Thomas burr. He is the washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and he is the Vice President of the National Press club. Myron is a George Washington University Professor and former president of the National Press club. Kevin merida, he is the managing editor of the washington post. Gabriel dibenedetti is a National Political correspondent for politico. The correspondent for the Kuwait News Agency and the director of Strategic Communications for the data quality campaign. [applause] i also want to welcome our other guests in the room today and our cspan and public radio audiences. I want to welcome our audiences watching a live stream on our website, press. Org. You can also follow the action on twitter. Use the hashtag, npclive. Well, our speaker today has never served in congress, or as the governor of a state. Or in any elected office of any kind. He did tell me he was elected and that gets applause. He did tell me he was elected to the yale board. This is one of the reaso
That you please keep your to no more than five minutes. Admiral blair thank you. I have the feeling that everything has been said but not by everybody, so we will fill in notes. Sen. Murkowski thank you for recognizing that. Admiral blair as we approach the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Strategic Petroleum reserve, a lot of the Energy Landscape has changed but the three things that are the same oil market is volatile, american businesses, and American Families are vulnerable, and the spr is our only shortterm line of the defense on supply interruptions, and it would be full hearty to draw down the single weapon we have to counteract Oil Supply Disruptions and price spikes. Madam chairman, you emphasized that your concern was National Security and that is my background and i agree. But Economic Security and National Security are tightly intertwined. The geopolitical actions are causing a disruption in Global Supply and there is a great pressure for military action. When i was
There have been a number of members looking to shift that responsibility elsewhere. Certainly opm didnt demonstrate the kind of alacrity they needed to to beef up Cyber Security in advance of these attacks or in the wake of these attacks. I think they have adopted a new Management Strategy and im willing to give it time to see whether they can get their act together. But i have to say, when this story broke and the hack was revealed, and we were briefed in the Intelligence Community by opm, it was one of the least impressive briefings i have ever had. I dont even feel that the briefers were fully candid with us. Which is not an allegation i easily make about anyone. So i start out with deep skepticism about opm. Its track record is very poor. I am willing to give the new management and effort to see if they can demonstrate success. Niall congressman, yet another issue. The issue of gun control has of course, become prominent for rather tragic reasons in the past couple of weeks. On tha
30second0 for a 32nd ad a 4000 increase. He is really perking up now. That is your language, right . Toy went from 4000 200,000. I get there and i did not know this because all my people did not tell me. They said it was a threehour debate. The room the reagan library, a nice place it was pretty hot. I did not care. We had a couple of people on stage that were melting. [laughter] mr. Trump it was good for them. They went home and lost 10 pounds. [laughter] mr. Trump they go out and i get there. I hear it is a threehour debate. I dont stand for three hours. Ill have a problem. Who wants to watch a threehour debate, right . They did it just to make money. Mine, thequestion was fourth question was to mr. Trump said you are a horrible human being. Is that true . [laughter] mr. Trump mr. Trump does not like your face. What do you say . Well, the world will watch. And then they say, she debated so brilliantly. Give me a break. The entire thing, the entire thing was either question to me or a
To step down at the end of the month . He wanted to get through this process before the end of the month. Im glad youre all going to come to it. Its going to be a great one. Please, own the hall, lets take him through. Right side, please. Thank you. Like i said before, all i want to do is push down that pyramid from florida. Im not running against anybody, im not running against a personality or a name. Im just running for that set of principles that says were going principlebased member of congress. Crosstalk do you think it was election. E on the it was probably necessary. Do you think it was necessary . I do. Do you think they would have delayed the election if you would have dropped out . No. I dont know. Im i said, im not talking about candidates or personnel. And e one thing in mind, that is principlebased, number driven. Tonight on cspan, republican president ial candidate ben national aks at the press club. The u. S. House debates lifting the ban on crude oil exports. Ouse demo