The Committee Meets today to receive testimony from the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request. Welcome our witnesses and thank them for their service in both dr. Mark esper and general mark we have a pair of marks in this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness of the National Defense strategy. Thats our vote that we had heard, adhere for a long period of time now. About three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we ask our military to do more with less and that got us into trouble between 2012 and 2017 we lost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the readiness of our forces were devastated. I think we all understand that. As a result, when President Trump came to office, he inherited American Military and crisis, thankfully he delivered on his promise to begin rebuilding the u. S. Armed forces. He negotiated the highest level of defense spending ever, a down payment toward getting our military back to where it needs t
Responsibility narrative, blaming people who fall off the tight rope for the catastrophes that follow. Watch kevin meredith, nicholas kristof, this weekend on booktv on cspan2. In his next booktv discussion, michael lind says democracies are being unraveled by new class war. Welcome to the Hudson Institute policy center. I am john walters, chief operating officer. I would like to welcome our audience here to our Pennsylvania Court is an cspan audience to our first ever podcast taping that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast, the Second Season of the realignment, my hudson media fellows. We are proud of the realignment. The podcast launched last year and i recommend for those who havent been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year particularly the conversation with mike pompeo, josh holly, Mike Gallagher and others. It is an Excellent Program partly because of the two people together who bring out topics into moving the argument along. W
Our moderators, jim broudy and margery eagan. At evening and welcome to our audience here at wgbh and those watching at home for the first debate in the senate race being closely watched, not just here but all across the country. With the incumbent serving about the house of the senate the challenges for seven years under his belt and the house [inaudible] they will weigh their differences and their worldviews and ask for the rules there are no rules. The opening statements, no closings, no time limits although we will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things relatively even and we want to cover a lot of ground so brevity is appreciated. The free to talk to each other as well. In fact, we encourage it, gentlemen paid since we asked our studio audience not to applaud during the debate we want to take a moment to give senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Marjorie, it is all yours. Some of markeys sup
Institute school of politics. It is one hour. This afternoon, we are fortunate to have cindy mccain and Vicki Kennedy in conversation about Public Service and the legacy of Public Service. Mrs. Mccain has dedicated her life to improving those doing those who are less fortunate globally, doing significant global work in trafficking and other issues. She is the chairman of the board of the Mccain Institute of International Leadership at Arizona State university, where she oversees the organizations focus on character driven leadership on security and economic opportunity, freedom and human rights issues. Shes the chair of the institute of Human Trafficking advisory council. Vicki kennedy is both an accomplished attorney and a notforprofit leader. Council Senior Health and she advises clients on government issues, regulatory issues. She is the president of the board and cofounder of the Edward M Kennedy institute for the study of the senate. A nonpartisan, nonprofit dazzling of a beautifu
Ruler purpose is sentenced to death after a court finds him guilty of treason hes in exile so will he ever face the ultimate penalty and that we look at a martial art that could become a hidden menace experts saying the boom in mixed martial arts has allowed far right groups here in germany to recruit new members. Im burnt off its good to have you with this we begin with breaking news news on both sides of the atlantic the United States senate has backed sanctions on that controversial nord stream to gas pipeline by a huge majority meaning that the bill has now passed both houses of congress and will go to the president s president to be signed into law. The same sions target a pipeline thats being built under the baltic sea to transport russian natural gas to germany its supposed to start operating in the coming months the u. S. Opposes the project saying that it will increase russias political influence here in europe the move to implement sanctions could be met by retaliatory measur