Writes about his military career and offers his thoughts on leadership in the memoir, called sign chaos. [inaudible conversations] i run the International Security program here and it is an honor and a privilege to introduce jim scuitto, who of course many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and also cnn anchor and the author of this new book inside russia and china secret operations to defeat d america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and f also the wall street journal and its had a lot of goodad critical success. Jim you may not know was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Thembassy in china so you know e china story quite well. Hes a graduate of yale university, former fulbright fellow and shes here in washington with his wife gloriau former radio tv news, three children. Im going to turn it over his reported around the world in asia, the middle east and he will make a opening observations about the book and then w well open it up to the
And made an arms race. The point of this up us push this the to get the maximum return on every rouble invested on defense. Indeed, the soviet union was not thrifty about military spending and unfortunate the nation efficiency was not the top priority. The defense spending officer was about 13 percent of the g d. I will not site ready to quote, stuck on International Peace Research Institute for last year, or defend a little bit. And i noticed 4 percent assessments, and this year im going to it is 6. 8 percent on us. So then we have gone up by twos point bites, percentage points, and principal. This is a noticeable increase, but that is absolutely not critical. Banksley, ive done the soviet union, it was 13 percent and were now at 6. 8 percent. Lets say its consecutive it was i must say that defense spending and reinvigorate to the economy. Not of course there are many schools and we are aware of that. And you dont get so this goes back to the guns versus beauty. Lemme, although i repe
Step counter the sport matt and wireless remote call. Now, im rafael romo at the Georgia State capitol in atlanta this is cnn coming out firing President Biden takes on republicans and tries to put to rest any doubts from democrats as he delivers a State Of The Union. Unlike those weve seen in the past, those same lawmakers in the audience meantime, face a midnight deadline to prevent a partial Government Shutdown. The senate needing to pass bills, keep the lights on for the government. A heavy lift in a sharply divided chambers, plus a new report on uvalde leads to frustration and fury from the community, from parents who lost children in the massacre and are still waiting for account and ability nearly two years later, were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central today, President Biden, looking to care curry some beltway momentum into Battleground States. Next hour hell be in pennsylvania after delivering the type of feisty
From cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. Israel now at war after the deadliest attack in decades by hamas. Civilians killed, hostages taken. Now the global community, including the bay area, is expressing outrage over the escalating conflict. Im elizabeth cook. The death toll surpassed 1500 and Israeli Embassy spokesperson says at least 900 israelis have been killed. More than 600 palestinians are also dead. Israel has ordered a complete siege of the gaza strip where civilians and soldiers are leld hostage. The u. S. Announced a number of americans were also killed in the violence and some are still unaccounted for. Skyler henry begins our coverage from washington. Reporter good to be with you. The president put out a statement not long ago ultimately directing his team to work with their israeli counterparts on every aspect of what we now know is a hostage crisis that could include american citizens that are held captive. That also includes sharing intelligence and deplo
Maria welcome back. Good thursday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo, and i hope youre having a good thursday morning, april 25th. 8 a. M. On button on the east coast. President biden will be in syracuse, new york, today to tout the science and chips act after making conflicting statements about the future of taxes if he sees a reelection. Fox News White House or correspondent peter doocy live in d. C. With the latest. Good morning, peter. Reporter and this is the second time in a row President Biden is running on this promise not to raise taxes on anybody making less than 400,000 perrer year, but the problem is t its not true because according to the tax foundation, if President Biden follows through the on to his promise to get rid of the tax cuts and jobs about at the end of next year, minute making 75,000 a year is going to pay about 1700 every year in taxes. That had previously expire expired or been reduced, that is despite Presid