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>> 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...

Negotiation. not a recollectnciliation after difficult nato conversation throughout the campaign. the basic issue is, all nato countries are supposed to spend 2% of their gdp on their defense budgets. the germans are laggards. they're about 1.3%. they're far, far down. the u.s. is about 3.5%. now, merkel's response to thi was that the germans actually are doing quite a bit in afghanistan. there they're a much larger part. that seems to be german's response when pressed. within merkel's own government, the defense ministry wants to spend more on defense. they also think they have a readiness pr...

And what is promising to be a long tigh long fight. they don't need the budget in place until october so this is going to be a long, drawn-out fight. >> you heard chris talking about hard power versus soft power budget. lots of money on defense, not on different aid programs to go overseas. tom, every federal agency will say we need more money but the pentagon is looking at over $50 billion. what are they going to do with that that they can't do now? >> officials will probably tell you they need more. tactically they think they have a readiness problem here.

60 days based on experience. >> it's not just a shortage of experience. these world war ii era buildings are spread across fort campbell, leading to more inefficiencies. >> if we look at the ceiling, you can see the water damage causing the wood to begin to dry rot. >> robert hale, who served the obama administration, warned that military is exaggerating the readiness problem. >> this is the time when the services want to put their worst foot forward and make clear all the problems that are there, so i think we have to be a little skeptical. >> he raised alarm bells when he testified that 3 ou...