About going to take 100,000 out of the force structure. The air force had made it clear that they would like to close bases under the brac process. We are looking at a situation in which the structure is likely to decline unless we make a decision to reverse that. Host is it easier to close a branch base . Dont think so. I think what is challenging as relocating the unit. If it is a Research Unit that has very Sensitive Research equipment, that has to be handled carefully. It depends on what the nature is. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. What isious as to really going to happen with Guantanamo Bay. To know if Guantanamo Bay is on the list foreclosures four closures. There has been so much talk in the media. As far as being in a hot zone can you comment on that . Guantanamo bay is in an overseas location, in cuba. It is not covered by the brac process. It is only focused on u. S. Domestic installations. Lepore, thank you for your time. The Atlantic Council is where we
Christine writes and robert wrote continue to let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Call us at email us at or send a tweet at and likeconversation us on facebook and follow us on twitter. He is the treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial and he talked about the u. S. Treasury to disrupt the financing of the Islamic State also known as isis. He refused the source of Revenue Strategies for disrupting down. He spoke at a forum. This is an hour. Good morning. I am marwan muasher, director of the middle east program. I want to welcome you to carnegie and thank you for joining us for this timely discussion on u. S. Efforts to disrupt the Financial Network that support Islamic State of iraq and the levant, what is called isis. I see there is enough interest in this room for this issue. Overflow. Public attention has focused on the military efforts to degrade isis, there is another effort being led by the Treasury Department, which is focused on shutting d
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Which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the audience at the argument Carnegie Endowment heres , talking abouten the strategy to finance isis. In a future piece yesterday, the right that every morning david cohen descends into a cavelike complex in the bowels of the Treasury Department to pour through hundreds of pages of leaves from reports to polish threat assessments to try to demonstrate penetrate the Islamic State, capable of producing 50,000 barrels of oil a day. So david cohen surely here at the Carnegie Endowment. Ottawa a gunman shot a soldier at the war memorial in ottawa and fired shots in parliament and he himself was killed as well. We get an update from this mornings washington journal and we will be back live wednesday event gets underway. Host good morning to you. Guest i was ensconced in my office and looking at the scene from various that disappoints. I didnt see the shots everybody else was feeling. People talking about hundreds o