Any capability, maybe not designed to catch every single thing that they could lob at us. But long enough to buy our leaders some time to be able to make an assessment and have options, if you will. The nation would have options. So i continue to believe that were on the right path. Thats part of a larger continuum of capabilities. And i dont think we ever want to give up on the idea that we have some capability in the Missile Defense tool kit. All right. I think well take one more question right here. Wait for the mike. Yeah. Im anna wilderman. For the first and only time in history, i attended the 35th reunion of the graduates of the Philippines Science High School 1970, and this is, i call it learning trips, okay . And this is what i learned because theyre assessing, because im an american, okay. And this is a reminder to me by the general, joint chiefs and economic minister, remind the americans that to us zerobased budget is zero, nothing. We dont have anything to spend at the end
They are they are becoming a critical partner for International Cooperation as well. One of our most significant cooperative efforts in codevelopment is with the advanced version of the sm3, the 2a, and that is being produced in japan. South korea is obviously has an immediate proximate stake in preventing missile strikes from north korea. Weve worked closely with south korea to ensure that as an alliance we can maintain the capacity to do that. Ive already talked about some of the things we bring to south korea. Patriot pac 3 batteries to defend both our forces deployed there as well as south korean forces, but south korea is also taking steps to enhance its own air and Missile Defense, including sea and landbased sensors, upgrading its patriot missiles and also pursuing its on indigenous korean air and Missile Defense capability. U. S. And australia, long Cooperation Partnership on Missile Defense research and development, most notably with regard to sensors. In the middle east we ha
Particularly over the last six monthsish, a creation of an arms control committee, as well as with the hlg. The beginning of, okay, what do we need to do to look at confidencebuilding measures, transparency measures in a way that will inspire some reciprocal actions on the part of russia as far as the foundation for reduction. So thats out there. But the commitment on the part of the allies, which i think is part of this, it has its really been very strong, and its a commitment that is really respected in this notion of so the at least in the context of the hrg, burdensharing has been a very important element of this, and we see good, strong consensus on that. So, also in the context of the whole u. S. Nuclear commitment to get to nato. There really is burdensharing. It isnt obvious but it is. Nato common funding, individual nations, and then you have the individual the independent deterrent, the uk, which is provided to nato. So it is good and a pretty strong alliance, that said, the
We dont have any monuments officers nearby that were able to make it tonight. One, in fact, does live not too far from philadelphia. However, were very fortunate and its such an honor for me to introduce to you all dean hellers other son and his wife are with us here tonight. Thank you very much. [applause] i recall reading a quotation by president kennedy that said a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but the men it honors and the men it remembers. And by that standard, we as a country today very poor job because we dont remember. We didnt know this amazing, remarkable legacy of our country during the most destructive conflict in history. And we paid a horrible price for it in the years that followed, not having monuments officers. In particular, in the aftermath of the looting of the National Museum of iraq in baghdad in 2003. This is one of the things that i created the monuments been foundation for the preservation of art to deal with, not only with a legacy of
Good day, every one. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Robert muellers prosecutors are silent no more. The team now venting to the new york time, Washington Post and nbc about welcome barrs rosy summary of their two year investigation. The first public break between the Justice Department and muell muellers office. Trump is weighing in on blasting the New York Times and the Justice Department is trying to defend the attorney general saying the Mueller Report given to him was quote marked confidential on every page to protect grand jury information could not be released publicly. Then repeating what the attorney general said before to congress that he does not believe the report should be released in a piecemeal fashion. Not really addressing the point here. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker joining me. Ken, youre reporting on our team at the mueller and justice fronts today. You have some new reporting taking all of this a bit farther in terms of what frustration the prosecu