[captioning performed by the naonal captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content t and accuracy. Vit ncap. Org] will come to defense news. Republicans have regained control of the senate and increase their margin in the housjust in time for a budget battle. To talk about the elections, sequestration, defense spending, isis and more, is a roundtable, todd harrison,ckenzie egeland, gordon adams and Loren Thompson of the lexington institute. Welcome back to the program. Thanks. To start f mckenzie, i would like to start with you. Is a perception that republicans will be good for defense. There areertainly some people in the pentagon who think the tod times will start rolling again. Therere e other people who warn there will be realities. Tell us a little bit, each of you, on what you think republblican control of bo chambers of congress will mean for defense. It is marginally better. The Republican Party gave away a Strong Defense of essential tentative, its core pla
Officer. He was deployed to iraq and served in the 101st Airborne Division and a Reconstruction Team in afghanistan. Between his tours, senator cotton served at Arlington National cemetery. After his military career, senator cotton served briefly in the private sector and was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 2012. Last year, he was elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Now serves on the Senate Committees on banking, intelligence, and Armed Services. He is the chairman of the Armed Services committee the subcommittee. His maiden speech delivered last week, senator cotton warned we have systematically underfunded our military. I look forward to the insights you offer on important issues today and ask you to please join me in welcoming senator tom cotton. [applause] tom cotton thank you. Thank you all. Good morning. Thank you. And chris, thanks very much for the kind introduction. Thanks to fpi and aaf for hosting me this morning for the very important work you do. As the