The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. We have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. It has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. There is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops and what is worse
Center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the service. You and i have had a good conversation on things and i will ask you what i ask most of the people being pointed. What do you consider the greatest threat . As a soldier and military officer, i would have to say it is russia. Russia is the only country on earth that retains the Nuclear Capability to destroy the United States. It has capability. Intent . Dont know. But the activity of russia since 2008 has been aggressive. They attacked and invaded georgia, seized the crimea and attacked into the ukraine. That is worrisome. I would also add china and north korea and isis along with iran including the recent agreemen
Commands you support as well. I have been concerned reductions across the services are going to impact the conventional source enablers that our specialop guys work with. How will you work with them on the reductions having on their capabilities . We are closely tied with the special operation committee. 80 of u. S. Special operations come from the army. So we are tightly closed. We are joined at the hip. One of the big Lessons Learned from the last 1015 years is conflict has been the synergistic affect. We will continue to work with them very, very closely. We have them integrated in the major exercise at the training center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the ser
Target them. We can come up with objective way to define what a sanctuary is. And i think it should be a jurisdiction that does not comply with all detainers all of the time for all types of people who are removable whether theyve committed serious crimes or not. And i do think that the policies of the Obama Administration in enabling sanctuary jurisdictions and greatly restricting what i. C. E. Agents can do despite the plain language of the law also ought to be given attention through legislation through congress. We know that the administration is not going to make an effort. Theyve said as much. Theyre not going to address this on their own. Congress needs to reassert its Constitutional Authority over these matters. Chief during your testimony you commented that resources are finite. Its difficult for the Police Departments to balance the different needs. And the federal Immigration Laws on some level are a distraction perhaps in balancing all of the different demands on your polic
From the missing plane it will be the first confirmation that mh370 crashed into the indian ocean in 2014. The air kraf was travel from kuala lumpur to beijing. Consensus calls for gdp to have increased at a 2. 7 annual rate. Also important today, the government plans to be releasing three years worth of revisions from the bureau of economic analysis. You might remember Steve Liesman first reported in april that q1 gdp was statistically softer than the other three quarters for the past 30 years. They said it was developing methods to try to address this problem. Well see if they have. From the economy to earnings among the companys quarterly result results. Procter gambles ceo will be joining us. I didnt Say Something about that. Earlier, just now . I thought at the top the show you might have said p g earnings. I would know if i said that. I thought you might have said that. Now youre starting to hear things. Maybe its from yesterday. We did talk about john mueller being on the progra