the state she wants to run and why it s ammo for the gop. and what the pentagon is saying about those comments from joe biden. nbc news in the room with the defense secretary, asking him to react when the president saying he would act militarily if china tried to take over taiwan. and with tens of thousands of pounds on baby formula on the ground in the u.s. and why the house ethics committee is opening an investigation into congressman madison cawthorn. we re live with today s newest headline for the north carolina republican. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me is ellison barber in georgia, rick murray is here along with reporter rahul bally. it s all about georgia. as we look ahead to tomorrow s key races here, and the marquee one is the republican governor s primary. on the one hand, you have brian kemp, the incumbent governor, set to appear with mike pence. he s leading in polls. then you have former senator david perdue, who has the backing of donald trump, who
violation report. and then a talk about fucnuclear deterance. the pentagon is banned from buying russian rockets that have been used to launch satellites into space. they passed the an after russia an exed crimea last year. in the morning, a house armed service community is holding a hearing on what is said to be depending on them for rockets. deputy veterans affairs committee secretary sloan gibson said the va is having problems and wants to tap into the outside fund to help people get appointments. here is the two hour hearing chaired by jeff miller of florida. if i could get everybody to go ahead and take their seats. i want to begin the hearing. we are going to allow a little flexibility for arrival time for members because people are coming back from votes and i certainly appreciate everybody getting back as quickly as we can. it looks like we may have another vote around 12:00 or shortly there after. ms. brown is on her way. but we will go ahead and start the proce
remember, they are advancing beyond where they currently are command we are staying stagnant, is that correct? i understand we re modernizing what we currently have but are not creating new technologies. again, they are replacing old systems with new systems. that is correct, congressman but they are staying within the new start, so not increasing the size of the force. i only have a few seconds left. left. i heard you mention that there was defiant defiantly we will take it off-line and ask questions later. appreciate that the gentleman wishes to ask questions and writing. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to be here to thank the admiral for a service. we have joked with general dempsey. you may be back in the nose. i i want to thank you for great working relationship. follow up on the last topic russia may be modernizing barbara s not like the russians are building something that gives them some new technical advantage. a greater shift our mobile missiles the ball
this soldier borne sensor out and you have a real time downlink from the sensor. now, the tactics for employing there where it could be distributed and then also some of the design changes came from early experimentation. so for example, it wasn t very good in the wind, so i got to fly to fort benefitting a few years ago, it went up and blew back against the wall, that is fixed now. so i think that getting the technology in and seeing how it applies helps. the second thing is to try to simplify things. and you know, there is a great book called men, machine and modern time. in the book he said that man has succeeded in creating these machines to help tame his natural environment but in doing so has created an artificial environment that is far more complex than the natural environment ever was. so i think can we get to the point we stress getting to the point where we re integrating technology to simply things for soldiers. the iphone, in to wative, easy to use. then of c
the new military act you refer to is an important contribution to democracy. but we also have to make sure that we safeguard and protect the integrity of the voter. and we have to make sure that the machinery that we use is not used to subvert the very vote that we re trying to lift up. [applause] so i got you. there are places like oregon that are experimenting and it s a positive thing. but i m going to say this, brother. i m on twitter. bottom line the bottom line is we are going to use those social media tools. but we also have to engage where people are. there are people who are not plugged in and need to cast a ballot. there are some who are and they can have alternatives. but our job is to organize that community in the broadest sense and link issues of importance to what they do. you talk about economic jeff, my last point. payday lenders is a scourge, a scourge in our community. [applause] their are potential regulations that are going to be issued soon determine