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Partners and how their actions decisions, capabilities might play in our assistance of their defense or how it may limit our ability, depending on what choices they have to make. Nato, for instance has a very detailed bmd plan for the intercept of missiles for nato territory and europe. What are other elements that the Nato Alliance can bring to bear fence an antagonist. They are a military alliance after all. They are not the eu. What sort of connections and relations with the eu, the economic deciders of europe need to be engendered in order to come up with an effective response. In the interleaving of these capabilities do they fall under the nato command structure or some other entity. The eu council of governments, unclear. Earlier we were talking about exchanging information. Frank mentioned that. How do you coordinate this with owe allies and partners. Some of us can be very sensitive. But some of it needs to be planned and thought of ahead of time. Do we need to extend the conc
Institute for International Economic economics. Its an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our previously schedule programming. It is my pleasure to continue from our Economics Panel according to our practical world. We have as a special treat today, Mark Bertolini the chairman and ceo of aetna who is going to talk about the role of Corporate America in reestablishing the american middle class. Thats about as targeted and blunt a title as you can have, which i find very typical of mark. Many of you have become familiar with him recently he got him mens coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere for his leadership. I think it is fair to say the word leadership and taking aetna forward and then amongst other companies in vool tearvoluntary raiseing the wages of its vast share of low wageworkers within its company, something that so far at least none of the other Major Health Insurers in the u. S. Have announced. We have gotten to know mark over the last few years. Hes been a me
Going to accept nothing as it relates to obama care. Theres a time and place for everything and this is not that time or place. So far, majority leader harry reid has essentially told the house of representatives and the American People go jump in a lake. If harry reid forces a Government Shutdown, that will be a mistake and i hope he backs away from that ledge hes pushing us towards. Good morning. Monday, september 30th, 6 00 in the morning, darkness still over the United States capitol. Washington anchor for bb world news america katty kay, former communications for president george w. Bush, nicolle wallace, msnbc and Time Magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve ratner, and on capitol hill for us, the reporter for the New York Times Jeremy Peters, good morning, everybody. Good morning. All kinds of darkness over capitol hill. Lots of darkness. Pick your headline, tthe New York Post says storm coming, usa today c