Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we started, there are a few people in the audience i would like to recognize tonight. I understand that there is a large group. From garys families. Standwe ask everyone to so that we can thank you all for being here tonight . [applause] also here with us this evening, our congressional medal of honor recipient, robert friend, one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen. Good to have you with us this evening. [applause] [indiscernible] thank you so much, we appreciate having you here. [applause] melissa and a very special thank you to lori bakker, sitting right here, the secular director of the incident hero foundation, who donated the exoskeleton to gary. [applause] so, there are many honorable and procedures things that we you to do here as empl
Branch. He is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navys budget and then well go over some ground rules and take some questions. Good afternoon. As he mentioned im brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. Opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defenses multiyear effort to restore readiness. The brief will be broken into four parts. The first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. The second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in todays world. The third ill review historical challenges that underlie the requirement for the current readiness reset. And finally,ly provide a summary by appropriation group. The National Level guidance that provided us the mission sets which drove the operations of the last decade are under review. Earlier this month the department of defense began a defense Strategic Review. This
At 12 45, dallas fed president Robert Kaplan speaks. At 1 10, President Trump will be in miami to discuss changes he is making on the u. S. Restrictions to travel to cuba. He is tapping off quite a week for his administration. Here is kevin cirilli. I do not know where to start, cabinet. Why dont we start with the investigations . What is the latest . Should we be focused on it quite as much as we are . Kevin the white house will say no and a democrats will say yes and i think that answers lie in the middle. Isht now, the administration pushing back hard against the notion that a shoe is about to drop in terms of the investigation with the russian probe and they feel adamant there is not enough evidence for that part the president s personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz , is pushing back. There are allegations. The fact of the matter is until the investigation and the probes are put forward and made public month they will keep having these types of problems. Keep havinghey will these types
Honor of the men and women who defend our freedom around the world. Tonight i ask do so in honor of those currently fighting, those who are missing, those who have perished, and those who are veterans. Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we started, there are a few people in the audience i would like to recognize tonight. I understand that there is a large group from garys families. Could we ask everyone to stand so that we can thank you all for being here tonight . [applause] melissa also here with us this evening, our congressional medal of honor recipient, robert friend, one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen. Good to have you with us this evening. [applause] melissa thank you so much, we appreciate having you here. [applause] melissa and a very, very special thankyou to lo
President , well now they better really worry about it. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Six arab countries including saudi arabia and egypt have cut ties to the nation of qatar. A house subcommittee held a hearing on the issue earlier this week. Its two hours, 20 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order after recognizing myself for ourow statements, i will then recognize other members seeking recognition for one minutet. You will then hear from witnesses and without objection, witnesses your prepared statements will be made a part of the record and members will have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length limitation in the rules. We have many members of our subcommittee who are also on the Judiciary Committee including Ranking Member doich. You might see a lot of members moving back and forth, and we appreciate the time they can spare coming here. Last month this subcommittee convened a hearing on the challenges and