Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
Joining yesterday this audience is pretty much 100 percent distinguished quite impressive audience thank you for coming. With a few brief security announcements. I m your designated Safety Officer here accepts are behind you you will go down 1 4 to accept exit the stairwell and relocate Near National geographic if we have to. To get today we are delighted to host this discussion with leading lawmakers with expertise of National Security. How will introduce other members of the panel that this is known as golden week to join the discussion here under the mount fuji dialogue in your participants in the dialogue. The Corporation Goes way back last year professor urged to knock negative issued if the report the u. S. Japan alliance that they kind the called the japan version of the bipartisan report for the future vision of the alliance. And with those Experts Joining us today are regulars with the mount fuji dialogue most contributing to my immediate left a member of the house of represen
Joining yesterday this audience is pretty much 100 percent distinguished quite impressive audience thank you for coming. With a few brief security announcements. I m your designated Safety Officer here accepts are behind you you will go down 1 4 to accept exit the stairwell and relocate Near National geographic if we have to. To get today we are delighted to host this discussion with leading lawmakers with expertise of National Security. How will introduce other members of the panel that this is known as golden week to join the discussion here under the mount fuji dialogue in your participants in the dialogue. The Corporation Goes way back last year professor urged to knock negative issued if the report the u. S. Japan alliance that they kind the called the japan version of the bipartisan report for the future vision of the alliance. And with those Experts Joining us today are regulars with the mount fuji dialogue most contributing to my immediate left a member of the house of represen
Audience is pretty much 100 percent distinguished quite impressive audience thank you for coming. With a few brief security announcements. I m your designated Safety Officer here accepts are behind you you will go down 1 4 to accept exit the stairwell and relocate Near National geographic if we have to. To get today we are delighted to host this discussion with leading lawmakers with expertise of National Security. How will introduce other members of the panel that this is known as golden week to join the discussion here under the mount fuji dialogue in your participants in the dialogue. The Corporation Goes way back last year professor urged to knock negative issued if the report the u. S. Japan alliance that they kind the called the japan version of the bipartisan report for the future vision of the alliance. And with those Experts Joining us today are regulars with the mount fuji dialogue most contributing to my immediate left a member of the house of representatives. Serving as the
It happened in barcelona as people were enjoying a summer evening. We have the latest from spain in our newsroom. Isis is claiming responsibility for the attack which started around 8 00 when a van jumped a curb and plowed into the crowd. These images show how horrific and chaotic it was in the las ramblas district of barcelona. It is an area filled with shops. Victims were left in the street. 13 killed at least 100 were injured. The city went into lockdown with the Police Walking the street and Closing Stores in the train station. I heard many people screaming and then i saw the been going down the boulevard. You could see all of the bodies at las ramblas. It was brutal. Police believe another man was used in the attack as a getaway car. Two people are in custody and the search continues for the driver. Isis released a statement hours after the incident saying it was carried out by soldiers of the islamic state. The u. S. Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, condemned the attack. We ask