in the u.s., foreign nationals training in the u.s. right now. there were 852 saudi nationals training, many of them in this aviation program. and this shooter down at pensacola, he has been here for the past three years. and so there are real questions about the security on bases as well as the vetting, the extreme vetting that needs to take place for these foreign nationals who are training with the u.s. military given this new insider threat. the new defense budget, $738 billion, has more money for foreign national training. i asked the members of the joint chiefs whether it would be a problem if they cut off that program, and they said, in essence, saudi arabia buys a lot of the u.s. military equipment, they buy our war planes, and you have to train their pilots. so they would be hurt in terms of being able to go to war together. you saw in the gulf war you needed to fly with allies. if these pilots are not trained in the u.s., but clearly something went wrong. if you look behind m
making from robotics and hyper sonics to a.i. and autonomous systems are going to be a game-changer. the challenge is to break old habits, to brush away bureaucracy, to give us legacy systems and low priority programs and move forward. the american people through the congress will give us $738 billion. that s a lot of money. we ve got to deliver more for what we re getting. when you tell the american public about the threats ahead and you talk about russia and china and you talk about space, what is the message? the message is that the world is constantly becoming more dangerous and more complicated. you know, in my day as a young officer in the 101st i didn t worry about cyber. what was cyber. nobody knew. now we fight in cyber on a daily basis, offensively, defensively. space was never a war fighting domain. it was the place by which we placed satellites to communicate with one another, by which we
sandra: let s bring in the investigation into allegations of an affair with a campaign a-team david avella, mary anne staffer. hill tweeting yesterday saying this is the hardest thing i have ever had to do. marsh, and tom bevan, great job i believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community and our country. to benjamin hall on the ground in syria. jonathan hunt is live in los moving to the developments of angeles with that. jonathan. the weekend your response. outstanding. americans are safer and more secure as a result of this good morning, congresswoman weekend s actions. and credit to president trump speaker nancy pelosi for a and congress who spent more money on defense spending. leadership position. after compromising photographs we went from $517 billion to to of her and text messages to a campaign staffer service she acknowledged what she called $717 to 738 billion onin new defense spending. errors in judgment saying it is in 2017 we changed the obama with a
economy, but we re taking in many billions of dollars at some point in the not too distant future, it will be at over 100 billion. we ve never taken in 100 cents from china, it was always the other way around. with that, they ve lost over 3 million jobs there, their supply chain is crashing. and they have a lot of problems. and i can tell you, they want to make a deal. th that i can tell you. they want to make a deal. so we ll see what happens. are you prepared for military action against iran, mr. president? always prepared. there s never been a country more prepared. there s never been a country more prepared. look, i spent $1.5 trillion and we re spending another $738 billion now, but i spent $1.7 trillion rebuilding our military. we have the finest ships, the finest planes, the finest everything, and actually, scott, if australia, they purchased a lot of great stuff from the united states. some of the best military equipment that you have? we have the greatest missiles in the w
here thought i was going to be it would be one day but what i have done is defeated isis, i ve rebuilt our military to a level it s never been before. spent a lot of money. the budgets are not so hard to fix for me but when you are spending 1 1/2 trillion so far, now another $738 billion on the military. think of it 1 1/2 trillion dollars and we have the greatest in the world. but i think restraint is a good thing. [inaudible question] president trump: we were thinking about having a meeting. i didn t like the idea they couldn t produce a cease fiefrment i wasn t in favor of that. i said if they can t produce a cease-fire why are we bother. they thought it was a sign of