Rebound, more of the spending needs to go to investment. That mean that there needs to be the extent question find a way to more increases deference cooperation. Let me wednesday perhaps anybody that knows me know that believed are spending on Nuclear Weapons. Probably isnt the smartest spending we can think about when it comes to the future of this alliance. These are weapons that are not likely to have any role in anything we do in 99. 999 of the time or perhaps even 100 of the time. Im happy to take your questions. [applause] thank you very much. That was just fantastic. If it remains focus on collective dissent for irrelevant for the future. You laid out the stark numbers about defense capabilities on defense and laid out the importance theres a lot to get in to here. I want to pick up a couple. I know, theres a lot of interested in the audience. Let me start where you ended on the nuclear point. Our next conversation on cartwright and others, former undersecretary, will in to Nucl
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The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe we need. Germany is the big kid on the block. It is militarily the big kid on the block. It doesnt have the expenditure on Nuclear Weapons that others have. It is transforming its military in to a force that is quite able to conduct the military operations. Its efforts in afghanistan are underappreciated. They are they have been a leader in the north. A true leader. They are the first and only countries so far to have stepped up and said they will be there not only other countries but the first
Disagreement at all on those points. As it relates to areas i just dont think there is use for the laws at the exchange level. Know your customer, those kinds of provisions. The greatest challenge, the greatest area we have to grapple with is how do we enforce the enforcement techniques. And the fact that this is a global phenomenon. This is something that was just issued in march of this year. The guidance that directors just talk about, the Financial Action task force, their guidance on this issue was just issued this summer, i think in july. My sense is that most of the world is not applying Money Laundering principles. Getting from here to there is really the issue that the four of us would have to grapple with. Thank you. How do you go about reconciling the consensus . Ill take the second part first. I dont know that i heard a lot of disagreement or anything we would generally disagree with from this panel or even really from the first panel. I was heartened by that. I think that
To you can watch all of this later at our program schedule. We are taking you live now to a hearing getting under way on capitol hill that is ted poe of texas. He chairs one of the subcommittees of house Foreign Affairs, 1 of the 2 looking into the Prisoner Exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl which occurred on may 31st, a former commander of special forces in afghanistan will testify, as will an Army Specialist who served with Sergeant Bergdahl. Lets hope that the bergdahl negotiators are not the same ones currently negotiating with iran over nuclear weapons. Be that as it may, releasing five senior taliban commanders may put the lives of our Senior Service members and americans around the world at risk. 1 of the 5 detainees was deputy chief of the talibans intelligence service. One detainee fought alongside al qaeda, a taliban military general. Another was a Senior Commander wanted by the United Nations for war crimes and worked closely with al qaeda and their affiliates. In fact