if you look at the national defense strategy and look at the priorities of national defense strategy, strengthening alliances and new partners and reforming the partner department of those all things u.s. space command ties into. our priorities really command our five. first, we will transition space or fight response was from u.s. strategic command to u.s. space command in full. we have done that, we did that starting on 29 august. we are responsible for space operations. we do that day today and not only have we missed a beat, we've actually enhanced the game a little bit. we are leading this going to full operational capability and were moving out with a sense of urgency to be able to do that. if we are already doing operations. what are the other things? requirements, component doesn't have a requirement function, a combatant command does so building out our requirements team. intelligence. i will tell you may be one of most important things that we do early on is to rebuild that intelligence function that atrophied once the u.s. space command that stood that in 2002 went away. i

to get after the national defense. in his purpose built for the strategic environment that we face today. an appeal of the missions, the president signed an unified command plan, assigned to me, it is a much sharper focus on protecting and defending. and not just usm lights but our u.s. military satellites. his partner in allied commercial satellites. there is a much sharper focus on offense and defense. and probably the biggest thing is one of the biggest things, is it geographic commands. the u.s. speak command you can but command they didn't have an ao are. they provided space capabilities are the go. we still do that today. but the strength and that is the war fighting domain. in the department stood up to command in the geographic command and ao are is the hundred kilometers above the earth news surface and higher. that is a big ao are great really big ao are. to get after that protect and defend peace we custom-built this command if you will in the first time with an operational loophole of component specially fo

it is separate from the national defense spending. it is over $1 trillion. is taking up some of the defense spending budget. budget is fore important things. joint security investments. some combined military operations within nato. they are looking at the national defense spending budget and donald trump has turned it into a massive headline. this has been an issue for many years. that obviously the u.s. is the largest economic military power in the world. trump has tried to puput the fos on h him and make it look like he's the first one ever to bring the topic up and give himself all the credit for the headline figure that they have been using for the past few years since 2016. becaususe collective national defense spending from each country risining more than $100 billion. that is noththing to sneeze at and whether r that allll is cred , that is anheher argument. a a lot of people say ththis isa big isissue. a lot of this has become much more political as a matter of debate. >> doug herbert talking about the comments that just moments ago french president

that's the national defense authorization act. one of the key issues in the final discussions over the ndaa involves a provision designed to protect the integrity of american elections against outside interference from russia or any other adversary. it's a provision based on bipartisan legislation that senator rubio and i introduced over a year ago to deter russian interference in a future american election. the legislation is called the deter act, the idea being let's deter russia from attacking our democracy. mr. president, i would be -- i believe it would be grossly negligent for the conferees to the national defense authorization act to bring back to the house and the senate a measure that does not include a provision to defend our democracy from russian interference, and the entire senate must share that sentiment because we unanimously voted on a resolution just a short time ago to include such a provision in the national defense authorization act. mr. president, i have in my hand a copy of that resolution. it was s. res. 33

but we see eye to eye on the national defense authorization act. that's why i don't understand why the house will not come to the table and pass something that we have successfully passed for every year of my life. i'm 59 years old. this could be the first time in 58 years that we run the risk of not showing the respect that i think the men and women in military in uniform deserve, to give them the authority to be trained properly, to not run the risk of working with old authorities that could did i minute usual training and readiness -- that could diminish training and readiness and authority. we can't take the time to bridge the gap and eliminate the other reasons that divide us and at least come together on something that for 58 years we've seen our way clear to passing and making progress for men and women in uniform, sore soldiers, sailors, and -- for soldiers, sailors, and marines. i implore us to come together to pass something we have done for decades. we owe it to the mix in uniform d. to the men and women in uniform and we owe it to every

the national defense authorization act. there is still plenty of that important work on the american people to be done. the u.s. mca, was struck abruptly year ago when nancy pelosi has still not brought it to the floor for a vote. we have 12 million americans, 12 million households for left in the lurch. they depend on this agreement. and its continuation of trading with our neighbors. for the families livelihoods. we need to take that very seriously man state of indiana, one out of every four manufacturing companies exports to canada into mexico and we have 61000 jobs that are related to just this one agreement alone. the national defense authorization act, to make sure that we properly fund that in women in uniform. that also make sure that those who work in the defense industry have some measure of certainty about their livelihoods. about the important work that they do. every day. and then lastly, the basic functions of government, we need to make sure they are properly funded. so there's still a to 12 spending bills th

mca or the failure to pass eight of our 12 spending bills or the national defense authorization act there is still plenty of important work on behalf of the america people to be done. u.s. mca was struck roughly one year ago and nancy pelosi still has not brought it to the floor for a vote. we have 12 million americans, 12 million households that were left in the lurch and they depend on this agreement and these continuations of trading with our neighbors for their families livelihoods. we need to take that very seriously. in my home state of indiana one out of every four manufacturing companies exports to canada and mexico and we have 61000 jobs that are related to just this one agreement along with the national defense authorization act make sure that they properly fund men women in uniform and and make sure those who work in the defense industry have some measure of certainty about their livelihoods and about the important work they do everyday and lastly the basic functions of government we need to make sure they are properly funded so they are still eight of 12's many bills that need

policy, a national defense policy, that identifies russia and china as adsaries. the russians are violating all of the rules, treaties,

defense strategy and if you look at the national defense strategy and the priorities of the strategy, rebuilding the and reforming the apartment those are all things that us-based command ties intot our priorities for the command are five and we laid out five priorities first, we will transitionin space or fighting response woollies for u.s. strategic command to us-based command in full and we've done that or did that starting 29 in august and so we are response will for space operations and wa do that day today. i tell you notas only have we nt missed a beat but we've enhanced the game. we are leading this and going to full operational capability and moving out with a sense of b urgency to do that. we are already doingre operatio. one of the thingsdy are the requirements in a component doesn't have a requirement function and combatant commandos who sewer building out a requirements team. i will tell you may be one of the most important things that we do early on is to rebuild that intelligent function that atrophied once the us-based command stood down and 2002 went away. the most s

starting with our national security to provide for the common defense is the first object. this president promised after years of reckless cutbacks to rebuild our military, and president donald trump delivered. in fact, this president has already signed the largest increases in our national defense since the days of ronald ragan, and that includes the largest pay raise for our men and women in uniform in more than 10 years. [applause] vice pres. pence: i have to tell you, as the proud father of a united states marine, and very soon the father-in-law of a united states navy aviator, i couldn't be more proud to serve alongside a president who cares so deeply about the men and women of our armed forces and their families. thanks to this president's leadership and strong support in the congress, we're once again giving our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard resources and equipment they need to support to accomplish their mission to defend this nation. [applause] vice pres. pence: and with that renewed american strength, we are standing with our allies and up to

senate armed services committee he had been in charge of the national defense strategy at the pentagon under then secretary of defense john mattis also making him one of the chief architects of the new nuclear strategy strategy entails a fundamental shift in the orientation of our nation's armed forces toward preparing for war against china or russia precisely in order to deter this ship is urgently needed as our military advantages against both have substantially eroded in recent decades. today called the works for the center for a new american security one of the many conservative think tanks in washington. i think if you look at the nuclear posture review there's some there's some there's some strong rhetoric and but actually it's fundamentals it's very an evolutionary document it's very consistent with the past history of u.s. and nato policy it's basically saying we're going to you know rebuild our nuclear forces which are getting old and then we're going to do a couple of things to make it clear to the russians that they don't have a good strategy to selectively escalates. hardli

defense tritium at the savannah river sides and during mission it is the nation's only facility for extracting recycling purifying and reloading this hydrogen isotope a key component of modern nuclear weapons. try to as a radioactive hydrogen isotope used in nuclear weapons to boost the chain reaction process. it's an endless pence. substance for the u.s. nuclear arsenal as it allows the weapons to be constructed on such a small scale that they can be delivered to their target by a missile. thus a ban a reverse order. go back to make the world safer. to try to and for us nuclear bomb production is made at the watts bar reactor a power plant the belongs to the tennessee valley authority. as the u.s. no longer has uranium enrichment facilities of its own the material for the fuel rods in which the try to him is produced has to be acquired abroad. our next stop is the german town of corn now close to the dutch border. during cooperates the only uranium enrichment facility in germany and is the 2nd biggest producer of enriched uranium in the world. the us is the world's biggest producer

there is a national defense authorization act. tell us about that federal law. >> judge, in fact one of the things that the national defense authorization act requires, if the federal government gives taxpayer money to a foreign government like ukraine. the president has to certify that country is rooting out corruption. that's what president trump and president zelensky were talking about. adam schiff and nancy pelosi voted for that law to make sure the country is rooting out corruption before we send the money. clearly there was corruption in ukraine and president trump and president zelensky were talking about how to root out corruption, that happened when barack obama was president. judge jeanine: i ran this on "justice" three weeks ago. we have a treaty with ukraine where we have the right to have our attorney general bill barr discuss with them any information or evidence that involves criminal activity. then we have section 1250 of the national defense authorization act where the president is required to confirm by law whet

japan has the guidelines, we have our national defense strategy. we're doing a lot of work to go beyond recognizing strategic alignment and thinking about operationalizing that. talking about roles and mission and how we can further and advance that. it really does support mr. abe's own vision for being more proactive in the region and be a proactive participate, constructive participant. you know, there's some data over where that term comes from, free and open pacific. but we think we've got a very strong reliability interested partner in japan in promoting those principles. taiwan is facing a very real immediate threat from china. it comes in a variety of ways, forms, excuse me, the diplomatic pressure, the use of economic coercion. the military pressure through more robust exercising and training that is clearly designed to imtimidate taiwan. taiwan's primary role is really protecting itself and insuring that a democratic people can preserve their status, preserve their ability to decide the future for themselves. and then beyond that think abo

that is from the 2019 national defense strategy. in other words dod wants congress to continue to fund the military in order to counter great power competition like that from russia and china as laid out in the 2019 and. we in the congress and the american people need to have -- need to be confident that these dollars are spentme wisely. the chairman faced the nds returning to strategic competition and does represent a prime example off bipartisanship for the support of that strategy and our troops in the senate. andy s. explicitly takes the audit as the priority for driving discipline for the department in achieving our overall national defense goals they hope this budget discipline starts with thet audit and spred throughout the department through all the financial processes within dod including our procurement acquisition and contracting processes that this subcommittee has oversight ofd. today look toward to hearing about the progress, some of the successes, some of the failures and i know my ranking member senator kaine iss als

defense strategy with japan's national defense program guidelines. and we're also working very intently and seriously on important emerging relationships, such as with india, singapore, indonesia and vietnam. the ten asean members and u.s. navy forces tested key maritime security tasks during our first ever annual what we hope now is annual, u.s./asean maritime exercise last month. we're also enhancing our engagement in areas such as the pacific islands to preserve a free and open order. and we have enhanced our engagement in the freely associated states and beyond in that regard. beyond the indo-pacific, the department is engaging partners across the globe and we have brought the china challenge into our discussions in europe and the middle east, for example. china and others recognize our advantages and are actively working to disrupt our alliances and partnerships in these key areas. but we, nonetheless, see strong interest in greater alignment on these challenges from our partners. we are also exercising with our partners in real world operations

the audit is a foundational element in the national defense tragedy. we are moving forward on multiple funds, improving their enterprise, consolidating i, thierry aligning and reforming health care consistent with congressional direction, reforming how we do back on investigations to make them more effective and less expensive and eliminating duplicate and inefficient business systems, as well as identifying efficiencies in what we like to call the court of the state. i would be remiss if we did not mention the harmful impact of the ongoing continuing resolution and i recognize i am preaching to the choir. the department the white house both express the urgent need for congress to pass the fbi 2020 authorization and appropriation bills. the sea ourself got measures are wasteful to the taxpayer. they delay storm damage repairs and the damage that are on gains that our military has made in our readiness and modernization. ultimately it is good for the enemy, not for the men and women of the united states military. the administration and i urge congress t

he signed the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. [cheers] vice pres. pence: with that renewed american strength, we've taken the fight to radical islamic terrorists on our terms, on their soil. [cheers] vice pres. pence: in the last year alone, american forces captured the last inch of the isis caliphate in syria. [cheers] vice pres. pence: u.s. special forces took out the leader of isis, al-baghdadi is gone. [cheers] vice pres. pence: our troops are coming home and conan, the hero dog, is just fine. [cheers] vice pres. pence: we visited the military in iraq. it was a great privilege. we told them what all of you already know. the armed forces of the united states are the greatest force for good the world has ever known. [cheers] vice pres. pence: our troops know they have a commander-in-chief who will always have their back. [cheers] vice pres. pence: that goes for all of those who wore the uniform. president trump promised our veterans access to the real world class health care that you earned in the uniform of the united states.

policy, a national defense policy, that identifies russia and china as adsaries. the russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings, that they committed to that actually kept the peace in europe for nearly 70 years. until they invaded ukraine in 2014, they had abided by sovereignty of nations, of invooibi inviability of borders, that order that kept the peace in europe and allowed for prosperity as well as peace in europe, was violated by the russians, and if we don't push back on that, on those violations, then that will continue. and that, mr. chairman, affect us, it affects the world we live in, that our children and grand children will grow up in. this a >>> the chair now recognizes the ranking member and minority counsel for 40 minutes. >> thank you. the call summary for which the democrats want to impeach president trump is dramatically different from their nefarious depiction of it. what it actually shows is a pleasant exchange between two leaders who discuss mutual cooperation over a range of issues. the democrats claim this call demonst

[applause] passing theot national defense authorization act for the fiscal year 2020, which is critical? [applause] not passing the department of defense appropriations act? madame speaker, i would ask my colleagues to say, please extend to me the same respect -- you direct your remarks to the chair. you are recognized. >> we have not passed the department of defense appropriations act. can you believe we are not -- we are that irresponsible? we are not doing that. and we are not doing bipartisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices and handle surprise billing and pre-existing conditions -- why are we not doing those things? they are the most important things to our citizens back home. [applause] i would ask that we look into what they are doing and if we are doing it strictly for political purposes and in a grab, that is not why the american people sent us here. that is not why the majority changed during the last election. now that people are seeing exactly what happened, when the majority switches over, people ask me, why aren't you doing something about what is happening in

we've got a national defense authorization act that has been passed for my 58 straight years that is hanging in the balance now. we have a number of things that the american people want to see done, and their patience, i think, is beginning to run to the end on this continuous march for impeachment. let's get the usmca past. let's get the national defense authorization -- >> martha: do you think there is any hope of that at all at this point? >> i hope so. if there is not, i think nancy pelosi and chuck schumer need to know there is going to be a consequence for leaving a trade agreement that is going to help farmers and workers in the united states in an ash heap on the house side. i think that the national defense authorization and funding our military are things that people in north carolina care about and if they don't act on it, they will regret it next november. >> martha: there is a political peace that says that there is a surprisinglsurprisingpath that t ballot, and it's as if he went through the secret ballot that way, it would only take three republican senators to turn th

that was on, not a broader statement that the department of defense and national security administration. and throughout the valley of national security. it's important to remember the history of government technologies from radar to the internet to the wartime economist vehicles. just in the last couple of weeks we have an extraordinary accomplishment which moved forward the frontier science and technology. that is built on research scientist at nasa. and carried out in many ways. so those kinds of exchanges that technological innovation. we feel it's weird contributing to the national community a lot of that work we have lots of people who work at google we make sure they complete their medical service and we try to take steps to make sure that is transitioning so they can make best use of military skills in the private sector and as we do that we are fully engaged in a wide variety working on national initiatives to healthcare to business automation we are working on how to progress that operation of hardware and use that hardware software interface so taking on those things we are ea

defense since the days of ronald reagan. [cheering and applause] largest pay raise for our armed forces in more than 10 years. [cheering and applause] on this eve of veterans day weekend, thanks to the leadership from president donald trump, our veterans including million african-american veterans, finally have access to the real-time, world-class health care that you earned in the uniform of the united states. [cheering and applause] v.a. andeformed the veterans choices now available for every veteran in america. [cheering and applause] i can tell looking at this crowd that there is more than a few men and women who have warned the uniform who are here. if you served in our armed forces, would you put your hand in the air and let us show our thanks to you one more time. thank you for your service. thank you for your service. the truth is, our military is stronger. every community in this nation. that is why we are here. beyond security, this president promised to get the american economy working again for every american. ma

and national security administration. to continue to that we are committed to doing that and that is on a long tradition of work on national security generally. so remember the history of the valley is on government technologies with radar and internet and gps to autonomous vehicles and personal assistance just now in the last couple of weeks we had an extraordinary accomplishment which move forward the frontiers of science and technology that was not an achievement by google alone it was built on research that had been done at the university of california santa barbara to benefit consultations at nasa and carried out in many ways on supercomputers from the department of energy. those kinds of exchanges and collaborations are key to what made technological innovation as successful as it has been. and we feel weird contributing to national security a lot of that community is a part of google we go and above and beyond while having careers and even the tools to take steps to transition to civilian life to make use of their

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

we have devoted only 15% of our national income to national defense. as it will appear in my budget message tomorrow. our war program for the coming fiscal year, will cost $56 billion. or, in other words more than half of the estimated annual, national income. that means taxes, and bonds, and bonds and taxes. it means cutting luxuries, and other nonessentials. in a word, it means an all out war, by individual effort, and family effort, in a united country. now, when he was talking about individual effort, and family effort he was talking about kids as well. family effort met even if you were over here, on the home front, and your loved ones were fighting overseas over there as the popular song went, there was still work, that you could do to help to defeat the enemy. everybody, both young and old and no matter how much you have or don't have, had a very important role to play. in the united states war effort. roosevelt wanted to make a very, very sure that everybody was clear about that. early in that new year of 1942, united states treasury is already

above all, people expect us to fully fund defense, the defense of our nation. and yet the democrats continue to stonewall. republicans are fighting to fully fund the military. democrats are waging war on the commander in chief. remember, both parties came to the table and completed a bipartisan budget deal this past summer. now, the deal meant that we could fund the government on time. the deal supported critical defense funding to keep our nation safe, and it included a major pay raise for our troops. so what happened? well, it's pretty clear. the democrats went back on their word and, in so doing, they broke faith with the american people and broke faith with our troops. those in harm's way today. so, look ... back at home in wyoming, a deal is a deal. your word means something. a handshake means something. you never go back on your word. certainly not when you've made promises to our men and women in uniform. nevertheless, the democrats have since poisoned the well with unreasonable partisan demands. they are tying our americans' hands repeatedly blocking ke

lit every state in the nation -- virtually every state in the nation, student borrower defense claims coming from all 50 states to build at the department. she's sitting on t she's playing slowball. she's not approved a single claim in more than one year. i want to show you what's behind this. in the few cases where secretary devos has been legally required by the courts to provide discharges, she's done so with extreme pleasure -- i'm sorry, extreme displeasure. quite different. think about that. using her authority to help defrauded borrowers get a fresh start brings her extreme dishe shall mr. . how do i know -- how do i know that? she wrote t -- it. she puts down a commentings with with extreme displeasure." discharging a student loan from an institution for -- a for-profit institution that defrauded this borrower. she's displeased to be forced to do such a thing. she defied a federal court order, was held in contempt for continuing to collect for these students who've been defrauded by corinthian. this is not a secretary who rewrote the borrower defense rule to help student borro

advisors the department of defense in court nation with the department of state certified in may 2019 that ukraine had quote taken substantial actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purposes of decreasing corruption increasing accountability and sustaining improvements of combat capability unquote meriting obligation of the entire 250000000 in usa i funds this brings me to the topic of today's proceedings i would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out i testified about all of this at length in my deposition in july i became aware of a whole being placed on obligation of the state department's foreign military financing or f.m.s. and d.o.d.'s usa i funds in a series of interagency meetings i heard that the president had directed the office of management and budget to hold the funds because of his concerns about corruption in ukraine let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter at a senior.

defense university in washington. although now retired, he is the executive director of the national commission of public service. >> looking back, for the 52 of us on the 10th anniversary of the seizure of our embassy, it is a time to remember the fact that eight americans are still hostage, denied of their freedom because of the threat of terrorism in the middle east. ♪ ["tie a yellow ribbon"] ♪ >> air force colonel thomas schaefer was the highest ranking military officer among 52 hostages who were held for 444 days in iran from november 4, 1979, to january 20, 1981. colonel schaefer, who died in 2016 at the age of 85, was held in solitary confinement for more than three months. next on reel america, colonel schaefer's intelligence briefing for fellow air force officers after release, detailing his strategies for coping with the ordeal. >> the jubilation in these photographs was occasioned by the release of the 52 american hostages from iran. preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxi

that was on, not a broader statement that the department of defense and national security administration. and throughout the valley of national security. it's important to remember the history of government technologies from radar to the internet to the wartime economist vehicles. just in the last couple of weeks we have an extraordinary accomplishment which moved forward the frontier science and technology. that is built on research scientist at nasa. and carried out in many ways. so those kinds of exchanges that technological innovation. we feel it's weird contributing to the national community a lot of that work we have lots of people who work at google we make sure they complete their medical service and we try to take steps to make sure that is transitioning so they can make best use of military skills in the private sector and as we do that we are fully engaged in a wide variety working on national initiatives to healthcare to business automation we are working on how to progress that operation of hardware and use that hardware software interface so taking on those things we are ea

as a national security administration. we continue to do that. we are a coming to doing that ad adults on the tradition of work throughout the valley. it's important to remember in large measure it built upon government technology for radar to the internet to gps to some of the work on the congress vehicles and personal assistan assistance. just in the last couple of weeks we had extraordinary accomplishment with the move forward for the frontier of science and technology.y. but that was not an achievement by google alone. it's built on research that hadn't been done at the university. it benefiteuniversity. it benefited from extensive consultations with research scientists and it was carried out in many ways from the department of energy. those kind of exchanges and collaborations are the key to what has made america technological innovation as successful as it has been and it just as we feel we are contributing to the defense and national security community, a lot of that work is a part. we have a lot to work at google a

and the national defense strategy is what has pointed d.o.d. in the right direction saying we're now in an era of great power competition. china is our greatest competitor, russia number two. and we need to be prepared for high intensity conflict across five domains of warfare, five domains, no longer three. that's where we're headed and we need your help to get there. >> thank you, sir, so much, very much. >> thank you. >> please thank the secretary. [ applause ] >>> weeknights this week we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern, historian and author phillip greenwald gives a talk on boston's involvement in the revolutionary war. this is part of a day-long symposium cohosted by the emerging revolutionary blog. enjoy american history tv in prime time this week on c-span3. >>> the media marketplace has shifted dramatically in the last dozen years or so. and the s.e.c. has failed to keep pace. we have these rules in place that basically assume the enti