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The report, without "controlled unclassified information" redactions, discusses concerns with major weapons programs from ships to planes to hypersonic missiles.

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Mr. trump is turning to that have deep financial interests that may be in new york its difficult for them to separate from their business activities apparently without impacting their interests. after back and forthd for the last several weeks like mr. viola backing out. >> you dealt with situations like this in terms of, what are you going to have with leadership. what are your priorities going to be general? does it matter more if youre running a military branch or military department of opera...

And these military branches to go through congress. >> its not just that. if i may youre talking about the acquisition programs but until you get the secretaries of the various services you cant get the rest of the staff and theres over 400 political appointees inside the pentagon that worked for the secretary of the army and secretary of the navy. none of those have been appointed yet. >> you want somebody there to make a case. lets switch topics. the newest gold star parents we know about are ...

Right? >> no. thats correct. but also hes going to be giving advice on the commitment of the military arm. as the second in command of the military, you know, he is in that chain of command between mr. trump and all the forces throughout the world and the different combatant commanders. thats a critically important point for him to be in. but the other piece is he has to run that business of the pentagon. a military thats been in war for the last 16 years or so and there is a lot of things that ...

Probably choose under secretaries that will contribute to this who will be businessmen. its usually been a senator or a governor or a businessman thats run the pentagon. now that you have a former soldier who has run large organization and who knows the military, that i think will give mr. trump an advantage on who he has in the pentagon. but hes going to need the business acumin as well. hell need the folks who understand acquisition programs, who understands research and development of technol...

Dictating what we do in terms of defense? >> what i make of it, alex, is that its going to be an exciting time for us journalists because there will be a lot of drama stirred up with ash carter when he takes over the pentagon and john mccain when he takes over the arms services committee. one of the flash points will be over money. you know sequestration will kick off next year and we expect it to. the money for the pentagon runs out next week, as you pointed out and theres no time to do any lon...

Not adding up and youre starting to see a level of ridiculousness coming out of washington d.c. that really has caused the american people a lot of concern. >> well, the other day or the other week, it was announced that the trueman aircraft carrier would not be deployed to the persian gulf because of money, because of sequestration. do you buy that that was a legitimate reason, are they short of cash? are we short of cash in our defense? >> absolutely. because one of the things you have to unde...

Intelligence agency that handles matters like this and lots else. its called the defense intelligence agency, the d.i.a. apparently, they were warning about it as early as 2004. then, sometime after 2009, the threat analysis center at the d.i.a. started circulating within the pentagon the assessment that this software was a tool of the russian government. then, as early as 2012, d.i.a. started sharing that analysis, that warning about the software, they started sharing that not just within vario...

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