I dont think that you believe that this is part of the way we have seen other countries do this in order to do the same thing. I know that there are other countries that believe this. There are others that believe they have an unfair advantage. Somebody might . , i guess that my point is that you do not get the right standards on your own. In the world where there are standards. We would not sign an agreement that didnt have standards that we felt protected as. Paterno recognizes the gentleman from indiana. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Its good to see you again we appreciate you being here. You said that the imf is indispensable to achieving economic and National Security interests. You talk about the way that this works to help prevent extremism and this has been a reoccurring theme that the terrorists had jobs they would drop their weapons. Fortunately what we have seen on the news is that parents are actually highly educated young men and women from some of the worlds most advanced agen
Those are not easy things. The last thing, theres four parts to the department of defense. There are the four services, the three departments. Army, navy, air force. But theres also the department of defense. Can i take a shot at that, sir . Whoever. Im going to defend my two Service Chiefs here. Their staffs have not grown. Were not growing. The staffs are staying steady. Were doing a 20 reduction in headquarters staff. But, again its what we call the fourth estate. The department of defense agencies. So thats where the growth is coming. Its not in the department. Thank you. Let me go back to my questions. Admiral, we sort of decided on this rebalance to asia before the latest provocations from russia. If sequestration returns in october, what sort of gaps will this create towards rebalance strategy. One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces i
One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces in the european command as we look at how were going to deploy in the future. Strictly for the reason you stated with the instability in the africom and the ucom region. Its not dramatic, but it is there. So the asia pacific wont take a hit from the sequestration and our european presence will not take a hit from sequestration. Those will take place elsewhere . Those forces forward wont be as dramatic. As you know ive been worrying about afghanistan. General dempsey told our committee theres a terrorist network that stretches from afghanistan to nigeria. He went onto say i think afghanistan is and will remain an anchor point for that pressure. Do you agree with that. I think a plat form for which the United States can protect its swres is absolutely correct. Am i right to worry ant those are based on mo
Excited to have me here. I responded. Was that you . Good to see you in the world. Just to tread lightly and question the status quo partly for me what i feel is a visible position i am a private person, and i use twitter more for professional services, so you will see me tweeting things like we issued our transparency report. That is the kind of thing i want people to know about. I know there are a lot of other people tweeting about seeing their daughters first steps. My daughters first steps were experienced by me in the comfort of my own home and were not disseminated in this way, but that is up to each on their own. Dean lyons i tend to use it professionally as well as well but occasionally i will tweet about my kids, and it sounds authentic to them. I think they respond favorably. Gabriel it is lovely. It is lovely. As a user, some of those moments where i get to see this unvarnished look at people ive never would have had access to i love those experiences. To be able to be expos
Negotiations, iran did ask about that letter. And last night, the one who spearheaded that that letter took to the floor to express concerns over Irans Nuclear program. When it comes to the role congress should have in this process in doing with the wrong nuclear program, we want to ask our first 45 minutes how much influence congress should have over the process. The numbers are on the screen. You can make this conversation happen on our social Media Channels as well. The New York Times highlights negotiations currently taking place with the p5 plus one as it is known. According to this headline out of switzerland, iranians did ask secretary kerry about that letter. Here is the response from the Iranian Foreign minister. An organization known as you gov put out a survey about the letter. Never asked whether it was appropriate or not for those republicans to write the letter. 42 responded that it was not appropriate, 20th percent said it was, and 31 said they were not sure. 28 said it