changed in the last generation. what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial. >> reporter: he blames china and russia for developing and testing weapons that can destroy american satellites, the us military and economy depend on, communicating, navigating. >> our adversaries have been with rising space, we bureaucrats eyes that. >> reporter: opponents like debra lee james who served in the obama administration argued the president's proposal would only add to the red tape. >> the creation of a brand-new separate service, brand-new bureaucracy would create such thrashing within the bureaucracy we could lose the positive momentum we have seen over the last several years. >> reporter: a point gym matis supported last year but has come around and now supports the plan to create a space operations force, unified combatant command space developed and agency for