[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] watch more programs from our econd season of first ladies next week, weeknights here on cspan. Our series returns with the five most recent first ladies beginning with nancy reagan starting january 13, at 9 km earn on cspan. And we are offering a special he addition of the book question first ladies of the United States of america, comments fl c torians thought history at span dog products. Maybus secretary may brofse reporters. Good morning. First, i want to apologize for my voice. I have caught something, and people have suggested it is because i stood out for six hours in the freezing rain at army navy, but im pretty sure that was not the reason it happened. As john kirby said, im going to make a few remarks and then take questions. E noted that the admiral and mr. Branch are here if you want to go into greater detail at greater length. Prevention, identification, and act
Tea party . Guest we reformed welfare and reduced capital gains. John boehner and i were the ones who were the contract even thou gh Newt Gingrich and the army even though Newt Gingrich gets all the credit. We were part of that reform. The difference is the difference between understanding the government has a role, lets make it work as best it can. As opposed to there is no role for government, tear it down. That is the difference i see that i find frustrating between the two sides. There is not much of a difference, neither side is communicating very well with each other. That is an intraparty issue. Republicans calling other republicans names. I have never been accused of being an establishment guy. Host grover norquist, good for the Republican Party or not . Guest everyone is good for the party and has an agitation towards whatever you are trying to accomplish. When they are not good is when they take the ball and go home. And use it to raise money. That is what john boehner was sa
And shares my values, and believes the thing i think i have repeated four or five times in this press conference, which is, we get this incredible privilege for a short time, to do as much as we can for as many people as we can, to help them live better lives. And that is what drives them. That is the sacrifice they make, being away from families, soccer games, and birthdays. Some of them will end up working over christmas on issues like iran. The fact that they make those kinds of sacrifices i am always grateful for them. If they say to me after making those sacrifices for 3, 4, ive years, i need a break, then i completely understand. All right . Have a great holiday, everybody. Appreciate you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute discusses the nsa Surveillance Program and recommendations from a task force that would scale back practices. Schor talkselana about the current
Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the groundrules wrote that. What we are going to do today is secretary james and general welsh will have opening remarks and then well open it up for questions and answers. Standard rules of engagement apply today so please state your name and affiliation when you are called on and then we will do one question and one followup and depending on how much time we have with us if we can get to other questions. If there are any questions we dont get answered today you are more than welcome to call the a
Obviously its congresss constitutional prior if to rearrange priorities but in so doing please to not carve money out of our readiness account. Readiness is key, and ready to get those goals up. Please lift sequestration. Fees choices were troublesome, all on your hands. It will get worse and more difficult. This is a message that i wanted to repeat today. We need to get full Spectrum Readiness up. Now that i talk about todays readiness, let me shift to the future i also told, i think we will have greater reliance because obviously you know our numbers have been coming down. Right to leverage their reserve more. We have to maintain a technological edge. We have to be remaining ready with topnotch people. We need to become more agile. So what does all that means . It means a lot of things. We need to keep working diligently of our top three programs. The new fighter, the new tanker, the new bomber. In the general would give you some updates on the street. These and other technical inves