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Pilots that had to borrow parts off of museum planes to keep their operational aircraft going and other readiness problems that have been mounting. what happened was we cut the defense budget by 20% over the last eight years and that 20% -- the world did not get 20% safer, by the way. those cuts have had a deep, lasting effect on our military including training, maintenance of our planes and ships, and a number of personnel-related items. so on march 22 congress passed a bill to begin to turn it...

Kremlin in beijing and north korea and tehran they are paying attention to? >> there were two huge mistakes in the obama administration. one was freezing our defense spending at the same time the iranians, chinese and russians are building up their forces. it is critical we rebuild the military. the second was appeasing iran. president trump ran on a ronald reagan peace through strength platform. hes starting to rebuild the military, but even this budget is not enough. it will fill the potholes,...

Driving them. how bad is it? is humpty dumpty falling off the wall or has fallen the wall? >> there are clearly cracks and clearly strains and are starting to show. we have been at war for 17 years. the military has been at war, i dont know if the country feels that its been at war. less than 1% of the population which makes the military, all volunteers, a guard, professional warrior class has been at it for years. leland: the equipment has been at it for years too. >> longer than many of them h...

Youre absolutely right, we wont solve our readiness problems. we cant fix our ships and planes and so forth in three months or six months, but we can get on a good trajectory. in july the house passed a defense bill by the largest bipartisan majority in the last eight years that does exactly that. unfortunately what this three-month, stop-gap measure will do will cut the funding by more than $50 billion that was designed to fix those problems. so you cant just say -- ill put it this way. were do...

Assumptions, tax policy, mandatory spending policy, entitlements. and it has discussions about the annual spending, defense and nondefense. much of it is missing. its a very narrow look at a tiny part of the budget. >> bret: this is a blueprint. they say they are going to fill in the blanks in may. >> we learned theres more money for defense. i think everyone knew the defense department was badly underfunded but we have readiness problems and we needed to do something. how do you fit it into the...

Assumptions, tax policy, mandatory spending policy, entitlements. and it has discussions about the annual spending, defense and nondefense. much of it is missing. its a very narrow look at a tiny part of the budget. >> bret: this is a blueprint. they say they are going to fill in the blanks in may. >> we learned theres more money for defense. i think everyone knew the defense department was badly underfunded but we have readiness problems and we needed to do something. how do you fit it into the...

And children of all faiths and all beliefs. we will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet. [applause] >> shannon: national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon. what did the president do as far as unveiling plans to boost it? we keep hearing about that this week. >> i promised to fix the militarys readiness problems repairing ships, planes after 16 years of war. >> president trump: fi...

Comes out and says i want less money for police departments but theyre pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if youre trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and heres what its going to go for, whats the answer? >> readiness. in one word thats the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. theyre actu...

Rebuild military aircraft and address the pentagons readiness problems. >> border security is national security. we are leaning forward to support the president in his intent and his goal. but readiness remains our top priority. >> when president bush sent 6,000 national guardsmen to the border in 2006, it came from the navy and air forces operations and maintenance account, shep. >> pentagon officials say nothing actually has changed in syria. thats despite president trump saying this week that...