Comprehensive review of whats been known as hybrid warfare. The russians are experts at this. Its not always military means that they used to congress their goals, but they use bribery and they try to undermine confidence in elections and other institutions and democracies. They put economic pressure, political pressure on countries, especially in eastern europe. They use all the instruments available to government and were not very good at that. One last point on this. Theres no clear signal we can send to the russians than to have a substantial increase in our defense bill. In our defense budget. Remember what really happened in the 1980s was the Reagan Defense buildup made such an impression that the russians knew they could never keep up. The Armed Services Committee Plans to mark out the defense policy bill on wednesday. You can see the entire interview with representative Mac Thornberry today at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and 6 00 a. M. On cspan and on cspan radio as well. Newsmakers, i