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The space force. >> my administration is reclaiming america's heritage as the world's greatest space-faring nation. we very well may soon have the space force. you've been hearing about that. and we're actually thinking of a sixth. and that would be the space force. does that make sense? the space force, general. you probably haven't even heard that. i'm just telling you now. >> well, right now, vice president mike pence is talking about just that. the future of the u.s. military in space, and the possibility of creating the first new branch of the military in 70 years. here's mike pence. >> a...

Space environment. it's very simple. you can launch a satellite into space, you can launch a lot of space debris that can garbage up the environment for the future. our country needs to set the example. we already have a very good capability with the u.s. air force spending initially $8 billion on something that -- >> martha: are we able to adequately protect our satellite systems and our gps systems in terms of cyber warfare, you think we can do that already? >> i think if we couldn't, then leaders in our country and leaders in the military for the last 25 years, i was in the navy for 25 year...

Vice president called a crowded and adversarial landscape. correspondent kristin fisher starts us off with what could be the epic and expensive expansion of the pentagon's power and responsibility. >> we are talking about a major reorganization of the u.s. military. the trump administration wants to create an entirely new branch for the first time since the air force was established in 1947. back then, dominance in the air was a game changer in world war ii. now the vice president said its dominance in space that holds the balance of the future. >> the time has come to write the next great cha...

Station. but that story is by no means the biggest space-related story today. far from it, in fact. today the trump administration proudly rolled out its plan for the new space force. or as the president tweeted, space force all the way! so what is it and why do we need it? here is how the vice president explained it in the official announcement this morning. >> the space environment is fundamentally changed in the last generation. what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial. the united states space force will strengthen our security, it will ensure our prosperity, an...

Decades and decades and centuries and centuries. we have to be able to avoid that. it takes away the dream of exploring space. >> a destroyed space environment would mean a war with no winners. >> it would be unusable for all. not just the two adversaries for everyone. and it would be unusable for a long time. >> a new mutually assured destruction? >> maybe so. maybe so. >> two, one. >> a mutually assured destruction. m.a.d., as it was known during the cold war, for the space age. but this time with no rules and no limits. >> if not explicit there was certainly an implicit agreement during the...