Guidelines. Imposes its own duties on ecommerce, do you think we might see other countries like india, south africa, is where start to impose their own taxes . Many have suggested they are going to do so. Haveis problematic if you Different Countries adopting different schemes. From a innovation standpoint, it makes it more difficult. We are trying to ring fence Digital Services and treat them differently for tax purposes. That is not a good way to be. That is not going to promote innovation. Lets bring it domestic. Election security. Are member countries provide Election Security. It is in the headlines because we have seen attempts to interfere with u. S. Elections. Our companies are focused on Cyber Security generally. Also securing health care infrastructure. Connected, ift is you will, needs to be secured. In the Election Security issue, what we have been pleased about is the willingness of federal, state, and local agencies to partner in search of good solutions. We are doing everything we can to work our partners. Optimistic, ifly to will, enough jurisdictions will adopt these to secure our infrastructure. Cyber Security Industrial complex is becoming a term. It is because of the necessity of the partnership. Is one ofovernment the largest purchasers of technology in the world. If you at end state and county, you have a multitrillion dollar market for purchases of tech knology. We just brought on board the former cio of the fbi because of the importance of these issues. Time for one more question. We have seen increased criticism of a segment of the tech population, internet companies. Some of that is coming from other parts of the industry. Leader of an organization that affects so many companies, approachis the affecting people . Everys is something industry experiences. We bring together the fiercest competitors around a table. We ask them to work collaboratively, where we can find areas to find collaborative interests. Move them forward to the benefit of the industry. We are no different than any other segment. , everyarmaceuticals trade association has competitors around the table that do things to benefit the industry and then they go out sometimes sue each other. Sometimes they take ads against each other. You asked about how this has changed. If we were having this conversation 15 years ago, it would be about the fierce markets between battles between the Cable Companies and telcos. Of overlapound areas and consensus. 15 years ago, it was about longdistance competitors and. Elephone companies rat 15 years from now, the Tech Industry will not be the poster child for discussions. But i think today, there are more areas of consensus than not. One reason this has been around is because we are focused on spending our time within those areas of consensus and doing everything we can to promote an economy. N focused fox our guest today has been jason oxman. Our guest reporter, thank you very much. 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For more information, go to our website. Before leaving washington for a two week stay at maralago, President Trump made remarks at joint base andrews. He announced the u. S. Space force will be the sixth branch of the u. S. Military and named general j raymond the first chief of space operations. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and this is Melania Trump misses Melania Trump. Melania trump. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors and remain standing for the national anthem. Mrs. Trump good evening. On behalf of my family, i want to thank every member of our military and their families for their devotion to our country and their courage to defend our freedom. During this holiday season, we send our prayers to all who are serving overseas, and who will not be home with their families over christmas. Our nation is with you, and thanks you for all the sacrifices you make to keep us safe. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and happy and healthy new year. Now, it is my honor to introduce to you my husband, president donald trump. [applause] pres. Trump thank you. [applause] pres. Trump well, thank you very much, and thank you, melania. And hello, joint base andrews. At ease. We have good news for you. On behalf of the first lady, Vice President mike pence, mrs. Pence, i want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas, happy new year. This is truly a historic day for the American Armed forces. In just a few minutes, i will proudly sign into law the largest ever investment in the United States military. In fact, i can say the largest ever by far. Today also marks another landmark achievement as we officially inaugurate the Newest Branch of our military. This is a very big and important moment. It is called the space force. [applause] pres. Trump most importantly, we are supporting you, the heroes who defend our families, secure our nation, and protect our freedom. The 2020 National Defense authorization act is about making sure our war fighters have the tools, resources, and equipment you need to fight and to win. All the time, took win. We are making our military stronger than ever before. We are joined today by secretary of defense mark esper and our service secretaries, general mark millie. Thank you, general. And members of the joint chiefs of staff. Many distinguished military members, mac thornberry, joe wilson, mike rogers, michael turner, michael mccaul, robert wittman, french hill, matt gaetz, greg pence, and michael waltz. And i want to give a special shout out to a very great gentleman who loves the military, loves this country, senator jim inhofe, who has worked so hard on this. Thank you, jim. Thank you all. [applause] pres. Trump i want to extend a special thanks to commander of the air force district of washington Major General ricky rupp. [applause] pres. Trump and commander of the 11th wing at joint base andrews, andrew purath. Thank you. [applause] pres. Trump and i am profoundly grateful to everyone in americas airfield. That is what they call it, americas airfield. I use it often. There is no greater honor than to serve as your commander in chief. I especially want to thank the incredible people who fly and maintain air force one. You are the best of the best. Thank you very much for doing such an incredible job. [applause] pres. Trump todays signing of the 2020 ndaa is a watershed event in the truest sense of the word. Before i came into office, the military endured deep and devastating budget cuts. Our military, quite frankly, was depleted. As a candidate for president , i promised to reverse these crippling cuts, and to ensure our military remains unrivaled anywhere in the world. And right now, there is no one, there is no country, that comes even close. [applause] pres. Trump the law i am signing today provides 738 billion that is with a b 738 billion in defense spending for the 2020. That is on alltime record in the history of our country. That is the highest amount we have ever spent on our military, and that is after 700 billion in my first year and 716 billion last year. And it is all made right here in the usa very important. [applause] pres. Trump and i have to say that we make the finest equipment, the finest planes, the finest missiles, the finest ships. We make the finest equipment anywhere in the world. This brings our total investment in National Defense since my inauguration to almost 2. 5 trillion. And what is the good of a budget if you dont have the best military in the world . And we focus on the budget a little bit. Is that ok . 2. 5 trillion. It is new and it is beautiful. Within the next 12 months, you will have most of it. In addition to massive acquisitions in the past two years, this bill authorizes nearly 100 new f35s. 24 brandnew fa18s. 155 Army Helicopters of all different types. 165 brandnew, beautiful abrams tanks, said to be the best in the world. More than 50 paladin howitzers. Two new virginia class submarines. Three new destroyers. An aircraft carrier, and to wo others on their way. And much, much more. But as we discussed earlier, our military is getting far more than just new equipment. For this first time, and you know what happened last year. It was a good pay raise, but now you are getting another pay raise, and this will be the largest pay raise in more than 10 years, more than a decade. If you dont want it, you dont have to take it. [applause] pres. Trump for the First Time Since president harry truman created the air force over 70 years ago think of that we will create a brandnew American Military service. Such a momentous statement. 70 years ago, the air force. With my signature today, you will witness the birth of the space force, and that will be now officially the sixth branch of the United States armed forces. That is something really incredible. [applause] it is a big moment. That is a big moments, and we are all here for it. Space. Going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the worlds newest warfighting domain. Amid grave threats to our national security, american superiority in space is vital, and we are leading, but not leading by enough, but very shortly we will be leading by a lot. The space force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground. I want to thank Vice President mike pence. He was so involved in this with me, this was a real, with the spirit, the love, i think i can say, mike, that we both had for this project because we realize d how important it is to our military, to our future, to our defense. So important. And it is going to blending magnificently with every thing else we have, so i want to thank mike pence. Mike, thank you very much. [applause] great job, mike. It was nearly half a century from kitty hawk to the creation of the air force, and now it is 50 years after apollo 11 that we create the space force. With todays signing, i will appoint general j remy, the first chief of space operations. He will become the very first member of the space force and he will be on the joint chiefs. He will be on the joint chiefs, which we are now expanding my one position. That is very powerful position. So general raymond, congratulations and thank you for everything you have done. [applause] the 2020 ndaa protects the legal tools we need to defend americas borders, it protects childcare and private housing for military families and ends the socalled widows tax, which blocked benefits for the families of fallen heroes. That is gone. [applause] it was very important. That was very important to us, widows taxes. God. After years of unrealized promises by other politicians, i honor my commitment today as i sign paid parental leave for the federal civilian workforce. [applause] that is into law. So thank you very much, i would say that is a very big thing. Paid parental leave, another thing they have been trying to get for many years. As we head into christmas, im proud to report we are giving every soldier, sailor, air man, coast guardsmen and marine a wellearned payraise. In january, each of you will see the largest increase that you have had in such a long time. In fact, it goes back so far that a lot of people dont even know what that date is. I can just tell you, it is a lot of money. I say it again, if you would like not to take it, you would like to make a donation to your great country, please let us know. We will give you a little bit less. Any takers . No. Congratulations on that. With this legislation, we show our undying commitment to the warriors who keep us safe. These are incredible warriors. These are brave, powerful warriors. Now they have the best equipment anywhere in the world. It is not even close. Just weeks ago, u. S. Special forces brought the worlds most wanted terrorist to justice, the monstrous animal known as albaghdadii, the leader of isis, is dead. And his second was just giving the post of being in charge, and he is also dead. [applause] within three years of record to military investments, our country has rejected a future of american decline and embraced our destiny of american dominance. Our military is now dominance, t, far ahead of any of our competitors. And if you saw where we started from not so long ago, you would really be amazed. I want to thank everybody but i want to also think those Great Companies that really designed, made this equipment, because i have seen it and seen much of it in action, and i have frankly never seen anything like it in my life. So i just want to congratulate you all, because together we are protecting our people, our values, our traditions and our glorious american flag. [applause] i want to end by wishing our armed forces our great people a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. God bless you. God bless our military. And god bless america. God bless america. [applause] so it is now my honor to sign the 2020 National Defense authorization act into law. And again, congratulations. Thank you all, very, very much. Very special people. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] President Trump is jay behind me, somewhere . [applause] President Trump this is the thickness. Can you believe that . It is now signed. [applause] do you want to take a picture with the Service Members . President trump i would love that. [god bless america plays] President Trump speaks to a group of Young Conservatives at the Student Action summit. From west palm beach, florida. Our live coverage begins saturday at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. On monday, tom steyer will speak at a politics and eggs breakfast hosted by the new England Council and New Hampshire institute of politics at Saint Anselm College in manchester, New Hampshire. Watch live on cspan two, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Defense secretary mark esper and joints cheese of staff chair general mark millie held a News Conference at the pentagon earlier. Some of the topics covered include north korea, turkey, and the Washington Post afghanistan reporting. Good morning, everyone. Happy holidays. The chairman and i wanted to take this opportunity to meet with you all once more prior to the end of the year. I want to start by thanking congress for passing the fy 20 National Defense authorization act. We appreciate the strong