Seth Moulton

This is one of the principal recommendations that came out of the Future of Defense Task Force.

The point is, we are making serious trade-offs to invest this kind of money in our nuclear arsenal.

We are the only developed nation in the world that doesn't have high speed rail.

Over the next 10 years we are going to spend $634 billion on modernizing our nuclear arsenal.

We clearly need to be spending a lot more on innovation, not incrementally more, not 10 percent more, but on the order of magnitude of 10 times more.

We need an order of magnitude increase in defense spending on innovation.

Force Design 2030 is by far the most aggressive modernization strategy to meet the National Defense Strategy priorities of the next decade.

I voted against the Trump tax cut that provided millions for millionaires at the expense of our national security and ballooned the deficit to epic proportions.

Information operations is buried in the organizational structure of DOD and many experts feel that our capabilities have been significantly degraded over the past decade.

It's hard for me, especially as the co-chair of the Future of Defense Task Force from a couple of years ago, to imagine you not increasing the budget for DIU, given their returns.

I think there haven't been enough leaders like yourself in the Navy who have acknowledged that you really do need to move more quickly.

This seems like a pretty fundamental disagreement if we don't have enough ships.

We don't need to leave Marines stranded on Pacific Islands because we don't have enough shipping.

Do you think the Navy has adequately resourced it?

If the Chinese beat us because they are more willing to invest in autonomous capabilities, we are going to be on the losing side.

The Marine Corps feels that you don't have enough amphibious shipping devoted to this.

We have to talk about whether we need an off-ramp here.

There's no question that Putin is willing to be vicious.

I mean, we're dealing with someone, who is, by some accounts, a madman, someone who is not making pragmatic decisions, has not even been acting the way he has acted in the past.

The question we all have to ask is, if Putin really gets backed, into a corner, here, we can't just talk about the tactical implications on the ground, although they're grim.

The Russians are held up. They have concentrated an extraordinary amount, of their combat power, in Ukraine, in their southern neighbor, to conduct this invasion, in the first place.

It's obvious that it's going much more, in our favor, and the Ukrainians' favor than we anticipated.

We need to be aggressive and confronting it.

It's only Trump and a few of his allies who are supporting Putin in this action.

Putin should be sanctioned directly. He's solely responsible for the largest war in Europe since World War II.