And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business Dagen Mcdowell, the host of the secrets of wealthy women podcast veronica is here and entrepreneur kevin oleary. Do you want to take money to the sidelines until a deal is done . I come to the conclusion the market wont care because whats really occurring here is we have back tax, valueadded tax on chinese goods and they have been absorbed quite efficiently in the u. S. Economy, every other g7 has a back tax, we have one just on china. I dont care if they continue to ratchet up the tariffs because i think its the right way to get a deal done. Maria youre in on this. People were expecting recession or some sort of recession in 2020, not hearing that nearly as much anymore. Maria absolutely. Whats predicated on that is theres a trade deal, we will see a pullback in market in 2020. Dagen market has told you that the Recession Risk has fallen because the yield curve is no longer inverted and the 10year yield on the treasury
On bbc news at 5. Sunday, saturday i should say, if that match will go ahead between eu countries agree to intensify brexit talks with the uk, scotla nd that match will go ahead between scotland and japan. Scotland said they are considering legal action if but both sides say more work they are considering legal action if the game is cancelled at the rugby is needed, to get a deal. I think both of us can see a pathway world cup. I will have more on that to a deal but that doesnt and an update on the japanese grand prix. Then which has the weather. Plenty of the rain around. There will be plenty of rain in the forecast. Apple not train everywhere this weekend all the time, but where the rain does full it is following on really soggy ground. So there could be problems of flooding for all of that plus the latest on the typhoon in japan just all of that plus the latest on the typhoon injapan just before half past. Also coming up, the long journey home. The five year old daughter is a man ja
Head of the Opposition Party would be treated with lots of privilege and rights including a monthly meeting with the Prime Minister as well as highs highlevel security briefings im not sure exactly that the next Prime Minister is there will share security briefings with the palestinians but its interesting to see and what about politically i mean if if as you suggest it might be in charge what would that mean in terms of difference in Foreign Policy for safe for israel actually you know regardless of exactly i think guns would be in charge but theyre godless of who is the idea of the National Unity government a National Jewish unity government to liquid and the centrist right blue and white party means theres a potential that there isnt much of a program there isnt much of a coherent Foreign Policy although theyre both reject the palestinian independence they both reject withdrawing from palestinian occupied territories they both reject withdrawing from syrian occupied territories etc