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Congressman michael waltz. thanks for your time this morning. what do you hope gets accomplished today? >> the administration will lay out its case. here is what we're dealing with here from a broad picture. we're dealing with a metastasizing and spreading islamic extremist threat at the same time we're dealing with -- i don't like to call them near peer competitors. china is now a peer competitor. they've stolen our technology edge and dealing with a dangerous russia that is growing its arsenal of low-yield, short-range, very quick flight time tactical nuclear weapons. i think we face unprece...

Respect, especially at a time when china and russia are definitely making their moves. >> one more -- >> and they are near peer competitors to us. >> one more question i want to ask about this and then i want to turn to the shutdown. what do you say to people who say, look, generals never want to withdraw troops, every president comes in and we've now passed along the afghanistan war for 17 years with the dynamic of we have to stay, we have to stay and we have 2,000 u.s. service members in syria, it's unclear how long they're going to stay, the president wants to withdraw them and this is just...

Had touched bases with prime minister abe and others. therefore, i knew that he was a person who saw the world in an accurate way, where our allies have very important. as he said in his letter we need to treat our allies with respect, especially at a time when china and russia are definitely making their moves. >> one more -- >> and they are near peer competitors to us. >> one more question i want to ask about this and then i want to turn to the shutdown. what do you say to people who say, look, generals never want to withdraw troops, every president comes in and we've now passed along the af...

Toothless statement other than the promise that north korea made before and has broken. president trump said we got something. we put to bed, put an end to the nuclear threat on the korean peninsula, so, sir, i say to you, how could you possibly claim we got nothing. president trump says we got something really big. >> well, this is a perfect example of how the president will take any issue and think to himself, how can i get media attention about this? if it's starting a fight with justin trudeau, i'll do that. if it means i got to wrap my arms around a dictator in north korea, i'll do that. ...

Opinion. apparent pressure on the border has declined. record deportations run. so by all, short of objective measures, situations on the border seem to be better than it ever has been. so we don't understand stand this in terms other than political. the united states military is under resource. we are behind and spent 15 years in the middle east. we weren't going on up against peer competitors. a huge technological disadvantage. meanwhile, russia, and maybe china has invested. and we are on the catch up mode to this. and got to get our forces.