know, to forget about critical race theory. your final comments. we called for two additional things. an independent law firm to come in and do an independent investigation to what happened, recommendations on how to fix it and a public report. two, for the department of justice and the civil rights division to open a title 9 investigation into what happened here in loudoun county public schools. you know, leader mcconnell has already stated in a letter that he expected attorney general garland to answer questions related to loudoun county in the up coming senate judiciary hearing. i assume this would come up. trace: a title 9 hearing is fair and appropriate. thanks, ian prior for coming on. thanks, trace. trace: still ahead, david asher as we continue to follow the quest for answers on covid origins and the pentagon s software chief that resigned his post warning that china is on a path to global dominance and it s time for america to wake
trace: well, the u.s. has no chance of winning the war if america does not drastically change how its battling china in cyber space and artificial intelligence. that is from the pentagon s former software chief that resigned in protest over our military s lack of action against beijing. he joins us in moments. first, lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon. good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. the air information s first chief software officer says u.s. technology is operating at a kindergarten level. the pentagon says they re taking the threat from china seriously. this is something that the secretary has spoken to that the entire leadership of the department is focused on. we know there s a lot of work to doing but we re committed to doing that work. nicklaus is not a political
appointee. he joint the pentagon in may 2018 to become the assistant secretary of the air force for the first software officer. he says the pentagon is saying the right things but not enough action. he said in a statement the air force says mr. chaillan resigned and then he moat with us for an interview. he said defense secretary lloyd austin spoke about the matter this summer. china s leaders have made clear that they intend to be globally dominant in a.i. by the year 2030. beijing already talks about using a.i. for a range of
missions from surveillance to cyber attacks to autonomous weapon. the pentagon is not doing enough to counter china on land, sea, air and space. let s bring in nicholas chaillan, the former software officer that resigned last month over what he sees as a lost battle between the u.s. and china in cyber space and artificial intelligence. thanks for joining us. a couple of points that lucas made. one, you re not a political appointee and two, you re not saying we ve lost the war. though we re on the verge of losing. is that a fair assessment? yeah, effective will i m saying is if we don t wake up right now and don t take action and keep waiting and using all of these excuses not to take action that china will catch up with us in ten years from now, which is absolutely false, we have no chance of catching up. trace: yeah, it s interesting