A look now at the future of Missile Defense. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion recently with former defense officials and Global Security experts. Panelists talked about the challenges of Strategic Missile defense, the threats posed by north korea, iran, china and russia. Former defense undersecretary for policy, james miller moderated this event. Its about 90 minutes. Ready to go, okay, good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here today. Im jim miller. President of the adaptive strategies. I have had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of decades. Starting on capitol hill, House Armed Services committee in late 80s and early 90s and continuing on through my time including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missi
Including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missile Defense, 2020, next steps for defending the homeland. Dr. Laura grego, thank you for being here as well. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the Global Security program for the union of concerned scientists. And also has a recent report entitled shielded from oversight, the disastrous u. S. Approach to strategic Missile Defense. And well speak to that and a number of other issues, i think. And our third panelists today, major retired general fran mahon. His last posting was a j5 director of plans and policy for norad and north com and headed up several commands for army missile and air defense and at one point was director of tests for the Missile Defense agency as well. So its a great group. I want to thank you, g
Time with us. Guest you bet. Host we will return to our question that we had earlier. You heard, who do you trust in this russia investigation . You heard professor banks layout before you all. Should there be an independent commission outside of congress . What are your thoughts on this . Lines on your screen. Start dialing in now. The president saying this there was collusion between the russians. Is what the president has to say. What do you believe . Want to get your questions and comments on this. The New York Times has a piece about the options. After comey, here are the options. What would the appointment of a special counsel do. To 1990 nine,k when they issued new regulations to create it after the independent counsel law expired. Regulations say special counsel should not be subject to the daytoday supervision of any official of the department. They need to pull away three republicans in order to get the number that they need, 51 for any sort of special counsel to be named. St
Missile defense over a number of decades starting on capitol hill, House Armed Services committee in the late 80s, early 90s and continuing on through my time including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here toda youve youve already met tom karako, senior fellow in the International Security program at cis, director of the Missile Defense system. And tom will talk about in particular his report Missile Defense 2020, next steps for defending the homeland. Dr. Laura grego, thank you for being here today. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the global Security Program for the union of concerned scientis and and also has a recent report entitled, shielded from oversight, the disastrous u. S. Approach to Strategic Missile and and well speak to that and a number of other issues, i think. And our third panelist today, major genre tired fran. Plans and policy for norad and northcom and headed up several commands for army, missile and air defense and one
Of state and Homeland Security share their thoughts for strengthening the program. Currently individuals from socalled friendly countries are not required to have a visa when entering the u. S. For stays of 90 days or less. This is about an hour and a half. Call to order here. I want to thank the witnesses. There may have been a little miscommunication in terms of the timing. I thought we wanted to start this at 11 00, we had the vote at 10 45. Thats why our attendance is not as strong. Also appreciate we were able to set this up as a roundtable. I want to have Administration People and people from the outside sitting together so we can have a good discussion. This will be pretty much a free flowing discussion which is also nice. Rather than have it structured and seven minutes per senator. When were on a topic ill encourage my colleague to jump in. So its not disjointed. We have four witnesses here, miss kelly parisi. Shes the deputy secretary of the office in the office of policy. Sh