they re building whole new weapons, whole new capabilities, hypersonics, weapons that can orbit the effort and then attack the united states all the while while our president is currently cutting the funds necessary to be able to modernize and fund advances in our military. we re not going to be able to catch up, and both china and russia are seeing this as an opportunity to expand their worldwide influence and, of course, weaken the united states and our allies. maria: all right. thank you so much. congressman mike turner, thank you. coming up, we took a boat rude with the a.g. of texas, and not long after our boat ride on the i true yo grand, mass grave sites were uncovered at the park we sailed right by as criminal cartels are getting paid just to get into that park. the money and death at the hands of criminal cartels, next.
israel. join trip to israel. joining me now is general jack keane, a retired four-star army yen and a presidential medical of freedom recipient, the highest civilian honor. the memorial day weekend with, sir, we thank you for your service. general, it s good to see you. it s great seeing you, maria. maria: so what is your take on all of this? the ceasefire in place, does it last? what are your thoughts about all of the money is sent to the palestinian authority? have we changed course entirely in the middle east? well, we re beginning to, and i said that when the biden administration calm came in, while it looked like they were going the move in the right direction about china, wasn t sure about russia, but i was convinced they had a strategic plan for the middle east, and that is unfolding right before our eyes because they re failing to recognize something that
the two crises that we re facing right now. when you look at the out of control spending in other areas, it shows clearly we re robbing from our future security. but china and russia are fielding new weapons that are directed at the united states and our capabilities. they re expanding their overall footprint and trying to have a world presence and earnly threatening their certainly threatening their neighbors. i know our allies have sob very concerned that this administration believes that our military needs to be smalled down at a time where the threats are scaling up. maria: putinen says 88% of russia s nuclear weapons will be modernized by 2022. by next year. are we prepared to stand toe to toe against these adversaries? absolutely not with the budget that they ve proposed. i can tell you in the armed services committee in the house, we certainly are moving forward with modernizing the united states nuclear weapons stockpile. it s been aging for decades. now we re looking at ru
they re building whole new weapons, whole new capabilities, hypersonics, weapons that can orbit the effort and then attack the united states all the while while our president is currently cutting the funds necessary to be able to modernize and fund advances in our military. we re not going to be able to catch up, and both china and russia are seeing this as an opportunity to expand their worldwide influence and, of course, weaken the united states and our allies. maria: all right. thank you so much. congressman mike turner, thank you. coming up, we took a boat rude with the a.g. of texas, and not long after our boat ride on the i true yo grand, mass grave sites were uncovered at the park we sailed right by as criminal cartels are getting paid just to get into that park. the money and death at the hands of criminal cartels, next.
he dropped his fiscal year 2022 budget on friday. it includes record spending for nearly every corner of government except defense spending. can you explain this to us, that china already has a large navy if than we do larger navy than we do, and we re not increasing defense spending substantially? you ve got russia eyeing ukraine, you ve got china eyeing taiwan, iran is a whole other cornerstonish show where cornerstonestone issue. your thoughts on the budget. if you ask the american public about their concerns, they re going to say national security, threats from russia, iran, north korea, and they re also going to identify the border crisis created by the biden administration. oddly, those are the two areas where the biden administration is actually wanting to cut the budget after inflation. so you ve got reductions in defense spending, reduction in homeland security when those are