Our views online and those watching on cspan today. Im the founder and president of fdd and im a pleased to welcou to our event today, ruthless prioritization, the armys realization of the National Defense strategy. We are honored today to host acting secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. Thank you so much for coming again. Working overtime to the road americas military power, to threaten our interests and those who are our allies. In the light of these challenges and to support the National Defense strategy the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness, minimization and reform over the last couple years but the threats remain significant and the budgets remain finite. There is much more work to do, and we are ready to reform this effort. As many of you in our audience know we are focused exclusively on National Security and foreign policy. We are nonpartisan and accept no funds from foreign governments, never have and never will. This event is hosted by ftd center on military
President , john f. Kennedy. For a generation of americans the death of president john f. Kennedy was a touch stone, every one know where they were in dallas 50 years ago today and the shooting and aftermath viewed by millions and carried the news around the clock and a half century later the nation is marking the moment that changed our nation and al jazeera will have continuing coverage of the somber anniversary all day long and later in the hour we will look at the final days of jfk and how reporters captured those moments. Plus we will focus on an unique photography exhibit that has snapshots of his presidency from beginning to end. Very good friday morning and welcome to al jazeera and stephanie si has the morning off. We begin with a historic power play in congress, Senate Democrats passed the so called Nuclear Option, the landmark vote limits the use of filibustering to block president ial nominees and democrats say the move will engridlock in washington and allow president obam