3 as promised a few surprise guests from the brewers stopped by this morning help collect donations. Donations. We spoke with ryan braun about his plfo thankgiving holiday. And the brewers general manager about why they want to help out the Hunger Task Force. What are your personal plans for thanksgiving this year . Were hosting about 30 people at my offseason house. So well have our hands full. Luckily my wife can cook, my mom can cook and her mom can cook cause i cant but im looking foward to it itll be a lot of fun. why did you decide this is important, ive got to be out there . There . Its a great time of year to reflect on how fortunate we all are and to be thankful for what we have but those who are less fortunate and its a wonderful time of year to help them out. Out. And heres a look at some of the cbs 58 crew posing with ryan braun. He also surprised a few people driving in to make their donations. If youre planning on heading to miller park to make a donation. Rebecca will le
Against the terrorist threat. So the idea is we sit together almost every day in the National Security council in the situation room x youll have a terrorist or terrorist group, and well each go around the table with all of the different authorities and expertise we bring to bear and say how do we disrupt them, stop them overseas before they can do an attack. For us though, when we realize looking at some of the success we had against the terrorist threat, that we needed to get better to applying that model when it came to cybersecurity nets. So over the last several years, weve reorganized in the division to do things like train prosecutors in every u. S. Attorneys office across the country to, on the one hand, handle that which is on the classified side sensitive sources, methods, what threats are and on the other hand, learn about bits and bites and the specific laws that apply to computer hacking like the Electronic Communications privacy act. And then send those trained prosecutor
Many of our adversaries spent the decades to reshape their militaries and developing technologies to thwart americas military advantages. As well hear today, many of the technologies that made america the unparalleled Global Military power just 15 to 20 years ago, they are pro proliferating to others. Our adversaries are fielding new technologies from cyber to space in order to defeat our military advantages. At the same time, we face growing networks of violent islamic extremists that will engage us in a low conflict of technology and will for decades to come. As the Bipartisan National Defense Panel warned in future, quote, conflicts are likely to unfold more rapidly, battlefields will be more lethal. Operational sanctuary will be scares and fleeting. Conflict will be the norm in this rapidly changing environment. U. S. Military superiority is not a given. And yet since the end of the cold war a quarter century ago, the United States has maintained a similar but ever shrinking versio
Typically receive from American Military personnel that remain in afghanistan. Drawing thism analogy is because it is consistent with the broader strategyerrorism that the president laid out, i believe in his west point speech, in which you said that the United States needs to develop more capability when it comes to enhancing the capacity of local forces around the world to prevent extremists and terrorists elements from establishing a toehold in their country. We have talked about how this is an important part of our relationship inside afghanistan building the capacity of Afghan National security forces. A long debate about the situation in yemen. Previously, before that country was assumed by a civil war, the United States was able to partner effectively with your many yemeni National Security forces to take strikes, or at least mitigate the risks posed by opposition forces, operating in yemen. It has been diminished because we do not have a Central Government with whom we can orde
Of their saturday in waterloo. Texas senator ted cruz, louisiana governor bobby jindal and former arkansas governor and 2008 iowa huckabee attended a candidate assessment at the National Cattle congress. Retired neurosurgeo n ben carson held a book signing in waterloo as, over the past 7 days, he has vaulted to first place in the last two polls of iowa republicans. Also, last night from des moines, the 3 the 2016 nomination gathered at the annual Jefferson Jackson dinner. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has reopened a lead in the polls over vermont senator Bernie Sanders. Former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley is a very distant third. The timing for iowa support is critical not only with the caucuses less than 100 days away but also with the next democratic president ial debate coming up november 14, in des moines. The Major Political news of the week was for the person who chose not to run in 2016. Vice president joe bidens decision to stay out for 2016 could have a ripple