Slowly on the floor of the senate, slower than most places. Thank you again for coming and thank you so much for your input. Senator young, you had some follow up. I want to thank you the ambassadors again for their presence id like to turn to discussing the importance of cyber terrorism in our fight against our cyber warfare, that is in fighting against terrorism. Would you agree, first of all, that our nations cyb cyber activities are increasingly important as we carry out the fight against isis, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and other terrorist sectors . Absolutely, senator. Okay. Do you have any thoughts related to policy funding or other legislative initiatives that we need to be embarking on to improve our cybercapabilities . Senator, thats a very good question. I dont think im prepared to answer it in its entirety. Let me answer a couple smaller pieces, specific facets of that question as best i can today. And were happy to come back and discuss it. Again. It is a broad focu
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
Could get bushwhacked because of his ties to bush . What we are hearing about that. And if this is a weekend, well, there must be another march, but this one isnt about icing i. C. E. , more like ramming rahm as in rahm emanuel. Crime out of control. Residents expected to protest by the thousands in chicago. We will take you there live. And the president is in new jersey this weekend hunkering down. Then to pat buchanan who is in washington and man is he ever fired up. Not over democrats what he calls trump derangement syndrome, but how what they are saying now this summer sounds very much like what they were saying 50 years ago this summer. We compare. You decide. Weve got you covered, america. Time to get to it, america. Regrettable, what the North Koreans are now saying about a certain visit on the part of the secretary of state to their country. Uhoh. To rich edson in tokyo with the latest. The secretary of state just arrived here in tokyo a short while ago. He said he had producti