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Space, but it ignores its international treaty obligations concerning outer space, posing a serious threat to the safety of astronauts. this is a typical double standard. >> reporter: but spacex is a private company, and the tensions point to the larger issue of how to manage traffic in space as more countries and companies now have space capabilities, where near misses between objects happen often. an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics says the international space sta...

Department of Defense Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Anton T. Semelroth provided the following readout: Principal Director for Russia, Ukraine, and

Space activities. they took a little bit different route for how theyre organized. back in 2015, they created something called their strategic support force, where they put together their military space activities, their electronic warfare and cyber capabilities in dinner units. the united states separates out space into its own service to develop space capabilities. griff: in the time that we have left. so let me ask you a question that hopefully congress is listening to, if they dont increase ...

It for good reason. if weve seen money added into the defense budget to buy space capabilities and watch for debate on this on the hill because the pentagon will put together its proposal. then it goes up to the house and of the senate to authorize and appropriate the money for the space force. dr. heather wilson is in charge of the air force, she is the one who will have to sell this proposal through congress and i think its got a good chance of making it through. >> tucker: i would be proud of...

It for good reason. if weve seen money added into the defense budget to buy space capabilities and watch for debate on this on the hill because the pentagon will put together its proposal. then it goes up to the house and of the senate to authorize and appropriate the money for the space force. dr. heather wilson is in charge of the air force, she is the one who will have to sell this proposal through congress and i think its got a good chance of making it through. >> tucker: i would be proud of...

The defense budget to buy space capabilities and watch for debate on this on the hill because the pentagon will put together its proposal. then it goes up to the house and of the senate to authorize and appropriate the money for the space force. dr. heather wilson is in charge of the air force, she is the one who will have to sell this proposal through congress and i think its got a good chance of making it through. >> tucker: i would be proud of one of my children joins a space force. >> and yo...

Neil, pleasure to have you on. >> great to be back, fareed. thanks. >> so, is this a good thing that trump has announced? >> ive thought a lot about it, but i dont have a strong opinion. the idea of a space force is not a fundamentally odd when you consider that the army 70 years ago birthed the air force. there was the army air force. and once we realized that technology and war-fighting capabilities evolve -- >> and was going to take place up in the -- >> in the air space rather than the groun...

August when we started to go after isis in support of not just the coalition but iraqi security forces in iraq, expanded into syria. we are supporting organic ground forces. we have special forces on the ground, providing more than kinetic activity but intelligence surveillance like you said, space capabilities, command and control, a host of capabilities with organic ground forces come and they can move. >> we heard from the iraqi prime minister they took over mosul and push towards the euphrat...

This, which is not helpful. so i would say -- i mean, at the end of the day, russia is, yes, economically its declined from the height of the, i guess about a decade ago, when oil prices were high, so, you know, the economys declined, or maybe less than a decade ago, i should say. but its not going away. its got a large landmass. between the united states and russia, we have combined 93% of the worlds strategic nuclear weapons. thats pretty serious. and the russians are very sophisticated when i...

What do you make of that? >> you know, its ironic youd ask that question, because the same question occurred here eight or ten years ago when we were talking about modernizing our space capabilities, and there were those who said, oh, no. we dont want to weaponize space. opponents proceeded to do exactly that. now there is a grave deficit in some of these areas. the hypersonic glide vehicles that russias developing would, indeed, make some of our most advanced missile defense capabilities obsole...