American people who entrust us with their sons and daughters to keep them informed of the work our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and the permit of defense civilians do every day and keep our nation safe. We have many avenues to engage with the media and todays world moving forward i intend to do these briefings to maintain an open dialogue about the departments activities. Head of phobic affairs and representatives from the joint staff will begin holding regular press briefings. My aim is to give you an overview of my first 30 days and often talk about my priorities for the department. It has been a very busy first month for the team and im very encouraged by the progress we are making. Our direction remains fixed. We are committed to the National Defense strategy, building a more lethal force, strengthening our alliance and partnerships and reforming the department for Better Business practices which i added taking care of Service Members and their families. The mbs is grounded i
And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a basic deal, we would provide an a monopoly over providing power and a lot of these areas, firms would make a lot of m
The wall street Journal Editorial Board said this will be a Campaign Carnival that rotates between courtrooms, rallies around the prosecution of a former president that they write is able to convince most americans that this rather, the courts have been unable to convince most americans that these indictments are just brought. Theres not broad acceptance of that across the board. The Wall Street Journal saying unless you have that broad acceptance that that there was no other chance for these indictments, that could present a combination that could be difficult and dangerous months ahead. Were going to talk to the former Vice President , mike pence, a crucial player in everything that has unfolded in many ways on the Campaign Trail and also back during the president presidency. Jonathan turley says this case is free speech killing and john yoo who calls the charges a stretch. Lets go to david spunt live with the very latest on all of this and what to expect tomorrow at the just its the
Welcome everybody here to the heritage foundation. Im delighted to introduce dr. Sebastian gauker is with the nonresident scholar. He recently served as Deputy Assistant and as Vice President for National Security support under regular warfare. Please welcome him mow. I would like to thank john who is key to this speech happening today. Most importantly of all for giving me my official heritage tie. Sorry. Is it simon . Raspberry. I will talk for about 25, 30 minutes. Well have a q and a. Ill try to set the stage for what has changed. Lets go back two years. Lets go back to the Obama Administration and look at the reality of the terrorist threat dploebl globally and to the United States. Two years ago isis, the Islamic State of iraq had grown out of being a small sob group to being the first Jihadi Movement it is an Islamic State in the middle east. According to the Financial Times this group was able to raise at least 2 million per day as its budget from racketeering, local taxation.
Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be hot pink because we were fivesy women but it was already it was taken by a foreignut group. We game pink. How do you pickos your issues . We started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. And so we did that, we got involved. We had tremendous support around theme country without without really trying we had hundreds of groups that formed in places around the country and we were part of a much Larger Movement that did things that come out to protest on days like february 15, 2003 which is r