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Ally of the majority leader, mitch mcconnell. this first. the space force almost here. three u.s. official saying the president plans to officially establish a new military space command this week. the officials say they are working on a draft proposal to put the space command under the air force. mike pence plans two visits to the pentagon in florida. melania trumps spokes woman jumping to her defense after showing a drop in the first ladys popularity. in an op-ed, they take aim at our contribu...

Combat in the cosmos. the trump administration is hoping to get the agency at liftoff by 2020, but in order for this to be anything but pie in the sky, congress must approve it. >> is this a good idea or a bad idea, cory? >> maybe some ideas are neither good or bad, theyre just the right thing to do. just because the idea came out of the trump administration doesnt mean its an irrational discussion. >> thats good to hear. >> as you correctly noted, you would shift away from the air force while i...

Science fields like physics and chemistry. in my field, you wouldnt think we had anything to do with it. except we did. you go far enough back, navigation was a fundamental activity of empire building. but how do you know where you are on earth? you get that from the sky. because we knew what stars you would see and planets at different parts of the earth. you would infer where you were on earth from that and thats how you knew wheres your enemy, wheres the new land youre acquiring. >> right. >>...

Plan. 55% do not. what is the value of public polling on something this complex? i dont even know. if the air force were polled in the mid-40s, what would people have said about it then? is this part -- >> i dont know about the public polling. i think the biggest question about something like a space force, its a question worth being asked and worth being evaluated. but, you know, the first thing that comes to my mind is what problem are you solving by creating a space course? space command in t...

Signing the john s. mccain defense authorization act and never mentioning john s. mccain. and hes talking about creating a space force, even though we already have -- the air force already has a space command. but its like -- hes like a child. hes like a bad child. and he thinks that the space force is going to turn him into han solo, its going to be a big intergalactic hero. thats unlikely. and then worst of all in a way is the military parade fixation. thats another thing thats weirdly childis...

The president just signed which authorizes a space war fighting policy and tells the department of defense to stand up the space command. not the space force. but a unified branch. also look at the national defense strategy. if you just look at the first page, these two sentences sit side by side with one another and clearly make china and russia adversaries of the united states. >> when i speak to intelligence officials, they put china and russia at the top of the list of threats. >> and its ri...

From is anything to do with the military. he started out this week by signing the john s. mccain defense authorization act and never mentioning john s. mccain. and hes talking about creating a space force, even though we already have -- the air force already has a space command. but its like -- hes like a child. hes like a bad child. and he thinks that the space force is going to turn him into han solo, its going to be a big intergalactic hero. thats unlikely. and then worst of all in a way is t...

The vice president talked about yesterdays was a little of column a and column b and i think kohl bcolumn b, the comba command, the space war fighters, are buried bureaucratically. i think were behind the curve and theres broad agreement we may want to elevate it in temples of the unified space command. the real question is in column a. do you want to create another service? another military department? thats far more complicated. thats far more top heavy. it creates a bureaucratic layer and you...

The last week, people in the crowds love the space force. sorry to dumb this down. as a political tool, this is a good political tool for the president. it reminds people in that audience in the same way that president obama would always harken back to the 1960s music and the play lists to be sort of aspirational and civil rights era and stuff. when president trump says space force, people in the crowd love it. it reminds them of the optimism of man on the moon and trying to beat russia and all ...

On. i thank you for earning youve done for this country. but on this space force idea, i know youre a critic, how big of a critic are you? >> i dont know a lot about the presidents motivation for this. there doesnt seem to be a lot of support out there. and being someone who has 20 years in the military, and nasa, i dont think theres a need for a sixth branch of the military. >> do we need a space command? >> we had a sixth branch of the military and it was put back. it was a space environment t...