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Supremacy, we must always be on the cutting edge. that is why we are all so proudly reasserting america's lega leadership in space. our competitors have begun weaponizing space. developing new technologies to disrupt vital communications, blind satellites and just -- look at what they're doing, they have given me run-downs. i've seen things that you don't want to see what they're doing and how advance they are. we'll be catching them very shortly. they want to jam transmissions which threaten our battlefield operations and so many other things. we will be so far ahead of them in a very short t...

Effort, in order to maintain america's military supremacy, we must always be on the cutting edge. that is why we are also proudly reasserting america's legacy of leadership in space. our foreign competitors and adversaries have already begun weaponizing space, developing new technologies to disrupt vital communications, blind satellites, and just -- i mean you look at what they're doing, they have given me rundowns. i've seen things that you don't even want to see what they're doing and how advanced they are. we'll be catching them very shortly. they want to jam transmissions which threaten ou...

Last generation. what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial. >> he blames china and russia for developing and testing weapons that could destroy american satellites which the u.s. military and economy depend on for communicating, navigating, and intelligence. >> our adversaries have been busy weaponizing space. too often, we have bureaucracy i state. >> opponents like deborah lee jane's argue the president's proposal would only add to red tape. >> the creation of a brand-new separate service, brand-new bureaucracy, would create such thrashing that we could create loo...

And so we will. [applause] >> dana: vice president pence at the pentagon today announcing why president trump wants the u.s. to create a military presence in space. pence saying the government intends to establish the space force as a sixth branch of the military by 2020. kristin fisher is following this for us. kristin? >> hey, dana. well today the vice president said look back to the end of world war ii when advances in aviation led to the establishment of the air force. there were growing pains back then. but, he believes it was necessary to secure american domination in the skies. and now ...

>> i would say that the wake-up call really was when the chinese tested their anti-satellite weapon against their own satellite. a clear demonstration that the technology was there in the hands of the chinese, anyway. >> a wake-up call, both because it represented an ominous step towards weaponizing space, and because it immediately added thousands of pieces of debris to earth's orbits, each piece a potential satellite or spacecraft killer. >> man down. >> just as you saw in the thriller "gravity" space jump traveling at more than 20 times the speed of sound is flat-out deadly. >> ahh! >> a pi...