Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. And its a great pleasure to be back here. It is not a quiet time in global events. In fact, i can never remember a more turbulent time. But what a better time to talk about the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. In fact, when Winston Churchill first used the term special relationship, he did it during his speech in fulton missouri. Which is of course better remembered for his use of the phrase iron curtain for the first time. But when churchill spoke about the special relationship, he did so as a wartime leader. It was basically an intelligence relationship, a military relationship. The somewhat gooeyeyed commentators are not for me, the concrete foundations that it has. This is a relationship about our security in a dangerous world. And there are so many threats in this very interdependent world. One of the changes that churchill would have been astonished to see is the level of interdependency that we now have. And
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the joint meeting of congress this morning. He has been critical of the ongoing negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. Watch live coverage at 11 a. M. Eastern on cspan. On cspan 3 Ashton Carter will testify about the pentagons 2016 budget request. He will be joined by general martin dempsey. We will have live coverage at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. Up next, former British Defense minister liam talks about u. S. U. K. Relationsfox and then former Maryland Governor bob ehrlich campaigns in New Hampshire. The cspan city tour travels to u. S. Cities. We partnered with comcast for a visit to galveston, texas. The rising tide the rising wentind drew them. I watched in amazement as both of these factors that are the structures. We had wooden bat bathhouses and we also had peers. We had a huge pavilion. As the storm increased in intensity, these structures literally were turned into sticks. The 1900s storm hit galveston september 8, 1900