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Itself. barbara starr picks up the story. >> reporter: president trump calling for a radical change in u.s. war fighting. >> we have the army, navy, air force, the marines, the coast guard. we have the air force. now we are going to have the space force. we need it. >> reporter: today at the pentagon vice president mike pence unveiling details of the white house plan. >> the time has come to establish the united states space force. >> reporter: pence making the case the u.s. is under threat. >> ...

Anywhere from 10 to 40,000 people, depending on how you count. so i fear it would get lost in the shuffle of the big bureaucracy of the pentagon. and third, the thrashing about that would come with such a huge reorganization, i believe and fear would actually set back the momentum that weve seen in the last few years toward improving the space enterprise. >> it does make me wonder, secretary -- a branch of the military hasnt been created in 70 years. what would it mean to go about right now crea...

Of the military force? >> thats right. its a joint approach and it is all about how do we do a strategy for actually conducting the military operation. i would note that the presidents report today did call for the stand-up of a new space command, which would focus on war fighting. i happen to agree with that, an that would be a relatively easy situation because space is currently controlled by stratcom. so stratcom would do nuclear, space command would do space. >> and that would be like centco...

Cracking many jokes in my inbox about it more than anything else. but is there any chance congress would support something like this? its a huge, new expensive branch of the military. in theory, theres the national security arguments you lay out, but it seems to me like it will have a tough road. >> i think it will have a tough road. i think it does have some support in the house of representatives. you may recall that they proposed a space corps which had similar properties. not the same, but s...

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 air space rather than the ground space, then it was sensible to suggest that perhaps this shoul...

For his opposition to the war, he is pranded a nazi sympathizer. >> roosevelt privately called kennedy a fascist.randed a nazi. >> roosevelt privately called kennedy a fascisbranded a nazi sympathizer. >> roosevelt privately called kennedy a fascist. >> and once britain was in war fighting back and joe was still trying to appease, he was too outspoken and he was called back to washington. president roosevelt did not want to appease. roosevelt wanted to fight. and the last thing that fdr needed w...

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Tour. and theres almost no difference in war fighting between jamming and fighting a missile because we have to put down a missile to stop the jamming. this could easily spiral out of control, but we are allowing it to occur because the president has the schizophrenic policy on syria. >> gentlemen, thank you so much. and up next, the new reports again new reports that president trump tried for a second time to fire robert mueller late last year in spite of white house insistence. does the presid...

Need a separate space for us and our military to fight them. here is the president referring to this and right after that, well hear from the air force director joint chief of staff. lets play these sound bites. >> up my new national strategy for space recognizes that the space is a war fighting domain, just like the land, air, and c. we may even have a space force. we have the air force, will have the space force. >> i believe will be fighting from space in a matter of years. where the service ...

Ambassador kennedy wailed, its the end of everything. >> kennedy is convinced the hitler war machine is unstoppable. england will simply be devoured. >> almost as soon as britain goes to war, joe decides that hes going to send the children home. >> the u.s. liner washington brings home the biggest group of refugees. among the returning notables are mrs. joseph p. kennedy and children. >> my wife and i have given nine hostages to fortune. our children and your children are more important than any...