schedule and many, many billions of dollars overbudget. i don t want like that. reporter: lockheed martin got the message and squeezed $5 billion out of the program. these doors open and those provide help to provide stability reporter: lieutenant colonel chad vaughn is command officer of the squadron at air base yuma. he calls the aircraft an engineering marvel. the combination of the sensors and the airplane and the way that the man/machine interface works is what truly sets it apart. reporter: the technology is woven into the customized helmets at an estimated cost of nearly $400,000 each. the view in the helmet, you look down on your helmet, you see through the bottom of the airplane. reporter: so it s automatic, wherever you point your head, you get the view exactly. it s going to automatically bring in that other camera from where you re looking. reporter: and pilots say the lightning ii deserves its
it needs to be fixed. this new aircraft carrier. you served in the navy for a long time. you were the head of the military s central command. and i love aircraft carriers, don t get me wrong. the u.s. now has ten of them. used to have more. this one they started building it in 2008. supposed to be ready in 2014. it s now 2017. it s not yet ready. it s billions and billions and billions of dollars overbudget. it s going to wind up costing u.s. taxpayers $13 billion. here s the question. why do they always get it not always, but most of the time these defense contractors, they get it so wrong. they make promises. it s going to be delivered on time but it s way, way delayed and way over budget. i think the problem is it goes way beyond the defense contractor in question here. and that is that the process in my opinion is broken. the acquisition process is badly broken. has been for some time. so it s a rarity that you can
the ceo of lockheed martinsmartin is promising to cut costs. trump tweeting this week based on tremendous cost and cost overruns t overruns, i have asked boeing to price out a f-18 super hornet. this comes days after trump met with the ceos of both companies. so, jeremy, the ceo of lockheed martin saying she s ready to deliver now. reporter: yeah, absolutely. you know, we ve seen this f-35 program has been the talk of folks in the department of defense and defense contractors, because of the cost overruns we have seen with this program. the program is already behind schedule and billions of dollars overbudget. already the pentagon has estimated to pay about $400 billion for the f-35 s over the next two decades. and so we re seeing donald trump really here, you know, he met with the ceos of boeing and
2015. it is billions of dollars overbudget. the whole project is. but at last, they are building things and they are reaching to the sky as we remember on this september 11. brian: they re going to read the names, but no politicians will speak. so we have that to be thankful for. 15 minutes, east room. the walk is very familiar to the bin laden walk. in terms of impactful speeches, i watched it twice in its entirety, i don t know why he gave it. i have no idea what it accomplished. i cannot believe how our diplomacy, even if it works out in the end, how this has all been one stumble into the next mistake and next thing you know, ball is in your court, putin, bail us out. and the french, the british, and i guess in some cases the administration thinks that we can t trust what they re putting together. gretchen: number one, he had to give the speech because he announced he was going to give a speech, although two days ago it was going to be for an entirely
this committee, when they want from tony hayward, detailed answers. they gave him the answers to the test. what this committee did on monday, they sent him a 14-page letter going through the narrative that this committee has built through its investigation. and into what they say five incidents that they call crucial incidents where corners were cut and costs were tried to save costs for time and for money and you name it. where they say that those were the crucial, crucial times that perhaps led to this explosion and would congressman stupak told me is he doesn t buy that tony hayward, head of the company, such a massive project was going on, 43 days behind schedule, millions of dollars overbudget, he didn t know about why these corners were cut. that s, i think, going to be one of the major thrusts of the questions. really looking back at culpability and as many of these members have said, they want to