer you to them on that. but i'm asking about closing comments yesterday we said there's no border security force that's that's not what it is to look i have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and i'm not going to name any names and neither is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground.

you know how days like this go when the president goes to the pentagon. let me get you on this, and it is something that barbara touched on, the president keeps saying over and over that a government shutdown will really harm the military and he says democrats don't care about the military, they don't care about that. what happens to the military in a government shutdown? >> yeah, actually, not a whole heck of a lot from a tactical perspective. it won't be devastating to the military, troops still get paid as barbara noted they get paid on the 1st and 15th of every month. assuming the shutdown doesn't go further than february 1st, they'll be okay in terms of pay. they'll show up for work, operations will still be done. it is not going to be affected in real practical terms by a shutdown. that said, it continues to be harmed and i think in a very significant severe way by these continuing resolutions. what that means, and, again, barbara touched on this, they have to use funding from last year. they can't buy new equipment. some of the modernization and ma

go to the pentagon industrial complex. we're not going to be more safe if we spend more money weapons than we do robert naiman interesting to hear thoughts from the just foreign policy organization thanks for being with us here on our two international good to be with you. i clashes between anti austerity protesters and police have broken out next to the parliament building in the greek capital. the it was. officers used tear gas to disperse demonstrators on friday crowds gathered to voice their anger over pay cuts and restrictions on strike action thousands of people from labor unions joined the rally in athens disrupting the public transportation. for i wanted it criminal using social media might not be a good idea that lesson was learned the hard way by a former japanese gangland boss who had been on the run for more than a decade. there you have it careful what you post it will haunt you in the future you're watching arch international i'll be back about thirty five minutes of the news. unfortunately it appears that on

and i went to the pentagon. i went to the secretary's office, and he has this round desk and it was general sherman's desk. and we were doing a job interview. and, we were going back and forth and i asked him in the job interview, what is it that you would like to accomplish in your time as secretary of defense so i understand if you have the skillset too accomplish what i want tors achieve? the first thing he said i want towa make a more lethal force ad i think you have the background developing major weapons systems to help lead the department. and he said we can't be the policeman to the world, i need to have a partner who understands, who worked with a global company, that has those kinds of perspectives and understands the value of international relationships. and the third one was the, one that surprised me the most. he said, one of my goals is that when i leave the department, that people will want to come and benchmark the department of defense because it has best practices. and when h he described it th

then over pentagon city to catch a glimpse of the air force memorial, right on the edge of arlington national cemetery. two landmarks so revered by the colonel and his colleagues. >> that's where our nation's heroes are laid to rest. >> a sharp dive of several hundred feet in just a matter of seconds, and we were basically looking into the windows of the pentagon, an amazing view that continued to get even more scenic as we flew along the river, past the memorial bridge and lincoln memorial. >> just to be here is such an honor. >> after a cruise up potomac, we reversed course back toward washington, where the colonel and i reflected on the beauty of the nation's capital and its landmarks that are so rarely accessible by air because of washington's no-fly zones. you tapped me a few times. i tapped you a few times. we're looking out like we're kids enjoying the view out there. >> that's exactly right. >> do you have a favorite when it comes to flying over washington? >> when i see the capitol from the air, when i see the white house from the air, when i go through the tidal basin and s

this is how he characterized this modernization that he's been talking about and mostly the pentagon is going to be focusing on space on cyber security and on its nuclear program so in terms of cyber security there are going to be overhauling the whole thing really we don't know the details yet but obviously big big big changes are coming up especially with all of the russia and china hackers craze in terms of the nuclear program they're seeing it as a reaction you know a sort of a reaction to what russia has been doing in this sphere and if you're talking about certainly talking about outer space and defense position that this is not going to be cheap what's the money being talked about well the whole program the whole everything suggested in proposed in this document nothing of that is going to be cheap or come fried is more weapons more troops more everything is still obviously the secretary of defense used this opportunity to ask for more money or at least well make it a step in the direction saying that budget cuts arguably delivered the worst blows to the pentagon and to the u.

you just heard from the pentagon. the pentagon thinks this cr is wrong for our military. the statement again, from dana white, chief pentagon spokesperson. i want toi repeat it so my colleagues can all hear it. we have been working under a continuing resolution for three years now. our current cr expires tomorrow january 19th. this is wasteful and destructive. we need a fully-funded fiscal year '18 or face ramifications for our military. becausee of the urgent needs we face the military and so many of the others, opioids, veterans, pensions, we should not delay any further. we should move cloture tonight, seee the outcome. i think we all know it will be defeated. and start serious negotiations tomorrow morning. that is what we should do. so i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived, notwithstanding rule 22, the cloture motion filed on the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to hr 195 ripen at 10:00 p.m. thursday january 18th, 10 p.m. tonight. >> is therect objection. >> i object. >> objection is heard. >> mr. president. >

government and also the industry what they did is they were question or comment from the pentagon from the satellites manufacturer and of course from you and musk's company as well and this is what they've got we have nothing to add to the satellite cadillac at this time we cannot comment on classified missions we do not comment on missions of this nature. as of right now reviews of the data indicate full can nine performed normally so where did these comments or rather no comment replies leave us so let's put all the doubts aside and assume that the satellite delivery mission was a success does that mean that there is so much secrecy behind the payload that no one is entitled to know even about whether it reached orbit or not why was there no object in the us catalogue and what kind of spying is it out there for the questions are going to be there to stay on the other hand if it's confirmed that the mission was a fail or it's not going to be a refutation disaster for space six but we know that elon musk's next step was going to be to start sending humans into space and in this case it

it was always, help me restructure the pentagon. and his is down and in is up and out. >> we hear secretary mattis talk about how his job is making sure u.s. military is the most lethal force in the world. this takes us right to the very key question. does that necessarily mean a bigger military? is a bigger military the only route to lethality? let me just say, i hope people understand it is the thinking -- is the thinking, yes we need more nuclear weapons, aircraft, ships, planes, is that the route? >> the way i have been thinking how you use your growth and multiplier. to see theway different effects. there is not a magic answer to what the mix is. you can generate more capability from what we have today. the things we can do with technology can enable those forces a little more. >> if a service or major contractor comes to you with an idea and they say it is innovative and -- i i'm just hypothesizing here -- we need fighter jets,ighte that may not just be the answer. >> more of the same means more of the same. we need more bette

ok let's bring in former pentagon official michael maloof joins me live on the line and i speak to you michael. not to talk about islamic state this year the focus is is change but just how different is this defense strategy from ones we've seen under previous administrations. well that's recognized as a more strategic vision and i think it's also meant to be a justification not only for greater defense spending to keep the defense u.s. defense industry in business but i think it really shows also because they've singled out moscow and beijing a reversion back to the cold war era. and also that the neo cons have won the won the day at least in the policy formulation arena i think that this is. this is their comfort zone they've been this was the this is what the intelligence community and the defense department did for more than fifty years that's what they're most content with i think it's going to be a diversion. of resources. to continue watching terrorism i think that remains a major major threat and yet the neo cons want to single out russia and china as the main adversaries and a

when the white house slaps an injunction on the new york times, after they publish some of the pentagon papers, ben bradley wants to publish. but meryl streep says, hang on, there are reasons why meryl streep says, hang on, there are reasons why we meryl streep says, hang on, there are reasons why we can't do this, not least of all that it might actually endanger the paper. here's actually endanger the paper. here's a clip. do you have the papers? not yet. 0h, a clip. do you have the papers? not yet. oh, gosh. 0h, a clip. do you have the papers? not yet. oh, gosh. oh, gosh, because you know, the position that would put me in. you know, we have language in the prospeck tuesday. in. you know, we have language in the prospeck tuesdaylj i know what is at stake. you know the only couple i knew that both kennedy and lbj wanted to socialise with was you and your husband and you owned the damn paper. that's just and your husband and you owned the damn paper. that'sjust the way things worked, politicians and the press they trusted each other, so they could go to the same dinner party and drink c

you have just heard from the pentagon. the pentagon thinks this c.r. is wrong for our military. the statement, again, from dana white, chief pentagon spokesperson. i want to repeat it so my colleagues can all hear it. we have been working under a continuing resolution for three years now. our current c.r. expires tomorrow, january 19. this is wasteful and destructive. we need a fully funded fiscal year 2018 budget or face ramifications for our military. because of the urgent needs we face, the military and so many of the others, opioids, veterans, pensions, we should not delay any further. we should move cloture tonight, see the outcome. i think we all know it will be defeated, and start serious negotiations tomorrow morning. that is what we should do. so i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived and that notwithstanding rule 22, the cloture motion filed on the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 195 ripen at 10:00 p.m. thursday, january 18, 10:00 p.m. tonight. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. mcconnell: i

there he is speaking at the pentagon. the first thing he wants to talk to you about is the shutdown. all eyes on the shutdown. >> hans nichols is with us. so is garrett haake and jeff ge benn bennett, i believe. what is the job he's trying to get done at the pentagon? >> official briefing inside the tank. that's where they do a lot of classified briefings. it's to get an assessment of what will happen to the military if there is a government shutdown. other items may be on the agenda. you saw president trump, for the third time, coming to the pentagon in his young presidency, making the case the government needs to stay open or else there will be serious consequences for the military, as he said, at a crucial time. so that is on the agenda today. they want a short-term bill. longer term, they want to have full funding for the government. guys, i have to tell you two quick points. number one, last december when we were close to having another short-term funding bill, the line from the pentagon is even short-term funding bi

cedric richmond has asked for an investigation by the pentagon and we feel that they aren't investigating. we've gotten lots of, you know, intel that they are investigating, when that investigation will be completed i'm not sure but i'm waiting because i have my own intelligence. >> okay. so you do hope there's a congressional investigation it sounds like on top of what the pentagon is investigating at this point. please keep us posted on any movement on that front. while i have you, i want you to weigh in on how hillary clinton chose to act during the 2008 presidential campaign. we've now learned because of the "the new york times" story that her faith adviser during the 2008 campaign sexually harassed a young woman on the team and she was reassigned, the victim in this but he was docked a few weeks pay, told to go to

building more is robbery other priorities pentagon contractors are going to make money. so that creates parochial interests there are pushing these things there are not something that's not in the interest of the world it's not in the interest of majority people. the european court of justice has prevented sweden from deporting a moroccan asylum seeker whom security services considered a potential terrorist swedish intelligence recommended the man's deportation after concluding of that he was a threat to national security individual whose name has not been released appealed to the european court of justice then the court ruled that his extradition would violate article three of the european convention on human rights as he could face torture in his home country and the case bears similarities with a ruling in germany a few days ago germany's high court prevented a turkish man convicted of supporting islamist extremists from being sent home the reason again was that his rights could be violated in turkey we asked our guests for their views on the story. primarily is about

the pentagon. i think we have to separate the joint chiefs of staff for double-headed as joint treatment service chief. their job is to provide joint chiefs, strategic advice and guidance. the military does not always get it correct. but they are nonpartisan, they are extremely well educated, terribly experienced and consistent. they are there for a very long time. i think that is important to bring much good advice to the president and his team. third, if congress is going to be part of the landing it better be part of the taking. i think what we need to do is have the equivalent of the national security council in congress. interestingly, the one person who has joint duties in both branches is the vice president. by the way is president of the senate. why don't we then take the president of the senate, put together the key members of the house and the senate, to make a small nsc? 10, 12 or 14 members who coordinate with the white house. and so, they can be part of the take off as well as the land

in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox ellis was customs are here permanently and all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. to prosecute these forms all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by art. so i can so and modigliani i can't boards unsold in the side this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a. naturally discreet commercially discreet step but also discreet because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets they kept inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the words like books of the art business. i. i i i i. i. i. america is invasion the u.s. army is on the lookout for software so it can automatically post messages on social media. also un

in an unprecedented move the pentagon has a parrot lee instructed the inspector general for afghanistan a watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups that's according to the watchdogs latest report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time since he's been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted to reveal what territory is controlled by the taliban and what territory is controlled by the afghan government what territory

through the pentagon's drive to expand its online operations. the classic boss have been out there for ages and we know what they're usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal business opportunities website you will come across a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention well the us army wants right now is a software system that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi in arabic and we all know which countries these languages are spoken in the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slagging and even a mode g.'s plus must be a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment key question is a guess is it's probably overused but what's i

your narrator, peter hackers, pentagon reporter. with the abcs in the year of crisis in asia, berlin and cuba and how our armed forces have met these meetings and -- have met these challenges to freedom. in their drive for world domination, the communists have identified different levels of possible conflict to exploit. khrushchev speaks of war and peace in light of what he calls the new means of mass destruction. and what he calls local wars, he also rejects because as he puts it, they may grow into a thermonuclear war. but he recognizes another category which he called war of liberation and popular revolts. what we prefer to call subversion and covert aggression. it is these wars which he says are not only admissible but inevitable. a free world answer tested during a year in vietnam is counterinsurgency. at the request of the south vietnamese government, we are helping peace loving people learn how to defend themselves. here in a remote setting, there is new emphasis on the importance of the individual fighting man as a teacher a

in an unprecedented move the pentagon has apparently instructed the inspector general for afghanistan and watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups this is according to the watchdogs latest report . this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time since he's been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted to reveal what territory is controlled by the taliban and what territory is controlled by the afghan government what terri

the pentagon reports it happened over the black sea. the two planes were close for nearly three hours. north korea apparently feeling the effects of economic sanctions because its scaling back its annual winter military drills. that's what u.s. officials told the "wall street journal." the newspaper with which this channel shares common ownership. they said the drills got off to a slow start and were less extensive than usual. the journal reports that could be because of u.s. restrictions on oil and fuel shipments to north korea. but analysts note those sanctions have yet to significantly affect the military capabilities, including nuclear program. more ahead on andrew mccabe leaving the bureau. we'll head to capitol hill from reaction from lawmakers and mike emanuel. but first, police say a man tried to run over people with his car so an officer shot him. what else we know? part of our bottom of the hour headlines two minutes away. high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect my heart. adding bayer aspir

--you are in the pentagon were in the pentagon for a number of years. whatu were back there would you do to fix the problem? >> as a signatory to all four of the trump letters thoughts odds of my being back in the pentagon are vanishingly close to zero. thef you could whisper into pentagon, what would you say? afar, my view is that there has been a bit of an unbalanced inside the building between the civilian and the military side. i do not mean this to be criticism of secretary mattis because he is recently retired military, but there is a reason why the law about the secretary of defense was drawn up the way it was. ,ut a combination of events , the end of the obama administration, the slow pace of political appointments in the trump administration has led to a bit of an on balance -- unbalance.-- out of kiler and out of balance. effort needs to make sure it is more balanced. edward corwin wrote the constitutional -- wrote the constitution was an invitation to the executive and legislative branches to struggle over the control of foreign policy. defen

after the white house gets an injunction on the new york times, after they publish some of the pentagon papers, ben bradley wants to publish. but meryl streep says, hang on, there are reasons why we can't do this, not least of all that it might actually endanger the paper. here is a clip. do you have the papers? not yet. oh gosh, oh gosh, because you know the position that would put me in. you know, we have language in the prospectus. yeah, i know, i know that the backers can change their mind. i know what is at stake. you know, the only couple i knew that both kennedy and lbj wanted to socialise with was you and your husband, and you own the damn paper. that's the way things worked. politicians and the press, they trusted each other so they could go to the same dinner party, and drink cocktails and tell jokes, while there was a war raging in vietnam. i don't know what we're talking about. i'm not protecting lyndon. no, you've got the man who commissioned the study, he's one of about a dozen party guests out on your... i'm not protecting any of them, i'm protecting the paper. the thing

it has prompted the pentagon to include this on this list obviously and also also interest interestingly enough they are going to be expanding the nuclear arsenal maybe not the arsenal but at least they are going to be investing more into the you know nuclear. nuclear arsenal their nuclear fear saying that this is something that russia and china are doing now in iran down there throughout the day we've been covering this story between the u.s. and its ally turkey and how there's been tensions between them recently what do you think this announcement this speech by the defense secretary says timing wise is it going to shift focus away from those tensions with turkey or is it the u.s. it's a way of saying we stand with our allies we're always with you well you know matters he has not yet well at least from what i've heard he hasn't addressed the situation in any way but i mean he did talk as i mentioned he did talk a lot about how allies are important for the united states but this whole situation with turkey is something that doesn't really underline this point it kind of weakens this poi

have been the biggest threats for the for the american national security now but at the same time the pentagon keeps spending hundreds of millions of dollars on projects like the f. thirty five or the cole and columbia columbia submarine and in terms of these projects nothing much really has come out in terms of results would you make of those desponding decisions spending decisions the united states makes in this sense well again this comes back to the cold war i mean we look at the things that was always sort of who has a bigger say we even look at rockets like but now when the soviet union was able to launch a rocket for us that was who has more and better in the us is going back it's almost like backtracking to that mentality of do i have more weapons are my weapon new or or better than yours are they more technologically savvy and that just shows the rest of the world that what he's trying to prove here spending lots of money on things that aren't even threats gets to show that hey we have a bigger powerful military than you guys do because that's all it is are going to bigger than yours

the pentagon, georgetown, howard university, all of those areas getting the light snow. further east we go to prince georges county and buoy and fedex field, 495 light snow falling on those roads. further north around the rockville area and bottom yack there's light snow falling so if you are going to take 355 look out for snow falling in that particular area. further west we go to fairfax light snow there as well. we are on the back edge of this so far out over the ocean so we locked up and have gotten the light snow out of this around the d.c. metro. having that pushed over just a little bit more along the coast it would be a completely different ball game. we have blizzard warnings around ocean city and winter storm warning around the easton

inspector general for afghanistan says that the pentagon told him to keep quiet about how much of the country's territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups the spokesman for the resolute support mission in afghanistan responded that the data isn't classified and there was no intent to conceal it he says human error is to blame for the misunderstanding is what the inspector general's office said in its report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time sega has been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted

close to zero. >> if you could whisper into the pentagon, what would you say? >> my, from afar, my view is that there has been a bit of an unbalance inside of the building between the civilian and military side. i don't mean this to be a criticism of secretary mattis because he recently retired military there is a reason why the law about the secretary of the defense was drawn up the way it was but a combination of events, some vacancies at the end of obama administration, the slow pace of political appointment in the trump administration, has led to a bit of imbalance in particular, spare general miller here but really my concern is the joint staff rather than the services, against the civilians in osd. i think that is a little out of kilter and a little out of balance. and i think some, some thought and effort need to go into trying to make sure that is more balanced. edward corwin, the constitutional expert wrote that the constitution was an invitation to the executive and ledge branches to struggle over the control of foreign policy in defense policy the na

to actually profited from the publication of the pentagon papers could personal persons unknown have been trying to manipulate the journalists with help. interestedly many experts don't whether the consortium led investigation was objective. it's a collection of a so-called independent trust but they are not independent. they are not journalists they have because. poll or stassi. poll is that just spy on everybody as the intestines felt. when these. the director of the international consortium of investigative journalists. has lived here in australia for twenty five years. he's comfortable here from the bustle and the panamanian tax haven the climate is nice too. because it's a bit cooler and. you know it and i think they. thought of it more peaceful than. half of the world general describes his organization as quite a modest company of like minded individuals. very small nonprofit organisation we have about twenty people i paid about twenty people to work on this story. international consortium of investigative journalists was founded in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven as a p

ahead who it was revealed the pentagon is seeking to expand its presence in cyberspace and develop software that can interact with foreign is on social media in the country. trumps oval office out of the u.s. president faces a global backlash over offensive remarks he allegedly made tonight about immigrants from africa el salvador and haiti. good afternoon just turned five the evening here in moscow in your life without international coming to you from h.q. with our weekly the round of the big stories of the last seven days first them on thursday it was revealed wiki leaks founder julian assange should become an ecuadorian citizen he's been holed up in the country's london embassy for over five years of to seeking political asylum there but the u.k. believes the only change of address he deserves is one of the courtroom or a small three cups the week's developments billionaire sons posted a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports

you know the unprecedented move the pentagon has banned the us watch dog which oversees the situation in afghanistan from publishing information on who controls want on the ground as amid a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. that's the message u.s. officials were given by an angry palestinian protesters who'd storms than meeting those tensions over trans jerusalem recognition is showing no signs of calming. and so u.s. releases a sweeping list of russian politicians and business figures on a so-called kremlin list it matches exactly the kremlin's list of officials on its website and mirrors forbes rich list of russian. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me and he arun good to have you with us this hour now and then on president did move the pentagon has apparently instructed the inspector general for afghanistan a watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups according to the watchdogs latest report. this devel

he has arrived at the pentagon for the nation's nuclear posture review. we understand the president is going to be making some comments. there is the vice president at his side. let's listen in. >> president trump: to support our country's military. if the country shuts down, which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than it has been handled over the last long period of time. many years. but if for any reasons it shuts down, the worst thing is what happens to our military. we're rebuilding our military and making -- bringing it to a level it's never been at. the worst thing is for our military. we don't want that to happen. i'm here to support our military. our military has to be the best in the world by far. and as you know, it has been depleted over the last long period of time. and when we finish there won't be anything like it. we need that now almost more than at any time in the past. so i'm here for our military. i'm here to support our great, great and very powerful military and we are going to keep it that way but ma

here is ha the pentagon said about it. this is statement. d.o.d. takes matters like these seriously and will determine if additional training or guidance is required. i have to come clean here. i use strava. when you bike into the olympipe, i can see other people coming. you have a bunch of overlaid routes, whether running or biking and you get a sense of which routes, in this case, a reporter, take. that's betraying. >> how is strava responding? >> initially, look, we want to remind everyone you can turn off the gps tracking on the app. that's what they told "the washington post." overnight, they said we take the safety severely. we will address sensitive areas that might appear. one thing to say about military personnel, they like to get their runs in. they do a lot of working out, whether it's in a small base in kandahar or inside kabul. you have a real sense of what the running routes are, based on this digital bird's eye view. >> yeah. sook see how they work with strava and the changes at dod. >> the changes would be not using those apps. >> t

i'm astounded that the pentagon functions as well today as it does. i don't know how these guys and gals put up with this stuff it is nonsensical in the extreme you don't get a budget but you have oversight so forth and i invited a number of people from pentagon to come here tonight. you know what they said we would love to i have to contact my lawyer to see whether i can. this is madness. so the brain based approach consist of these three arts. now, what else do we immediate to do? in nfc we need to have a red team that challenges all of the policy assumses that are made. we just recognized jerusalem what was the strategy and hoping to achieve does this make sense, we don't do that in the pentagon, i think we have to separate the joint chief of staff who were double headed as joint chief and service choaf and their job is is to provide at joint chief strategic advice and guidance and military doesn't always get it correct but nonpartisan and educated and tcially experienced and they are consistent. they are there for a very long time. coining that se

tries to suppress rand's nuclear industry then seems the pentagon has reportedly been busy working on a major revamp of its own atomic weapons the plans were due for release of february but they've been linked to the media is the come out early the first of its kind in eight years the nuclear posture review outlines extensive plans to upgrade and replace some of the dated arsenal it also aims at developing smaller nukes so-called low yield weapons that's a move that opponents say will make nuclear war more likely the plan also wants funding doubled over the next decade and the document lists russia china and north korea as threats which it said needed to be counted the federation of american scientists told us the u.s. already has well over a thousand low yield nuclear warheads but in fact they are as powerful as the bombs dropped on japan during world war two the proposed expansion is in contrast and the president trumps earlier pledge to try to seek global denuclearization. number one i would like to do you know the world i would like russia and the united states and china and pakis

the pentagon is finally launching it's first ever audit. every federal agency has been required to produce statements for audit since 1990. but the pentagon has skated on that requirement for 27 years. in 2016, there were reports of found $125 billion of tax dollars wasted on administration costs. recently we reported on ways the department spends beyond its budget, by using a slush fund, the overseas contingency operations account. it's supposed to be used for unplanned military needs. but in 2016, it went to things like a dormitory in turkey, and an operations facility in qatar. this year, 1200 auditors will dig into how the pentagon spends your money, with final reports due this fall. next week on "full measure," we talk with the man who's tracking spending and waste in america's longest war: afghanistan. nearly 17 years in, we're still at war and the waste of your tax dollars continues. where are the failures that lead to so much waste and fraud? john sopko: people came in there for six months or a year spent money like drunken sailors

is putting into this now of course no we don't have the figure yet but obviously the pentagon couldn't you know lose couldn't really missed a chance to try and bargain for more money for more funding and this is what general mattis former general mattis did in his address he said how defense cuts probably deal the most damage to the united states national security and you know budget cuts to the defense but also it's important to remember that a lot of a lot of the pentagon's assets they go into projects like the colombia submarine for example or the thirty five fighter jets and the latter has been in development for decades and. millions hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on this and the development stage has not been even past the you know the most basic the most basic stuff the most basic stages so this is something to look into as well of course also matters talked a lot about how allies are important for the united states and all and right after right after the heart fell so to speak speech about how allies are crucial for for washington here reminded that this club t