Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
D where more than a dozen shipyards really shut her down and leaves us with an industrial basis has for less capacity now. So we need to protect that with everything we can. I think both of you know this but when we stood up at shipyard for mobile, we had the entity under my direction that had to create the workforce for the shipyard in mobile. And we had the lux youre riff time, a whole lot of time, and we had a recession where we had a lot of people lay off. We have exactly the opposite situation right now. We do not have the luxury of time, we have a very active economy where people with those sorts of skills, if we lay them off they can go anywhere and get a job. And its very hard to both train the people that you need to replace them and the people you train will not have the experience that the people theyre replacing had, which means youre going to have a less efficient production schedule. And the ships going to cost more. Which we all dont want the ships to cost more. So i jus
Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains the most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As secretary james mattis stated in august, it creates unpredictability and makes us rigid. We can not deal with new and revealing threats. We know our enemies are not standing still, end of quote. Passing another temporary measure compounds the negative impacts for our military. Some of those impacts are highlighted by the demanding training and certification gaps necessitated by increased operational demand. Speake
We will take you live to that debate via the german broadcaster a rd. Accompanied by interpreters to bring you the debate. In english in real time. Alright lets focus now on the candidates. Chancellor Anglo American has both admirers and some bitter detractors at home and abroad but she has been in the job for twelve years. And then you got Martin Schulz on the other hand he has a career in european politics to look back on. He spent years as the president of the German European Parliament german politics. Is new terrain for him. A german cannot cast a vote to directly. Elect the chancellor but if they coul. Hear the numbers for you and they are very telling. So opinion polls indicate that mariko would get forty nine percent of the vote. While thirty seven percent a german voters say they want her conservative cdu csu block. To lead the next government. Alright were gonna take me out to Martin Schulz and see what hes dealing with tonight. The numbers for him on this debate night are no
Criticism on the way the administration has been handling its press briefings, done largely without television cameras, audio and even that on a delayed basis. The reaction to all of this right now, we havent seen Much Movement in the dow upon these developments. It happened just in the last couple of minutes. But if youre looking for some sort of a signal, the markets certainly are not setting it. Charlie gasparino, glenn hall, alex smith. Welcome to all. Gaspo. Spicer does not surprise me, leaving, because he and scaramucci would be oil and water together. Neil do you know of any history between the two . Very little. The history is actually between sean spicers godfather, rabbi inside the Trump Administration, Reince Priebus and Anthony Scaramucci. Thats where theres friction. And ive heard in recent days that President Trump has been asking people, including Anthony Scaramucci, what he thinks of Reince Priebus job, how well hes doing. So neil so hes sending those signals out there,