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Stunning. the second thing is you heard before congress, serious readiness problem. what that means is a lack of repair parts for our equipment and borrowing from other vehicles. a lack of training time, ships banging into other ships in preparation for our sailors at the. and we show them the introduction, we capitalize our investment accounts in a significant way to buy more ships, airplanes and helicopters, missiles, etc.. all this has to be done and we are going to give the troops a significant pay raise for the first time in almost a decade. ed: we appreciate you breaking it down for us. ...

The second thing, you've heard commanders go up before the congress had told him the serious readiness problem for our viewers, what that means is that a lack of flying hours, lack repairing hours, we are borrowing equipment. a lack of training time for our troops. we saw ships banging into other ships as a result of lack of training and preparation for our sailors at sea. that will begin to get fixed. as you showed in the introduction, we will capitalize our investment accounts and a significant way to buy more ships, more airplanes, more helicopters, ground fighting vehicles, missiles, et ce...

The defense authorization bill bearing john mccain's name. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. tell us about the bill, jennifer. >> shepard, what is interesting, we've had several years of budget cuts, budget caps. this defense bill does more than any other bill to reverse that. the president very proudly stated that he wants more planes, more ships. he's going to reverse the readiness problem that after 17 years of constant war has plagued the military. this is the earliest a president has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law since 1977. puts the trump administration on trac...

>> do you agree with general mcclement masters that north korea is the greatest threat now, national security threat? >> i think because of their provocations and things are doing, the potential for war is as high as it has ever been. if someone made a miss calculation,. >> a lot of talk today about readiness. in the budget control act. the sequestration that congress needs to repeal so the money they are considering for defense increases to increase and rebuild the military, to basically fix this readiness problem, that relies on congress getting rid of sequestration. >> it's a big question i...

He said they did not open the letter. all i said north korea is still a possibility for regional flareup. >> another big thing at the conference, readiness problem. planes that can't fly, budget shortfalls. what did you here today? >> we've reported a lot about how have for the navy's fire planes cannot fly. half of the b-1 bombers can't five. i asked the secretary of the air force hell would impact the fight with north korea. she said in no uncertain terms, if we had to fight right now under these current conditions, fewer women would come home. norman would die. when i asked robert nelly abo...