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In his first message to the forces shanahan said as acting secretary of defense i look forward to working with president trump to carry out his vision alongside strong leaders, including the service secretaries, joint chiefs of staff, the combatant commanders and senior personnel in the office of the secretary of defense. one of the biggest threats he faces is china who celebrated 2019 with a flag raising in beijing. china continued to test missiles last year including the launch of a new type of ballistic missile from a submarine in november. experts say the u.s. must spend more on defense to...

>> the president met defense secretary mattis and armed services chairmen for lunch last week and reports leaked out the white house was seeking $750 billion for the 2020 pentagon budget. a shocking figure when just last week the president said $700 billion was his top line. weeks before the president demanded a 5% cut from all government agencies. it's been to rebuild the military after years of budget cuts and caps. this year's defense budget is $716 billion. the pentagon was hoping for $733 billion for the 2020 budget. some political insiders have argued the president's choice of $750 billi...

$75,016,000,000,000. and above that $733 billion. they had been pushing for. the budget has not yet been finalized. democrats did not get a whole lot of ammo with the testimony last week. they did not provide much evidence of collusion at all. what impact well have on all of the talk of russian collusion which we had been hearing for so long now. ladies, good morning to you. hallie, what did you make of james comey testimony. there was just not much there to help the democrats out with their effort to provide any backing to their collusion story line that they had been telling for two years no...

Military defense spending budget was supposed to be around $733 billion by 2020, it could go down to $700 billion, so when people are writing the budget, what's the first thing that gets cut and how could this negatively impact the military? >> good morning, and one of the things that we saw just two years ago we were at a 1940 military and you had a case that planes were dropping out of the sky, troops were underpaid and undersupplied and even more so our ships couldn't sail, now, finally, we are back to a force that's showing the world that the u.s. is a force to be reckon with, i think cutt...

With senator john barrasso and liz cheney part of the team. trace? >> trace: thanks, mike. the u.s. military has eroded to a dangerous degree according to a new bipartisan report out tied and warns the u.s. might struggle to win or perhaps lose a war against china or russia. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reporting live in the pentagon. hi, jen. >> the 98 page report by this bipartisan commission outlines how china and russia are seeking to build up their military while the u.s. faced budget caps and political dysfunction, which is leading to an eroded military capability. pr...