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Sufficient spending, funding and resourcing our national defense. obstruct a lot of what the president is trying to do, and democrats tend not to prioritize and invest in the military like republicans do. democrats tend to look at things like health care, social security, things that are actually ballooning federal spending. so thats what were looking at here. ifyó just the house, were going to have a hard time getting through a good defense spending bill. ed: these are the facts as you lay the...

Cooperating. but its the turkish investigators in the consulate yesterday. >> bret: saying that they have been telling people they have evidence. >> the kingdom has been key to the american force structure in the middle east for decades. molly is right, you need facts before you reach any judgment. once you reach a judgment about whats happening, you need to use prudence to determine your course of action. i think a lot of people in washington are moving very quickly to condemn in the most right...

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Transpired in those two hours in highly amazing period of time to spend alone one on one is by understanding at least that if you were briefed by the president, what he told you. i dont think thats unfair to know, to understand what policy is. let me ask you this. did the president say they were going to change our force structure in syria? >> senator, presidents are permitted to have conversations with their cabinet members that arent repeated in public. i owe -- i owe the president the capacit...

Members of the team, the national security team, once the senate confirms them, to carry these views forward. >> thank you. you talked about, i think senator inhofe raised the issue of readiness of our troops. when we met we also talked about the national guard and the importance of the guard as being part of the one force that we depend on. readiness is obviously a concern for the national guard as well. in new hampshire, for example, our national guard has experienced at 32% decline in force s...

These views forward. >> thank you. you talked about, i think, senator inhoff raised the issue of readiness for our troops and when you and i met we also talked a little bit about the national guard and the importance of the guard as being part of the one force that we depend on. readiness is a concern for the national guard as well and in new hampshire our national guard has experienced a 32% decline in force structure since 2007, much more than many states that are smaller than we are. and they...

I guess what im going to start with is boots on the ground. >> well, i think -- it was interesting to hear general dumford say this. i thought it was almost out of school for him to say were going to be presenting things to the new administration indicating that we couldnt get this through the present administration. so it looks like theyre going to be pushing for changes i think to the rules of engagement, maybe lessening the restricted rules of engagement. increased boots on the ground, more s...

In to kill bin laden. thats not what theyre doing. theyre capable. theyre top-end trainers and there to do is train, advise, assist, help the residents peshmerga or others friendly or moderate to the united states. these guys are not going in to conduct front of the line special operations targeted hit missions. they could do that if called upon but with only 50 guys, thats not enough force structure to do it. what i see this as is an extension of concept training someone else to do the fight fo...

2016, we will maintain 5,500 troops, a masmall number of bas. >> joined by embassy chris hill. you saw that montage, every single pledge about afghanistan basically has been delayed. why should we think that this is just nothing more than another delay and the next presidents likely to have to continue this policy in perpetuity? >> well, i think were discovering that afghanistan is about as tough a place to be as you can imagine. i mean, clearly, trying to put an afghan force structure and tryin...

Forces in the arctic. administration undermines that,under mines its credibility by cutting forces in alaska but throughout the country. they cut the only combat airborne combat brigade in the asia-pacific. weakness is provocative. expect more provocations from russia from china, from north korea when were exhibiting weakness in terms of our force structure in the asia-pacific. >> in 2013 the army in budget documents it prepared said going below 450,000 troops army troops could prevent prevailin...