john and i served the people of arizona together for nearly 20 irit, alongn that sp with senator flake, i will do my best to assure the arizonans continue to be well presented in the u.s. senate. governor asked me to serve for the remainder of the term, and he's made some very convincing points. i'm committed to serving to the second session of the 115th congress. i do not seek the seat in 2020 or any other office in the future. i'm accepting this appointment to fill the seat they by the passing of idea front because of my sense of duty to the state i love in the institution of the senate in which i served for 18 years. and because the governor asked for my help. and because i am putting my country first, just as this seat's previous occupant did every single day for more than 30 years. muchow, there is unfinished business on the senate's, including confirmation of president trump's nominees to judicial and executive branch positions. i look forward to going to washington and getting to work. thank you, governor. >> will you take a few questions? let me start with the obvious one, gove

this is going to be an itera trks irt iriterative process of trying to go back and correct it again. they've acknowledged that. so it's going to cost money. probably not going to save money, if any, but is it worth it, in my opinion? yes, because it's a matter of accountability. other parts of the government have been auditable for years. dod has lagged behind on this, and it is just a matter of public trust and accountability that dod should be able to pass an audit. >> talking about the dod efficiency effort, the ongoing dod efficiency effort that's gone kind of dark on the cmo's office, they claim maybe they could get $14 billion. they haven't accounted for that yet. fgo has dinged them for about 29 deficiencies that haven't gone anywhere. what's your take on the internal efficiency efforts to find billions of dollars, and will they be able to demonstrate that and put it toward the tip of the spear? >> there is a long history of new administrations coming in and saying, you know, the pentagon has a lot of waste and inefficiency, which we all know to be true, and saying they're goi