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Defense programs, chris. >> we also have the reality of the makeup of congress, as we said. it would need congressional approval. so as a reality check, does this indeed make it more likely that the president's space force will become a reality? >> yes. you hit an important point there. of course it does need to be approved by congress. we know the senate already took the first step earlier this year. the house armed services committee, they introduced an amendment to what's called ndaa, national defense authorizes act proposing a separate space organization in the defense department but we've...

Cracking many jokes in my inbox about it more than anything else. but is there any chance congress would support something like this? it's a huge, new expensive branch of the military. in theory, there's the national security arguments you lay out, but it seems to me like it will have a tough road. >> i think it will have a tough road. i think it does have some support in the house of representatives. you may recall that they proposed a space corps which had similar properties. not the same, but similar. i think the senate will question it very strongly. i always come back to the very simple q...

Been defeated. who is remarkably cool under pressure. are you ready? >> kevin: i'm ready. let's do it. >> katie: my harshest competition yet. my fiercest competition. >> tucker: you know the rules. hands on the buzzers. i ask the question. the first one to buzz in gets to answer. you have to wait until i finish asking the question to do that. you can answer one i acknowledge by saying your name. each correct answer worth one point. if you get it wrong, you lose a point like the s.a.t. best of five wins. ready? >> kevin: let's do it. >> katie: ready. >> tucker: outstanding. question one. presid...

Who is remarkably cool under pressure. are you ready? >> kevin: i'm ready. let's do it. >> katie: my harshest competition yet. my fiercest competition. >> tucker: you know the rules. hands on the buzzers. i ask the question. the first one to buzz in gets to answer. you have to wait until i finish asking the question to do that. you can answer one i acknowledge by saying your name. each correct answer worth one point. if you get it wrong, you lose a point like the s.a.t. best of five wins. ready? >> kevin: let's do it. >> katie: ready. >> tucker: outstanding. question one. president trump says ...

Said this is pure silliness but lay out the details of your reporting. >> chris, we looked at a series of national security decisions and announcements president trump made over several months and one thing we found in common was it seemed to lack secretary mattis' perspective on many of these and it's not just that he's necessarily kept out of the loop own these decisions. it is that president trump is making a decision that is really contrary to things that secretary mattis has said both publicly and privately. so one, you know, the sound bite you just ran was about space force. secretary ma...