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Whole nother level of bureaucracy in an incredibly bureaucratic dod. >> is it essentially your concern, what happens then, since there are some elements of this in all of the different branches of the military, but as you say, most of it is in the air force, does the net effect become that you essentially have two smaller, maybe less powerful, even maybe less efficient branches? >> well, i think what you will do is you would pull the air force space command out of the air force, give it a new na...

Look at this is former secretary of the air force, deborah lee james. she oversaw the air force space command during her time at the pentagon. deborah, thanks for being here, really appreciate it. i want to show you a little bit more of what vice president mike pence had to say about why we need this. take a look. >> previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space. president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war-fighting do...

Pentagon is preparing for the in you space force, preparing three of the four components that are actually needed. first and foremost creating a new combatant command. thats the structure that carries out the mission in an area of assigned responsibility. its either a geographic location, say, the u.s. africa command in a debrgeographical a. the pentagon also plans to reorganize the existing air force space command which is currently a lead agency on space. though, each of the military departmen...

The capability were talking about is something that probably already exists in the u.s. military, in the air force, navy, other armed services. i spent 25 years in the navy, and 20 of it at nasa. and this is not something that we ever really heard was a serious consideration over all that time. so its kind of hard to understand at this point. >> the former secretary of the air force said the president is confusing a service branch and a combat ant command. whats the difference here and what woul...

Request and seeking input from multiple stake holders. >> it takes an act of congress to establish a new branch of the military. the u.s. has a space force of sorts in the form of u.s. air force space command. >> could shakeup the military parade. controversial voting maps in maryland and wisconsin will stay. the supreme court side steps the partisan gerrymandering. go the unanimous ruling is a blow to democrats who argue the republican drawn maps prevented fair representation. in maryland, ch...

To establish the new branch. the concept of the space force, while drawing some support on capitol hill is met with skepticism. it already has an air force space command. twitter in all its glory with "space balls" references. ahead, out as the teams head coach. we have a captain insider this morning. we have lindsay czarniak with the "bleacher report" next. s be. ? do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks, $0.50 options...

To launch in 2018. lockheed martin granted cnn an exclusive first ever look at the gps 3 in production, a classified and clean environment in which one stray hair, a bit of dust could do significant damage. >> do you need to replenish the constellation? >> colonel steven whitney, director of the gps system under air force space command, tells us that these new satellites have new special capabilities. >> improving the ashlths, improving the integrity of the sig thatll, improving the power, the a...

Nasas administrator told the u.s. needs more money to develop technology to find smaller asteroids flying around in space like infrared sensing telescope. the smaller objects pose greater threats because they are harder to detect. todays hearing comes about a month after a meteor exploded over russia injuring more than a thousand people. the general who heads the air force space command said the u.s. detected that event as it happened but not as the meteor approached earth. when somebody asked a...

The test to be aborted but up until that point it had flown for about nine minutes in pretty good shape, huh? >> absolutely, and the success was that they had a few minutes of control hypersonic flight, which is something that really hadnt been done before. its one this just glide. its another thing to actually be able to control that in a stable manner, and that was really the successful part of this demonstration. jon: well see if they try it again. brian weider, formerly with the air force, t...

the fbi and new york police are up to their elbows in dirt and dust. meticulously sifting through layers of soil six feet deep below a basement floor recemented in 1979. the same year 6-year-old etan patz disappeared. >> were cautiously optimistic as law enforcement always is when it executes search warrants that they will find what theyre looking for. >> reporter: looking for etans remains who lived a half block from the search scene. his parents still live here. he vanished after his...