[applause] we have a small gift for you. The speaker tshirt of the churchill club. Good health. Hat in video should be available on our havebe channel, and you been a very wonderful audience, as usual. Thank you so much. We hope to see you next week. Good night. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] more now on these a fee of safety ofthe u. S. Drones in the u. S. From washington journal. Host Craig Whitlock with the Washington Post. Focusing on National Security. Launching a yearlong investigation recently into the safety of american drones. Lets begin with why you decided to look into this. What prompted you to do so . Guest this has prompted a lot of conversation about surveillance with drones. Congress passed a law that said essentially to the federal Aviation Administration that we need to legalize the widespread use of drones in the United States by next year. While the other subjects had gotten a lot of a
It seems there is new momentum to consider supplying weapons to the government of ukraine, although that is something the Obama Administration and its european allies have resisted for a while. Where do you stand on this . Craig rep. Smight smith it is pretty clear the strategy russia has employed. They are going to try to militarily engage in companies underneath the surface, so it doesnt appear they are actually engaged. They will use third parties, bring their soldiers in in ways that we cannot see. Certainly, they did that in crimea. Now they are doing that in Eastern Ukraine. We want crane to be independent. If this works for russia and ukraine, there are a lot of russian speaking people in other countries around there. Estonia, poland. Where does russia stop . When you read the rhetoric coming out of the highest levels of government in russia, it is not encouraging. We have to help ukraine stop this before it spreads. We have to show russia there will be a high price to pay for t
Our air power and other kinds of assistance inflict defeat onnist skpis then make it a lasting defeat. Thats how i would characterize what i see. Im not in the counsels of government, but thats what i infer. I appreciate that very much. When you were in my office we talked about having just returned from ukraine and also when i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania and that area. Their concern was all of our attention seemed to be in that part of the world concentrated on ukraine. Its true, we have never had i happen to be there when they had their election for the first time in 96 years they dont have a communist in their parliament in ukraine. So we have that problem at the same time as the others youre addressing. What do you think about our european strength as it is right now . Are we adequate . Are we becoming inadequate . I think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important
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