Good afternoon and welcome to hudson institute. Im ken winestein, president and ceo of hudson institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom, and prosperity through strong and engaged u. S. International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important potential threats facing the United States is that of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team. In his august 24th speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we must prevent weapons being used against us and around the world. For that matter. We have done a lot in the Homeland Security space. I should note that
Good afternoon and welcome to hudson institute. Im ken winestein, president and ceo of hudson institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom, and prosperity through strong and engaged u. S. International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important potential threats facing the United States is that of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team. In his august 24th speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we must prevent weapons being used against us and around the world. For that matter. We have done a lot in the Homeland Security space. I should note that
Good afternoon and welcome to hudson institute. Im president and ceo of hudson institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged u. S. International leadership. I want to welcome both our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attack the other day in new york. Just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrorist had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his 21 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we must prevent weapons being used against us and around the world. We have done a lot in the Homeland Security space. I should note we are the home of the bio Defense Commission cha
Crime. A stray bullet hit this parked car leaving shattered glass everywhere. At least eight rounds were fired. On the outside of this home that is well kept neighbors say it listed for 1 million. Yet on the inside police discovered a fullblown marijuana grow house. 460 plants. An estimated street value of 250 an ounce. Every square inch was used as a grow spot except for the garage where they would sleep on a plank of wood. Reporter at 1 30 in the morning neighbors woke up to the sound of rapid gunfire. Police say at least two masked suspects attempted to break in and started shooting. Several people inside returned fire. Hitting a parked car belonging to one of the homes occupants. Blood left on the sidewalk. All of them got away. Police didnt realize what happened until an hour later when a 28yearold oakland man showed up at the hospital with a bullet wound. Working robbery and homicide, this is one of my biggest fears that my neighbor would have a grow house and somebody would atte
Expecting the u. S. Economy to grow to . The reason i raise this is to go down there and talk to policy makers and business people. We could have more taxes here, more regulation there. A little more cost of labor here. And a fair amount of uncertainty and take on one of the great economic miracles. They understand this thing they have a great economy growing rapidly is fragile and requires government to facilitate rather than later uncertainty. That is almost like a test tube of forcing. We had a time in which we had a huge amount of uncertainty. Comes from some comes from government action. We had an aggressive regulatory agenda. We have not made a certain investments we have made. You add that up and you have a period in which businesses are operating under huge weight. Creates the conditions under which businesses can operate in intellectual freedom. Among the things government can do is create the conditions under which cost [no audio] to allow businesses to innovate. One of the s