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Comfortable yet it is underscoring what he sees against moscow. >> i have shortfalls in our land component and in our mer time component as well. both of those when you look at the building cape lkt and the modernization of the russian forces that we faced there and then finally a concern is my intelligence surveillance caused this capacity given that increasing and growing threat of russia. >> russia is working on new ballistic missiles, nuclear tip weapons and so called killer drones. now with both sides ready to lead nuclear weapons treaty it comes at an extraordinarily sensitive time. 24 h...

For a while. we've been talking about what they've done to expand throughout the world. i think this is something that all of our viewers should be paying attention to. what china is trying to do is to build their military to be a near peer competitor to the united states. since the fall of the soviet union, we haven't seen a near peer competitor from a military perspective. so we have the russians which are once again being active and you're seeing more of their submarines and the chinese are building carriers and submarines, which have an active land component as well. so i think it's someth...

Dominantly in the beginning a maritime response. so we had joint force maritime component command led by admiral davidson and rear admiral hughes off the coast providing that support. we in the land component provided support to texas for harvey and florida for irma. now that we're going to a dominatedly land-based operation, general robinson made the decision to switch to a land-based operation. >> i understand. look, the question is only because it's nine days after the hurricane. so we just keep hearing reports and seeing them are our owith o eyes of people december plspera desperate for wa...

Hill today calling for more troops to deter russian aggression. in a house armed services hearing, general curtis says the u.s. has a less more than 60,000 troops in europe. as the top commander, he says he needs a bigger land component and more people on the ground. he also said russia will continue to press against international norms and that the united states should push back. >> we need to demonstrate strength. we need to be strong. that is what russia respects. their opportunistic. where they see weakness, they will take advantage of it. >> the general said the entire united states gover...

Some of these people have cut out the hearts of their enemy and eaten them on television. not moderate at all. in my personal opinion, the best thing would be for everyone to get out, and let the syrians deal with their own problems. but that's not going to happen. clearly, the u.s. is involved. russia is involved. and the best would be to get rid of isis. i think that's what's important. i do believe that's what president putin thinks. although i've not had the opportunity to ask him that question. >> you have heard the reports there are at least 600 boots on the ground and to house thousands...