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Vacuum. this is about all of our foreign nation adversaries. china is looking at this very closely. president xi is looking to see if putin can invade ukraine and get away with it, he will look at taiwan. the ayatollah is building a bomb. kim jong-un just fired off two rockets this month that they claim were hyper sonics. this is a flash point now and it is not just limited to ukraine. >> republican from texas, thank you, sir. good to see you as always. it is getting ugly on the left. democrats censuring one of their own and now one senator is piling off. at what point is it safe to start pu...

If you look at the budget and the investments we're making in research and development, 130 billion dollar go the highest water mark ever for this department in terms of rnd investments. a lot of those capabilities, cyber, space, 5g, artificial intelligence, hyper sonics, you look at that stuff and it will help us against the facing challenge of china but will help us what we consider the acute threat of russia. let me go to phones here. >> with the movement, are you seeing a movement of artillery

All the reporting suggests we were caught flat footed. didn't know about it and superseded our own abilities. what do you know about this? >> the reporting is not accurate in that respect. look, we've known about the chinese testing df17 hypersonic missile as far back as 2013. when i was dni last year i commissioned and cleared several intelligence products on the state of chinese hyper sonics but i want to obscure the point this is a troubling development. it is not surprising but it is troubling and one of the reasons last year i increased our intelligence spending on china by 20%. our intel...

We currently don't have the missile technologies to defend adequately against hyper sonics the chinese don't have the ability to defend against our missile arsenal. there is a measure of comfort but it underscores the point where our focus needs to be and why again we should be spending trillions of dollars on matching where china is spending money in places like supersonics or emerging technologies. machine learning, quantum computing and things i highlighted saying there are places china is matching and surpassing us and that's what the biden administration needs to focus on. and they just h...

Organization solely dedicated to that. that's important. >> whoever gets there first, will have unmatched ability on the battle field for years to come. hyper sonics or robotics and artificial intelligence. >> the goal to establish dominance in cutting edge war fighting technology, especially in cyberspace before the chinese and russians do. >> if we just sit back and don't react we will lose our technological superiors, the chinese are right. with the chinese you have to protect what you have because if they can't learn about it, they'll try to buy it. if they can't learn about it or buy it t...