Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know that the naval Systems Command in Partnership Forum is an important start in that effort but there can be more done based on the hearing we had yesterday. I wanted to ask about your commitment to make sure we institutionalize best practices among our work forces and relationships between labor and management among all the four shipyards. Admiral richardson they are a Magnificent Team in portsmouth and our public yards are strategic tools. Even in my current job as director of naval reactors, very
There is no more fair place on the planet than in the military. We embrace every race, every ethnic group, every religion. We are literally generalists and becoming even more so. It is genuinely a place where an irish immigrant can become the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Thats all ive got for you. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey youre welcome. Before we came here this week, we were all asked to decide on a defining moment that changes into we are to do and who we will eventually become. And i would like to know if you have a defining moment or moments that kind of major the man u are today. Gen. Dempsey well, thats a profound question, young lady. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey a good question actually. You know, a defining moment is tough to pin down, but i will fill you this. For about the first on when i we talked about this often. I went to west point because my mother wanted me to go. I had no interest. The mother wanted me to go. I got there and it let my fire and i got enthusiastic a
Their livers to create a new one to save their life. A person of interest is now in custody in connection with the killing of a Police Officer in m memphis tennessee. 33yearold officer shaun bolton was shot dead during a traffic stop last night. The shooting set off a multistate manhunt. No charges have been filed against the person of interest. The Memphis Police Department Said the investigation is ongoing, and the tragedy shows its too easy for criminals to arm themselves. There are so many guns on our streets in the wrong hands, thats the key. Thats the key thing. And men and women in blue have certain rules rules of engage at any given minute in a 24 hour day, they are dealing with folks with no rules of engagement bolton was the third memphis Police Officer shot dead in the last four years. Porto rico missed a multi petero rico missed a debt payment. The government failing to pay the 58 million bond. Island Officials Say they do not have the money. Friday they scrounged up 169 mi
What weve realized is we can try very hard to keep lead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Right now there are legal prohibitions from the private sector what we want to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures very narrowly defined so very technical type of information. But for example of the various act that is have taken place, if we could broadly share that information then when one hack occurs one place hopefully at Network Speed we can widely share that vulnerability and so more broadly protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern. On thursday members of the house agriculture subcommittee heard testimony from federal and state agriculture officials on their agencys response to the 20142015 flu outbreak that killed an estimated 48 million edible fowl in the u. S. The witnesses said an outbreak could be as bad or worse than
Correspondents on the 2016 president ial campaign and the first few months of the trump presidency. Cohosted by atlantic magazine and the aspen institute, this is just over an hour. Were going to get to tax reform because thats a very big issue set in motion by the president yesterday. I want to talk about a couple of issues that are also related to the Treasury Department because they are an important part of what you do and what the country is trying to achieve. Specifically with north korea. David petraeus on the stage saying he and others discouraged by trade numbers indicating china is trading with north korea. New sanctions were applied last week. What is your level of confidence those sanctions will change materially the chinese behavior . Can you clarify, because theres been different reporting about this, what exactly chinese banks are doing Going Forward with north korea. Thank you for bringing that up. Its an important topic. I did have the opportunity to go with the preside