the pacific, and she s just on her way up there because that s where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time. there s not a specific demand signal or specific reason why we re sending her up there. it s just unusual for us to know about a ship movement in advance. that is sort of what got everyone s attention. so why was that? why was it put out in advance? was it just to signal to north korea that there would be a show of presence there? i believe it s because she was originally headed in one direction for an exercise, and we cancelled our role in that exercise, and that s what became public, so we had to explain why she wasn t in that exercise. thank you, secretary mattis. i wanted to ask you about the status of the deconfliction line. when was the last time you talked to the russians on it, and what has the absence meant for u.s. pilots and coalition pilots? are they in a more defensive posture at present? so, yeah. let me address that. i m not going to discu
and h and the human capital failed. by rattling the door in the sou south. secret service has to take a look at reinforcing defensive posture. other people that have problems see it and say, i will give it a try as well. you have no doubt there will abe top to bottom review. this is a wake-up call sxwchlt the. this is an absolute wake-up call. secretary kelly has gone to the white house and reviewed this. the secret service doesn t have a director, an acting director. there is a gap of leadership to steward the secret service through this. the stealing of this encrypted laptop and the badges, how big of a deal is that? it is heavily encrypted.
we are not ending the program, we are preserving it for the most part in the out years. we ll face the challenge of an iran if it hasn t changed its stripes in the last 20 years, in 10 or 12 years where they can break out, but the sanctioning will have largely been relieved. they with have a greater defensive posture, and then our choice what is it? to try to snap back the sanctions you say won t work now to stam them from pursuing that goal? it seems to me if i m going to immediate an adver sears, i want to meet them at their weakest, not when they re stronger. i m being told you are being given the hook. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. a major concern echoed by critics of the nuclear deal is it does not require the immediate release of all americans held or missing in iran one of the them the washington post reporter jason
seeing with nato and europe and the united states, is the right response, which is not to back down, but not to unnecessarily provoke. we often use the term bear to describe russia. don t want to corner a bear because they ll strike out. but the fact of the matter is since the crisis with ukraine began over eight months ago, you have seen a general hardening of positions of france, and of germany, traditionally the more accommodationist countries. what that tells you is there is a cop census in the west and in europe that the only way to deal with russia is to deal firmly and with principles and that s why we re seeing the sanctions and upgrades of nato weapons, upgrades of nato defensive posture in europe, and it s going to continue. is it your sense that he is trying to put together pieces of the old soviet union, and if so, do you see a way he he can be stopped? yeah. i think there s a pattern here. in 2008, georgia talked about
bay. things would be a lot worse if we had allowed a tougher reform. the point is right, he s not going to raise as much money from wall street. he has no real political choice but make the case wall street did a lot of things that damaged the economy and upset people. wall street is unpopular in the polls for good reason. you have to go out in public and say i m going to change things, it s not going to be more of the same. michael, you re a white house denison. talk about wall street s ruffled feathers. these guys have gotten a pretty good deal on wall street. is there any sense i m sure there is from the white house defensive posture. ben said it could be way, way worse. what happened here was a botched rollout. when the obama campaign released the bain ad the messaging from chicago is this is not about private equity, this is about mitt romney and this one company and how he did private equity. that was lost for weeks. look at steve radnor s op-ped in the new york times y