Meeting will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform and yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military. And im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act plus a series of continued resolutions have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs with both congress and the obama administration, republicans and democrats, military and civilian relationships. Defense funding has got caught up in partisan back and forth on other issues and been held hostage to other priorities. We need get back to evaluating defense needs on their own without regard to any agreement or disagreement we may have on other issues. The men and w
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
Is there something going on or is that just chatter . Its just chatter. I have my Police Radios here in front. Im always listening. Good morning, everyone. If you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza you will hear slow, or you will see youll hear me say there is slow traffic here. About 15 to 20minute delay. Nothing unusual. No problems on the bridge. Of course, were looking at some of these other commutes. Traffic continues to move along pretty well on the other bridges. Commute on 80 hasnt completely filled in. A little bit slow past highway 4 hercules area and highway 4 is slow out of antioch through pittsburgh and bay point. Gets better over the hill in concord and 680 getting slow in pleasant hill. 24 still looks good from walnut creek to oakland. Lets go back to 280, i almost said lets go back to the desk, but i forgot about 280. That commute and Silicon Valley commute so far so good. Now we can say lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Chp officer was injured and a suspe
Twitter or run facebook we no longer owned the this just happened so embrace that of what and how and what is next journalism has to redefine itself. But is the active fair and concise reporting has to be the providence civic we have to stop their. [applause] [inaudible conversations] coming up next is a panel on the American West. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon thank you for taking an interest in this panel we have competition so were glad you came to this one. I am Geoff Schumacher serving as the Committee Chairman for the festival this year hoping to put together the panels i hope you enjoy them so far with more to come the title of this panel is the old west dies hard reshaping the narrative of the American West and leaves open a lot of territory to talkedabout but the underlying premise a lot of misperceptions continue to shape a people think about the west and especially las vegas for cry powerhouse to provocateurs are here today that livein or write about the west will
The role of women on the front lines. Blank so after a night of surprises in iowa, the 2016 race for the white house today shifted east as all of the president ial candidates con verge New Hampshire. Senator ted cruz will be looking again to the polls. The polls in the Granite State for Donald Trump Holds a big lead. On the democratic side, hilliary clinton won what was the closest race in iowa caucus history. But one week before the New Hampshire primary, several polls show her trailing vermont senator, Bernie Sanders. Lisa stark joins us from milford, New Hampshire, at a rally for donald trump. Lisa reporter we are indeed. The crowd shouting, we want trump a loud and enthusiastic crowd here. Donald trump is in the building, but hes in another room holding a news conference, saying that he feels good about how his campaign did in iowa, and taking credit for the turnout in the republican caucus. Trump is pulling very well here in New Hampshire, coming off of the loss in iowa, hes hopin