Oil, yawn, pummel market. China devalues its currency. The yuans value cut by 1. 1 . Ill show a tweet, mr. Trump and i dont agree on many issues but hes right, chinas currency manipulation hurts u. S. Jobs. It must stop. Here we go to lawrence in montgomery, alabama, on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks so much for cspans continuing informative programs. I wanted to ask your guest about the socalled u. S. Pivot to asia, the broad policy stroke that the Obama Administration is heralding. Heres the question. How does air sea battle fit into that . And what is the actual capability change or projected capability changes within the u. S. Pivot to asia . Thank you so much. Thats a really great question. And there are some simple answers. As the u. S. Pivot to asia, Obama Administrations pivot to asia, Public Policy now is to increase trade, maritime trade with asia and to build our relationships our economic relationships with these countries. But to protect that trade, were going to need to deploy military assets to the seas and the air off of china and near china and Southeast Asia. We believe in freedom of access of the seas and weve employed our nation to ensure that. The pivot to china, the military is also pivoting to asia to protect the assets were going to be building, the economic assets were going to be building. Frankly, i found inside the u. S. Government real support for the pivot to asia. And certainly theres a strong support in the navy and air force, you might imagine. This is in their interest for pivot to asia. Well see more and more of this as way from the middle east and moving towards where the future of trade is in the Pacific Basin for the United States. That is the intention of the pivot to asia. And the military component is to ensure that the access we have to our trade and Economic Partners in asia is ensured and protected. Mark perrys article in Politico Magazine is the political fight over fighting china in the pentagon. Your reaction on twitter as well. Heres one from charlie, who tweets that very large, very large, very fossilfuel dependent military with increasing fuel costs. Do the math and see the future. A question for you, a china u. S. War would be a multinational conflict. Who are our allies and who are theirs . How would the lines be drawn . This is a fairly speculative but interesting question. Because the United States has an understanding of how wars are fought. And one of the principles we adhere to in fighting a war is we never go it alone. We always have coalition partners, people who are willing to bear the risk and the challenges. And thats certainly true in asia. And our best allies there are south korea, philippines, japan, new zealand, potentially vietnam. And i think they would be in a future war with china. China, on the other hand, while it has a Huge Population base and growing economic assets, dont have many friends and allies. Theres a lot of mistrust in asia for the potential expansion of Chinese Foreign policy into their areas of influence. Real skepticism about the chinese leadership. So, the chinese would have to go it alone. Back to calls. Sumpter, south carolina. Don is on the democrat line. Caller good morning, bill. I had a question for mr. Perry and his statement. My question, sir, is that theres a lot of adverse opinion about tpp, but what im hearing from you, tpp, the majority or the major component of it isnt exactly trade and economics as much as it is another way of coming at china in a nonmilitary position. And a lot of the emphasis the precedent putting on it is just because we are so reluctant to do battle with china. This is another way of doing it. And also my statement is, that i am really so against Chuck Schumer becoming the minority leader and his stance on the iran treaty. I think it forfeits him from becoming the democratic minority leader. And ill get my answer off the air. Thank you, mr. Perry. Well, thank you for the question. I wont comment on mr. Schumer. I have my own opinions. But lets focus for a minute on china. Our economics trade and economic expert, im not on this program claiming i am, but i think broadly speaking the Obama Administration has shown a willingness to engage with china on all levels. At the same time, making it clear to them that Good Behavior has its rewards and bad behavior will result in the development of u. S. Weapons to counter the challenges any future challenges they might mount. Its very clear to me, and i think youve made it clear in your comment, and quite rightly so, that trade with china and trade with asia is an increasingly vital component of american Foreign Policy in the air sea battle as a reflection of that. Mikes on the democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would just like to comment on the fact that due to the large corporations in both western europe, canada and north america pushing so hard for uncontrolled free trade, to dodge all regulatory measures possible, they have lobbied and created a trade world where they can carry resources out of manufacturing, using cheap labor they dont have to pay. And basically all these agreements have led to us building up and bolstering china. And weve broken this industrial might of this country down tremendously. The middle class has no middleclass jobs anymore. All the industry and all the Manufacturing Base that would have supported this country in another conflict like world war ii is gone. We dont have the manufacturing capability to support our own nation. Mike, well let you go there. Are there any considerations in the air sea battle about the economic impact, both in china and the u. S. On any sort of conflict . The air sea battle plan is focused almost exclusively on the development of military assets. I would respond to the caller by saying, that there is strong support in washington in general in policymaking circles that trade integration and increased trade is probably the best dampener of any tendencies towards conflict because the more global trade is integrated, the more individual nations like china and the United States have to lose by going to war. And i think that that general view, that the United States promotes trade and promotes free and open trade and transparent people, is a policy that this country has been wedded to for 200 years. And its a good policy and not about to be overthrown now. The lead editorial in the New York Times is who threatens america most . They end this with general martin dempsey, the departing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said in a 2013 National Military strategy, todays Global Security environment is the most unpredictable i have seen in 40 years of service, end quote. A formidable challenge to decide what its priorities should be. Inside the pentagon, where does china rate in terms of its military priorities . The newly appointed chairman joint chiefs of staff said he considers the greatest threat to our National Security to be russia. This caused some raised eyebrows inside the white house who named isis as the greatest threat. I notice chinas not mentioned at all in those two chings. On the dempsey quote, unpredictability of future events is a real problem for the United States. I think we would rather have that than what i lived through and you lived through during the cold war, which was the looming catastrophe of an intercontinental atomic conflict that could have wiped out humanity. Were a long ways from that and there are plenty of people in the mg that will take unpredi unpredictability any day, which is world war iii. After the fall of the berlin wall, weve made Real Progress. I want to be a figure that always paints the lily here, but weve made Real Progress in integrating trade and coming to understandings with countries including china. Yes, we have some problems but nothing like we had when we had a hair trigger Nuclear Option available to us during the cold war. Thats the one positive. We might have an unpredictable world environment but its not nearly as dangerous as it once was. Next caller, don in taylor, michigan. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to thank cspan. Mr. Perry, back in the 80s i read a comment by a chinese official that they would not have to fire one bullet to take over the United States or get control because they said the politicians were so corrupt they sell their mothers. Well, no, they sold us out. That put you know, what weve done since 2000 and when they signed couldnt sign the nafta agreement, i thought we were going for the mexicans there but they went after china. And all our wealth and all the corporations went there because theyre making all this profit. Well, we put them in the drivers seat. With the money and all that money have made and gotten rich, made the military, now they put us in peril and is over corruptions. Its all corruption with our own government. Democrats and republicans. Thank you. There are some counter voices to my kind of optimism. The real problem that china has had, and its been in the news allot, is their government corruption. And theyre really struggling to do something about it. There have been a number of callers today who have talked about the United States help china economically. One of the great miracles of the 20th century is lifting of 400 million chinese out of abject poverty. We didnt have anything to do with it. They did. This is a good thing. Its not a destabilizing factor. They dont want to take over the United States, whether they have to fire one bullet or a billion bullets. I think that what china wants im not a china expert, but from what i understand, i think what china really wants is to grow their economy to integrate themselves into the world community, to help their own people. Do they have designs and resources of Southeast Asia . Yes. But it shouldnt be the cause of world war iii and i dont think it will be. I think we can see the real positives that have come out of the pivots to asia and the air sea battle. Headlines, army plans to cut 40,000 troops. This is a direct result of the air sea battle plan . And the constraints the army is operating under. Its hard to imagine a future conflict in which we would deploy soldiers to the mainland of asia. We just wouldnt do it. Especially in the wake of iraq and afghanistan. So, the army is getting lighter, more mobile. That means that theres going to be a focus on new kinds of weapon systems and the importance of, you know, storming a beach somewhere or parachuting into a normandylike situation is really not one of the options were likely to see. Mark perrys article in Politico Magazine is headline. The pentagons fight over fighting china. You can read it at politico. Com and follow mark perry on twitter markperrydc. Thanks for being with us this morning. My pleasure. That will do it for this mornings washington journal. We look forward to your calls and comments tomorrow. Coming up on cspan3, we focus on reaching young people. Next, political commentator and author bill whittle on ways conservatives can reach young voters using pop culture and making political candidatings more appealing. Then a panel of millenials including barbara bush, discusses the issues, culture, misunderstandings and stereotypes about their generation. Twitter chief Communications OfficerGabriel Stricker and the companys addressing free speech practices and eliminating abuses, such as trolling. Today at 4 00 p. M. , a hearing on the growing trend in heroine abuse and possible solutions to the problem. White house director of National Drug control policy and the deas acting Deputy Director testify. They also discuss pain relief medications. That hearing is on cspan. Tonight on cspan, portions of the annual Netroots Nation conference from phoenix. Youll hear liberal activists discussing how to elect more democrats to local office and strategies for electing more women and minorities as well. Heres some of that. Helping candidates understand they do have some resources needed in order to raise competitively. Every state has different laws around who gets paid, who doesnt, how much youre allowed to contribute. But i meet so many women who are like, im not rich. I dont have a lot of rich friends. I cant run for office because of that. When they are sitting on a facebook list of 5,000 and a phone a phone that has 8,000 contacts in it, and i always ask them, name me five people right now who, if you told them that you were running for office, they would be so excited and do a backflip. They always have 25. And many of those people have never been asked to contribute meaningfully by a political candidate ever. More of this netroots conference tonight featuring former ohio state senator nina turner and political consultant jessica bird. Thats tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Now a look at conservative messaging for the 21st century. Political commentator and author bill whittle addressed an audience at conservative forum of silicon valley, looking at ways conservatives can reach young voters using pop culture and making political candidates more appealing. Hi, everybody. I like to get this a little closer to me in case i decide to pick up a little religion tonight. Give me a chance to take a step back so i can hear how loud im actually being. Its a pleasure to be back up here. Last time i was up here, i didnt realize how close i was to berkeley. This time i did and i was somewhat surprised my skin didnt burst into flames, but apparently im just a degree or two warmer than i would be otherwise. Its actually great to be up here. We have a large, large problem ahead of us. Many times when we talk about problems out there in the real world, we talk about the problems of demographics. We talk about the problems of demographics in terms of the west disappearing, just demographically disappearing and we certainly have problems in terms of conservative as far as democrat graveng of the country. Ever since civics and history were removed from high school, history as we know it today, we face the fact that younger and younger people are becoming more and more left wing. Its not an accident they arent taught about our founding principles. If they were, they wouldnt be so left wing. But they are not taught about them so they are becoming more left wing. What we see when we look at conservativism today we see a Group Getting older. This particular room isnt too bad but ive been at Tea Party Events and i look out in the crowd and the average age is, you know, deceased. And thats a problem. Thats a serious problem. So, in order to understand that problem, in order to do something about that problem, and in order to start making traction with young people who are, in fact, extremely conservative, we have to be able to understand something. We have to understand this in our bones. We are very reluctant to understand this in our bones. People dont vote the way they think. They vote the way they feel. This is true for all of us. Thats not a bad thing. Our feelings are our core emotions. These are our core values. Feelings are what really drives our personalities. And if people vote the way they feel and they feel bad about conservatives, then theyre going to vote for liberals just because they dont like us. And thats really the simplicity of the problem we find ourselves in today we dont get the votes because were perceived as being the villains. Exit polling after the election of mitt romney. Exit polling. Not forecast or models. People coming out of voting booths after the election of 2012 said that mitt romney won significantly on the issue they considered most important, which was the economy. He won on defense. He won on job creation. As a matter of fact, mitt romney in exit polling after the 2012 election won on virtually every single question that people ask, with one exception. And the one exception where mitt lost. Lost by, i think it was Something Like 89 in favor of obama, was who do you think cares more about you . Romney won on the economy. Who do you think cares more about us . Obama carried that with 81 , 91 , Something Like that. Thats why they voted the way they did. Because mitt romney had been turned into a villain. Im up here to tell you about the power of story. If we dont understand the power of story, well never win elections against these weanies and losers and these kind of, you think, weaklings and the kind of kids that were at the Student Council meetings always tell you, if you vote for me, ill get a longer recess. Get out of my face. Were going to keep losing to these weanies if we dont understand the power of story and pop culture. Before mitt romney even got into the fight, he was the villain. People dont vote for the villains. Best entrance of a villain i ever saw was in a movie called star wars, i saw it on the roof of a Station Wagon in 1977. You see a relen alliance and the giant web of the empire, vast, enormous force fighting this tiny, little group of individuals trying to escape. You get inside the spaceship. You see the individual rebel, troopers, and theyre actual humans with faces and theyre nervous and scared because they have a big fight coming. The hatch blows at the end. Out comes white storm troopers in plastic outfits with masks that suggest skulls. Skeletons coming out of this red, gaping hole, killing individual people. After a few moments of this, the 7 1 2 foot tall creature dressed in black with a black cape with a nazi helmet with a mask that looked like a liv