Good afternoon. Im glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. Im Michael Green, Senior Vice President for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. And as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. We survived the flash flood. If for any reason we need to evacuate, its my responsibility to give you instructions. And the general rule is well go out the way you came in and well make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or well go straight down rhode island to st. Matthews. Our expectation is half the people will go to starbucks at du pont circle, but thats the plan. Im going to be very brief because ill have the opportunity to chair a discussion with our very distinguished panel of american and japanese retired senior military leaders. But first i want to turn it over to my friend who has organized this military Statesmen Forum to tell you about its intent, its purpose and a bit about what they achieved. Please,
Intercept information and leave the backpack plugged in somewhere, thats so much low risk than trying to rob a bank. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Four former chiefs of star, two from the u. S. Joint chiefs and two of the joint staff of Japans Defense Ministry participated in a Panel Discussion friday on the importance and future of the u. S. Japan Military alliance. This is almost two hours. Good afternoon. Im glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. Im Michael Green, Senior Vice President for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. And as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. We survived the flash flood. If for any reason we need to evacuate, its my responsibility to give you instructions. And the general rule is well go out the way you came in and well make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or well go straight down rhode island to st. Matthews. Our expectation is half
Want to do our normal safety announcement, for any reason we need to evacuate it is my responsibility to give you instructions and the general rule is we will go out the way you came in and make our way to either the National Geographic which is around the corner or straight down rhode island to saint matthews. Our expectation is that half of the people will go to starbucks but thats the plan. I will be brief because i have an opportunity to share a discussion with our very distinguished japanese and retired american leaders. I want to turn it over to the doctor who is organized this forum to tell you about its intent and purpose and about what they have achieved. Thank you, mike. Thank you very much. Id like to First Express my deepest appreciation to csis and its necessary to doctor Michael Green for cohosting this event with my think tank. I was here exactly at cs i s6 months ago and events like this, exactly like this. The scene is always the same. The us and japan alliance. [inaud
Stream. I would hope first and foremost that President Trump nominates a main stream nominee capable of getting bipartisan support. If he does, then well give it just a very, very thorough vetting, but we wont ipsofacto say no. Joining us, the best of the webb columnist james toronto. So, dan, trumps got a list of 21 potential nominees. I dont think anybody, any president ial candidate has ever put together a list like this, do any of these names, any of the 21 names fit schumers definition of main stream . Well, i think we can make this simple. Would Chuck Schumer regard Justice Anthony scalia as main stream . No absolutely not. Let me tell you something, one of the things donald trump mentioned at the end of this campaign that simply thrilled him was his widow maureen plopped a trump for president sign in her front yard in northern virginia. I dont think schumer would like that. You know what it tells me is that i think trumps nominee is going to be a clone of Anthony Scalia and Chuc
Cents. Data of course. This was down to the building approvals which unexpectedly rose monthtomonth. We can reverse some of the losses toward midmorning. We are back above the 111 handle here for the dollar yen. At 658. Eeing cny it is flat of a young to look at this with them the context of yesterday. That being said, have a look at japan. We are now up half a percent. Gaining a bit of traction over the last 30 minutes. Rishaad paul allen has the details of this deal. Ill, what is going on here . The operator of the fourth Largest Airline in china is paying 159 million australian dollars for the stake in paying a hefty price for it. . 30 per share. If a 7 premium on what monday closed at. The virgin ceo held a media call a couple hours ago. Heres some of what he had to say. This is an Alliance Deal which has equity. And we can get back to that. H in a has committed to supporting to whatever the outcome of the capital Structure Review is. Some of the other shareholders are getting out.