on semiautomatic weapons and prime minister said she s looking into reports of a surge in gun sales since that announcement came down. eric. eric: jackie, thanks so much. arthel: eric and jackie, what the pentagon s proposed new budget tells us about threats around the world. 17 years of continuous combat and physical instability have affected readiness and eroded competitive advantage. mr. secretary highlighted china and rush vai capitalized on distraction and restrains by investing in capabilities specifically designed to challenge our traditional sources of threat. arthel: but even as the pentagon focuses on china and growing threat, there s north korea threatening to pull out of nuclear talks and ruling out resuming nuclear and missile testing, what all of this means to our national defense, we will talk about that coming up next.
pretty significant development tonight. the acting pentagon inspector general who is doing this investigation, glen fye is one of the most experienced inspector generals in the government at the justice department for years did a lot of hard hitting very aggressive investigations, he knows how to did them rl. and this is the first indication of a u.s. government agency that is actively investigating a piece of the whole trump russia puzzle that we ve all been talking about for months. so i think that s a very important milestone and development. as far as where it goes, look, i interviewed michael flynn at the republican national convention in july and asked about this