The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to try to talk about how were trying to transform the army. Were in year three of a very aggressive effort of transforming the army in not only how we train the force, how we modernize and ultimately help our people reach their maximum potential. As i emphasized the third year of a massive restructuring like weve not seen in over 40 years in the army with creating
Us. Today session is an opportunity to speak on the deterrents and signaling effect of financial sanctions, well and as many of you know well, economic u. S. Sanctions and economic tools which in general terms to those, named people or entities that should have access to the u. S. Financial system of those new people are entities to pose a threat to u. S. National security and the use of sanctions has become central to the exercise of u. S. Foreign policy and National Security over the last decade and in fact i would say, sanctions are a favorite policy tool of this administration in particular the top. The topic for todays session is also the subject of a report and i got jordan good to my left and i cowrote and we are releasing today, those of you here joining us in person will have seen that when you came in. Do not forget to take a copy, of the report includes findings of hours that came out no workshop and signaling and deterrence of sanctions and put it by the Franco Family Found
Good, okay, good morning, or afternoon, rather, and welcome to this event on u. S. Sanctions and deterrence. I am Liz Rosenberg and i direct economic programs here at the center for american securities, its a pleasure to have you here with us. Today session is an opportunity to speak on the deterrents and signaling effect of financial sanctions, well and as many of you know well, economic u. S. Sanctions and economic tools which in general terms to those, named people or entities that should have access to the u. S. Financial system of those new people are entities to pose a threat to u. S. National security and the use of sanctions has become central to the exercise of u. S. Foreign policy and National Security over the last decade and in fact i would say, sanctions are a favorite policy tool of this administration in particular the top. The topic for todays session is also the subject of a report and i got jordan good to my left and i cowrote and we are releasing today, those of you
Already august. Such a busy day. We will have a great the day. Jen fred making a special guest appearance on our show. But first lets look live outside and see what our weather will be like. Wow, glorious up there in the poconos mountains dave warren. As expected skies are cleared up. We have fewer clouds out there and certainly number of the day that can only go up. We are up to a ten today, nice and comfortable for rest of the weekend here. Very low humidity and just a light breeze. A few clouds, showers yesterday that kept number down but perfect today. When we step outside we show that live picture. We have had picture sent to us. Beautiful sunrise right over the delaware with the ben franklin bridge. Skies clear. That let these temperatures drop especially in the suburbs. Look at mount pocono 65 degrees. Allentown 68. Up to 75 in philadelphia. The nice comfortable start there, cools off just a little bit across suburbs and south jersey but up to 57 in wildwood and Atlantic City. U
Monument as we wait for the Cherry Blossom trees to burst on and bloom. The festival begins today and peak bloom happens thursday. With warmer temperatures coming in well see them on up quickly. Its hawrd to imagine when you consider how chilly it is outside today. Satellite and radar showing rain showers pushing off the coast as low pressure intensifies and moves to new england offshore now and showers in the forecast today. Were not done with the system. Mainly brought rain to d. C. And accumulating snow north and west to the moup taps. Cold, 40 reg national and 37 dullesen 38 bwi. Lets check temperatures elsewhere. When you get to the moun taps still not at freezing. Its closer, 36 whip chester and 36 martinsburg and 36 couple better land. Once you get up to the ridge to thats where theyre getting snow. 40 washington. 37 cambridge and 37 leonard up to. Chilly no matter what. Future cast shows were dry right now in thrping. By mid afternoon more shores through. We still have that chi