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Earths or businesses with new technology targeting american satellites that are critical to battlefield operations and our way of life at home. our freedom to operate in space is also essential to detecting and destroying any missile launched against the united states. so just as we have recognized land, air, sea and cyber as vital war-fighting domains, we will now treat space as an independent region over seen by a new unified geographic combatant command. the establishment of the 11th combatan...

>> in question. congress established the need for any of this and was a bipartisan effort two years ago that basically told the department of defense analyzing what we need to ensure our dominance in space and we are looking at it to phased approach, the president, the permit of the fence executing the first phase of that, the first steps in that and it will be up to congress to chamber the sixth service since fans when they do that. heather: what is happening in the first phase? >> it is four s...

Establishing a combatant command where we start thinking about space. those three things the department of defense can do with the presidents signature to establish this unified command plan, that will establish the foundation and give congress the legs they need to give legislation in the next two years. jillian: pretty wild. rob: the secretary of defense was against this idea and now he is for, at least everyone is in sync. we will see how it develops, thanks for your time this morning. 49 min...

General mattis, hes come on board since the president made it clear its a policy of the administration. does it create more bureaucracy and suck up more money in a way that could be deployed by shifting the focus of the air force to have more attention to space. >> mike: lets take a listen to the president and the defense secretary on the space force. >> president trump: space is becoming everyday more and more important. >> we need to address space and developing a war fighting domain and comba...

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...

Combatant command and thats not -- that shouldnt be minimized. that is a pretty big step. >> are we addressing whats going on in social media? russian bots are still over social media. fake news is being pushed out there. you have them fueling this hash tag #release the memo. they are still trying to sow division. that was a big part of what people are complaining about and worried about. i dont see any change in that for 2018. >> thats a huge struggle about how much the government can curtail o...

Women that you track this type of missile launches, they could make that judgment. gillian: while we have you, i want to get viewers the benefit of tapping into your expertise, can you tell us a word about pacific commands mission and what they do more broadly? >> the u.s. pacific command is the largest combatant command in the world leading the u.s. military, the pentagon has divided the world into different sections, the pacific, u.s. pacific command based in hawaii in pearl harbor runs all u....

Very differential when the question came up about members of congress that didnt know that members of forces were in niger. i used to work in this area. i can say that every single year each combatant command, we have one of the members from each area to explain that we have forces in africa. we have forces in niger. so you know, im a little more skeptical that these senators and congressman that claim they didnt know, shame on them. that information is available. one of the most important thing...

That he does not believe the president is fit for office. that he cannot be trusted with the national command authority to launch nuclear weapons and we should just remind viewers, nicolle, in our system, only the president of the united states has the authority to launch nuclear weapons. and nobody -- not a single person can countermand that order. if the president gives the order around it can happen very rapidly, the president gives the order not the secretary of defense, not the combatant co...

Combatant command, particularly those in hawaii and in korea have been very, very measured. so on the one hand you have rhetoric on both sields at the very top, but at the military level we see so far, at least, nothing but a very calm, measured response to the crisis, chris. >> and again, as youre looking to watch to see where this might be headed, how closely are you watching guam? because a lot of what weve heard, again, a lot of people have not heard about guam for a very long time. theyre l...