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Earth's or businesses with new technology targeting american satellites that are critical to battlefield operations and our way of life at home. our freedom to operate in space is also essential to detecting and destroying any missile launched against the united states. so just as we have recognized land, air, sea and cyber as vital war-fighting domains, we will now treat space as an independent region over seen by a new unified geographic combatant command. the establishment of the 11th combatant command is a landmark moment. this is a landmark day. one that recognizes the centrality of space...

>> in question. congress established the need for any of this and was a bipartisan effort two years ago that basically told the department of defense analyzing what we need to ensure our dominance in space and we are looking at it to phased approach, the president, the permit of the fence executing the first phase of that, the first steps in that and it will be up to congress to chamber the sixth service since fans when they do that. heather: what is happening in the first phase? >> it is four steps. the president announced we would establish a new combatant command called space command like c...

Establishing a combatant command where we start thinking about space. those three things the department of defense can do with the president's signature to establish this unified command plan, that will establish the foundation and give congress the legs they need to give legislation in the next two years. jillian: pretty wild. rob: the secretary of defense was against this idea and now he is for, at least everyone is in sync. we will see how it develops, thanks for your time this morning. 49 minutes after the hour. they are known for violent crimes and brutal murders but ms 13 gang members ar...

General mattis, he's come on board since the president made it clear it's a policy of the administration. does it create more bureaucracy and suck up more money in a way that could be deployed by shifting the focus of the air force to have more attention to space. >> mike: let's take a listen to the president and the defense secretary on the space force. >> president trump: space is becoming everyday more and more important. >> we need to address space and developing a war fighting domain and combatant command is certainly one thing we can establish. >> we are not going to be able to solve thi...

Pentagon is preparing for the in you space force, preparing three of the four components that are actually needed. first and foremost creating a new combatant command. that's the structure that carries out the mission in an area of assigned responsibility. it's either a geographic location, say, the u.s. africa command in a debrgeographical a. the pentagon also plans to reorganize the existing air force space command which is currently a lead agency on space. though, each of the military departments, the army, navy and air force, have their own space command or brigade. now the change would he...