Washington journal. Joining ut is christopher pharrell with Judicial Watch, their investigation and research director. The point that the last guest was making about you looking at this release of the memo in uw separate phases, not necessarily and muellercess investigation, is that something you would agree with . Guest there are a lot of moving pieces here. If you want to move back to a higher level, you can say, what has been the success rate of this entire affair as a Russian Active Measures Campaign . If the goal was to disrupt and confuse and generate all sorts of consternation and figure wanting, then the russians have been quite successful. That is kind of a larger question. We have an internal domestic question politically because this is obviously an or mislead with ae and hot issue lot of fingerpointing and claims, counterclaims. That will play itself out. We will get to the truth out some point. The larger question is, for the last 100 years, whether the soviet union or the
Washington journal, what is next after the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo. First, were from university of texas law and also a Judicial Watch. Host the House Intelligence Committee meets at 5 00 to consider if they will release the democratic response released by republicans last week. If they do, the white house would he given five days to object. It will gojects it, to the house for a vote. Trump said the release of the memo vindicates him in the investigation being conducted by Robert Mueller. Several republicans disagree. For our next hour, we want to get your thoughts on if you agree with the president possible assessment on the release of the memo. Heres how you can let us know. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can post thoughts on twitter, cspanwj. On our twitter page twitter. Com cspanwj. The memo, from the president , it totally vindicates the president in the probe, but the witchhunt goes on and on. Collusion a
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
Traditional and in some ways Old Fashioned area of technology, yet one of very rapid and ongoing innovation. Very central to the performance of our military forces as well. And were going to talk about software and the ways in which systems, electronic systems, countermeasure systems that have heavy electronics and i. T. Component have to be thought about today, have to be improved. All of this relates clearly to some big themes in defense, budgeting, Defense Strategy, to what extent is Technology Changing so fast that we need to emphasize pursuit of a revolution of military affairs perhaps even more than we have been. To what extent do we need to get on top of a new wave of innovation and make sure our adversaries dont do it first. Or what extent is this an ongoing evolutionary process and a lot of exciting important things are happening but we dont need to get overly excited or disruptive about our approach to defense resource allocation. And the broadest of all senses it relates to
Think of me and us as a resource to help navigate that. What i brought today for the purposes of an introduction, im glad to answer any questions about our body of work but i highlights pages to two testimonies and theyre on the table over there. One was a testimony in may of 2010 before this committee, and it was based on a report that came out in july of 2009. And we were asked to look out how much progress had sba made in implementing the Small Business Disaster Response and improvement act of 2008. Its a mouthful. Ill now call it the 2008 act. Very important piece of legislation. It was a good way to look at progress sba had made from basically the problems that incurred during katrina and rita and it was also what remained to be done. The other thing we did was extensive fieldwork looking at the response of the 2008 disasters, which were of a smaller magnitude of katrina or sandy. It was the midwest floods and hurricane ike in particular where we did extensive fieldwork and we cou