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>> do you agree with general mcclement masters that north korea is the greatest threat now, national security threat? >> i think because of their provocations and things are doing, the potential for war is as high as it has ever been. if someone made a miss calculation,. >> a lot of talk today about readiness. in the budget control act. the sequestration that congress needs to repeal so the money they are considering for defense increases to increase and rebuild the military, to basically fix th...

He said they did not open the letter. all i said north korea is still a possibility for regional flareup. >> another big thing at the conference, readiness problem. planes that cant fly, budget shortfalls. what did you here today? >> weve reported a lot about how have for the navys fire planes cannot fly. half of the b-1 bombers cant five. i asked the secretary of the air force hell would impact the fight with north korea. she said in no uncertain terms, if we had to fight right now under these ...

Negotiation. not a recollectnciliation after difficult nato conversation throughout the campaign. the basic issue is, all nato countries are supposed to spend 2% of their gdp on their defense budgets. the germans are laggards. theyre about 1.3%. theyre far, far down. the u.s. is about 3.5%. now, merkels response to thi was that the germans actually are doing quite a bit in afghanistan. there theyre a much larger part. that seems to be germans response when pressed. within merkels own government,...

And what is promising to be a long tigh long fight. they dont need the budget in place until october so this is going to be a long, drawn-out fight. >> you heard chris talking about hard power versus soft power budget. lots of money on defense, not on different aid programs to go overseas. tom, every federal agency will say we need more money but the pentagon is looking at over $50 billion. what are they going to do with that that they cant do now? >> officials will probably tell you they need m...

60 days based on experience. >> its not just a shortage of experience. these world war ii era buildings are spread across fort campbell, leading to more inefficiencies. >> if we look at the ceiling, you can see the water damage causing the wood to begin to dry rot. >> robert hale, who served the obama administration, warned that military is exaggerating the readiness problem. >> this is the time when the services want to put their worst foot forward and make clear all the problems that are there...

60 days based on experience. >> its not just a shortage of experience. these world war ii era buildings are spread across fort campbell, leading to more inefficiencies. >> if we look at the ceiling, you can see the water damage causing the wood to begin to dry rot. >> robert hale, who served the obama administration, warned that military is exaggerating the readiness problem. >> this is the time when the services want to put their worst foot forward and make clear all the problems that are there...

Numbers and a more detailed budget will come in about 30 days or so but weve been tracking the deteriorating military. this 54 billion is really al an appreciated first step to rebuilding the military and dealing with the short-term readiness problem of the military and then working to re-expand it. >> but you understand how budgets work. do you see a way for $54 billion to go towards military without eliminating entire departments of the federal government? >> i think 54 billion was the best th...

Caused by sequestration which comes out of the training and maintenance budgets disproportionately. so i think we need to talk about the trump problems but not lose site of the fact weve got a readiness problem. >> other organizations have poibtd out sequestration is hitting the services to military members. colonel wilkersowilkerson, just in the terms general mccaffrey put in, you have two problems, sequestration that is hurting readiness but also this idea of taking the money out of state to p...

Are ready to deploy in 30 days, thats it. 62% of the naval aircraft are grounded for lack of spare parts and maintenance. weve got a huge readiness problem because of the sequestration. i might add when you start looking at compared defense budgets, theres been a massive decrease in funding for the armed forces since 86. we used to be 6% of gnp, now its 3%. so we need to separate the nutty ideaf cutting state by a third and the larger issues of the overall budget and understand we do have a huge...