Live, daylong coverage of a conference on fighting extremism. They should be returning in about 15 minutes or so. Before they do return, we will take a look at some of todays washington journal. A look at your money and how it is being spent by the federal government. Joining us today is Charles Johnson of the government office. Bility he is the International Affairs and trade managing director. Us. Nk you for joining. Thank you for having me. Host the topic is isis. A report ut together on how much money it is costing up u. S. Government to keep the battle against isis. What is it saying . Uest on this special publication we identify nine key issues that we think need by the administration and congress. This report basically is attention to aw what we have identified the past two years of work we have done folks need to nk Pay Attention. Among them is looking after the Iraqi Security forces and money spent on air in iraq and averages and iraq and oversight of humanitarian assistance because heres a serious crisis in isis. And disrupt host 21 billion. However back does that take us . That goes back to 2014. Estimate from 2014 to 2016. Ost is that high or low or expected . Guest 21 billion in taxpayer that is a lot less than what we have spent in averages past. Raq in the host lets break it down before we start taking phone calls. The 2 100 0000000 it is broken up like this. 10. 9 from the pentagon for the purpose counter isis operations. By the state department and u. S. Aid on humanitarian assistance. That goes to syrians and other impacted by the syrian. Billion in u. S. Aid on humanitarian assistance to and another 2. 4 billion by the state department and u. S. Aid to iraq, jordan, lebanon. What else should we know about the numbers . Those numbers are just numbers that congress obligated d and u. S. Funds for. There is additional money in the pipeline werent you can see is the emphasis in security. He u. S. Has taken an approach to combat terrorism and continues in that direction. I think it is important to know we need oversight and that publication tohe have congress have oversight and ew administration which has te tend tended to Pay Attention to the going and howy is effective the programs are and o help bring awareness to the american people. Host the phone numbers are on he bottom of the screen for Charles Johnson. We look forward to getting your calls for our guest charles john trade and al Affairs Managing Director at the g. A. O. Oversight rolehe that you are involved in. How often do reports like there out . Guest we have done over the last decade we have issued a series. To 2009 when we issued one on the efforts in afghanistan and iraq and Food Assistance and more recently we have issued a couple this year. This is a public version of a classified report on the subject on d. O. D. And we have one forthcoming on daggett security issues. Do them every time there is a change of administration. I would imagine price tag with work . Ow does it guest most of what we look at doing, the. Is funding is related to department gent, in lebanon, and in particular parts of the globe, we raq, in particular when funnel funds in to address it. We dont have the military Funds Associated with that, that is not under our defense team. Primarily focused on the the number would be largely than the military operations. Host thanks for further breaking it down. Get to calls with Charles Johnson, talking about 21 fight. Spent on the isis steve, from anaheim, california, republican. There. Caller hi, how are you . A ically what i was watching segment here recently that was talking about the true cost of the war. Set to a trillion dollars. Guest, body ur esides isis, military spending and we saw a segment earlier about taxes and about the tax cuts. Now during the vietnam war, it million, to give you an idea how long it took the government to pay that off, it clinton we got rid of the debt. Ill wait for your comment. Okay, this report focus syria, rts in iraq and and to counter isis, there is larger work over time we havent of the war tal cost combating terrorism. On last time we reported that was roughly five or six ears ago, you are right, the figure would be exceeding 20 million. Efforts to port our undertake military operation with the cost of that. Gain, were just focus on the efforts to train capacity. Patrick, democratic morning. Ood caller good morning, gentlemen. How are you both . Im good. The really shocking numbers, the illegitimacy, of american tax dollars were witnessing, particularly when you come from a family at of the unitedvels states military. My father was the former my ctor of the osi, and brother just retired as perations director for team six. We have been in a 30year we aretured war and what itnessing is a is the essential turning in of treasury to an atm machine. My father had a saying, one of things that the military does is the first runway, ey do, build a the second thing they do, they officers club. Illegitimacy and of the war couldnt be more whensized when you look at sis came into iraq with the backing of the Saudi Arabian overnment. The convoy was two miles long. The United States government was part of this. Are completely manufactured, they have no whatsoever, we are creating nothing, but mayhem, from classified documents Hillary Clinton and im a democrat, show that these are completely il illegitimate. We are going after adversaries arabian regime. This has nothing to gao says 21 billion spent on fighting isis. Gao found the government lacks a strategy to fight the extremism that isis is part of. Tell us more about that piece of it. The u. S. Does have a strategy after youve eaten a real its nap time. Im excited about this afternoon, i was excited about this morning, and me