strong allies like taiwan, japan, australia, new zealand, of course, so we need to have that strong inability to deter and the in fact, we can look at the taiwan strait or south china sea and exercise forces and prepare, we deter china that way and that s what we are looking for long-term. eric: and finally dr. grant, during testimony patrick said this has been ongoing problem for sometime. what happened to the obama administration pivot to asia, wasn t that supposed to be the whole thing to try to prevent this type of conflict? the pivot of 2012, that was a good step but we just didn t fund enough of the programs that we needed so this budget tries to catch up with funding f35, b21 bombers, navy modernization, but we are catching up and china never had that pullback that we did within the obama years in
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should be public, the american people people approximately $25 million for it, serious allegations made and one way or the other, everybody should know, this report could turn out to show the allegations were that the president and people who work for him were somehow involved with collusions with the russians. that s the case and the report demonstrates that, that can be pursued one way. at the same time it s important for the american people to know if there s nothing like that uncovered and after almost 2 years and $25 million, if there s no evidence of that, the american people should know that too and, again, that could be subpoena by congress. eric: critics say is there a collusion allusion or in fact, the meeting on trump tower where don, jr. thought they were meeting with russian lawyer representing the government as the e-mail said in support of donald trump for president, you know, how mueller will come down on that and whether or not that was in fact, a meeting of collusion.
in terms of the timing of the release of it, that i wouldn t guess because as you know, they ve been saying it s going to be released in 2 weeks just in public, not mueller s team but they have been saying it ll be released next week for at least a month, there s no telling when it s actually going to be released and the only guy that knows is bob mueller. eric: yeah and he, i guess, ain t talking. he ain t. eric: chris, always good to talk to you, thank you for your insight. arthel. arthel: after 6 years of drought, california is having wettest sentence 40 years, but experts say the state s golden opportunity is just going down the drain. william explains. we are watching the river and it s going to be aimed right at southern california. from la to san francisco, near record rain yet 80% is wasted. and we will never capture but we have to do better job of capturing what we can. a study by pacific institutes california cities fail to
eric: what s the reason? we don t know. all analysts are wondering what s up with that, they need self-aircraft like the f35 and 322 to challenge china and russia and others and with the aircraft carrier it s puzzling because they want to have presence in the pacific, so we really need to keep all the carriers, china is just too big of a threat and we have to reach out with bombers, tankers in order to deter china s threats in south china sea and other areas. they have their own aircraft carrier development. so, you know, why would we take uss truman out of the water? exactly, they have a second one ready and third one waiting and so in no time to be cutting back aircraft carrier force but we need to fight multidomain