obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
we will be momentarily joined by senator cain and other members. we are, as you know, in the midst of voting. i would like to welcome our witnesses to the hearing, this afternoon. mr. frederik stephanie, principal civilian deputy assistant secretary. that is a mouthful. welcome mister secretary. assistant secretary of the navy for research, development, and acquisition. vice admiral william godliness, commander of the season s command. admiral gerard mcclelland, program executive officer for industrial infrastructure, and miss diana ma our, director of defense capabilities and management for the government accounting office. thank you for your service to the nation and for the truly professional services of the men and women under your command. i also want to recognize our ranking member, senator kramer, i also want to recognize senator cain and senator sullivan. and i appreciate my colleague s willingness to hold this joint readily readiness hearing on this very important
c i m going to try not to hold against him in the conversation. he served honorably in the united states army as an infantryman, in activision corps during the cold war in the on thehen we re both ground there. his career beyond skyrocketed. his experience in acquisition world inside of osd and then on into the a industrial base himsf as a senior executive gave him a great foundation for where he is right now. it is my pleasure to introduce secretary frank kendall to you all ladies and gentlemen. would you give him a warm welcome? [applause] welcome. it is a great pleasure to have you here, and to be in this room full of smiling faces. i don t think you can see this at home with these folks are reallyly good looking in the audience, and some of them have masks on but you can see they are striking even beyond that. for you, i would just like to give you a warm welcome. you ve been in the job for a year, you and have? almost a year. what you been up against and what you
foundation in washington d c hosted the conversation. it is about one hour. the heritage foundation senior research fellow for defense policy and the heritage foundation center for national defense. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the heritage foundation. it is a great place to be on this wednesday morning, and i see some really wonderfully familiar faces in the audience and i am grateful you are here. for those of you streaming online, thank you for joining as. you are in for a treat today. we have the 26th secretary of the air force, secretary frank kendall. he has a next ordinary background. he is a west point graduate, which i will try not to hold against him in the conversation. he served honorably in the united states army as an infantry man in the acquisition corp. during the cold war in the 1980 s when we were both on the ground there. his career beyond skyrocketed and the experience and acquisition inside the world of osd and into th
senior research fellow for defense policy and the heritage foundation center for national defense. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the heritage foundation. it is a great place to be on this wednesday morning, and i see some really wonderfully familiar faces in the audience and i am grateful you are here. for those of you streaming online, thank you for joining as. you are in for a treat today. we have the 26th secretary of the air force, secretary frank kendall. he has a next ordinary background. he is a west point graduate, which i will try not to hold against him in the conversation. he served honorably in the united states army as an infantry man in the acquisition corp. during the cold war in the 1980 s when we were both on the ground there. his career beyond skyrocketed and the experience and acquisition inside the world of osd and into the industrial base himself as a senior executive. it gave him a great condition for where he is right n