[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] health and Human Services kateri Sylvia Burwell on capitol hill tomorrow morning to brief lawmakers on the president s 2017 budget requests. Well take it to the Senate Finance committee herein live at 10 00 a. M. Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. The reality is the best president s, the greatest president s have been willing to recognize they were not the smartest person in the room and to surround themselves with people who they thought were smarter than themselves. Sunday night on q a, former secretary of defense and former director of the cia robert gate discusses a book, passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. Surrogates has served under several president s, most recently george w. Bush and barack obama. At the end of the cold war when i was director of Central Intelligence i came to believe very strongly that the American People had given cia up pass on a
Missile threat from north korea. There is no Silver Bullet solution but it is clear that Congress Must play a proactive role in providing more robust tools to the executive branch to confront this threat. There has been a lot of attention on north korea in the weeks following north koreas fourth test. But senator corker and men gardner worked on this issue before it got this far. They came together with a robust piece of legislation. I want to thank you for your leadership. You are new to the committee but not new to addressing problems our nation faces and i want to thank you for that. I would like to thank them over many months to focus on the attention poised by north korea to develop a bipartisan bill. I want to single out senator cardin for the constructive manner in which they worked with our team on this important piece of legislation. Other senators made important contributions as well. Senator cardin i was just boasting about your effort here. The senate and congress and count
Australia and then they wake up one morning and burma has flipped on them. It was eternal in terms of their faithful allies. These things caused a lot of consternation. So the old fear of diagnostically speaking in china is to fear with sand and travel without. These things happening around them excite them. How much does it add to that anxiety is that all . Is the most problematic relationship now in japan and this is not good. I have to say i think japan probably hasnt played this as well as it might have, but i think on the other hand it would be fair to say also that it serves chinas purposes to have something happening outside his orders which can rally people at home. Theres a lot of complex things going on in each of these reactions to foreign movements outside. Which makes your job complicated. I wonder if you go back to the news last week with the North Koreans surprisingly, given reports of their technical difficulties but the longrange missile tests seem to fully back or not
The president of the Council for Peace and Asian Reconciliation is urging the government to balance its relations with China and the United States for the good of the kingdom.