it has been an honor to serve with you over the last many years. in the interest of time, i ll briefly note the department of defense s views on cyber in three core themes. first, the threats we must address. second, what we are doing to address them now. and third, the difficult but urgent work we know still lies ahead. first, the threats. as you know, the department of defense s leadership believes we confront no fewer than five immediate but also distinct and evolving challenges across all operating domains. we are countering the prospect of russian aggression and coercion, especially in europe. something we unfortunately have had to energy etically renew our focus on in the last several years. we are also managing historic change in perhaps the most consequential region for america s future, the asia pacific. and watching for risks
made some remarks there. now his nominee for attorney general. where do we begin. this sounded like a campaign speech. he has the bully pulpit. the world is listening. not one mention of russia or china. he goes after the media. at one point he mocks hillary clinton campaign basically saying they bought fireworks to celebrate and we offered to buy them from them in gist. was it a mised opportunity. it s mindset and the themes he s likely to stress when he takes office particularly on the domestic side. on the mindset you see the grievance he was still underestimated and i won, i won, kellyann increasing by one the states he won to 31, he won 30. more important you saw the core themes that he s going carry to the white house and the core promises i m going bring back
seems very much like an old southern political leader. your thoughts? well, look, i think that this just reinforces some of the core themes of donald trump s campaign. people kept looking for the pivot, that maybe when he s a general election candidate, we ll see him run a different kind of campaign, with respect to immigrants and muslims. he didn t. maybe when he s president-elect, he s going to shift his tone, but other than looking into the camera and for a moment saying, i want to be a president of all americans, these kinds of picks, in jeff sessions and michael flynn, they don t really do anything to assuage concerns of the minority communities who felt targeted by his campaign. if anything, he s proving that a lot of what he campaigned on could very much become a reality if he s president. he has an in-your-face manner. yes, trump is trump is trump. the fact that there was ever this moment where people are like, well, now he s going to strike a conciliatory tone, and maybe
tomorrow he will deliver his traditional blessing, blessing to the city and to the world. on sunday he will deliver the usual address that s a noontime prayer that the pope always does. and then of course next week on new year s eve he ll lead a service and on new year s day he ll celebrate a mass. in terms of the message here, these are the most solemn moments on the christian calendar and so i don t think you should expect the pope to deliver any kind of hard hitting policy address either about the internal politics of the catholic church or external issues of diplomacy and issues of the world. i think these are going to be very spiritual meditations but that said, i do think francis will return over and over again to the kind of core themes that we have seen emerge during the course of his papacy, which is
this. putting on the issue that republicans gennerically have a problem when they touch entitlement because in the dna of the american voterss they want to gut them just like democrats want to race taxs and spend them in olivion. it might work. but it not only could seal the presidential race but cost the republicans the congress. he wanted to show two americans. it plays in the core themes. reach and two views. we are in a economic crisis and the republicans are