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Attention and even ripping but it's a serious proposal on the part of the president that he wants to start the sixth branch of the military. mark kelly, the former astronaut told me the other night he thinks it's a bad idea. that it's a waste of money and it's redundant. buzz aldrin also weighed in and thought it was a huge giant leap for mankind. he's very in favor of it good how about you, senator? >> i think we have to reorganize our space forces because we are now in multiple dimensions. but i think creating a separate service with the infrastructure and bureaucracy is not the way to go. w...

General mattis, he's come on board since the president made it clear it's a policy of the administration. does it create more bureaucracy and suck up more money in a way that could be deployed by shifting the focus of the air force to have more attention to space. >> mike: let's take a listen to the president and the defense secretary on the space force. >> president trump: space is becoming everyday more and more important. >> we need to address space and developing a war fighting domain and combatant command is certainly one thing we can establish. >> we are not going to be able to solve thi...

>> rick: all right, thanks, edward. china taking a big step in their motion to explore the dark side of the moon. launching a satellite that will help officials to communicate with a space craft that they sent there. the country would be the first to put a ship on the far side of the moon. u.s. defense officials have said chinese are using their space program in part to try to stop other countries from using space assets during a crisis. the chinese say their plans are peaceful. the summit between president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un looking far from certain. now the man that ...

They do think the united states needs to do, conduct mind their own business, mined it hard as i've been saying and that means nuclear war games with nato, reassuring her allies, expanding missile-defense protecting our space assets. doing things that we need to do even if the russians objected that. that's what we need to do and certainly we need to especially play close attention to the baltic states. they are worried and concerned and it is because of being neglected and being undermined by the obama administration again and again. is a lot of work cut out for the obama administration. >> t...

Our soldiers in the battlefield, they have laptops, they can see the battlefield based on space assets. our adversaries see those advantages and say, listen, if we get into conflict we'll have to take those advantages away from the u.s. and that's why they're making advances in this direction. >> and the enormous fear is that china and russia, they've already sent weapons up in space. >> at least testing them or things we fear are weapons and it's things like satellites that can move and satellites that have been stalking our satellites. they'll show up around a sensitive military communicatio...