We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Statements. We will do 10 minutes so we can get right to questions. Witnesses, please keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few remarks. I want to thank everyone for being at this hearing. Our thoughts go out to everyone and our colleagues representative meadows and representative gosar who cannot participate here today. Were now in the middle of a Glob
And joint chiefs of staff chair general mark milley were on capitol hill to testify on the president s 2021 budget request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military modernization efforts and defense funds being diverted from border wall construction being diverted for border wall construction. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] the Committee Meets today to receive testimony for the 2021 budget request. We welcome our witnesses and thank them for their service. After mark esper and general mark milley. Top priority is ensuring the effectiveness and implementation of the National Defense strategy. Unfortunately under the last administration, we asked our military to do more with less, and that got us into trouble and 2017. 12 we lost 150 billion to sequestration. Our forces were devastated. I think we all understand that. As a result, when President Trump came to office, he a country in crisis. Rican military and crisis, thankfully he delivered on his
Percent of the u. S. Spend do you think its just a jobs program or do we really need to occupy all these countries where our special forces are in 70 percent of all nations across the world what is this about war has become of very ambiguous project in our life time you know it has lately evolved to more like occupying certain countries in kind of a desperate attempt to stabilize problems that weve created i think we have to consider that a lot of it comes from the evolution of what the condition of the world was in 1905 after the 2nd world war our intentions were not always wholly bad and probably still are not wholly bad but they have become distorted in perverted and it certainly doesnt help that so much of our Gross Domestic Product is now dedicated to the enterprise of the. Big u. S. Warfare yeah seems like the war is definitely the number one export for the us but i would posit that antiwar and this is one of the reasons why being attacked by whats called the deep state of the de
Then kurt i dont know who that person is and someone whos a strong proponent of American Power and kurt has spent his life taking about this competition and hes on our side. We are down to the last of the last but not the least of our rapidfire conversations and we couldnt imagine anyone better to do it with than you, kurt campbell. He was assistant secretary of state for asia for obama, the author of the pit which was later renamed, we wont tackle you on that one and slightly less wellknown, kurt was the first person to get me involved in the Strategy Group when i was a mere kid so thank you very much for that and for being so inclusive. Let me start for you the same question i asked mike, i think i know what youre going to say but id like to ask you anyway. If we had a democratic administration, what would be the goal for our relationship with china . What would the perfect relationship with china look like . If you dont mind i want to say a word of thanks not only to nick who incred
Seemed to be based on that understood superman in. Welcome to front running 2025 max kaiser Stacy Herbert and were taking a forensic deep dive into all the candidates and their positions stacey i think today were going to take a close look at what we call antiwar yes because we actually had a candidate in these democratic primaries who is antiwar this is one of the really radical positions in u. S. Politics because usually we always have a prowar candidate and you actually have to show your credentials constantly about how prowar you are remember Hillary Clinton was her famous line was we came we saw he died ha ha ha ha ha ha cackle and that was referring to khadafi and libya and joining us to talk about anti war is James Howard Kunstler and dr Michael Hudson you were the author of super imperialism so you know about the role of war in exerting this imperialism 1st of all tell us a gabbers position on antiwar has incurred the wrath of the entire political and certainly of the media spe