Hong kong im debating. Police detained dozens of protesters as a crackdown on public displays of Pro Independence but under the new law. For life plus. Following years of alleged rightwing extremism among germanys elite Army Commandos the Defense Ministry ses the king is about to be disbanded. Welcome to the Program Germany today takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union and chatted but. Has been discussing how plans for the 6 months with lawmakers in the federal parliament the bundestag overnight germany kicked off its by projecting the words together for europes recovery on. Nick Brandenburg Gate the slogan refers to the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic which merkel has described as the greatest challenge the e. U. Has ever faced. The president says merkels last major role on the european stage before shooter titles later next year shes taking time legacy on a massive economic Recovery Plan for the e. U. And she talked about it in her to address to the board a
[inaudible] i hear you. Punctuality. Man. We have everybody . Do we have folks on the phone again . Yes, sir. Ok, i will just let you know ,ho is here, Ryan Mccarthy chief of staff of the army, surgeon general, director of operations and plans, director of the Army National guard bureau and Sergeant Major of the army. The chief will make some opening remarks, and then we will open up to your questions. I think we have a hard stop at 1400, right . Ok. Thank you, mr. Secretary. The army has 288 confirmed cases of covid19 as of this morning. 100 of soldiers. 64 department of the army civilians. 5 are dependents nine are cadets. 50 are army contractors. This week, the secretary of defense signed orders for three Army Hospitals to deploy to new york and Washington State. Fortive 31st hospital for campbell, kentucky, and the night hospital for fort hood, texas, will deploy to new york city. An advanced party is on the ground as i speak. The main party will arrive at joint base mcguire, dix,
So we want to thank you all you have done at the department. And at this point for your willingness to step up in a higher capacity. We have our colleagues here this evening texas and louisiana are well represented. Mister deputy secretary you should feel verydu welcome by having these gentlemenmp next to you. We will start with senator cassidy followed by senators cruz and senator kennedy to introduce deputy secretary this morning. Would like to proceed we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you so the introductions do not consume the full morning but we do welcome all the good comments s comments. What a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. [laughter] its a privilegege to represent my friend Dan Brouillette eminently qualified as United States leads the world in all sorts of energy. He shared a longer showed a commitment to Energy Security and understands the importance of us Energy Exports to lower Greenhouse Gas emissions abroad. Committed to innova
Would preemptively strike it. I think its fair to say that we have opportunities within the Energy Sector to help advance this country when it comes to our Energy Security, our National Security, and our economic security. But we need to be able to move forward with that. So what we are able to do within this instruction that is pretty wide open is, is to focus on those areas where we might be able to see increased Energy Production that could bring us new wealth, create new wealth in this country. So im going to be the first to agree that some of our options within this open instructions are better than others. Some will create jobs. Some may end jobs. Some will reduce energy costs as opposed to raising them. Some will actually increase our energy and mineral security as opposed to sacrifice or selling it off. And so what i would hope that members would do is look at this instruction as an opportunity to do something constructive for the country. And the best example of that really is
A the demonstration there were wanting bipartisan belief that the budget control act level defense spending is inadequate and be unacceptable. Let me be clear. There is no tca level Defense Budget that would be sufficient to provide our military with what they need to fit fill Current Missions and prepare for future threats. For those of us whove been paying attention you heard the of the steady decline of our military. Time and again, time and again our senior military defense leaders have sounded theit alarm about the dangers of the budget control act spending caps. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are highest military officer jennifer general dunford has warned if we continue on the current path and that quote within five years we will lose our ability to protect power on how we defend the homeland advanced u. S. Interest and meet our alliance commitments. Make no mistake about it. What that means americas military advantage iser degrade. Without the ability to protect powe