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Process of acquisition to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the american people. trump is going to be more like a governor than like our traditional sense of a president. governors intervene. theyre aggressive. theyre in your face. i think the f-35 program has been a disgrace. i think the acquisition process of the pentagon has to be totally redone. and i think that serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is going to shake up washington a...

Process of acquisition to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the american people. trump is going to be more like a governor than like our traditional sense of a president. governors intervene. theyre aggressive. theyre in your face. i think the f-35 program has been a disgrace. i think the acquisition process of the pentagon has to be totally redone. and i think that serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is going to shake up washington a...

Have been rigging the entire process of acquisition to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the american people. trump is going to be more like a governor than like our traditional sense of a president. governors intervene. theyre aggressive. theyre in your face. i think the f-35 program has been a disgrace. i think the acquisition process of the pentagon has to be totally redone. and i think that serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is g...

Defense. reported yesterday, $125 billion worth of waste. and theres been several secretaries before that have attempted this, rumsfeld, gates, all have talked about it, but i think we need a warrior in order to cut the red tape and return it to what it needs to be, defending our country. >> why is a warrior better to cut through the red tape? >> i think if youre going to fight the bureaucracy, you need to take in someone looking at the core priorities of the defense. core capability at the fron...

Plenty mentation or outcome. and shame on the department of defense. they should start firing hermine people over there. >> absolutely. the national defense authorization act which by the way the president veelted in a very public way, there is the beginning of acquisition reforms. so when you look at how the pentagon does business, i mean, we all know about the f-35 and thats cost way more than it should even though its a great impact. how do we begin to fix the acquisition process and how do w...

Plenty mentation or outcome. and shame on the department of defense. they should start firing hermine people over there. >> absolutely. the national defense authorization act which by the way the president veelted in a very public way, there is the beginning of acquisition reforms. so when you look at how the pentagon does business, i mean, we all know about the f-35 and thats cost way more than it should even though its a great impact. how do we begin to fix the acquisition process and how do w...

But different than someone who -- >> as you know, its sometimes 20. reforming acquisition process. what do you mean? >> meaning right now, concept to combat of a weapons system takes decades of time and billions in cost override. so its an antiquated process from the eisenhower era that means the weapons systems we got are usually outdated by the time they get there and cost way too much. its because there is so much red tape and so much bureaucracy. everybody tries to do it. we need leadership ...

To bruces point, i think that we want to be careful if were paying for this by cutting the first line of defense, which is our diplomacy, we should just be careful be that. david: but, steve, theres one thing about the r and d that concerns me. very often we start a program and it takes years, sometimes decades to complete it. by the time its completed, the technology is obsolete. >> unfortunately, the defense department, like the food and drug administration practices moores lawyer spelled back...