Stints in. For those of you that are attending this very event for the second time. Many apologies and it was not as you may have assumed our speakers agenda i cause that cancellation but an exploding manhole but we are paying our bills at the Stanton Center and back at business and very pleased to be welcoming doctor chris ford back to the stage. Chris for those of you in the no and the assistant secretary of state for enough security for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security yes laughs chris is going to give a few remarks and will be time for us to ask some clarifying questions but with that chris, welcome back to stance in. Big applause thanks, brian. Its great to be back here. I applaud your persistence after last time, and rescheduling this after the explosion. It sounds so dark. Its i could not that bad. Those of you who been around washington that long i have remember there was a series of exploding manholes in georgetown back in the 90s.
Recent visit to london with the nato summit and other issues. Thank you very much, just returned from london where we had tremendous success with nato. The relationship we have with other countries is very good, it has to be good or they wouldnt have done what they have done. Nato is suffering very badly from depletion of funds and it was going down like a roller coaster goes down and i was able over the last couple of years increase their contribution. Not the United States because we were paying more than anybody else. It was getting ridiculous and over the last couple years i had them increased by 130 billion, and this was done largely over the last two days, but also set up time before that, they largely contribute 400 billion more. It is a total of 530 billion of the countries put into nato. It is strong, far greater than anybody ever thought. If you look at the secretarygenerals remarks he was generous in his are marks of what i have done before nato and what our country has done
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On President Trumps nfc and worked previously on capitol hill at the hudson institute, Naval Reserve but most importantly is an allaround great guy and im sure this conversation will be fun but fun fact he is from cincinnati almost a finley market and not bad. No relation. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] we thought chris would give a few framing remarks and then leave time for us to ask clarifying questions but with that chris, welcome back. [applause] thank you, brian. Great to be back here. I applaud your persistence after last time and rescheduling this after the explosion that sounded so dire but its not that bad. Those whove been around washington will remember there is a series of exploding manholes in georgetown in the mid 1990s or so and that problem has not entirely gone away. Thanks for keeping at it and those were willing to come back. Its been nearly ten years since the last Nuclear Security summit was held here in washington dc and they have been three more after that