Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
Doing the bidding of his globalist masters and mr. Obama actually declare donald trump is unfit to be president. The republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on improving it. He is woefully unprepared to do this job. Lou woefully unprepared. Trump responded in part with the tweet which reads quote president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States. End quote. Trumps running make running make governor mike pence hitting back at president obama the tucson town hall. It really is amazing, i got up this morning here in tucson and i saw the present of United States on television. The president actually said that our nominee was quote unfit to serve as president. He said and im quoting, the fact that he doesnt appear to have basic knowledge about Critical Issues in europe and the middle east and asia means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job. While allowing for the fact that a rock obama knows a
Mr. Obama actually declared donald trump is unfit to be president. The republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on proving it. Hes woefully unprepared to do this job. Woefully unprepared. Resonates doesnt it. Trump responded with a tweet that reads, quote, president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, end quote. Trumps running mate governor mike pence also hitting back at the president in a twucson town hall. Really is amazing i got up here this morning in tucson and i saw the president of the United States on television. The president actually said that our nominee was quote unfit to serve as president. He said, and im quoting, the fact that he doesnt appear to have basic knowledge about Critical Issues in europe, in the middle east, in asia means that hes woefully unprepared to do this job. Well, allowing for the fact that barack obama knows a lot about being woefully unprepared to be presid
Mr. Obama actually declared donald trump is unfit to be president. The republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on proving it. Hes woefully unprepared to do this job. Woefully unprepared. Resonates doesnt it. Trump responded with a tweet that reads, quote, president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, end quote. Trumps running mate governor mike pence also hitting back at the president in a twucson town hall. Really is amazing i got up here this morning in tucson and i saw the president of the United States on television. The president actually said that our nominee was quote unfit to serve as president. He said, and im quoting, the fact that he doesnt appear to have basic knowledge about Critical Issues in europe, in the middle east, in asia means that hes woefully unprepared to do this job. Well, allowing for the fact that barack obama knows a lot about being woefully unprepared to be presid
Doing the bidding of his globalist masters and mr. Obama actually declare donald trump is unfit to be president. The republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on improving it. He is woefully unprepared to do this job. Lou woefully unprepared. Trump responded in part with the tweet which reads quote president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States. End quote. Make running make governor mike pence hitting back at president obama the tucson town hall. It really is amazing, i got up this morning here in tucson and i saw the present of United States on television. The president actually said that our nominee was quote unfit to serve as president. He said and im quoting, the fact that he doesnt appear to have basic knowledge about Critical Issues in europe and the middle east and asia means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job. While allowing for the fact that a rock obama knows a lot about bein