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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
jillian: shatner and his crew spent three minutes in 0 gravity above earth, blue origin releasing a video of the undertaking of you of 90 years old, shatner is the oldest person to go into space. i was watching the video yesterday, at some point he turns around and you could read his lips, wow, very cool. everybody making star trek references. i will make a miss congeniality reference, if you had to describe your perfect day, this would be it. that was april 20 fifth. not too hot not too cold. it is 13 after the hour. the pentagon s for software chief says the us has no chance against china in the tech war if things don t change. we speak to the man issuing that startling wake up call. joe concha and will cain will
the tech race with china. the pentagon s former software chief joins us live from washington. thanks for being here. how dire is the situation? we have to take action and are running out of time. if we do not take action right now we will be facing a situation where we will not be able to catch up and so there s no time to talk anymore. we have to walk the talk. todd: the thing i can t get past is how did we let it get this bad? the government is designed with its bureaucracy and lack of agility and waste of taxpayer money to not being able to keep up with the price of all of it. what you have been seeing the last 20 years is china waking up and catching up to us and pentagon leaders have yet to