Good morning. Thanks for your patience director of the Strategy Group yen to welcome to this session on american in goal leadership first i want to take they thank you for giving us this base with our members of our Strategy Group let me tell you about our program this morning the Strategy Group is 35 years old with the notion that even in washington there could be an organization that is nonpartisan we have been resolutely nonpartisan over 35 years the founders meet annually in aspen in colorado to discuss and debate big ideas of americas Foreign Policy and our Global Leadership in each year we prepare a book for publication and this years book is available today that we are discussing today maintaining American Leadership. We will discuss the book this morning and with that global trade position about the impact of technology on the Global Military leadership continuing with a conversation i will moderate between former secretary of defense bill and Madeleine Albright about these iss
Good morning. Thanks for your patience director of the Strategy Group yen to welcome to this session on american in goal leadership first i want to take they thank you for giving us this base with our members of our Strategy Group let me tell you about our program this morning the Strategy Group is 35 years old with the notion that even in washington there could be an organization that is nonpartisan we have been resolutely nonpartisan over 35 years the founders meet annually in aspen in colorado to discuss and debate big ideas of americas Foreign Policy and our Global Leadership in each year we prepare a book for publication and this years book is available today that we are discussing today maintaining American Leadership. We will discuss the book this morning and with that global trade position about the impact of technology on the Global Military leadership continuing with a conversation i will moderate between former secretary of defense bill and Madeleine Albright about these iss
The discussion is three hours. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. Im nick burns, director of Aspen Strategy Group and welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First, i want to thank dla piper for giving us the space is horny. We very much appreciate that. I want to thank all of you for being here, members of our Strategy Group, in particular senator dan of alaskan who im honored to interest you in a minute. Let me tell you about our program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an organization that is resolutely nonpartisan. We have been resolutely nonpartisan for 35 years. Our founders are bill perry, joan i, a lot. We meet annually in aspen, colorado to discuss and debate big ideas about america foreignpolicy and our Global Leadership in each year we hear a book based on our proceedings for publication in this years book is availa
Minutes for an opening statement. A bedrock tenet of the United States economy. Free flow worldwide has always been a bipartisan goal and to that end im proud to serve as cochair of the Global Investment in america caucus as well as mr. Holden, mr. Himes and mr. Manes. It promotes Global Investment in the United States economy and helps educate members about the importance of Foreign Direct Investment. Today the United States is the largest foreign investor and recipient of the greatest amount of Foreign Direct Investment through the capital is provided a good deal of the energy that has kept her economy vibrant and compensated for the notoriously low National Savings rate to provide the fuel for growth of u. S. Businesses and jobs. On the site of u. S. Workers and jobs are related to foreign men. Most of these jobs pay handsomely, far better than other u. S. Job, but of Foreign Investment is to be a force for good, and must not be welcomed unthinkingly any more than one might be the f
The oversight commiee which have required. Unlikehe original house intellience bill, which i oppose, this bill ds not include language that would have likely leaving the last few minutes of this, you can find it online at cspan. Org. Live now on cspan from the center for strategic and international studies, a discussion with security secretary ernest moniz. Well be hearing from the former secretary shortly. Were lucky to have him in town, staying active. Hes become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative, my old boss, senator sam nun is the cochair with him, im delighted, senator, that youre back today, i asked if he wanted to say any remarks, he said hell, no, ill let ernie do that. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Charlie and deb, thank you for being theyve been partners with us in raising so many important issues of our day. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instr