Dana thanks for being here today, set your dvr and never miss an episode of the five. He is the news guy you cant help but like, up next its mik mike. Mike the final frontier becomes the next frontier, russia says the new u. S. Sanctions over the poisoning of a spy are unacceptable and a deeply disturbing look inside the mind of a teenager behind the Parkland High School massacre. This is special report. Good evening, while welcome to washington. A new kind of space race is underway tonight and it does much more concerned with weapons and war than peace and exploration. The Trump Administration is formally launching its new Military Branch called the space for submitted what the
Vice President called a crowded and adversarial landscape. Correspondent Kristin Fisher starts us off with what could be the epic and expensive expansion of the pentagons power and responsibility. We are talking about a major reorganization of the u. S. Military. The Trump Administration wants to create an enti
assistant secretary of defense for maca space. at her belly in ohio, president trump hinted at a more action and orbit. president trump: tremendous defensive and offensive capability. the move to militarize space has raised concerns over a celestial arms race. the fact is that russia and china have been actively developing antisatellite weapons for a number of years. the trump administration is now calling on congress to allocate $8 billion over the next five years. ultimately, congress must act. the big question now is will congress actually fund it? the trump campaign is already trying to make some money off today s announcement, they sent an email to supporters asking them to vote on the space force