Mark Dubowitz

I understand it.

Your position.

Scott, you made it very clear America has no adversaries.

What gives me hope?

I think, first of all, I have a lot of hope and confidence in the wisdom of the American people.

I think Americans understand

the end of the day, that they need leaders who are about making America great again.

I think they elected Donald Trump, who is flawed in many, many ways.

But I think Trump is wrestling with some of the questions that we have been wrestling with for the past five hours.

I think most Americans know that we have adversaries.

And, you know, it's just overwhelming numbers of Americans understand that.

They may disagree on exactly who is an adversary and how you rank them, but they know we have adversaries.

I think the third thing is Americans greatly admire the men and women in uniform.

I mean, I think the institution with the greatest popularity in America still remains the U.S.

military, while many of other institutions are failing the American people and are reflected in the polling.

I think we've got to be very judicious about how we use this incredibly powerful military.

Because most importantly, it comes down to, it's not about weapons and technology, it's about the people.

It's about the men and women who have sacrificed their lives to serve our country.

At the end of the day, if we understand we have adversaries, we're careful about how we use our military, we understand the importance of forward deterrence in order to actually confront threats before they become so severe that we ended up plunging ourselves into war.

I agree totally with Scott in terms of how we use our money and how judiciously we have to guard it.