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moulton for five minutes. >> thank you for being here with us. a lot of my questions are about modernization. how we face the future and meet the challenges and the opportunities that it presents. can you talk to me for a second about how we're modernizing our military, our national security. here we are watching russian tanks get destroyed by drones on tv. one of the biggest threats that americans face from this ongoing war in ukraine is a threat of cyber attacks here at home. and our biggest adversary in the world is china. china has not only invested in future capabilities like advance missile systems, space systems and artificial intelligence but they've made important cuts to make those investments possible. we used to quite frankly be thrilled that china had a million man army because it wasn't that good. they cut that army to invest in future capabilities. how is the administration meeting that challenge? >> thank you for that. we are increasing the department of defense budget by 4%. it is in line with the national defense strategy. last

select committee sent a letter requesting for more information to be shared with keith is ortiz kelly moulton . with more, essentially, you have the senate intelligence committee requesting that intelligence from the united states be shared with you crane. and they give a, an intended purpose what they're helping ukraine to do with that intelligence. and this is the words of the letter. as we watch russia turn its focus to southern and eastern ukraine, we urge you to ensure that our intelligence agencies proactively share intelligence with the ukrainians to help them protect, defend and retake every inch of ukraine sovereign territory, which includes crimea and the don bass. these stated goals, which essentially, you know, our effort to help you crane retake, don bass and crimea flies in the face of peace talks. as these are one of the main points of negotiations with russia. and we also have gen saki, the white house spokesperson, claiming that the united states supports the b stocks piece talks, is something we're always going to support the president, secretary of state or national securit

moulton of massachusetts, i inform the house that mr. moulton will vote yes on h.r. 3807. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. joe wilson from south carolina, i inform the house that mr. wilson will vote nay on h.r. 3807. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 223, the nays are 203. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the chair will receive a message from the senate. the messenger: mr. speaker. a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed with an amendment h.r. 616 an act to prohibit importation of energy products if the russian federation in which the concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which the yeas and nays ar

. >>> joining the coverage, retired four-star general barry mccaffrey and congressman moulton is here. i want to come back to the russian flagship and show you both something that our colleague admiral starvides said. watch. >> your first year in annapolis the thing they teach you is never let the flagship blow up. the russian army has shown us over last six weeks incompetent and badly led and like the navy said, hold my beer. let me show you what we can do. >> brutal but fair, general mccaffrey? >> yeah. i think so. by the way, i'm following this all night and convinced the ukrainians did hit it with a very clever attack with neptune missiles, with a diversion deception operation. looks like it hadn't gone down yet unfortunately. but it did go back to the russian fleet 80 miles offshore and not just a massive attack on civilians and cruise missiles. it was also the air defense regionally for the russians fighting in the south so god bless them. this is a magnificent effort by the ukrainians. hugely supported by the u.s. u.s., european command, air force four star is the supreme allie

i would just say that to representative moulton's questions, i would argue that there are more efficient ways to spend the money we have. it doesn't mean that we can't have solid and secure national security if we actually cut out waste, fraud, and abuse and focus on the technologies that are going to provide us with the biggest bang for the buck. and yet it seems that our only strategy on military spending is bigger is better. do you think that bigger is better forever and ever, director young? >> i think a defense budget has to be strategy based. congresswoman, you have been a longtime advocate here on getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse in the department of defense, that is accurate. we've also heard from the other side of the aisle who believe our number isn't large number. that is why we believe the right thing to do here is use the long term defense strategy to build our budget. >> director young, i assume that the other side also would agree that we don't want waste, fraud, and abuse in our pentagon budget. and i remember last year or last term under a republican president we a

we helped representative chris stewart, republican and seth moulton, democrat. to change the lifeline number to the easy number which goes live this summer on july 16th to be exact. i hope everyone will remember that. during may mental health month, members of congress advancing mental health package that included a great number of suicide prevention bills. including the campaign to prevent suicide. this is a bill that republican adam kinzinger and i put together two bipartisan effort to educate the public about the 988 number but also to change the culture around suicides and people know how to engage and connect individuals in crisis. the fortunately the house is taking suicide prevention much more seriously than the senate. much of that bipartisan legislation is stalled in the senate today. i just want to put a little bit of time to draw attention to the fact that the senate cannot, should not delay. we have to advances the house legislation as soon as possible. doctor metzl, i was fascinated in the written stuff that you talked about the polarization as a na