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Issue. the challenge here is that there are voting machines being sought by the governor, which would reward a company for whom his chief of staff, deputy chief of staff used to work approximately six months ago, and that his executive counsel advised. and so we believe that this is not only bad for georgia because its a hackable machine that does not protect the vote, but its also procurement nightmare where we see self-enrichment on the state level similar to what we saw happen on the federal ...

Theyre currently at around 1.22%. the nato commitment is 2%. germanys economy is huge. so an increase from 1.22% to minimum of 2% will be a huge amount of money. and so we have to work with the germans to find ways. i want to be very creative. i dont want to just talk over each other and us, the americans keep saying the germans should raise their commitment to 2% and the germans tell us theyre on a path and theyre going to get there by 2030 is what chancellor merkel told president trump. we nee...

This is of great importance, but its not nearly in that category, because the states will have to do it themselves if we dont do it. but i would like to help the states out and were doing that with a very big investment. one of the other things i think so important to mention is that in the budget, we took care of the military like its never been taken care of before. in fact, general mattis called me and goes, wow. i cant believe i got everything we wanted. i said, thats right, but we want no e...

This is of great importance, but not nearly in that category. the states will do it themselves. i like to help the states out. were doing that with a big investment. one thing that is important, in the budget we took care of the military like it has never been taken care of before. general mades called me and said we got everything we wanted. said thats right, we want you to buy twice. twice what you thought for half the price. maybe well get involved in the buying. twice as many planes for half...

And what was very important to me was regulation. this is of great importance, but its not nearly in that category because the states will have to do it themselves if we dont do it. but i would like to help the states out. were doing that with a very big investment. one of the other things so important to mention is that in the budget, we took care of the military like its never been taken care of before. in fact, general mattis called me, he goes, wow, i cant believe i got everything we wanted....

Aapu also has the expertise and offered no strings attached, no money up front. >> yes, im just saying what is out there about what ricardo ramos has been saying about it. to be very honest, prepa, its a public corporation, so its basically run by ricardo and he responds to a board of directors. you know, governor basically requested an audit of his -- of the procurement process of the contract and also submitted the contract to the inspector general. if theres any wrongdoing and i think those c...

Of whitefish, but then any other process related to any other contracting, it needs to be transparent and it he needs to be obviously guided towards the end goal which is servicing the people of puerto rico on the electricity side. >> sir, the lack of transparency is the problems that puerto rico -- >> no -- >> -- hold on, have faced before. the hurricane that struck puerto rico. we know that after that there was misuse of funds, corruption and lack of transparency. the governor of puerto rico a...

Again ive read this order twic twice. youre saying this gives them the authority to take weapons that the government and the current dominant virgin islands already owns from armories? >> let us assume that some circumstances came up at the national guard it needed some munition that was not with an armory. if that munition was available in any retail store, the national guard, the general would not have to go through the procurement process of the government to purchase it, she could go in ther...

Again ive read this order twic twice. youre saying this gives them the authority to take weapons that the government and the current dominant virgin islands already owns from armories? >> let us assume that some circumstances came up at the national guard it needed some munition that was not with an armory. if that munition was available in any retail store, the national guard, the general would not have to go through the procurement process of the government to purchase it, she could go in ther...

To break up that part of the equation and working with north korean clients is a huge area that i think we can get more of the chinese cooperation on. thats an area that we can further explore in greater detail, and that can slow down the procurement process for north koreas further development of their nuclear as well as ballistic missile programs. >> what about the leader, joe? just kim jong un. what is his mindset through all of this? >> well, that was a very powerful speech. i agree with you...