Hearings, there are many experts who would contend the complexity of the geopolitics that led to the u. S. Retreat from europe created an opening for putin and the ukraine. Clearly we must closely coordinate with our european friends for the sanctions against russia to work but i think without any doubt we can all agree on one point and that is that the United States must take the lead. I believe the administration the legislation passed with unanimous consent in both houses of congress. It authorized the president to provide much needed military and humanitarian aid to ukraine and imposes additional sanctions against russia. This legislation was necessary in december. And it is certainly necessary today. Now, we all want a diplomatic solution. But this can only come about when at the cost of continuing to ravage ukraine is simply too high. Providing nonlethal equipment like night vision goggles is all well and good. Giving ukrainians the ability to see russians coming, but not the wea
It comes back operationally, we do tolerate failure. The first thing in the field, this is not a zero mentality. People make mistakes. Theres fog and friction and we reward innovation and i think it exists. Constitutional ly institutionally, its a little harder. But in the acquisition realm the processes are not they grind on so its not that they dont reward innovation. Its that innovation and new ideas dont naturally arise from it because theres a risk aversion. Everybody wants a piece of it, they want to add their requirement to it. Its hard to get the process right. Intellectual intellectually, you read other things, you read small wars journal, every major interesting piece that are at odds often with what the secretary and the chief are saying. Thats a great thing. And the army has this incredible ferment. Do those people stay in the army . Are they punished for . I never really sayee that. The army is a culture, and so i have no doubt we have certain cultural biases. We try to no
Than spend one hundred the worst entry i am hooked though you were watching from around the world. Its wednesday april nine here in seoul land to keep a central in things so much for joining us. We begin this evening in north korea where on this wednesday the regimes lawmakers showed up for the first day of its first parliamentary session under kim jong un as a convention is largely expected to serve as a chance to name new Commission Members all eyes are on the events of the world can get a glimpse of the isolated state policies and power structure i can use this fun funky reports your thirty s thirteen spring people of a family session got underway in town that on wednesday. It marks the first fashion that the Rubber Stamp Parliament elected and academic leadership. As widely expected against him was to be present and as the chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission According to the state run Korean Central News Agency agenda items at the meeting include appointing officia
Grips to a new normal. Everyone urged to comply with the new restrictions. Time matters, minutes counts. This is literally a matter of life and death. Too many people too close together too often. The longer we do that, the more people will get sick and the more people will die. Scientists and Public Health experts are all making us gravely aware of the choice that we have. And the choices that we need to make to save lives. Local officials have the authority to implement more strict standards than what i as governor have order here in the state of texas. Sandra Fox Team Coverage Kristin Fisher is tracking the federal response. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live at cdc headquarters in atlanta for us this morning. Good morning from atlanta, sandra. You are seeing a patchwork of responses across the country based on the threat level or at least what we know about the threat level. Here in georgia, and in some other states they are asking for voluntary social distancing. But in more hardh
Put restrictions on bailed out businesses. This as Health Officials say the virus has impacted more than 360,000 people around the world including more than 30,000 in the United States. On top of that more than 85 million americans are on lockdown or shelter in place orders. We have team box coverage and National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffins life at the pentagon. David lee miller standing by in new york city. We began with chief White House Correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn where i think the president might be getting some good news soon about the senate being able to pass that bill. We will see because for the moment the bed of the bill has been up in the air because the republicans and democrats have been deadlocked over several issues. Mitch mcconnell taking to the center for the last couple of hours im upgraded the democrats with Christmas Tree up the bill with a lot of progressive items that he said has nothing to do with what is going on with the coron