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Pacific four years ago. i thought we rebuilt our military during the trump years. did we not? >> we did, but this is not something that happens overnight. this is something that has taken 20 or 30 years to deal with. a lot of it is the legacy of the two terms of the obama administration, defense cutbacks but particularly the burden is born by the u.s. navy. we spent 20 years fighting land wars in the middle east, army, marines, air force. we haven't used the navy. as a result the navy budget has been cut and training cut and maintenance and operations have been cut. the result is as we look fo...

Are serving and quite frankly suffering from repeat tours of duties. gillian. >> absolutely, mika. afghanistan simply was not discussed enough. but another very basic issue that was not discussed enough was the military budget. we've just had figures showing that gdp, seriously, underperformed partly because of defense cutbacks. and we didn't really hear his views about what he wants to do in terms of trying to preserve american military might and actually get real about budget cuts. >> nor did we hear which, of course, that's really the most important thing because it affects everything we do...

This generation-long process of defense cutbacks. if a democratic president is going to slash defense he probably wants a republican at pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot, very strong words from david brooks. let's bring in steve hayes writer at "weekly standard" and a fox news contributor. good morning, steve. >> good morning, martha. martha: the strongest in that is that he would supervise the military's decline. do you think so. >> i think there is evidence to support the remarks david brooks is saying. bill burton a former deputy white ...

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