We have an Awesome Group to shed light on these issues. At georgeby my friend washington university. Dr. Charles, the honorable Joe Lieberman and dr. William roper. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everyone. We are delighted to be here. It is one that we are all looking forward to. I thought what we would do before we actually dive into the topic is to connect each of you with the topic area. Charles, you are a scientist. What can you tell us about what you do on a daily basis . I am a site explains scientist who science and technology to nonscientists. Background to keen minute kate communicate. My area is in biological weapons. My background is in for all edgy and microbiology. And microbiology. Throughout your career, you have had a focus on National Security. Focused on biological crimes and terrorism. Tell us a little more about that. Teaching science to nonscientists, when i went to college, there was no science requirement. There was science for nonscience majors. One was cal
Annual meeting of the association of the association of the united dates army. You know him. He is wellknown and is known internationally. The privilege of serving alongside of him, and you can define our keynote speaker with one word, and i would choose patriot. His veryhat he is at core. They dos and gentlemen, please welcome the secretary of ladieshe honorable and gentlemen, please welcome the secretary of defense, the honorable james mattis. [applause] thank you. Attis take you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, general. Is an absolute delight to be here with you all, and i do appreciate being invited to Something Like this. I probably could find no place in washington, d. C. , today to be more inhome back with you. Secretary mccarthy, it meeting in those uncertain days after afghanistan, and we served for many years after that. Thank you for coming back, sir. It is a pleasure to serve with you once again. General millie, we served together. We have known each other over ,
Speakers as well as an Awesome Group of participants in the room itself. Let me also welcome our viewers on cspan. Obviously they play an Important Role in Public Service and to better understand how washington does and does not work. But im going to be hyperbrief because youre going to get more than you want of me throughout the day, but im going to very quickly introduce my my partner in crime, or maybe better partner in countering crime, lenny hainesworth who is Vice President at Northrop Grumman. Northrops been a wonderful partner of gws, of our center in particular. Not only todays event, but multiple reports weve done together, and i think play a Critical Role in advancing our National Security and our national interests. So ill leave it at that. Lenny, please. Thank you. Thanks for the introduction. Good morning, everyone. On behalf of Northrop Grumman, we are just very pleased and honored to cohost todays event in partnership with gorge washington university. Frank and gwu in g
Kentucky. The most pressing issue right now in the commonwealth is the employees retirement. Voices from the states on cspan. Next, the French Defense minister on the Iran Nuclear Agreement defends the National Security strategy, global terror threats and french president emmanuel macrons proposal for a joint European Union defense force. She spoke friday at the center for strategic and international studies. Good morning. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. My name is heather connolly. Im Senior Vice President here at csis with the great privilege of leading our europe research. We are absolutely delighted to be able to welcome her excellence, florence parlie, minister for the armed forces of france. He accepted her responsibilities on june 21st of this year, so four months into the job. And as she arrives here in washington, france has produced its Strategic Review of defense and National Security, a document that i certainly encourage all to read because a
Fireworks found stockpiled in this small warehouse in san leandro where Authorities Say a Motorcycle Club was trafficking in guns and ammunition and dealing in illegal aerial rockets worth thousand dollars of dollars on the side. They were selling those for profit. This is probably our largest seizure in a couple years now. Reporter and this is just the beginning. While we were shooting video of all of this, bomb squad officials from Alameda County pulled up with a truckload full of illegal fireworks from another bust in hayward. They put the wick in there. Reporter sheriffs deputies say an underage boy in haywd was advertising these illegal fireworks on craigslist when Hayward Police detectives showed up undercover to buy some. This is what they found. A fireworks laboratory where he was making and processing and selling fireworks out of his garage. Reporter neighbors had to be evacuated while bomb squads investigated. The Sheriffs Department said theyre ramping up for more crackdowns