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pilots that had to borrow parts off of museum planes to keep their operational aircraft going and other readiness problems that have been mounting. what happened was we cut the defense budget by 20% over the last eight years and that 20% the world did not get 20% safer, by the way. those cuts have had a deep, lasting effect on our military including training, maintenance of our planes and ships, and a number of personnel-related items. so on march 22 congress passed a bill to begin to turn it around. a lot of people think it was too much money and it was more money than i would have spent on some domestic programs but the key is we ve got to do whatever it takes to have planes that fly and have training that is appropriate for a very dangerous world. sandra: and the best for our men and women that serve. chairman mac thornberry, thank you for joining us as we await
kremlin in beijing and north korea and tehran they are paying attention to? there were two huge mistakes in the obama administration. one was freezing our defense spending at the same time the iranians, chinese and russians are building up their forces. it is critical we rebuild the military. the second was appeasing iran. president trump ran on a ronald reagan peace through strength platform. he s starting to rebuild the military, but even this budget is not enough. it will fill the potholes, fix the readiness problems, get our planes back up in the air. f-18s, f-35 s. we need more to confront the russians, chinese and iranians. leland: is our lucas tomlinson and jennifer griffin, half of u.s. navy couldn t fly today. quite literally not ready to fight tonight. that is not just naval aviation, u.s. marine aviation divisions.
driving them. how bad is it? is humpty dumpty falling off the wall or has fallen the wall? there are clearly cracks and clearly strains and are starting to show. we have been at war for 17 years. the military has been at war, i don t know if the country feels that it s been at war. less than 1% of the population which makes the military, all volunteers, a guard, professional warrior class has been at it for years. leland: the equipment has been at it for years too. longer than many of them have been alive. the cracks are starting to show, mishaps, maybe not they re not directly related to readiness problems as they call them but there are second and third quarter of pushing the equipment, pushing the people over and go over again, eventually something has to give. leland: we heard from naval operations and part of that was